Brownmoor School - El Alacran Yearbook (Phoenix, AZ)

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You are silent as you watch your son and his front-yard leave for training camp. His guileless aggressors slightly irritates you, but isn't he just a boy? His letters from the camp somehow reassure you - my son will be home, my son will finish college, but there is perpetually that intangible thread of fear and doubt. Then your fears and doubts are confirmed and intensified - and active duty - Now you are not exactly sure what happened - you have had only one short and scribbled letter from him, and that was three months ago. Automatically your mind begins to form a picture of the possible cir- cumstances. Your son among hundreds of anonymous uniformed boys of his own age, dauntless before the cam- ouflaged enemy. Heat, exhaustion, fear, hunger - death always in their wake. Bombs exploding, illuminating everything for a second, and then - darkness. Suddenly, a bullet burries itself in his chest, then his world be- comes darkness, then his world becomes God's. You reread the words on the crumpled yellow piece of paper . . . Missing in action, and you want to know - why your son? Can anyone condone war to you, and what's more, can anyone condone war before 9 God . The cry of a baby as it gasps for its first breath, The smile of a young child as it gains hope from its mother, The self-conscious laugh of a teen-ager on her first date, The radiant look of a bride at her wedding, The anxious feeling of a husband pacing the floor, waiting for his first child, The tender half-smile on a mother's face as she sees her first-born, married, The peaceful expression on the face of one destined for greater things: All those are life. Sue 56 -lyme .da 7764-ze 56. .OJ Age. What is life? ls it the glorious opportunity of which poets write? They say it is in human hands - we act - or retract. Is it the Cest La Vive which people quote? - or the stoical submission with which X they accept iniustice and error? Life is the chance offered to all - few attempt to -grasp it, fewer attain it, and - none keep it! Smut Way: L56 f 1 if 'I' 5 0. -

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MRS. MARY E. AUSTIN Rt. 1, Box 134 Scottsdale, Arizona MISS FIDELIA DUNCAN 40 E. Weldon Avenue Phoenix, Arizona MRS. O. C. FLEENER 43 West Palm Lane Phoenix, Arizona MISS ARLENE GOODHART 1900 Linden Avenue Highland Park, III. MRS. W. E. HAMMOND Brownmoor School Phoenix, Arizona MRS. FRED KUHL 3010 N. 16th Place Phoenix, Arizona MRS. SADIE W. LARSON 4611 N. 39th Place Phoenix, Arizona MRS. DAYLE McALEXANDER 2747 E. Amelia Street Phoenix, Arizona MISS ELIZABETH McCOY 486 Cypress Drive Laguna Beach, Calif. MRS. EDITH H. McHENRY 1630 E. Montecito Phoenix, Ariz6na MRS. GORDON H. MEDLIN 5338 E. Avalon Drive Phoenix, Arizona MR. SAMUEL J. MUSTOL 372 North 15th San Jose, California MR. DONALD GATES PHILLIPS 3127 N. 28th Street Phoenix, Arizona MISS ERMA V. REYNOLDS 14 Bridge Street Winchester, Mass. MR. ARTHUR ROGGIN 5328 E. Pinchot St. Phoenix, Arizona MISS MARJORIE W. SALLIE Brownmoor School Phoenix, Arizona MRS. SUE SMITH 4402 N. 14th Avenue Phoenix, Arizona MRS. C. W. STONE Brownmoor School Phoenix, Arizona MR. THOMAS S. TRIGG 3044 E. Roosevelt St. Phoenix, Arizona MISS DEA L. WHITE 2841 E. Osborn Rd. Phoenix, Arizona MISS GLADYS L. WIEGAND 1828 E. Avalon Phoenix, Arizona LT. CHARLES A. WILLIAMS 511 Las Palmaritas Dr. Phoenix, Arizona