Anna Head School - Nods and Becks Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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Just at dusk the corn stood stlhouetted agaunst a multicolored sky It seemed s If the corn fassels were the plumes of the helmets the leaves the banners the broken stalks the s pears of forgotten knughts I looked out once and saw them Not as soldners But as ragged chtldren lean Wnth theur hands outstretched And thenr hatr tangled by the wnnd Then agaun they ve been luke young women Crushed nn the prtme of lute By some great sorrow Or lake children happy Or luke aged men greyed and bent They change wnth the weather Wuth the wand wath change of mnnd Ive seen them Young valnant and brave Thenr proud heads flung hugh Looknng upward ever on Or like kntghts nn retreat Theur pennants tattered Swords broken and plumes los They seem to know how one sl My pennant ns lost No battle won And yet even so As they ll turn again Charge agaun and flght agatn So wllll And so do we all For never forget Woman has an nnner love Every chtld an Inner toy And every man Though he be beaten back And trampled upon Has an Inner strength And so do I So do we all I e IS flowung Ty Roth 4? . I t 1 t lllll'll'l Ill' 'llllll llllllx Yet hungry for loveg , t. ' 'f ' ' .

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If Luke a bombshell out of the blue or a shot out of the dark we were nn war' War came to us so suddenly so unexpectedly that the speed of nts comlng was breath takung and seemed unbelievable The first months of an all out program for de fense have passed and now we are all aware of the seruousness of the sttuatnon the perulous dangers that surround us and the uncertainty of our very exustence from day to day Thus nn us should be formed stronger phnlosophles deeper con ceptuons of the values of llfe new adlustments and above all a wnllnngness for self sacruhce We all doubtless have token many thungs for granted that we are fortunate nn havmg the love and unterest our famulues glve us the many loys that each day brungs to us good health our excellent schools our friends and neighbors our beautsful surroundnngs the wonderful opportunutues our country offers us our freedom of speech freedom of the press freedom of relnglon and above all the mere fact of benng alnve Let us take nothnng for granted from thus moment on rememberung what a pruvn lege tt as to be an American and the truth and worth for whnch our nation stands Let us work whule we work and play whule we play always conscnenttously Ltve smule work and serve for today can never be caught and relnved When ut ns spent ut us flnushed but nf luved to nts full mstead of benng a wasted day ut wall prove a vuc toruous day If we pass the torch of love and kundness onto all wnth whom we come In contact the fire of courage and hope that as krndlecl at home wull spread to our men at the front and lught thenr way guvung them the power to bring Peace on Earth to thus war torn world .Jeanette Blaur 43 PEACE One day a young musslonary was standung quuetly outsude a Chlnese temple Has attentnon was attracted by an old woman who was buyung several prayers from a priest Her poor bent body was covered only wuth tatters of clothung That she had worked un the rtce flelds all her life could be duscerned from her gnarled hands on whnch there were many gapung cracks As she turned to go In to the altar the young man saw In her eyes the longnng for freedom of the spurut Her eyes so full of grief hope despaur rebellton Through her eyes alone could he see what went on nn the soul The rest of her face was merely a mask of wrnnkled leather which hld every emotton By burmng the prayers whuch had cost her last small coins she belneved she would be set free He felt the nrony of It The woman gropung after somethung whuch was so near and easy to attann and whtch she would probably never flnd She was pourung out her soul to a bruck wall As he stood there he thought of all the luves that had been spent ID the some blund way The Nordic trnbes the Egypttans the Babylonnans all wnth theur heathen gods of nature the Greeks trynng to explom llfe through phnlosophlc dtssertatuons the Oruentals trying to rnd themselves of thenr burdens by nnfluctung upon themselves the most terrible tortures Stull they all lay down at nnght wnth the same gnawlng at theur Inner being that had been there before Among all these depressung plctures he saw one that was lughted wnth hope It was a snmple pncture lackung un grandeur nt was of a man wnth a knnd earnest face stttnng tn a meadow among some chnldren He felt a peace steal over htm He knew where he was goung He would reach has goal by the grace of God Patrncna Schnender 43 1 ' T 1 J , . I . - - 11 11 1 1 1 . , ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 I v 1 I 'T 1 1 I . 1 ' 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 - 1 . , . 1 - 1 ' 1 1 1 1 ' - 1 1 - 1 1 1 I - I 1 I 1 . . . ,

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IIY 'IIII CHE TY LIFE My lufe before I was pucked was spent pleasantly un the fields of Indua But as all good tumes wull come to an end I was packed unto a chest and sent to England There I saw many haughty government offlcuals who I am sure felt very umportant and dugnufled My comrades thought them very handsome and stylush but I luked the lnduan people better They were sumple and looked comfortable un theur few clothes whule these Englushmen had so many extras that they looked luke too much stuffed unto a very small chest Whule I was un England I learned about a new world called Ameruca I seemed to hear more about ut as I stayed longer un England One day we were moved from Wunchester to Southampton where the gossup of the town was of nothung but the New World Saulors would talk excutedly of ut and the New World was the place for me' My comrades agaun duffered from me for most of them wanted to go back to Indua and the others luked to explore wuthun known boundarues They saud there were always new thungs to unvestugate un one cellar and why then goto the New World? But I luke to go to far lands Luck seemed to go my way for the very next day we were hurled on a shup and heard All aboard' All aboard' And even more we heard excuted chuldren cry ung We re off to the New World' We re off to Ameruca' But wuth all thus pleasant excutement and gauety there was a good deal of angry talk The thung that troubled me so much was that thus gossup was mostly expressed by the government offlcers After a week I began to make out what I thought was foolush talk It seemed as though Ameruca was backung out of the Englush laws but I dudnt know why for some tume After what seemed luke years I found out what ut all meant There was a great deal of excutement Ameruca was to be seen' When we landed a hugh Amrucan oFfIcuaI came on deck and seemed very cross He saud the govern ment had no rught to tax the people and that Ameruca should uf anythung tax England Then I knew what ut was all about and whule I was thunkung ut all over a strange thung happened Many men dressed un queer clothes came on board and began throwung my comrades unto the bay' They shrueked but I was the only one that heard them and these so called Amerucan Induans went on throwung them un At last all of them had gone but alas' A man had come and had thrown me overboard too' Thus paper us gettung wet so I must stop but I do hope that some day people wull have more respect for a wonderful chest of tea luke me Karen Bluss 5th Grade , , ' I L I I ' , . I I I I ' I , . I ' I I , . I I I I II ll ' ' I ' ' I I ' ll I I ' ll ' ' , . . , . . . . . , I . , . . . , I I I ' I I ' I I , . ' I I , .