On May (xx), LT’s archery club is set to have its first scheduled meeting since October. The group has been so consistently cancelled due to weather and lack of attendance by teacher sponsors that offices at both campuses have ceased announcing the club’s cancellations altogether, SC main office worker Ida Smith said.

“It was actually a big relief when they stopped blasting the fact that my club was cancelled every day,” sponsor and gym teacher Bowman Hitchens said. “Since it isn’t brought up as much, fewer annoying kids come to me to whine about the range being closed. I can finally hear myself think.”

Although interest in the club has greatly declined with lack of scheduled meetings, a few archery enthusiasts are excited by the news of the club’s return.

“I’ve been having dreams about shooting arrows every night since I last did in October,” Reggie Pester  ’19 said. “I’m going to drink two six-packs of Red Bull and pull an all-nighter on Sunday to prepare for 3:30 p.m. on Monday.”

The archery range’s dormancy over the previous months has drawn a lot of attention from LT athletic teams, such as boys and girls track, who hoped to make use of the space for practices, varsity Head Coach Michael Danmor said. “Don’t tell anyone, but that’s actually why I’m having this archery meeting,” Hitchens said. “If I don’t have at least one meeting a semester, the sports teams might get too cozy with that range behind the Bennett Field bleachers. Can’t go about losing my job as archery sponsor, can I?”

Despite lobbying from dedicated underclassmen such as Pester and Katniss Everding ’18, it seems unlikely that archery club will regain it’s status as a regular extracurricular or have its cancellations appear on the announcements of either campus.