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

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,ww X SAILING CLUB Back Rove Qlefr to rlghrj Fowler Palmer Front Row Qlefr to rrghrj Van De Water Mr Smart C Robmson AVON HEIRS Standmg Cleft to nghrj Antolmr Holmes W Kmcald Tracy Croft Chew Camp Cochrane Goodnch P Erskme W Turner Van De Water Sendel

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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 , . , ' .

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Standmg Cleft to nghtj Lacoste Laprdus OBrren Mr Clark Howd W N Gorden Proctor Kneelmg fleft to rrghtl Moss Plepla Motter McCormack DIVING CLUB The fall of 1958 saw the establtshment of a new and unrque club at Avon the Drvmg Club From the unausprcrous begmnmgs of only two members Gor don Plepla and Val Laprdus wrth one compressed arr tank and arr regulator between them the group grew to fourteen members all possessmg therr own equrp ment Early rn the year the club was granted 1 charter by the Student Councrl after a lecture had been grven by Plepla for mterested students rn whrch he demon strated varrous types of underwater breathing appar atus and therr proper use The club has due cause to be honored as rt was the only other organrzatron at Avon asrde from the Nrmrod Club to be granted 1 charter The club actrvrtxes were rndeed varied Several trmes durlng the year rt sponsored full length colored frlms of the underwater sport whrch were of rnterest 115 to many students As a member of the Connecticut Councnl of Skm Dnvers the club also obtarned several well known authorttres on skrn drvmg to lecture and show films of thetr expernences xn that sport In the sprmg several club members went on a field trrp to Walden Pond on commrssron from the Thoreau Socnety to drscover the source of the famous pond a feat never before attempted by drvers wrth aqua lungs Although some mtght have thought of the possrble dangers of descendmg m waters of up to 100 feet rn depth all members were checked out for physrcal fitness and all equrpment was checked tn an equally thorough manner by the President of the Underwater Sports Assocratron of Hartford The club officers Gordon Plepla as President Ward Moss as Vrce presndent George Motter as Sec retary Treasurer and the able faculty advnsor Mr Clark performed a laudable job 1 'I 'K .Ani . i J . . . . . , . ' I ! I ' I Y ' ' I ' . .Y . . ' l i U f 9 ' x , - - , . f J 1 1 5 ' 1 , G I' U L - I C ' 1 I u K , m r 4 4 . - 1 3 I u ' , ' - - ' , s .