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

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4 tx 359' 35, LOUIS PACKER ALLYN A two year member of the school perhaps no boy drstrngurshed hrmself so qurckly and yet always re tarned such a desrrable verl of modesty At the end of hrs frrst year Loures elforts were rewarded wrth the wrnnrng of the Second Mrle Scholarshrp grven for qualrtres of tenacrty wrll to succeed personal rntegrrty unselhshness and good wrll toward men Only when the school attempted to srng Chapel hymns on days that Lou was not there to trckle the rvorres, drd hrs usefulness become apparent As an enthusrastrc musr cran he was Lrbrarran of the Glee Club, Secretary of the Musrc Club, Drrector of the Coolers, and a tenor for the two school chorrs as well as the Congregatronal Church on Sunday mornrngs When rt came to sports, Loure trred nearly everythrng the school had to offer He played on varrous thrrd teams throughout the sea sons, but Soccer was hrs forte Wotkrng best under the pressure of dealrng wrth the problem of havrng two dates for the Senror House Party, Screwy managed to rack up hrs two hrghest averages rn hrs Gunnery career Far from hrs rsland home rn Mystrc, Connectrcut, Loures exuberance wrll undoubtedly wrn hrm a warm spot rn Yales freshman class WILLIAM NEWMAN SMYTH Crossrng over from Roslyn Long Island Brll entered The Gunnery rn hrs Sophomore year and worked hrs way up the ladder of success to hrs apporntment as a Senror Prefect One who belreved rn the value of extra currrcular actrvrtres as a facet of educatron Brll man three years at school Brll sang rn the Vesper Chorr and the Glee Club was a member of the Dramatrcs Club and of the Second Century Commrttee In hrs Senror year he drvrded hrs trme between preparrng dance lrsts and producrng the back page of the News As Presrdent of the Gunn Assocratron Brll took an rm portant part wrth Chaplarn Moore rn the plannrng of The Gunnerys Relrgrous Conference In the freld of athletrcs whrch Brll hardly rgnored he starred for two years on the Varsrty Football Hockey and Base ball squads In hrs Senror year Brll was elected Captarn of the Hockey Squad and durrng the Sprrng played fifth man on the Varsrty Tennrs Squad ill, Q-9' 4 in Lfflh: 1 ' ' ' . ' I 2: 1' . .' , . . . ,Y V ?'.v , - 1 aged to involve himself in a good number during hrs . Q l . , . b , S . 9 , . . , V . . . , 9 9 ' . rx ' 9 . . ' . . . 7 -an - 5 I 7 3 In t Y . ' UQ 26

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ning I' NORMAN PA I RICK HINFS parntrng rn the Kempton Art Room or rowrng on Lake Waramaug Norm was constantly rn the fore front of all that went on durrng hrs three years at The Gunnery As a member of the Dance Commrttee as well as the Decoratrons Commrttee for the Senror House Party he not only desrgned the mural but also put rn many long hours of work parntrng rt and for thrs we are all very grateful When he was elected to the captarncy of the Wrestlrng team hopes were hrgh only to be dashed when he sustarned an rnjury rn the frrst Football game of the season whrch benched hrm practrcally the whole of the wrestlrng season As Presr dent of the Athletrc Councrl he fulfilled a posrtron for whrch he was well surted has rng played on the Varsrty Football squad for two years and havrng stroked the frrst boat for three years In recognrtron for hrs servrces hrs fellow students elected hrm to the posrtron of un ror Monrtor and rn hrs graduatrng year to a Senror Prefectshrp rn Gunn Realrzrng an ambrtron to attend a college rn the West Norm rs enrolled rn the Class of l96l at Pomona CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL HART Harlrng from nearby Lrtchfield Krm jorned the Gunnery famrly as a freshman and has been steadrly ascendrng the ladder of success He has been a mem ber of the Executrve Board of the Gunn Assocratron for four years As a senror he headed the Lrbrary Com mrttee and held a posrtron on the Gunnery Neur staff as Copy Edrtor Berng elected a junror Monrtor hrs leadershrp qualrtres were honored by hrs berng elected to a Prefectshrp rn hrs last year Athletrcally Errone ous played on the Varsrty Football Team unror Var srty Hockey Team and rn hrs last term was elected Captarn of the junror Varsrty Tennrs Team Though hrs roommate drd not always approve of hrs appetrte for crackers nor hrs penchant for Drxreland they drd manage to co exrst when Krm slept on the floor of another room rn the Infirmary Probably one of the most mature members of hrs class rt was fittrng that Krm should be awarded an Internatronal Schoolboy Fellowshrp to study at Monkton Combe School rn England next year ,guna-f IU- has-1 I -.aw I . . . .V . iI T ' ' 5 ' ' ' 7 Whether bopping in the McCutcheon Lounge, . . Aivpy f fm A 25

