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

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Seated Cleft to rrghtj D Walker Fairchild OBr1en Fawcett Van De Water Sexdel Cunnrngham Bogmo Wetnstern Holmes Second Row Cleft to rrghtb D Hall Kohn W Turner Znexmer Favorrte Werss C Robmson Sl-temp Antolmt Gallo Thrrd Row fleft to nghtj Blakeley Welhaven Cookman Morrow Wyatt Setfert Merrrll Basrne Beck Kmcald Chew CLEE Under the superb drrectxon of Mr jack B Grove and the fme leadershrp of Presrdent Cole Van De Water and Vtce prestdent Bruce Seidel the 1959 60 Glee Club enjoyed a very successful season A txght schedule tnvolved many tedxous but worth whrle practtce sesstons durrng the course of the year Ftve concerts were held wrth schools both far and near Chaffee whrch rs located tn Hartford Emma Wrllard whrch ts rn Troy New York Rosemary Hall Ban croft and Foxhollow Thrs years repertotre conststed of selecttons from the Broadway htt Carousel and several negro sprrrt uals such as R1d1n The Charrot and Llttle lnno cent Lamb The Chrrstmas season was sparked by the famrltar Twas the Nlght Before Chrrstmas Once agam a select group spent many extra hours preparmg for the Sprmg Choral Festtval held rn May at The Bushnell Memorral IU Hartford Ode To a Vrrgmran Voyage was presented and handled ex tremely well by the combmed clubs The Glee Club s CLUB final concert whxch was grven on the Vtllage Green on une 1 was as usual the hrghhght of the season The tradrtronal Avon Hexrs gatned wrde spread popularrty on campus th1s year Headed by Cole Van De Water they demonstrated a superb blendtng ab111ty tn therr many tryrng songs such as Btdxn My Trme Hello Halls of Ivy and Lord Got Tomatoes Certatn songbrrds went even farther than the Avon Herts and establrshed two quartets whtch added great ly to the many socral actxvtttes at whtch they sang Sam Chew Cole Van De Water Ed Znermer and Bob Ktncatd known as The Bowder Boys seemed to have what rt takes to present songs lrke Mavourneen Grve My Regards to Broadway and Strolling Through the Park all of whtch were close harmony songs Pete Antolrnt Dave Walker Steve Holmes and Bob Farrchrld were members of the second quartet whrch competed on several occasrons wrth the Bow der Boys 'l'l5 , . . 1 - ' ' .. Z . , 1 1 1 Q 1 - ' 1 1 1 . , , - 1 1 , 1 - 1 1 ' I y 1 1 1 1 1 f Y 1 1 1 . , l 1 - . . . - - 11 - 11 - - - , - - ' 1 . . . . . . . ' 11 - - - 11 - - 1 1 . . .1 1, 11 11 11 11 . , . . . . . . . ,, 1 1 1 . . . - n - - 1 1 1 ' 7 ' . , . . . . 1 1 1 . 11 11 - - - - 11 11 1 1 ' 1 1 ,, . . , . ,, ,, . . - 11 11 . , ' , 11 - 11 - 11 11 - - 1 - - 11 - 1 11 11 - ' 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 . . ,, . . . ,, - - - 11 11 - 1

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Seated Qleft to rxghtj Beck Crawford Marks Fawcett Henschel Rowse Rozmsky Standxng Cleft to rrghtb Wnllrams Wardrop OWL It rs the Owl Clubs yob to see that the Saturday mght movxes are run efficxently and m an orderly fash ron for the enjoyment of both faculty and students altke Through the years the club has changed greatly After Avons reopenmg m 1948 the Owl Club was a much larger orgamzatron Not only dld lt show the movres on Saturday mght but lf also put on several theatrtcal productrons Smce the clubs actrvrttes have been hmrted the number of members has decreased consnderably The present group carefully screens and selects new members before they are admrtted Punch Wardrop a sxx year man was th1s years 117 CLUB presndent and he was ably assisted by Duck Wrllxams who was vrce presrdent These two arclecl by the other s1x members are certatnly to be commended for thelr efforts Wrth Bob Nary s mnate rnterest rn electrontcs and Mlke Fawcett around to ma1nta1n order thmgs went qutte well The Owl Clubs advlsor Mr Doch termann always avatlable when problems drd arxse was to be counted on for expert advrce Among thrs year s selectxon of movies prcked by the members and the club advlsor were Rally Round the Flag Boyr Boy on a Dolpbzn Heaven Know: Mr All: ron Barbarmn and the Geuba and many other hxts Z Y ! 7 1 9 I - y . , . . . . .. a 9 - . . , 9 . . ,. . . . . , . . , . . . . . . a s . . . . . , . . s , Q - 3 7 , . . . , . . . . , . . . 7 1 . . ' J . , . . , f , . ' -. n - - , - - . 1 ' x 1 1 -