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

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THE AUTOMOBILE CLUB Left to right Hughes J Wilshire J QPresidentD Mr Cavwley Oberweiser Krodel In the garage beneath Memorial Mr Cawley and his small band of automobile students worked on a 1941 Dodge which formerly belonged to Mr Millers son Dwight Weiser and the others spaced classroom lectures on the principles of the operation of an internal combustion engine betw een afternoon lab sessions They com pletely dismantled the car s engine after bodily remov ing it from the chassis and after a thorough cleaning and replacement of worn parts proceeded with the re assembly With the typical optimism of a do it yourself auto mechanic Mr Cawley reported that he hoped to have est' Clouds of blue smoke and a few left over parts may not have been equal to a costly professional ,ob as typical results but the experience gained by the boys working at a typical reconditioning job was worth much more than any improvements made to the Dodge President jock Wilshire and Secretary Dave Ober- the old ark amoverin' by the end of May at the lat- 122

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THE PRESS CLUB Left to right Herrup Brumng D115 CPres1dentD Lowes Renkert Mr Lee Thrs underclassman organrzauon w1th a greatly en larged program under the supervrsron of Mr Lee and Rrchard D115 thrs year assrsted 1n many school func txons The most rmportant job performed was cover mg the school s sporung events and handlrng the wrrte ups for the local and New York Papers wh1ch entarled supplyrng them wrth lrne ups scores and averages of all the games Outsrde the held of sports the Press Club covered many other actrvxtres rn the school for news paper publrcrty Ardxng the Alumnr Councrl the mem bers helped Wlfh the productron of the Alumm New: and the marlmg of Alumm lrterarure The preparatron of the school calendar of events and the programs for each term s athletxc contests was also very well handled by the club durmg the year . 2 , . , . . , v , . I . . , ' . , . . . . . , . 7 ' 1 1 ' 121

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THE COOLERS Left to right Lip-etz Bristol P Moulton Bristoll D Greenwood Allyn L CDrrector7 Helm Bradley Tobie Cohen Povsell Mr Lee The Gunnery Band soon to become known as The playing, faculty member Mr Day Llxis Lee He did an excellent job in organizing and promoting a small combo of this txpe which had formed in the minds of a few interested boys With the help of Director Lou Fats Allyn and Man tger Mike Helm the Coolers made their debut be tics Club s production of The Came Hzztmy Court Mar tm! Since then the group has performed at various school functions the most memorable of which were the prize nights at the end of each term I A I I J 'D .S I 3 '1 i 1 v 1 ' I ! 1 Al! 3 9 Y 3 ' ' v 3 y H L I r ' - Coolers , was organized in the Fall Term by the guitar- fore the school during the intermission of the Drama- 123