Richmond Hill High School - Archway / Dome Yearbook (Richmond Hill, NY)

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not care to chop wood. To remedy this, he invented the tepee idea. When a log from a tepee is knocked down, it breaks up into firewood lengths as it hits the ground. Mr. Rondeau occupies the two permanent buildings in winter. Here he reads and plays his violin. These buildings have a sod wall built around the foundation. Rain gutters on the roof were chopped out with an axe by the builder. His hunting is done with a bow and arrow which he made. Bucksaw teeth filed to a keen edge supply him with arrow heads. With the skins he obtains he makes clothing, pouches, and other necessities. Fresh vegetables are grown in his garden. When asked if he became lonely, he replied, Strangers in any large city are lonelier than I am here. After seeing Rondeau, it seems to me that if you want to live to an old age and still have plenty of pep, the thing to do is to live out of doors. The last leg of the trip took us into Tupper Lake, where we had a great experience. No one in the party realized that wind could be so strong until we entered this lake. A very strong head wind caused us to take a couple of hours to go two miles. At times we had to paddle very hard just to keep from going backwards. The waves were five feet high, but after a hard struggle we reached shore. Early spring trips give additional surprises. Last Easter vacation I was entering a dark curve in the Delaware River when I saw huge blocks of ice on both sides. These blocks, which were eight feet high and a couple of feet thick in places, lasted for about a mile. A store keeper in Narrows- burg, New York, the town below this, explained that this was nothing unusual. Because of the many trees and high banks along this section the sun cannot shine on the blocks for any length of time each day. Almost anyone can take similar trips after a little experience in out- door cooking and camping. On the six day Adirondack trip we covered one hundred miles on foot and by water. The average cost per person, including food, boat rentals, and gasoline for transportation, was only 351.20 a day. CHARLES J. DITTMAR, June '39 Life will Hit by, and with it all my tears Run dry in the stupor of declining years, But hidden deep will be a sacred place Where dwells a ghost who bears your youthful face. Jacqueline Scully, January '39 Page 20

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reached the top of a steep hill. Hanging over a small side trail was a towel on which was painted uThe Gateway to the City. As we approached the 'Qcityf' we caught a glimpse of two cabins and two thirty-foot tepees. We called at the cahin marked Town Hallfi but Mr. Rondeau was not home. Down hy the river fthe city was on a hilly we saw a short man in deer skin clothes. Wlien the HlVlayor flVlr. Rondeauj came up, he said that he was ietunnng funn a nearhy nunnnain, where he had Hhushwhackedw kmthe summit. This explained the ten-inch knife at his helt. This sixty-year old veteran of the woods has hunted and trapped in this section for thirty years. Mr. Hondeau welcomed us with great enthusiasm since he visits civili- zation only onee a year. Williilgly he explained about the city which he had huilt. The tepees were made of six-inch logs, thirty feet high. These logs had deep notches cut every two feet. One tepee he used for a kitchen, using utensils that he had hammered out himself. The other was a summer house. He commented that in the winter, when it was forty degrees lxelow, he did , f-v +-P-' ,- xf Page 19 JZ 4,

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DOODY A F REQUENT and enthusi- astic visitor of Richmond Hill High School is Doody, the foxhound. Doody's fa- vorite spot to visit is the Publications Office, e s p e - cially when its occupants are in the throes of agony over the forthcoming issue of the paper. She has visited the '6Pub Office ever since she was a clumsy, big-pawed, droopy-eared hound PUPPY Nm seven years ago. During ' that time she has again become clumsy because of an over-sized tummy gained by lack of exercise and a lazy life. She has been the mother of five bouncing babies, has been tested and approved by the A.S.P.C.A. against rabies, and has won three blue ribbons at the Ottawa Dog Show. Although Doody's forbears may have been well known for their ability to chase fox, Doody is renowned for her ability to track down skunk. She mixes up with one on the average of once a year when she is on her summer vacation in Canada. Doody boasts the longer and more intricate name of Scott's Chum the F ifthl' and belongs to Nancy Burg, one time reporter on the Domino. She has been brought to the HPub,' Office by the other members of the family as they became associated with newspaper writing. Sad-faced Doody has lived through many feverish hours in the 'gPub Ollice and has witnessed many a catastrophe in the printer,s shop Without a change of expression or feeling. She has accompanied many a reporter on wild hunts for news, and yet Doody is not a true reporter in any sense of the word. Her attitude is not commendable. She has slept quietly undis- turbed and uninterested under the editor's desk and amid piles of discarded attempts at journalism during the multitudes of disasters and successes of the paper. Page 21