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

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Doug came to Avon hve years ago From hrs frrst day he became popular because of hrs sharp wrt and pleasant personalrty Hrs marn rnterest here at school was rn sports and as a result he excelled rn football soccer basketball and track In hrs freshman and sopho football team Durrng hrs junror and senror years he decrded to play soccer He made the varsrty first strrng team and played rn the posrtron of rrght halfback both years Durrng the wrnter term Doug devoted hrs talents to basketball and swrmmrng When the warm weather arrrved at Avon Doug lorned the track team He was a runner fast enough to be on Avon s relay team and to run both the low hurdles and the 220 yard dash all rn one season When hrs powerful legs started therr prston lrke motron there were few who could beat hrm For extracurrrcular actrvrtres Doug partrcrpated rn the Sugarbush rn hrs freshman year and the Glee Club and the A Club rn hrs junror and senror years He DOUGLAS BUSH MARSHALL 84 Wbetten Road Wert Hartford Connectzcut Varsrty Track 2 3 4 Amman 3 4 Sports Edrtor 3 4 Varsrty Soccer 3 4 Sugar Bush 1 Varsrty Football 2 Lrbrary Monrtor 3 4 A Club 3 4 Glee Club 3 4 rnvested hrs lrterary talents rn the Avoman for two years hrs junror and senror and rose to the posrtron of Sports Edrtor He enjoyed studyrng and enjoyed hrs subyects and was as popular rnsrde the classroom as he was out of rt I grve up J D I I Y D 3 7 ? D 9 S , . . , . . . . , . . . , y . , . . . . . , more years he played halfback on Avon's junior varsity I , . Y - . . , . ' 7 3

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Sv N, Mxfxfig G r'.?fX,5 4-C9 gieia K5 1. 1-x IAQ ,A 1 NV H RICHARD HOOVER LEE fo A 1 9 40 Barker Avenue 9' fl Q' Whzte Plazm New York Glee Club 1 Avoman 2 3 Make up Edrtor 3 Hrstory Club 2 3 4 Presrdent 4 Co Charrman 3 Charrman 4 Vrllage Clerk 3 Presrdent justrce 4 Dorm Monrtor 4 Wznged Beaver 3 Throughout the four years that he was at Avon Drck was one of the outstandrng members of hrs class both rn scholastrc achrevement and extracurrrcular ac trvrtres He was the wrnner of the form prrze at the end of both hrs freshman and junror years furthermore Now what was that Latrn proverb' Qf NFO 51 he never mrssed the Deans Lrst throughout hrs stay at Avon He belonged to the Hrstory Club for hrs last three years and was elected Presrdent of that organrzatron rn hrs senror year Drck enjoyed hrstory tremendously both past and contemporary Hrs enthusrasm was con tagrous A skrlled master of the art of debatrng he led other students to greater enjoyment through parrrcr patron rn thrs part of the Hrstory Club As Presrdent he developed the Club to new herghts occasronally semrmg rmportant documentary films and fascrnatrng lectures All of thrs spread the rmportance of a know ledge of forergn affarrs throughout the student body In the Student Court Drck worked hrs way up from lawyer rn hrs sophomore year to Presrdent udge and admrnrstrator of the bar course rn hrs senror year As the prllar of the student courts he was the mam authorrty for all legal cases Servrng on the Lrbrary Commrttee for hrs last three years Drck became rts Presrdent durrng hrs senror year He was also appornted a monrtor rn Eagle Dorm and carrred out thrs posrtron wrth the same trreless energy whrch he showed rn hrs many other dutres I Z' r 5 ki J 1' 1-sy C, B C, rv KD X c 5 'D J' , f t7 g 7 K, i ff' qv CX N , 1 1 . f A 0 Jo Q ' 'Y ' ' G 'U A 4, 7 fx rg ' - 5 v Q -Q. f 'K , . QS 'tr- ' x . 9 in A ' '2 ' , xg, 9,3 Ox , Xf 1 ' 'P 5 Y N . :X M Lrbrary Commrttee 2, 3, 4 C, - ' gf I , . . I - l n u 7 ' ' ' . . . 5 , I , ' 1 ' 1 9 3 Y , . 2 l C

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PETER MCCARTHY 322 Church Street Wetherrheld 9 Connecticut Rrdrng 2 Post Office 3 Work Crew 3 4 Softball 3 Wznged Beaver 4 Lrbrary Commrttee 3 Harlrng from Wethersheld Conn Pete came to Avon as a sophomore Durrng hrs three years here he proved hrmself to be a doer that rs to say he rs a Durrng hrs sophomore year the school stables were fg '5' m 'r K 5- Brg am t rt? in Wm rn operatron and rrdrng was one of Avon s ma yor sports In a rather short trme Pete became known as one of the most ardent devotees of rrdrng and on many an or rrnprovrng hrs jumprng abrlrty Pete devoted the balance of hrs trme rn the fall to managrng the football team a hard and utrrewardrng task However by the end of the season by much effort and applrcatron he had become one of Avon s most successful managers Pete served durrng the wrnter and sprrng terms on the communrty servrce squad and whrle a member of thrs organrzatron hrs servrces were very much apprecr ated as he was a frne worker He devoted much of hrs free trme partrcrpatmg rn such extracurrrcular actrvr tres as the Boars Head Festrval and Wmged Beaver As a member of the busrness staff of the latter he solrcrted a large percentage of the advertrsements ap pearrng rn thrs years yearbook . ,, ,,g . A , . Q . . 1 man of actiong Pete gets things done. afternoon he could be seen galloping through the woods Q . . . Y' . nf . r as 0