Avon Old Farms School - Winged Beaver Yearbook (Avon, CT)

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Seated Cleft to nghtj Howe Gardner Lee Sumner R1ckard COURT If the pr1mary purpose of a preparatory school 15 to bu11d character the Student Court System at Avon Old Farms certa1n1y contr1butes to th1s end At first glance the Court System m1ght appear to be an elab orare set of rules 1mposed upon the 1nd1v1dua1 1n order to punlsh h1m for any m1nor 1nfract1or1s of the law of wh1ch he m1ght be gu11ty On look1ng at the courts one can say that the1r funct1on IS to pun1sh but not to pun1sh for the mere sake of punlshlng rather to teach the offender not to cojnm1t h1s offenses aga1n just as a traffic court serves to prevent accndents the courts at Avon serve to prevent the repet1t1on of 1nfract1ons of school rules Th1s year Avomans were 1ndeed fortunate 1n hav 1ng the pres1dency of the Student Courts placed 1n the capable hands of R1chard H Lee who proved h1mse1f to be an unusually fine jud1c1a1 adm1n1strator D1ck deserves all the pra1se that can be bestowed upon hmm for h1s br1ng1ng up to date of court POl1ClCS H1s 1nno SYSTEM vatxons 1nc1uded the standard1zat1on of court sentences a rotat1ng roster of judges and a rev1s1on of the Bar Course to tra1n student judges and lawyers Worthy ASSOCIHIC justxces were Ed R1ckard B111 Stavers Steve Sumner Lanny Gardner and Ph11 Howe It was the duty of these judges to pres1de over both the Pol1ce Court for m1nor offenses and the Summary Court for major 1nfract1ons In every organ1zat1on there are men beh1nd the scenes and 1n th1s respect the Court System was no except1on The dut1es of the V1llage Clerk are unre wardmg but Steve Merr111 and M1ke Cunn1ngham gave unst1nted1y of the1r t1me rn prepar1ng the varxous court cases Probably the most unpopular man IH court IS the V1llage Attorney H15 task 1S an arduous one but none theless a valuable exper1ence 1n d1sc1pl1ne The V11 lage Attorneys durmg the past year were Fred Hawley N1ck Sch1avett1 and Smart Barr 99 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 ' 1 1 1 ' ' 1 1 1 v ' 1 1 1 ' ' , ' . ' 1 ' 1 ' . , . ' 1

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