Castilleja School - Indian Paintbrush Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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THE SMALL BOY AND THE SEA A strong feelmg of security IS one of the greatest comforts 1n llfe ln later llfe It may mean the difference between success and fallure However manv young chll dren go through a spell of feehng qulte alone ln the world There was ln just such a sltuatlon a small boy who had just had hls fifth blrthday Peter was a lean llttle fellow who was not easlly Influenced by others but very sensltlve and easlly hurt As the Murrays had just moved to Ocean Rock and llved ln a newly hullt tract of houses Peter had not yet met any playmates Thus he found hrs frlends at the beach just one half of a mlle from thelr house At first Mrs Murray was apprehenslve about llVlIlg so close to the beach where a few drownmgs had prevlouslv occurred qhe felt better however after she had thoroughlv ex plalfleil the dan ers of the ocean to Peter and forbldden hlm ever to swlm there Peter had alwavs llved far lnto the heart of the mam land away from any substantlal body of water and had never seen the ocean From the moment he saw lt he loved lt It became a never endmg mlracle to hlm After kmdergarten was out at noon he would take hls tlcularly lonely whlch most tlmes he dld not he would talk to hlmself Talkmg to yourself IS fun he thou ht Its sort of as though you have someone with you some one you llke yerv much someone who llkes what you llke dlshkes what you dlSllkC laughs at what you laugh at eats what vou eat and shares your dreams of becommg a sallor fisherman airplane pllot fire chief pollceman and soldler all at once Besldesl Its fun to have a friend who answers back just what you want hmm to when you ask hlm a question Peter had many frlends at the beach The loud resoundlng ocean was one of them Its WOICC was an ever present comfortlng companion He could watch lt for hours almost hypnotlzed bv the graceful swlrl of water as lt surged wlth all 1ts mlght onto the beach trylng eyer tryln to coyer the earth Hls small eyes would rove the desert of the sea only now and then findlng a smooth spot of glassy qulet amld the battllng tldes Another frlend was the rocks He would cllmb all over them bulldm forts among ln and between them One more thus one hts favorlte was the sand H became especially fond of the sand because he could hold lt dlg lnto tts depths and move lt any wav he llked Some days when there had been a mlld wlndstorm lts surface would be completely devold of rou hness H would make des: ns and wlpe them out again with a whrsk of hts pet1t hand If he were cold he would cover hlmself up wlth the fine grams of sand warmed by the mornlng sun Peter glggled as the sand he put down hls shlrt ran down hls bony body and through hls toes to the ground How mce and soft the sand was and how good It felt to let It run through your fingers and toes One day just after Peter had flnlshed hrs lunch and was lylng ln the sand maklng tunnels he happened to look up and there IH one corner of the sheltered beach was a very tlny puppy How adorable lt was' lt barely' looked as If its sktn had anvthmg to hang on to and Peter dnd not know what kmd of dog It was but that didnt matter because Peter loy ed If He just called It Puppy He thought he had never loved anythlng as much It was about ten Inches lon and had beautiful olden brown halr It was really yerv stra, lv but It certalnlv seemed beautlful to hlm Then an awful thou ht struck hlm wlth such force that It almost knocked hlm off balance The puppv wasn t hls He had just found lt there Would someone else come and take lt away from h1m9 Puppy would due lf he were just left there wlth no food and water so after much dellheratlon Peter carrled It home wrapped very gently and carefully 1n hls flannel shlrt Hls Mother was pleased to see hlm so radlant and sug gested they put '1 found ID the lost and found column As the weeks pa sed the puppv reyv stronger and there was no answer to the advertlsement Puppy was a complete chan e came over lnm He no lon er llved ln a llttle world of hlS own feeling lnsecure and unsure of hlmself He felt wanted and loved as he really had been all alon It was just that llttle Peter ,reatly resented movlng out West He dldn t want to make frlends and dldn t care about anvbody else Peter stlll loved the ocean and the beach and went there now and then It would always be a part of hlm But Peter learned that from softness comes only softness NICKI Sry FRANCE GOING HOME The snowflakes floated gently down and coated the narrow steep streets so that cars skrdded even wlth the chalns on thelr tlrcs and pedestrlans slushed across the street The theater marquee lx hts brlrht neon pink and blue fllckered and finally came on glyln the fall mg snow a pale pmk glow Runnmg out from the hotel across the street came Wally the bellboy to turn on the s , ' , 7 . . , V 7 ' g ' ' g . 