Austin School - Embla Yearbook (Hartford, CT)

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u-any MAIORIE ALBERTH French, Latin . . . NATALIE BERNSTEINg Gym . . . A.B., A.B., St. Iosephis College. University of Connecticut. Bien One, two, class halt! MATILDE BOLTONg Spanish University of Havanna. Call me up! HEVELYN CHERPAKg History . . . A.B., Connecticut College for Womeng M-A-, .University of Pennsylvania. In two weeks you have a book report due! 6 . . . A.B., IANES CHURCHg Building Super- intendent . . . A.B., Carnegie Institute of Technology. This is Mr. Church at the Austin Schoolf'

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Q 47 , - cz ' U 3 fag Q T9 ' :J F in ff 0 xg J Q Q U J Ci 0 0 Q Q Q' ag i D ax: A Q J' 'sul 7 .94 ' X P V H 0 if ld .x as ' -' Q 8 I u s ,, ,s p F sv 1 I I 0 - . , 0 e tu ents ' 'T Th S d I 9 I ' ix 4 One of Michelangelo's greatest masterpieces, the statue of David, stands at the end of Florence. The gallery is lined with the blocks upon which the sculptor prac- ticed his art, solid masses of rock from which portions of a human form emerge, sometimes only vaguely, sometimes more clearly, but never completely. There is a parallel between these efforts of the great Michelangelo and our own efforts to emerge into what may be a final form. There is a feeling of incompleteness in all of us and there is a feeling which indicates clearly that We bear within ourselves a sense that the form we might become is still struggling through primitive stages of development, and it is not yet clearer what we shall be. So it is with each of us, and so it is with Austin. Now that I am speaking for the first time to you after the first year of our devel- opment, I am certain you are aware of the deeper meaning of my illustration. It is easy enough to swell on the crudeness of the human form of the early efforts of Mi- chelangelog it is simple to speak of our follies and irrationalities as we strove to start the Austin ideav. Yet we know that this is not the whole picture, the impulse to perfect surges within us. We are trying to wrestle with the significance of what We have begun and in so doing become conscious partners with the creative process that will, in time, bring our potentialities to a greater and more perfect form. Each year at Austin will see the timeless renewal of those aspects of life that are as sure as the returning spring. At Austin the great effort is to free ourselves from the illusion that we are isolated spectators of life and that we can join in the song of life as a song of livingf' There is no need for me to tell those of you who read these words of the Austin ideaf, You have lived it. And so we have tried to bring the idea to form, not the final and finished form for that probably will never come unless there is a final and finished miracle of miracles. To those of you who now leave Austin, we have shared something that is too deeply rooted in our lives to be permanently suppressed, it is the Austin idea that responsibility is the handmaiden of freedom, that education is an end in itself. The year is over and to paraphrase Camus: In the middle of the winter we learned at last that we have within us an invincible Summer. In that invincibility lies our hope Come back again. You have left part of yourselves here and you have taken a part of us with you. 5

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CAROL CLARKg Music . . . B.M., Ober- lin College. Project your ooicesfn HELEN CETTEMY, History . . . A.B., Adelphi Universityg M.A., Columbia Uni- versity. girls. Are you going to be good for me today, pn ELAINE FRIEDLEg English . . . A.B. jackson College. I am going to pull a McGurk on youf' VIRGINIA HARRELLg A.B., Social'Di- rector . . . University of Michigan. Not yet, girlsfn