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

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vuqm it 'N-vi N. Thrrd Row fleft to rnghtj Beall Van Ness Mr Durphey L Duff Otto Cluxton Crawford Ross Second Row Cleft to rxghtj Escher Wardrop M Mxller Wrllrams Durphey R Duff Frrst Row Cleft to rrghtb Std Rxendeau Kohn Schravettr NIMROD CLUB In the fall of 1929 a handful of students orrgrnated a club for wnld lrfe enthuslasts Today the N1mrod Club IS a very 1mportant and powerful organ1zat1on at Avon Thrs year under Mr Durphey s drrectron the club has completed many of xts past projects Wlth the and of Punch Wardrop and Terry Crawford the mdoor rrfle range started tvso years ago was finrshed com plete wnth stove and hghts In an effort to help themselves and the schpol Nrm rod members rncludmg Barney Beall and Mlke Mrller linrshed another long suffermg prolect the fish and pheasant hatchertes These two had lam tdle for almost Hve years When the club drd decrde to rescue them they were dnscovered to be quxte drlaprdated Wxth Gordon Durphey s able attentron there should be plenty of hunttng and fishmg next year Avon s bandmg program was broadened last year when pheasants were added to the fm punctured trout The N rmrod Club recerved a surprxse when one band was turned rn A pheasant apparently wandered off 111 school property to be bagged by a very astonlshed hunter who followed the mstructxons on the tag and sent rt to Sprmgfield Illmors After much travelltng the tag was returned to the Nxmrod Club vxa the Illmors Conservatton Department where lf had orlgmated Thanks to the master carpentry of Sky Van Ness and Dave Ross the cabm rs complete Bunk beds rn sulatxon and pme panelmg have much to the dxsgust of departxng ftrst woodsman Skxp Kohn made the cabm 1nto a luxurrous house Certaxnly not to be forgotten most rmportant ln the eyes of many Nrmroders IS the masterful cookmg of S1d Rrendeau wrth hrs assrstant Carl Otto It was a fine and producttve year The energetnc work of officers Barney Beall Mrke Miller and Sky Van Ness made xt so not to mentton the cheerful notes of secre tary Dlck W1ll1amS and the fam1l1ar and amusmg qulps of Langdon Brown Maybe the club should have hung out the familar shrngle No job too large or too small and then added We f1n1sh them all ., ,hem 1.1-wr' L' .. - P 1 1 1 - 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 - 3 1 1 1 . , , 7 ' Y . , . . . . . . 5 ' 5 I ' - - - - 11 11 11 11 - - - - 1 1 - 1 ' . 7 - 9 Q 3 7 5 1 - - 11 1 11 - 1 1 ' ' 3 3 3 - 7 ! . . . . . . . ,, . ,, . , . . , . ' 9 , . . . 1 1 ' , . . . . . 11 1 11 1 - 11 - 11

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Frrst Row Cleft to nghtb J Erskrne Plepla L Brovsn btavers Mr Sharp Gardner C Davxs Garces Strllgebauer Second Row Qleft to rnghtj Laprdus Davenport Toogood Beatson Danxel D Davrs Arrd Proctor Rosenthal DINING ROOM COMMITTEE The fall of 1958 found seventeen eager young gentlemen preparrng themselves for the act1v1t1es of the Drnmg Room Commrttee The purpose of th1s xndeed rmportant and necessary organnzatron rs four fold to brrng food to the school rnfrrmary three trmes a day no matter how cold the temperature or how wet the weather to keep the busrness oFfice rnformed on the total number of meals eaten to delrver officral com munrcatxons to the students and ftculty and to take attendance at meals Thrs year s commrttee was headed by Blll Stavers who was rn charge of the drnmg room srde of the commnttee and Lanny Gardner head of the xnflrmary side Membershtp IS entrrely voluntary for those who wrsh to partrctpate rn the smooth functron mg of school meals whrch are after all a very rmportant part of our 11v1ng Lapldus Anrd and Davrs C were newcomers to the 110 attendance takers Lapxdus havmg swrtched from hrs prevrous years task of food carrytng Dantel Brown Davrs D and Davenport returned for thetr second year as able takers of attendance Few people ever take notrce of the achrevements of the rnfirmary sxde The word achrevement rs most carry a heavy tray through knee deep drrfts of new fallen snow wrthout ever takrng mto account the sub freeztng temperatures Strllgebauer Proctor and Ple pla returned for therr second year along wrth Lanny Gardner who returned as th1s year s charrman Beatson and Garces were new personalmes among the ranks of these fearless porteurs Least known of all but by no means least rmport ant are two members Toogood and B111 Emrrch who are responsrble for the darly after drnner coffee of the faculty and senrors , . . . . ' ' ' ' , , . A D v ' - u - n - . . certainly applicable here, as it is often very diffxcult to 3 A I 'L - ' - 2 ' I ' , , . f . , ' 3 1 ' ' 7 9 . 7 . . - , . . , 1 1 - '

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becond Row Cleft to rrghtj Boyce Durphey L Duff Escher Van Ness Beall D Davrs Fnrst Row fleft to nghtb Wrre Ross R Duff M Muller Proctor Wardrop Kohn Kneelmg Cleft to rrghtj Nary Tnmlngham SUGARBUSH Through the sttll sprrng arr comes a steady prerc mg chop chop of axes strrklng wood Sugarbush IS underway Every year from anuary unt1l March a group of students gather for no other reason than to chop wood gather sap and make maple syrup elected Mtke Mrller as presrdent Skrp Kohn as treas urer and Nrck Schravettr as secretary Wrth such hard workrng outdoorsmen as Punch Wardrop and Sky Van Ness the year was off to a good start Mr Durpheys Sugarbush began accumulatrng wood durtng the last of anuary and when the sap began to flow rn the thrrd week of February the woodprles were larger than ever before Wtth frenzred haste the buckets and pans were washed scrubbed and set rn place Everyday the clubs blue truck Ccarryrng tm parlsb made the crrcurt of the abundant maple trees The sap was collected and taken to the sugarhouse where a large vat awarted rt The house filled wrth 'l'l2 steam as the sap borled and bubbled untrl presto oft' came the dark thxck syrup From each fifty gallons of the raw sap only one gallon of syrup emerged To wrtness thrs operatron come scores of people for the Sugarbush rs a rare organlzatron of New Eng land Ltke the reader these people do not really see the trouble and torl that go rnto the busxness of makmg thrs syrup When all was sard and done the equrpment stored for next year and the wood prled ready for burn rng the Sugarbush had stamped tts label on nearly one hundred gallons of syrup Wtre Cluxton Gallo Rrcht myer Duff Proctor and the others wrll return next year Why? Because the Sugarbush ts dtfferent tts hard work and a steak drnner rsnt much for forty or fifty hours of work but the satrsfactton of makrng a gallon of syrup wrth nothrng but your two hands and hard work IS worth the eHort A gallon of syrup and an axe typrfy the Sugarbush enjoyment and work hand rn hand 1 iiv' 'T '- l if ' 4.- -' ' I ' , , - , - ' . , , , . Y , , . '- ' . , , ' . ' ' v f , 1 ' , . , . . This year twenty-three boys formed the club and ' , ' . . . , - . - -Q -y 1. 1- 3 Q , A . , . . . Y . . n ' . ' 7 U 9 3 ,l , , - . , . 1 , . Q ' ' x Y 9 ,