7 1 Y . . . q . 7 f 1 ' ' ' '. 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mm fzmfwe THE FRENCH TOUCH The hot dust lay lxko a muffler on eyery road and yard Ill Fl Centro QIIPYNIHU eyen the mournful hoysl of a lonely doff Suddenly '1 shlny sports car came speed mg through the sohtude 'md sereeched to '1 stop m front of a large Qpamsh home The dr1y er a baldlng man 1n a flashy I-Iayaanan shlrt and checkered sports ear cap, honked the horn lmpatlently wh1le hl yufe the only other passenger beffan eomblng her halr and brushmg the dust from her cotton dress A younff Nlexlcan glrl hurrled out of the house followed by tys o young men Sl Senor? she tmndly asked Im Bobert Bennett the man rephed and thls IS my Wlfe Ive ordered two rooms for the mght and wed once At once the fflrl repeated and Gaye the tyyo men lnstruetlons ln qpamsh Une took the Bennetts' luggage from the car and the other dlsappeared hehlnd '1 large garage A the Bennetts droye to the front door three black poodles all chpped rn hon cuts wxth large ruffs and pom poms, came boundmg out to greet the Bennetts preced mg an attractive Amerlcan woman IIello',' he sald eordlally extendme her hand You must be the Bennetts I m I aura Marshall and thlg lu tn ant C111 f dont jump Buffon Oh please eome lll ard get settled That eycnlnff III the hylnf' room of the spam lous man slon Ilsa Bennett md Mrs Marshall talked and lpped thelr after dmner llqueurs whlle Mr Bennett play ed cards yy 1th some other guests We re so Glad yye found such a mme place to stay so close to the border I1sa sald Noyy yxe can drlye mto 'Vlexu o early tomorroyy mornmfr and do some shop pmg. before lt frets really hot I do hope yyell he able to plck up some Mexlean antlques lm sure youll haye no trouble Mrs Marshall re phed pettlnff the handsome dog by her ehalr but Ill make out a llst of reputable shops that I know of Thank you And noys I really must go to bed Bob darllng, 'Ire you comlng along also? Why dont you get a book to read before you go to bed so you dont haye to come down agam9 3 Bob got up and looked over the vast selectlon of books for several mlnutes before ehooslng one of short SIOTICQ and another on the lnstoly of poodles eycplammg hls cholce that I thought I d read up on them lhffht et onc some tune Well ffoodmght Capl Ill throys your ball for you manana Tyso yueks later back ln the gan Franelseo detectlve agency where he worked Bob Bennett and hls wlfe another detectlye submltted thelr full report on Mrs Marshall We ve finally cracked one of the eley erest jewel smuggllng cases Iye seen ln years Bob sald Wed suspected Mr Wlarshall for some tlmt but It ysasnt 'tlll I sau her poodles and read the book on them that I knew yxe Ind the flflll person Xou see the hook deyoted a whole chapter to tellmg hoyy the French used to smuggle l ce across thelr borders ln the rulls of poodlesln SARAH MITCHELL Q U cc 9 Y A - i 7 I as - - sc v , - vw . ,, , , J . . . , . n Y . . I. i t YY Y . 2- C L L . 1, ' 3 A h' .' P Y V Y ' f , 2 ' F . . D' . ' I . . . . ,, 7 Us .yn L - ' ' 'L' . . . cc v Y 7 v as C L K I 1. I an ' . . . . ' ' ' cc 5 K H l 1 S , . D 'V f , Y 1 .. . V J - L x , Uv I . . 7 . .S v. l GL 1, 1 Y V M l , . . . - , - , a y L L- C. , F , 1 1 - ' ,, Y . . v Y , s r -.. U I, . . , ' . v Y v Y Y - v ' . I ac - as - - V ' h , ' 44 9' as I v 44 - - ' ' ' s V - 1 ' . ' . , both like a hot bath before dinner. Better draw them at HYOUY CIOSS ITHVC imPf9SSfi'fl me S0 IUUCILII he Said, ,, . . . . 4, , . - Y f 4 ' cc as - Y , ' U , ' ' ' . 7 1 1- ' 5- ' 2? C' ' ' ' 3 C f . . . . Y Y , - sv P L L 5 n X, ' K ' E ' . 'M ' K K an Q as ' ' ' ' , . . u ,.- ' S N - v A 'Y , - V A - as - ,sa .,. - I ., - I V l l 4 I ' , t Y ' ' 7 ' . ' ' ' . 64 3 Y 4 y ' 4' f Q ' ' , ' - s - v as - as 1 . a . v P , L 1 . 7 ' 44 1 . . . , . -J M' J A s , , S. . I .. '. ' - is ,lo Jo. I Hd , l ,tl '. N nw I l . . M f k y I A . 1 i x '11 Y K 4 K . Y L I Y I 1 F I I- s K ll A, ' Y C I Y I L - V . l . f. 2 1 , , ' s I S' 3 ' ' ,

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brown and yellow neon srgn of hrs employer The fall of darkness, whrch came early on mldwlnter nights was thereby noticed and signalled 1n the trad1t1on that came from habrt ISIIICTWIHU from hrs warm cozy cheerrly llghted hotel to see the first Hakes of the first storm fall was the man ager He waved across the street to the theater owner who had just stuck her hcad out the door of her ofhce to observe the town s gatherrng whlte coyer Fach of the admlnrstrators then smlled patronrzmgly at a number of passers by who were walkmg up the mam street enjoy lnff the exhrlaratron of the cool crisp a1r and the fallmg partlcles of snow whrch slrd down the boys necks and tlekled the fflrls noses Thus