This past Thursday the entire school embarked on a venture through Steep Rock to celebrate Mr. Gunn’s birthday. It seemed that many new students were unaware of the seriousness of this event, but those returners understand that when the Gunnery goes for a hike, we don’t mess around. The school was led onwards for about 7 miles, following the ominously hanging orange markers that hung in groups of 6 or 7 around intersecting paths. Everything was running smoothly for the first part of the walk, until we ran into a slight glitch.
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Approximately 165 grandparents visited their Gunnery grandchildren on September 26th for a day of classes, presentations, and fun. The increasingly popular Grandparents’ Day, started in 1997, allows the senior members of the family to live a day in the life of their Gunnery student. Highlights of the day include class visits, a performance by vocal group, The Troubadours, a Q&A with select students, and a community luncheon.
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In the celebration surrounding the dedication of Teddy House, a dorm for freshman boys, it may have escaped notice that girls were not neglected in the generous gifts of parents, friends, and alumni. The inhabitants of Bourne dormitory were delighted when they returned from classes one day to find a completely re-furnished, redecorated common room. Current parent Joanie Hall (Frannie Hall ’10) and her mother Barbara Baekgaard gave the recreational area a long-needed face lift with new couches, ottomans, mirrors, lamps, and a flat screen television. “This project was done on a shoe string,” said Mrs. Baekgaard, who along with Mrs. Hall, donated all items. “The furniture came from my company, Vera Bradley.” Other items came from IKEA and other local retail outlets.
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“This was a life changing event,” said Zoey Greco ’09. “It was wonderful to be around people who really care about what’s going on in the world.” This past summer, Zoey, along with Jessica L’Heureux ‘10 and Clark Johnson ‘09 participated in the National Leaders Conference in Washington, DC. This ten day event gave young people from all over the country an opportunity to live the life of a U.S. politician, and in some cases, the President of the United States.
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The Gunnery Girls First Boat came in first at Head of the Connecticut in Middletown, CT. The girls, Chelsea Simpson ‘08, Emily Sandefer ‘08, Shelly Beck ‘10, Macaulay Bogdanovics ‘09, and Mitzi McEneany ‘08, finished the three mile race in 18 minutes, 35 seconds. “It was our goal to beat Choate,” said Emily. “They came in at 18 minutes, 37 seconds. We were fast. It was very exciting. It felt like we were flying.” The Gunnery Boys First Boat also fared well at this event, coming in second. The team members, D.J. Cingari ‘08, Will Sutherland ‘09, Ross Anderson ‘09, Sean Grogan ‘10, and Kyle Ward ‘08, coxswain, beat rival schools Choate Rosemary Hall, Pomfret, and Berkshire with a time of 19 minutes, 43 seconds.
Who built the Gunnery's wall? When?
Thanks for all the good wall stories! Alfred Bourne, son of Frederick Bourne, founding president of Singer Sewing Machine Co., purchased the Van Ingen estate in 1928 and transformed the shingle cottage into a Tudor-style mansion. Sometime (it is not recorded specifically) during the 1930s, he had the wall constructed which stands today. Hunnewell Braman ’11 was the contractor. The wall is 2850 feet long and averages eight feet tall (and three to four feet underground). It was not, as the local legend records, a CCC project to provide work during the Depression although the building of it employed many local workers .
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An urban public school system? A maximum security prison? Which is a worse place to work? Teacher, Philip Leonida ’96 will take the latter any day. “At least I know the felons aren’t armed,” he said. Since 2004, Philip has spent his days teaching reading, science, math, English, and social studies to the inmates of San Quentin State Prison. “Not as a fellow inmate, mind you,” he adds. “I teach felons so that they can earn their GEDs.”
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