The Gunnery - On The Go

The Gunnery announces its Speaker Series for 2005-2006. Series programs, held in the Congregational Church Meeting House at 7:00 PM, are open to the public and admission is free. It is recommended you call The Gunnery beforehand to confirm arrangements.

The five program series began in November with the visit of the Kalavant Center for Music and Dance for an evening of classical Indian music featuring Bina Kalavant on the sitar and Ustad Khadar Kahn and Imran Kahn on the tabla.

The series will present its second program on Monday, January 16th with an evening of storytelling, music and dance relating to the Underground Railroad of which The Gunnery's founder, Frederick Gunn, was a member. (continued)

E. Camden Fisher '97 has parlayed a life-long fascination with all things computational and electronic into an interesting career. His innovative talents and thinking paid off in 2004 when he landed a job as Systems Administrator at Harpo Productions, a production company owned by talk show host and cultural icon, Oprah Winfrey.

Since the age of ten, Cam has been mesmerized by computers and the ever-changing technology behind them. He and his friends would take them apart, analyze each individual piece and program them. For the most part, he was self-taught in computer science. (continued)

As a PLEBE (first year student) at The Merchant Marine Academy, Mark Lauretano '05 has had to adjust to a way of life very different from that at The Gunnery. Since his arrival at the Academy in July, he has learned military songs, the mission of the Academy and the proper way to march and make beds. He was also required to memorize leadership traits and the names of the 200 members of the senior class.

Mark's day usually begins at 5:30a.m.; sometimes at 4:30a.m. if he has a crew practice. After he cleans the barracks and upper classmen's bath rooms (followed by an inspection) and attends a flag- raising ceremony, his classes begin at 8:00a.m. (continued)

English Journal #2 (May 2004) is the first student publication to be made available on The Gunnery website. Print issues of the English Journal have come out twice a year since the founding of the journal in the Fall Term of 2003. The issues have contained a representative sixty pages or so from the most recent postings to the online Journal (available on the Gunnery intranet only).

In the coming months, we hope to make further issues of the Journal available on the website, as well as selected issues of the Stray Shot (an annual literary publication with a long history), and an occasional issue of the school newspaper, the Highlander. Thanks are due to the many students and faculty whose contributions of time and energy continue to make these publications possible.

Issue two contains translations from the Korean and Chinese which will be added to the online journal once permission to publish has been granted; it also contains translations by Alexis Romay from the Spanish of the Cuban émigré writer Miguel Correa Mujica. The writer and translator Alexis Romay, also a Cuban émigré to the U.S., visited The Gunnery in Spring 2004; his translation of Mujica's North of Hell (Al norte del infierno, 1984), from which the excerpt in issue two is taken, will be published by Green Integer next year (www.greeninteger.com). Thanks are due to Romay and Mujica for their contributions to the Journal.

The Gunnery's teams played on the flooded tennis courts both in the 'teens and the 1930s. Pictured above is subsequent trustee Ned Tracy with his team in 1915. Also included is a photo of a Gunnery team on the flooded courts.

The Alumni Office with the help of Varsity Hockey coach, Chris Baudo, is reviving the annual Winter Alumni Hockey Day on January 28th. Click here to be a member of the Alumni Hockey team.

Make a point and back it up with concrete research. Listen effectively to an opposing side's views. These are some of the skills practiced by The Gunnery's Debate Club. Started in 2004 by then-student Vincent Marron '05 and current head prefect James Estreich '06, this club gives students the opportunity to debate current social and political topics both in and out of school.

This past fall, six students participated in a debate focusing on current political leaders. Entitled "Do our leaders have to be moral or just effective", the students were split into two groups of three to debate this controversial subject. (continued).

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Where did The Gunnery
begin its hockey program
in the early 20th century? » Answer.

Jane Botsford Johnson '84
Thoughtful House Center for Children

Jane Botsford Johnson '84 was introduced to Thoughtful House Center for Children (www.thoughtfulhouse.org), an organization specializing in the research and treatment of children with developmental disorders, when she brought her son there for help with his learning disabilities. While there, she developed a deep passion for studying the disorders that affect children all over the world (autism, ADD, ADHD, PDD, and NLD), and since August of 2004, she has served as a Co-Managing Director of the Board of Directors. She is heavily involved with the researchers, educators, and physicians that make up this Texas-based center. (continued)

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Elizabeth Hawley '09
Before she could walk or talk Elizabeth Hawley displayed a deep passion for the performing arts. At nine months, she was involved in beauty pageants, commercial work and print work. At age three, she began studying numerous forms of dance including ballet, jazz, modern and tap. Years later, she developed a love for Irish step dancing after catching a performance of Riverdance. "I was mesmerized by that performance," she said. "I knew that I wanted to do that." She continues to study step dancing and is a national competition winner.

However, it was at the age of eight when she discovered her true love: the theatrical arts. "My theatrical debut was with the Grumbling Griffins," she said. "They were a children's theater in CT." The acting bug bit her, and she hasn't stopped since. She has performed in theaters all over CT including Hartford Stage Company, Warner Stage Company and The Sherman Playhouse in productions of A Chorus Line, West Side Story and Annie Get Your Gun. In 2004, Liz was cast in the off-Broadway play Mother Me Therapy playing a number of different characters. "I met the director after my performance in a musical revue. She was very interested in me for this show." The cast and crew of Mother Me Therapy plan to present the show in May 2006 as a fund raiser for the Montessori School in Washington, CT.