the town s one maln street was completely l1t up and alrye wrth at least one fourth of the populace Everyone called out friendly greetrnffs to eyery one else, many old frrends were rsurntcd oyer steammg cups of black coffee as the first cold snowy eyenmg of wrnter progressed The 'VIcGregor krds who l1y ed on the h1ll perpendrcular to the mam street hrll were seen runmng 1nto thelr house and runnmff hack out affaln carrylnff thelr small sleds Sleddrng wa a brt difficult on the 'NIcGreUor h1ll though for at the bottom of the slope a mob of all sorts of people was in the mrdst of an eyrcrtrng snowball fiffht whrch could not be rnterruptr d untll one srde had won The problem was that no one knew or1 whrch srde he was, but that was beside the POIHI In the first snowstorm of the year anythlne could and dld happen I clrmbed IHIO my skl pants and k1 hood wrapped a long wool scarf around my head and carryrnfv my snow boots sat down to put them on rn the not to be trusted straw bottomed chalr on the front porch Fettrng up and brushrnff the s11ow off the water repellent seat of IIN pants I trred my luck at gettmg across the street safely The term safely includes walking across the mam street, whrch had no traffic hght wrthout belnfr h1t by a skrd drng car or a stray or perhaps an armed snowball It takes praet1ce but lt IQ lJ0iQll'JlC for a person to cross that street safely and safely I drd lt Margie, one of the krds from the one and only clique at our small lngh school, crunched up to me rn the snow and sa d lll pI'0dl1Clllf from behind her back a snowball Thrs she managed to cram down the front of my k1 hood before my feeble mrnd realrzed what was happernng This was war' I grabbed the nearest hunk of snow and re pard her by stufling lt down the back of her sk1 pants Berne temporarily subdued she dld not attempt to con trnue the fight Other people rather lrked the ldea how ey er so soon a full scale war w as rn progress and I was lll the Tlllddle of rt' leay 1110 tl11s scene my home let us trawl to a large crty 111 'I heaylly populated sectron ofCal1forr11'1 On all srdes people hurrred by sttpprng on toes not e1r1ng at all whether they jostlcd someone or knotked someone oyer Clutchmg thelr endless B1 ll or Whrte House or I Maffnm strlng tred boxes, they soon faded no1s1ly 1nto the fov Therr colors, the gravs and blacks of thelr clothing harmonrzed wrth the enclosing mrst Clack, clack they walked down the street, whrch was crowded and yet so empty They completely lgrrored one bewrldered person who stood alone tryrng to find her way out of the maze of rushlng people The people neyer stopped thev came as surely as the fog as norslly as the rasplng whistle of the doormen attemptmg to attract the attentlon of yel low blue and whrte red and green cabs I finally turned around and began walklng Whrch home was mme? The San Franclsco of my birth or the small town of my love? A home I said to my self lS merely the house 1n yvhreh one lryes to which one 1s sentrmt ntally attached 'No one half of nu argued the word home ha much broader rneamnff Your home IS your place of refuge and comfort, where all love you and all rs loved by you Your frrends your famrly, your mountalns, your sp rrkhnff blue sky all comprise your home I short your home IS a place which you loye Do you realrze one half of me sald to the other half that th1s grrl does not know where her home lS9 She loy ed her home yet she cannot choose between a c1tV of her blrth and a town whlch lg a part of her',' Do you th1r1k the other half began that she knows that she loyes her home? Does she apprecrate rt? of one mrnd I have learned where my home 1S Home IS where the heart IQ and my heart rs ln the small town where I am presently llvrng You see'7,' sald one half of me to the other half She has learned something by going away to that school She loyes her home Ha' Do you th1r1k she apprecrates 1t9 When she left she drdnt want to come back What krnd of love IS thatw, I pulled both halves back together I do appreciate my home, I admrt that I dldnt really appreciate rt whrle I was there, but llurnan nature' exclalmed one half of me Vvhy arc humans new r satlsfled wlth what they lraye untrl they are deprly ed of ltw, The oth r half the angelic half Im sure waited courteously untrl the first half was qurte Hnrshed then added sweetly Her heart rs there rn her home She knows and loyes lt for rt means more to her than just a hous It ls a part of her as she IQ a part of 1t Thus lt wrll be forey er for our grrl has come home Wrth the utmost strength I collected my two halyes and walked sertnely down the street quretly happy m the thought that I had a home Home I thought rs definrtely where the heart IS The problem arlses ln dlS coverlng where your heart IS FRANCES DI CHRISTINA V V V . . 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