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

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r STANDING: Stoneg Walkerg Arthurg Rozinskyg Minickg Zinsser. KNEELING: Favoriteg Bennettg Absent: Reedg Estabrook. There are many Community Service organizations at Avon which give each student an opportunity to work for and improve the school in their spare time. One of these organizations is the Owl Club. The fourteen members of this club work each week to provide the students an enjoyable movie on what can otherwise be an eventless Saturday night. Under the direction of Mr. Dochtermann, the faculty advisor, the club carries out its duties of selecting and showing movies in the Forge Theater. The rustic Forge is simple and small but it is capable of seating sixty-five or seventy students. The club is tortunate in having good equipment with which Cinemascope and color movies can be showi and projectionists to efficiently carry out the show- ing of the movies. The student body is indebted to the Owl Club for the work it does to entertain and boost the morale of boys at Avon. 101

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FIRST ROW.' Baerg Kamermang Bennett, Valentine. SECOND ROW: Brickg Leonard, W., Weinsteing Nourig Lamattag Dale, Copley, Anderson, Toppelg Hathaway, Mr. Lapidusg Parker. In a school where many clubs are starved for mem- bers, the Debating Club has done well by securing twenty boys. Mr. Lapidus, who was its faculty advisor, did much to make the team what it was. Every Friday night the club met for three quarters of an hour 5 every other week there was active debates with teams consisting of three persons each. There were also extemporaneous speeches 3- a member would be given ten minutes to make up a five minute speech on any topic to be given in front of the whole club. Afterwards, there would be suggestions and criticisms for his benefit. The process of debating is as follows: there are two teams of three people each, the affirmative and nega- tive. After the topic of discussion and the differences are stated by two members on each team, there is a rest. Then the negative rebutalist speaks for five minutes. Afterwards, the affirmative rebuttalist de- fends his team for five minutes also. The club received many invitations to debate with schools like Kingswood and Taft. Their most im- portant debate was with Hotchkiss. The team for the affirmative was: Baer, Dale, and Emmons, for the negative: Kamerman, Weinstein, and Shinbach. The topic was - Resolved: The federal government should exercise tighter control over labor unions. The officers are: Skip Kamerman - President, Dick Bennett - Vice-President, Andy Baer -Secre- tary, Rick Valentine f Treasurer, and Larry Brick g Baliff. 100

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