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

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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

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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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Trme two am Place Mr Carneys classroom Occasron another of the famous 1958 59 yearbook meetrngs A steady tapprng norse pervades the room rn a sharp and unceasrng staccato It rs the typewrrter whrch rolled though rt were destrned to be prrnted between these covers Dave was certarnly one of the more farthful men on thrs year s Winged Beaver staff whrle servrng at the same trme as typrst for the Avon za Dave s hrst opportunrty to prove hrmself athletrc ally was by playrng on the junror varsrty football team He was always rn there pluggrng Dave also played junror varsrty tennrs as well as varsrty track He was no slow runner and hrs antrcs on the tennrs courts were a srght to behold Through some mysterrous power Dave was nearly always able to return the ball to hrs opponent He had however a unrque style of playrng that would have made the author of the tennrs rule book gaze rn wonder and amazement at such strange lookrng gyratrons The Gold Key was also a recrprent of Daves ef forts Possessed of a great porse Dave never once had the problem of havrng to prck up broken tea cups or DAVID RUSSELL MCSHAN E 60 Douglas Road Glen Rzdge New jerrey JV Football 3 4 Varsrty Tennrs 3 4 Intramural Swrmmrng 3 Werght Lrftrng 4 Avoman 4 Gold Key 4 Winged Beaver 4 Lrbrary Commrttee 4 Boats Head Festrval 4 sweep up fragments of shattered cookres In Dave we had a drfferent student-drlferent rn hrs subtle wrt hrs rather annoyrng at trmes but usually amusrng comments on lrfe rn general and one who I drdn t do rt of Dave McShane, and the reams and reams of paper was genuinely liked by his fellows. ' n.