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

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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 , , .

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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 DRAMATICS CLUB 'L is Front row left to rrght Nlr Vaughan Archbald Wnllnamson Emerson P Keatmg A Drls johnson jennlngs Powell Blmder Shure Second row lxeatlng R Raddrng, Wllshrre J Schwabacher J The proouctron of two plays durmb the last school year by the Dr tmatrcs Club fulfilled the club s objec mes to grve all students expressrng an rnterest some expemence rn theatrrcal work The Came llll!lZ7Zy Court Mama! by Herman Wouk was staged ln December w 1th Headmaster Ogden M11 ler R1Chard Dlls Stephen Raddrng and Peter Emerson performlng brlllrantly rn therr mayor roles The play was a success and as a mark of th1s the club was rm rted Colman Palewonsky jams Scoulle Renner Tobxe Back row Crawford J Smlth P Hall A Helm ones R Zerscl to New Mrlford to pave another presentatron for the Hungarran Rellef Fund Aprrl 76 and 77 were the productron dares of The Harry Hem: by john Patrrck The cast led by Mrs Day Lee Rrchard D1ls and joseph jennmgs, agarn per formed excellently Much of the creclt of havmg many crrtrcs call Tbc Hasty Heart the best play produced rn Gunnery s hrstory goes to the energeuc and enthusras t1c dlrector Mr Clark Vaughan pf