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

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A new boy Ty came to Avon from the Howe Mrlr tary Academy hoprng to enter Cornell s School of Hotel Admrnrstratron the next year In the short trme he was here he garned many frrends and partrcrpated rn many extracurrrorlar actrvrtres Ty excelled rn runnrng sports at Avon In the fall he drd a fine job on the cross country team scorrng many valuable pornts by placrng rn the all rmportant Yale and Cornell meets In the sprrng Ty took to track and ran the half mrle and other drstance races Hrs best trme rn the fall rn the half mrle was two mrnutes and erght seconds five seconds short of the school record For hrs excellent runnrng abrlrty Ty recerved varsrty letters rn both track and cross country Ty lorned the Hrstory Club rn hrs senror year and even after the extensrve weedrng out that was grven to thrs club he remarned a member Chosen because Xbslfm, Ng, t ftsvssbgt e E I sift? RQDW L ONLQETICE JR ugh Road o Mzcbzgan ross Country 4 Var ack 4 Hrstory Club 4 Gold Key 4 of hrs rnterest and up to date knowledge of current affarrs Ty contrrbuted much to the club by moderatrng drscussrons and takrng the captarnshrp of many a de batrng team He was also elected rnto the Gold Key as a result of hrs hard work 63. The coach wrll never know sh F EQ . y c L, . 7 53 N ' C Q Dt? ' 1 N . A l - ' ' V, N 4 U r I IT I C32 ' .V L ' x l S 7 ' D I h Ea J iz , ' ' - L

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PETER MCCRAE RAMSEY 711 Bonita Drive Winter Park, Florida Varsity Track 2 j.V. Football 2 Sugar Bush 1 Gold Key 3 4 Winged Beaver 4 Avonian 4 Intramural Swrmmrng 2 5 4 Intramural Soccer 5 Softball 3 4 Werght Lrftrng 4 In the fall of 1954 a small shy lrttle boy appeared on the Avon campus as an erghth grader Frve years later an affable young man strode confidently towards Mr Prerpont who held hrs drploma Thus the meta morphosrs of Pete Ramsey Closer examrnatron of thrs l was lust lookrng for my math book srr transrtron from a boy to a mature young man reveals that durrng hrs five year stay at Avon Pete attarned thrs change of stature because of hrs academrc and athletrc successes and hrs actrvrtres rn the student or ganrzatron In hrs freshman year Pete was a member of the Sugar Bush As a sophomore hrs name gradually be came a famrlrar one on the campus as he yorned junror varsrty football rntramural swrmmrng and varsrty track Durrng hrs junror year Peres athletrc efforts were dr rected towards rntramural soccer rntramural swrmmrng and softball He also served on the Gold Key Whrle a senror Pete had undergone the final stage of thrs transrtron He jorned the Winged Beaver and the Avon ian as well as contrnurng to serve on the Gold Key Peres athletrc rnterests whrle a srxth former were rn tramural swrmmrng werght lrftrng and softball 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 - , ' , . . . . . , . . , - xt , Q- A ....-, , , 1 imp' . . . . . , . 5 G X , . . . . . 1, rf,-f' 1 . - . . . ' H 1 - ' Q na- Z 5 t 1 r Q q 1 4 5' 'K 1 1 1 .. - - - .1 , .