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

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Frrst Row Cleft to rrghtj Bogrno Powers Taylor Pope Costello Second Row Cleft to nghtb Skemp Attrrde Van Wrnkle Goldfarb Hanley Thrrd Row fleft to rrghtj Hov1d Strllgebauer 1 Wells Alves Levaur Cunnrngham Arrd C Robrnson Scherer Swanson Wardrop Fourth Row fleft to rrghtb Baker Marvrn Mrslrck Street Underwood Shrnners Merrrll Farrchrld Serdel Barr jackson Van De Water Danrel Magnatta McLaughlin Frfth Row Cleft to rrzhth Escher Wrllrams Burney Emrrch Proctor W N Gordon C Reese K Trerney Rosenthal Black M Mrller Van Ness FIFTH FORM HI TORY We are rn the year 7000 1 newspaper carrles the bold headlrne Man Makes Frrst ourney Into Past With Trme Machme Thrs IS by no means 1 small accomplrshment and rt would be most rnteresrrng to read the account of the trrp by our frrend the time traveler a voyage 'whrch revealed some rnterestrng facts to the people of the future It was the most unusual experlence of my lrfe' The craft havrng settled norsrly to the earth I opened the rron porthole and peered rncredulously rnto the unknown I qurck ly retreated back mto the machlne as a stampede of fifth form athletes tramped swiftly by I recognized by thexr respectrve unrforms that they were players of those extraordrmry games of that nme football soccer md cross country Bogrno Cunningham Danrels Reese and Pope were among the grrd Iron ranks while Attrxde Faxrchrld Nelson Mrslrck Van De Water and Wrllrams contrrbuted thetr talents on the soccer field not to mentron those fine defense men McLaughl1n Skemp and Jackson Leading Avon on to a serres of extra ordmary cross country vrctorres were Emrrch and of course B111 Powers whom we strll remembered even rn the year ZOO0' I advanced cautrously toward the newly opened school lounge where I overheard a group of students talkrng about the oncommg wrnter and the great prospects for the swim mrng team The fifth form they sard had some f1ne candr dates mcludrng Gordon Merrrll and Wrllrams I passed by and soon came to the gymnasrum where I found Atlas Arrd and Mike Cunningham lrftrng some astomshmgly heavy weights and breakrng records too Lookrng toward the wrestling mats I watched a rugged battle between muscular fifth formers Nelson and McI.aughl1n whrle the bouncmg figure on the trampolrne turned out to be Serdel I also learned that thrs school had several lrterary publrca rrons to which Arrd Barr jackson and Alves devoted therr journalrstrc skrll Black circulated many an Amman whrle Pope Costello and Goldfarb made up the mam body of the newspaper s business staff Proctor Rosenthal and Van XX rnkle pounded typewrrters and Hank Levaur clrcked the camera shutters Among the hrgher echelons of learning were Arrd Alves Artrrde Barr Bogrno Goldfarb and Magnatta who worked especially hard and were well rewarded for therr efforts But what rmpressed me most was the unselfishness of the Hfth formers Serving as dormitory monrtors were Arrd Alves Merrill Nelson McLaughlin Serdel and Cunnrngham Gold Key members were Hawley Jackson Emrlch Powers At trrde Rosenthal Van De Water and Serdel whrle Arrd Alves and McLaughlrn ably represented the executrve branch of the student government A fine group of boys here' I remembered that baseball track and tennis were played rn those days and I hastened to see what contrrbutrons the fifth formers made rn these events Baseball pitchers were Arrd and Barr rnfielders Baker Alves and Bogmo outfield ers Pope and Rosenthal and manager PT Strllgebauer Tennrs players Attrrde Cunnrngham Gordon and Robnnson performed qurte ably as well as trackmen Emrrch Powers Van De Water Damel Van Wlnkle Marvm Magnatta and Robrnson I was most hesrtant to leave Avon so much was I rm pressed with thrs lunror class I hope to return rn 1960 when I am certam I will encounter these same students performing an equally fine yob and leadrng the school as seniors 3 1 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 1 . . A I . 7 1 1 - - 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 - , 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 V I 1 1 1 1 1 - - 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 ' 1 - , 4 . - ' 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 . . , ' ,, . . ,,. - . , . ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 . , - y 1 1 , - , 1 A 1 1 A 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 4 1 ' 1 1 1 ' - D 11 11 - , , . . . ' 1 1 ' 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 - ' 1 1 1 1 - 1. 11 - . , . , - 1 - ' 1 1 1 '

