The Gunnery School - Red and Gray Yearbook (Washington, CT)

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THE MUSIC CLUB Front row left to rnght Keatrng A Owen B Wrllnamson Scovnlle Bnstol P Smrth C Maxwell fPres1dentJ Allyn L Damon Turnbull Marsted Hart R Benfleld Back row Mr Rome Koven Archbald Mrntz Raddmg Kaehrle Penner Ladewrg Upson Meyer Colton Crawford I Zersel Mr Anderson Every Wednesday ex emng the Musrc Club gathered rn the MtCutcheon Lounge to drscuss and lrsten to muslc mamly m the classrcal style both for the members enjoyment and edlncatron Wrth the able support of Mr Anderson and Mr Rowe and an enthusrastrc mcmbershrp the board of V1ce presrdent Charley Smrth and Secretmry Lours Allyn headed by B1ll Maxwell was able to promote var1ed excursrons to musrcrl ex ents rn nearby crtres In New Har en 5 Woolsey H111 the club attended a Con cert serres of srx concerts and a rend1t1on of the opera L1 Trasutr Neyer forgettrng the lrghter sxde of musnc some of the boys went off to Hartford for a Benny Goodmm azz Concert ln the vunter term Occasronally the regular weekly record sess1ons were supplanted by guest speakers Washrngton Hrgh Schools muslc drrector Mt Antey showed a movle on one of hrs rnterests the Marrne Band Mrs Mercer gay e a xery enllghtenmg and rnterestmg talk on organs vthrle demonstratrng on the one 1n the Church on the Green Throughout the year the Musxc Club furthered 1nd1 udual apprecrrtlon 0fI'1'1L1SlClI'l an actne and congemal rtmosphere , . , . ,,,, , ., . . - , , ' 7 Y v ' . ,,.,,, , . , 'o , ,, , , Y L . J . . . , . , 4 3 7 3 L L t . . ' r t 1 L . 7 t .

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THE GLEE CLUB Front row left to rlght Armstrong Owen T Shure Turnbull Allyn L Crawford C lPI'ESlLl6l lIb Damon Scovllle Marsted Pltman Sullryan Stconl row French Pershrng Bradley Tobxe Snyder Mrs Mercer McArdle Hall A Carnell boson Meyer Back row Marsh Mrntz Krlburn lxrodel Sentner Allyn R Moulton Hall R Arthbald Hubbard jones W Hughes G 1 7 7 3 lv ' A k l 3 L YH v Y 1 v u y . . , ' ! 7 ! '1 7 , 7 1 ' ' Y 3 D 3 3 1 L - . ' J . . - , V , 1 , 9 ' 3 7 7 Unexpecredly called on to drrect the Glee Club for the school year of 1956 1957 Mrs Mercer worked yery hard to mold the club rnto the fine smgmg group th If performed durmg PIIZC Nxghr on une 7 The year really began wrth a concert and dance at the Day School 1n New I-Iayen December 8 Next the Glee Club sang before the school rn McCurcheon Lounge on the last evemng of the Wrnter Term In the audxence for the first mme the club s 35 parnclpanng members attended the Yale Smlrh Glee Club Concert rn Vyflterbury on Apr1l 74 These hrghlrghts of a sue cessful year were made possrble by the experrenced dr rectron of Mrs Mercer who was arded by Presldent Charles Crawford Busrness Manager Cotton Damon and Llbrarran Lou1s Allyn

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THE CURRENT AFFAIRS CLUB Front row left to rlght Crawford C Turnbull Palevnonsky Marsted Wxllxamson Zersel Fnelds CPres1dentD Hart R Blmder Perry Scovnlle Oberwelser Omen B Back row Lrpetz Cohen jams Archbald Raddmg I-lerzxg Penner Greenwood lxeatlnlg, A Lackey Schuabacher Rxchman Spiro Donahoe Bradley Mr Bahney The Current AEHIIS Club under the able SUPCIVISIOD Frelds enjoyed a profitable year dxscussmg and analyz mg world and nanonal events D1ck Hart held the of lice of Vlce Presrdent whxle Tom Zensel served as the club s Secretary In October the club sponsored a Mock Nanonal Presxdennal Electron complete wxth an officral vonng machxne borrowed from the Washlngton Townshnp Wrth members of the club actmg rn officlal capac1t1es as reglstrars and checkers the electron was run off 112 smoothly 96 f of the schools elxgrble votersf those on elecnon day Results showed that 125 voted for Presldent ElSCIlll0WC1' whrle Mr Stevenson comprled 29 votes Durlng the year varlous IOPICS of nanonal and world wrde lmportance were d1scussed at the Tuesday nrght meetmbs Among them were questxons related to the Suez crlsls segregatlon statehood for Hawau and Alaska and Rock n Rolls effects on Amerxca whlch strmulated many rewardmg drscussrons , A , -, A , , , r V , ' , , : 1 , , n v u 1 l y ' 'v -v ' lv H l w l y S V , . . . , , , . v - 1' of Mr. Bahney and management of its President, Fred who had previously registeredj turned out at the polls 1 ' 1 I - . . , . . ' ' 7 7 , , .