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

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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.

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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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ARTHUR G. BRUAW JR. MOOSE Duncannon Znd. Lieutenant Pennsylvania Commander Znd. Platoon, Co, B Varsity Football '49 Jay Vee Football '48 Intra-Mural Basketball '47 '48 lntra-Mur al Volleyball '48 '49 '50 Intra-Mural Softball '47 '48 I49 Sr. Track Mgr. '50 tm Trlack Mgr. '49 5 I 1 Science Club '47 ' Q Gym Club '48 Dance Club '49 Rifle Club '49 '50 Junior Class Glee Club '49 Decorations Committee '49 Dramatics Club '49 '50 C Club '49 '50 Treasurer Belfry Hall House of Representatives '49 Vice-President Belfry Hall House of Representatives '50 Asst. Treasurer Senior Class '50 Rifle Team '49 '50 Blue Ribbon Squad '49 All Star Volleyball Team '49 Senior Literary Society Rep- resentative '50 Greek Track Team '49 Baseball Tearn '48 ii f gm THC U16 GUN Will open a moose farm. OUR FLAG OUR flag is a symbol of organization in the United States. Our flag was based on the ancient banner of England. It was after Washington's battle at Cambridge during 1776, that the flag of the United States be- gan to take formg it was unfolded before the people as a symbol of thirteen stripes of alternate red and white, with a cross of red andwhite in one of its corners on a field of blue. The cross was that of St. George and St. Andrew of England. This first idea for a flag for the United States united it with England and showed that the colonists had not yet decided to forget their mother country. There were a few suggestions that the thirteen states be changed into a single star instead of being arranged in a circle. On June l4, 1777, congress decided that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes alternate red and white and the Union would be thirteen white stars in a blue field. But until 1818 our flag had not been establishedg then congress announced the flag of the United States, consisting of the original thirteen states as stripes and that the stars only should be changed to correspondwith the number of states. Four days later president Monroe signed the act. lts most popular name Old Glorie was given to it by a sailor, William Driver, f r om S al em , Massachusetts. Our flag embodies many of our ideas, our history and our good American feeling. lts stars and stripes together stand for a Union past and present, the colors of our flag have a language which was understood by our forefathers, white for purity, red for valor, blue for justice and altogether these colors stand for the great nation we have They stand for what we believe and what we mean to maintain. Our flag can only stand for a great na- tion if we make it so and we have the ability and leadership to put forth from this Senior Class and all the other classes in our nation to build and to keep our Nation great. We 6 ' of '50 15