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Fourth Row Cleft to rrghtj Choate Gorman Schravettr Plants Fawcett Wyatt Marks Young Vetterlern Thrrd Row Cleft to rrghtl Igo Stemberg Stewart Osborn Turner Antolrm Garces Otto McCor mrck Durphey Crawford Morrow Lacoste Grbson T Browne Second Row Cleft to rrghtj Wood Basxne Palmer Sregel Toogood Lynch Ross Bauer Gallo J Erskrne Wrre Von der Herde J Robmson Fxrst Row Cleft to rrghtb Henschel Plepla Palmer V Vrenng OBr1en Wemstern FOURTH FORM HI TORY In September 1958 after the dust had settled and all the hustle and bustle of openrng day had d1ed down each boy who fell 1nto the category of a fourth former found that he was one of a group of fifty actrve boys who were destrned for blg thrngs Flfteen of these were new to the surroundtngs but soon fell rnto thert places as capable students No sooner had classes begun than joe Basrne jeff Hen schel jeff Morrow Granny Toogood Ph1l Wrre and Vrctor through to garn junror VZISIFY letters whrle Mrke Fawcett forced htmself on a b1t harder to pull a football vars1ty letter out of the p1le At the same trme Peter Antolxnr was cap turlng a letter for soccer partrcrpatron wh1le Buddy Sregel our form representatrve played goalre and what would our cross country team have been wrthout Enrique Garces whose superlatrve sprrnts were fantastrc rn therr effectrveness As the season rolled on Tom Choate new to the school but not new to swrmmmg Pete Antolmx jeff Henschel Hank Marks and Brll Turner proved to be a great help to Colonel Exans and hrs swrmmers wxnnrng vars1ty letters and breakrng several pool records Wrth th1s athletrc record rt IS surprrsmg to find that members of the fourth form found trme to study however Gordon Durphey and Nrck Schtavettr made the Honor Roll 87 whrle Ernc Cluxton jeff Morrow and Peter Wernsteln rep resented the form on the Dean s Lrst The sprrng term brought about a revrval of actrvrty among many boys who had jorned the Radrator Club durrng the wrnter We found that we had erght men sup- portrng the baseball team The fourth form representatxves on the track team were Peter Antolmr Enrrque Garces and jeff Henschel The tenms team thrs year was bombarded wrth fourteen of our members who were sometrmes respon stble for the lnfirmary berng h1t wxth tennrs balls lf you sometrmes wonder where the qualrty of our lrterary publrcatrons comes from the answer could be that twelve fourth formers graced the ranks of these organrzatrons The songbrrds of the class nrne rn number belonged to the Glee Club and Pete Antollnr Steve Holmes Sam Chew and Brll Turner were members of the Avon Herrs Other organrza trons had therr share of these ambltrous fourth formers The Nrmrod Club elected five of them to be members, four of whom went on to work rn the Sugarbush wlth Ph1l Wrre and Errc Cluxton addrng to th1s llst Sure of berng remem bered for the b1ll they ran up for broken drshes are Gold Key members Chrchr Gallo Sam Chew jerry Robmson and Ph1l Wrre Yes the class of 61 rs makmg ltself felt already and w1ll contrnue to do so wrth mcreasmg vlgor durrng the years to come as rt moves on to the fifth and srxth forms U ' 1 , , ' ', , , , , , 3 I 3 3 3 3 ' ' ' 1 , , , - , , 1 s 1 I ' , . 5 . , - . . , 1 1 s ' ' D . I - . . 7 Vrerrng started chuggrng up the gr1d1ron and followed - - - - ' - , . . . 7 Q , - . . A 7 5 7 9 L 7 7 Y - 7 . . - - l - , , . . . . 7 I . Y 7 7 ' y . . . - . Q 7 7 I '