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

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Frrst Row Cleft to nghtb J Erskrne Plepla L Brovsn btavers Mr Sharp Gardner C Davxs Garces Strllgebauer Second Row Qleft to rnghtj Laprdus Davenport Toogood Beatson Danxel D Davrs Arrd Proctor Rosenthal DINING ROOM COMMITTEE The fall of 1958 found seventeen eager young gentlemen preparrng themselves for the act1v1t1es of the Drnmg Room Commrttee The purpose of th1s xndeed rmportant and necessary organnzatron rs four fold to brrng food to the school rnfrrmary three trmes a day no matter how cold the temperature or how wet the weather to keep the busrness oFfice rnformed on the total number of meals eaten to delrver officral com munrcatxons to the students and ftculty and to take attendance at meals Thrs year s commrttee was headed by Blll Stavers who was rn charge of the drnmg room srde of the commnttee and Lanny Gardner head of the xnflrmary side Membershtp IS entrrely voluntary for those who wrsh to partrctpate rn the smooth functron mg of school meals whrch are after all a very rmportant part of our 11v1ng Lapldus Anrd and Davrs C were newcomers to the 110 attendance takers Lapxdus havmg swrtched from hrs prevrous years task of food carrytng Dantel Brown Davrs D and Davenport returned for thetr second year as able takers of attendance Few people ever take notrce of the achrevements of the rnfirmary sxde The word achrevement rs most carry a heavy tray through knee deep drrfts of new fallen snow wrthout ever takrng mto account the sub freeztng temperatures Strllgebauer Proctor and Ple pla returned for therr second year along wrth Lanny Gardner who returned as th1s year s charrman Beatson and Garces were new personalmes among the ranks of these fearless porteurs Least known of all but by no means least rmport ant are two members Toogood and B111 Emrrch who are responsrble for the darly after drnner coffee of the faculty and senrors , . . . . ' ' ' ' , , . A D v ' - u - n - . . certainly applicable here, as it is often very diffxcult to 3 A I 'L - ' - 2 ' I ' , , . f . , ' 3 1 ' ' 7 9 . 7 . . - , . . , 1 1 - '

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Back Row Cleft to rrghtj Howe Arrd Law Davenport Lawrence Phlllrps j Robrnson Gallo Wxre Sage R jones Seatedf left to rrghtb P Erskrne Frnlayson Dawes Gardner Lee Grossman Mr Loveland Front Row Cleft to rrghtj T Pettrngrll Rozmsky Whrtman A Pettmgrll HI TORY CLUB The Hrstory Club was founded at Avon Old Farms for the purpose of acquarntlng rnterested students wrth forengn polxcy and world affarrs Srnce 1ts conceptron early rn the school s hrstory rt has grown and expanded untrl xt IS now one of the most selectrve organrzatrons rn school restrrctrng rts membership to the most rn formed and mtellectually Currous A new and drfferent program greeted the old and new members of the Hrstory Club as they convened for the first nme under the new admmrstratron Presrdent Rrchard Lee arranged an enlarged program rncludrng d1scuss1ons debates an specral lectures Morton plc tures were shown from trme to trme and members of the club were able to hear the lectures grven before the Forergn Polrcy Assocratlon of Hartford Among the many frrsts rntroduced by thrs year s club were money rn the bank partrclpatron rn the an nual Stamford Instrtute on Internatronal Affanrs the holdrng of the semr annual conventron of the Secondary School Socrety for Internatronal Cooperatron here m Aprrl These coupled wnth the general hxgh caliber of the meetrngs helped to make 1959 the clubs most actrve year One of the major events of the year was the an nual Model Unrted Natrons Assembly at Hrllyer College rn Hartford sponsored by the Forexgn Polrcy Assocratlon Representrng Avon were Lee Gardner Grossman Dawes Fmlayson Law Al Pettrngrll and Whrtman In preparatron for the event these dele gates met rn New York Crty wrth the delegates from the countrxes whnch they were to represent The Forergn Polrcy Assocraron also sponsored mon thly meetrngs for members of local secondary schools At these meetmgs toprcs of current rnterest were dxs cussed and a noted speaker lectured on a specrfic prob lem of forergn polrcy The Secondary School Socrety for Internatronal Co operatnon held rts conventron at Avon on Aprrl 19 Thrrteen schools rncludrng Avon are rncluded rn thrs orgamzatnon whrch rs dedrcated to brrngrng about a fuller understandrng of forergn affarrs Th1s year the toprc drscussed was The New Natronallsm In the mormng mdrvrdual groups met to drscuss the toprc and to handle the affarrs of busrness and Wrllram Avrrett of the Carnegre Endowment for Internatronal Peace was called upon to speak rn the afternoon Much of the Hrstory Club s success can be attrrbuted to the rmmense effort put forward by the four olflcers elected rn May 1958 Presndent Rrchard Lee Vrce pres :dent Lanny Gardner Secretary Andrew Grossman and Treasurer Beman Dawes provrded the sound organrza tronal abrlrty and leadershrp that helped make the meet mgs run so smoothly Mr Loveland was always on hand as faculty advrsor and hrs smrlrng crrtrcrsm was always welcome w l I 9 1 v 1 r u - a x x , . 5 - 3 , , v y 1 - 5 A , y y A 9 a s x . . . . - - -1 . , ' ,, . . . . , . . ' 1 . . . . , - . . . . . . , 9 x s 1 d ' ' , . ' - - .V - - H ' a -1 H . . . . . . . 1 . , ' , . . . . . , . ' Y s - 9 ' ' ' v . 3 1 1 , . ' 1 1 -

