Carson Long Military Institute - Carsonian Yearbook (New Bloomfield, PA)

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY AS the senior train left station 1942 it carried only a skeleton crew, with Solomon as the engineer, Sherman, the fireman and Miller, the conductor. As the train approached station ff 43 we were given the highball so we continued on our track to station 444. Eisenberg, who became trainsman, and Edwards, who became brakeman, were taken aboard. Fairservis had some difficulty with a low door but he made it. A dining car was taken up at station ff 45 with Layton filling the bill as a good steward. Station if 46 providedus with porters: Grubbs, Twist, Bruaw, Deis, Sundquist, Ehrhardt, Springer, Mayor, and Santos. We had to stop at station if 47 to have the train cleaned, so Mattern, Muntzer, Conklin, Peniston, Rojas, Giddings, Cannock, and Hewitt, who sold a few sandwiches, came aboard. At station if 48 a new cattle car was added with some very fine contents , including Shimer, the Schott twins, Mari, Wagner, Kuneman, Hughes, Greenberg, I-Iaelig, Gerber, D'Agostino, and Bier. The track was clear and we were all set to pull into station if 50 on time. However, we made a whistle stop at station tt 49 and with the addition of Lens our crew was complete. And now, together, we ride toward our last stop -- Station ff 1950--, where we will leave the train to take our place in the world. SENIOR C LASS HISTORIAN wha 6 O ,I of '50 13

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THE SENIOR CLASS President ....... Vice President ..... Secretary .............. Assistant Secretary .... Treasurer ..... ........ . . Assistant Treasurer ..... Historian ..... ..... . Assistant Historian .... CLASS COLORS CLASS FLOWER CLASS MOTTO . CLASS SONG .... ... ...U . ....- Cadet Miller ....Lieutenant Grubbs ....Lieutenant Sherman .....Lieutenant Santos ....Cadet Muntzer Lieutenant Bruaw Acting Captain Layton Cadet Twist Blue and Gold Yellow Rose Alta Fides After Graduation 12 x . ,I of '50

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CHARLES S. BIER 9128 woodiand Road Cadet lst. Platoon, Co. A Varsity Football '48 '49 Lntra-Mural Volleyball '49 lntra-Mural Softball '49 Gun Club '49 Science Club '50 C Club '49 '50 Eaglerook Council '50 Decorating Committee '49 Dramatics Club '49 '50 W JCW Will invent a bigger and better pistol. COLT AND HIS PISTOLS IN the last days of Prohibition, two gang- sters decided to fight a duel in the finest European tradition. As is customary in such matters, the object of the duel was the affections of a woman. The scene of the duel was to be peaceful suburban Blessing Road, just outside Albany. The spot was near the home of the woman concerned and it was agreed that the surviving gunman would go to her house and claim her. Each mobster selected a second in line with tra- dition. Everything remained on ahigh aesthetic level until just before the men arrived at the appointed spot. Each principal, along with his second, was driving down the is- olated road, when the urge to do things in the modern Americanmanner became over- whelming and someone let go with a re- volver. Thus a revolver played an ugly part in this episode and made a mockery of an in- ventor, his dreams, and a flourishing busi- ness. This inventor, born in Connecticut in 1814, attended a boarding school there which he detested. He ran away from it and went to sea. Aboard ship he was intrigued by the mechanical process of the steering wheel's spokes passing the wheel lock. This arrangement suggested to him the idea of a pistol with short revolving barrels, each in turn discharging into a single barrel. Thus was the revolver born. After starting a factory in'l83l the inventor went bankrupt in 1847, but as if to prove the quality of his work, during that period, collectors now buy these pistols for prices ranging between five hundred and several thousand dollars. After many attempts at refinancing, he obtained a government order for his wea- pons. This enabled him to build another factory in Hartford. It has flourished there ever since. Ln this factory the greatest manufacturer of revolvers and automatics realized his dream and made his name Samuel Colt, a byword for pistols. l4 -i-me ' ffqfaa BEER Silver Spring , Md.