The Bush School - Tykoe Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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KEY 'ro Acrtvnms CContinued from Page 445 Assembly Committee ...,... ...............................V,.. ....-.......A---. - - - Court .Y...........A...Y .,...... Dramatics ............. ...... Fine Arts Committee ,...., Glee Club .,............,,... Library Committee Property Committee ......... Publications Committee Social Committee. ............. Social Service Committe ........ Sports Committee ..,..,,,..... Turnout ,i.... JUNIOR CLASS OFFICERS CContinued from Page 455 President .,.,, ,, Vice-President ,........, Secretary-Treasurer . President ......,.,...,.. Vice-President ,......., , First Semester Second Semester Secretary-Treasurer .... ,,,,.... , ,,.,,..,,,,......,,.....,,,..,..,,, ,i.,..,,,,,,,,.,,, ,,,,,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, , A OFFICERS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1945 Ass. C. Dr. . ....... .G.C. Lib. Prop. Pub. Soc. S.S. T.O. Virginia King ..,......Beverly Connelly Mary Ellen Valaer ,-... Elizabeth Haynes .........Frana Larrabee Dorothy Hartford President of the Student Body ...........,.,.,,.,..,,,.,....,.,.,.,. , .,,,,,,-..,...,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,-t, V irginia King Vin'-President of the Student Body. ....,.. 'N KX ...81-. Martha Broughton

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U' r l The Seventh Grade Take Over the Art Shop. S Art The Art Department this year is very proud of its new quarters-the garage up at Gracemont, made over. It has separate lockers for each student with side doors which not only keep the dust off their Work, but also fold back into large drawing boards. There is plenty of space for paint, brushes, tools, and a special dark room to keep clay moist. Black shades can be pulled down and slides and movies shown. Plenty of sunlight-when there is any-comes through the windows to make the room light and cheerful. A new gas heater, Mr. La Grille's pride and joy, has been installed for cold days. Mr. La Grille, differing from many art teachers, encourages self-expression. He believes the student should put a bit of herself into the work and not create a work simply for the technique's sake. The students, in expressing themselves, Went so far as to paint his :hair with pictures and wise-cracks, while everyone is familiar with the wav the girls decorated the upstairs bathroom with mermaids, a creation that netted profits in the form of a box of candy from Mr. Young. Almost every art student has heard Mr. La Grille state that a bolt is positive and a nut negative. Students, he says, should try to do away with the latter and stress the former. Thus, as any art student will tell you, his theme song has now become Accentuate the positive-eliminate the negative. Some art students have taken on outside projects also. joan Southwick has made several dance posters for Miss King, and one woman brought a tray to be retouched. Occasionally students have entered work in outside art exhibits. At least once a year, the students are taken to the Seattle Art Museum to enjoy some special exhibition. The art shop takes several art publications and for a wider range even fashion magazines such as Vogue. Art work takes its place of honor in all the dances, especially the Junior Prom. There would be no Christmas program without dozens of hand-made celophane stained-glass windows, tapestries, and costumes. Sets, too, are made by the students for the Senior Play. Of course the Annual is made up of art Work as well as journalism. A lot of hard work went into making the sketches, setting up the pages, and planning the cover and theme. In the spring, the students go outdoors to paint or draw directly from nature. This practice tends at times to start severe cases of spring fever, but is very enjoyable. The school year is terminated with the Fine Arts Tea in which all work done throughout the year is shown to the school and parents. We are very proud of our art shop. Many girls continue their art studies in college and make fine records for themselves. Of course we expect several famous artists to be discovered among us. You never can tell! -80-

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Literary Accomplishments THE END IS THE BEGINNING, When the blue-gowned class of '45 passes down between the chains of sweet syringa with a sheaf of poppies in their arms to the long-sought-after diploma, they will sigh a breath of re- lief. Now we are educated, they will think. The four years of hard grind, of anxious exams and gruelling nightly assignments are over. Much fun and comradeship are finished also. This is the end of an epoch in their lives. A few years hence they will find themselves in many and varied occupa- tions, in different parts of the world under changed conditions, yet each will have brought with her the basic train- ing which harks back to this period which is just ending. There are certain abiding truths that will remain with them throughout life. These truths may be compared with the invariant which stays unchanged in mathematics: a constant such as pi. In poetry and religion, the form of presentation and the words may change, however the underlying theories will remain un- touched by time. In religion there will always be the invariants of God and the human soul, in poetry there will always be the relationship and har- mony between the individual and na- ture. If we can meet the challenge of this changing world successfully it will be due to the invariant which we have gained in this school. So let us think of graduation as being the opening of a door, not as the closing of a door in the course of our development, I would like to quote a verse from one of E. T. Eliot's poems: What we call the beginning is often the end, And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. Katie Clare Roys, Senior THE DESERT Pools of liquid moonlight, Sifting silver sands, Velvet palm trees swaying, Making soft salaams, Thus transformed, Sahara, In seething heat at noon, Lies in cooling stillness 'Neath the velvet moon. Barbara Peyser, Senior -82 CASE 104779 Steel gray eyes with a pained stare that penetrated far beyond the look of the other boys, Perhaps it was the expression that made me think he looked so like Carl. He was just another case on a crowded hospital ship when he came. Howard Vance, 104779. And there were so signs of emotion save pain and fear. He had nobody, maybe an uncle in Buffalo, or a grand- mother in Kansas, at any rate, they never wrote. I didn't get to know him as I did the other boys. It was never, Hil Janie! or Any cigarettes today, Janie ? just that icy stare and occasionally a gasp, Water . . . water. Dr. Waite said two weeks, no more. Though they tried to save him, we all knew that he didn't have a China- man's chance to pull through if he didfn't have some sort of faith in him- sel . It must have been the gray eyes, like those of my brother Carl, that prompt- ed me to take an interest in Howard Vance. But it was disheartening to receive no response. Every day I talked to him, and tried to draw him out. He replied yes, no, thanks Daily his chart showed decline in con- dition. Dr, Waite was grim. I've done all in my powerg only God can save him now. I thought a lot about him after that. Maybe it had been like this when Carl had died outside St. Lo in France. That night I prayed hard and long. But it dawned on me that if only he prayed too, it might be different. I found out that Howard Vance had no religion. Day after day, I talked to him, told him that I didn't believe he had to adopt a religion, just believe in some sort of eternity, some Greater Power. Gradually he began to believe and pray to God, somewhere, some- how. As he gained this hope, the line on his chart began to rise, each day a fraction of an inch. Don't ask me how, or tell me it is preposterous because I don't know why. But I do know that two people, one who as dying and one who was mourning the loss of a brother, reaped the benefits of prayer. Today I received a letter from somewhere in the Pacific and on the top of the manilla paper in heavy black script, it said, From Cpl. Howard L. Vance, and it began, Hi, Janie. Mary Ellen Greenfield, Freshman