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vuqm it 'N-vi N. Thrrd Row fleft to rnghtj Beall Van Ness Mr Durphey L Duff Otto Cluxton Crawford Ross Second Row Cleft to rxghtj Escher Wardrop M Mxller Wrllrams Durphey R Duff Frrst Row Cleft to rrghtb Std Rxendeau Kohn Schravettr NIMROD CLUB In the fall of 1929 a handful of students orrgrnated a club for wnld lrfe enthuslasts Today the N1mrod Club IS a very 1mportant and powerful organ1zat1on at Avon Thrs year under Mr Durphey s drrectron the club has completed many of xts past projects Wlth the and of Punch Wardrop and Terry Crawford the mdoor rrfle range started tvso years ago was finrshed com plete wnth stove and hghts In an effort to help themselves and the schpol Nrm rod members rncludmg Barney Beall and Mlke Mrller linrshed another long suffermg prolect the fish and pheasant hatchertes These two had lam tdle for almost Hve years When the club drd decrde to rescue them they were dnscovered to be quxte drlaprdated Wxth Gordon Durphey s able attentron there should be plenty of hunttng and fishmg next year Avon s bandmg program was broadened last year when pheasants were added to the fm punctured trout The N rmrod Club recerved a surprxse when one band was turned rn A pheasant apparently wandered off 111 school property to be bagged by a very astonlshed hunter who followed the mstructxons on the tag and sent rt to Sprmgfield Illmors After much travelltng the tag was returned to the Nxmrod Club vxa the Illmors Conservatton Department where lf had orlgmated Thanks to the master carpentry of Sky Van Ness and Dave Ross the cabm rs complete Bunk beds rn sulatxon and pme panelmg have much to the dxsgust of departxng ftrst woodsman Skxp Kohn made the cabm 1nto a luxurrous house Certaxnly not to be forgotten most rmportant ln the eyes of many Nrmroders IS the masterful cookmg of S1d Rrendeau wrth hrs assrstant Carl Otto It was a fine and producttve year The energetnc work of officers Barney Beall Mrke Miller and Sky Van Ness made xt so not to mentton the cheerful notes of secre tary Dlck W1ll1amS and the fam1l1ar and amusmg qulps of Langdon Brown Maybe the club should have hung out the familar shrngle No job too large or too small and then added We f1n1sh them all ., ,hem 1.1-wr' L' .. - P 1 1 1 - 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 - 3 1 1 1 . , , 7 ' Y . , . . . . . . 5 ' 5 I ' - - - - 11 11 11 11 - - - - 1 1 - 1 ' . 7 - 9 Q 3 7 5 1 - - 11 1 11 - 1 1 ' ' 3 3 3 - 7 ! . . . . . . . ,, . ,, . , . . , . ' 9 , . . . 1 1 ' , . . . . . 11 1 11 1 - 11 - 11