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W'-0 N-mai THOMAS CHAPIN BRAMAN A grrndson of Mr Frederrck Gunn Tom establrshed a record of whrch any of hrs forbears would have been proud Our only Pennsylvanran Tom arrrved at The Gunnery after two years at Hrgh School and soon showed hrmself to be both a scholar and an athlete As one of the founder members of the Brology Club Toms enthusrasm w as recognrzed when hrs classmates elected hrm Presrdent of he Club Haxrnb one of the hrghest scholastrc rverages rn the Class Tom won scholarshrps to the Unrversrty of Pennsylvanra and also to Prrnceton where he wrll 50 next year It was not for nothrng, that Tom earned the sobrrquet of Var srty for a short perusal of the Football and Basket ball artrcles wrll grve evrdence of hrs athletrc prowess On the Barnes Memorral Freld hrs tenacrty and resolute determrnatron led hrm to star on what was at the begrnnrng of the season a rather rnexperrenced team Whrle rnsrde the Memorral Gymnasrum he led the Varsrty Basketball team to second place rn the Trr State League Always full of confidence Tom rnsprred hrs team mates to x rctory and also hrs rrvals rn brology to try and beat hrm Next Fall as he steps on to the Prrnceton Campus we trust that the success that he has experrenced here wrll be prualent rn hrs scholastrc md athletrc abrlrtres rn that frmous unrxersrty ROBERT BLINDER Comrng to The Gunnery from Brooklrne Massa chusetts rn hrs Sophomore year Bob has become the greatest morale rarser rn the Senror Cl rss Always wrth .1 smrle on hrs face Bob s rmrtrtrons of erry Lewrs w rll lonp remarn rn the mrnds of hrs classmates and one rrr partrcular wrll remarn rn the mrnd of Mr Anderson As well as berng, on the Copy Staff of the newspaper Bob also showed great actrng, abrlrty rn hrs portrayal of Lreutenant Thomas Keefer rn the productron of The Carne Mutrny Court Martral Always ready to help w hen needed Bob was a very useful member of the Communrty Chest Commrttee When not otherwrse engrgbed he was enlrghtenrnb Mr Bahney on the xrr tues of abolrshrng trade urrrons rn the Boston rrer Many a pleasant afternoon was spent rn the confines of Bob s room lrstenrng to Rodgers and Hammerstern or of course Fabulous Frank When we heard that Bob spent hrs lrst two summers krllrnt, dogs and rab brts rt came as no surprrse when he announced hrs acceptance at Branders Unrversrty where he rs plan nrng 1 pre medrcrne course ICE C-4' 1 , . . ' ' V 3 7 A 1 ,A I 4 r Y . f t r . I . . . . Y. Y, . , . 5 , , , , t , ' t . . M. V A I V ' l , f 7 ' r ' ' Y ,I 4 1 ' 1 Q . . . r . f , 3 LY , V Y . L V . 2 1. r r v 1 s 1 - 1 1 . , ' 4 r Lx K K , ' I ' . 2 . , 4 . . - 'vtfgib . ti ' r X .L 1 1 y il I g , 7' L . t . I iff . , . f ' ff' I , -, K , ' ' r r' y . . ,, l Fl L , i t . V V. Y up 7 K '- v ' - . I A - V . . . I 1 r . . . . .