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

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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 ,

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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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Third Row Cleft to nghtj Camp Phillips Howe W Turner Beck Fowler Fisher Merrill T Browne Gallo Finlayson Croft Chew Olson Second Row Cleft to rightb Blakeley Street Fawcett G Vierrng Cochrane P Erskine Marshall Kincaid Seidel Skemp Van Winkle Basine Antolmi W Reese C Davis First Row Cleft to rightj Van De Water Farrchild L Brown J Erskine Attrrde Walker Shaw Stavers Tracy Goodrich jackson Holmes Law Weinstein Motter GLEE Under the fine direction of Mr jack B Grove the 1958 59 Glee Club enloyed a most successful season Nate Tracy and Walt Kincaid served efficrenrly in the respective capacities of President and Vice presldent while Ronnie Philips handled the task of being both accompanist and cataloguer of the music The Club s season was composed of live concerts with the surrounding grrls schools namely Mary A Burnham Rosemary Hall Fox Hollow Oxford and Prospect Hill In additlon Avons troubadours per formed at the Spring Choral Festival of Connecticut Schools The concerts themselves proved most enloyable for the songs sung encompassed a wide range of program music One of the most popular selections was the ro manrrc Civil War ballad Aura Lee Other selections were taken from the famous Broadway hit South Pa 113 CLUB cxfic The Glee Club s presentation of Some Enchant ed Evening and the gay There is Nothing like a Dame was truly memorable Certainly an integral part of American music rs the dition of De Animals A Comm as well as a somber and pensrve jerusalem Morning And finally ln the wide range of melod1es one heard the Italian The Serenaders and the Waters Ripple and Flow The climax of the 1958 59 Glee Club season came in the Spring at the Bushnell Memorial in Hartford This year a spirited performance of Mendelsohns Hymn of Praise was gxven This difficult and mtri cate religious work was skillfully handled by the sing ing groups gathered there On june 3 the Glee Club gave its final performance on the Village Green Their harmony and spirrr were enjoyed by a congregation of parents and students ' ' u 1 , ' ' ,. - ' , - ' , , , . I l Y 3 Y Y ! . . y . - . . . . ,H . - - - Y - ' negro spiritual. Avon's singers presented a rousing ren- , .1 U ' 7 S 5 7 7 - - 7 , . - x , . , ' .