Calhoun School - Ink Pot Yearbook (New York, NY)

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ink pot dogs PEOPLE say ThaT a dog is man's besT friend. Whoever firsT said ThaT musT have been a greaT lover of dogs, as l am. A dog is greaT company, even when he is old and cannoT do Tricks. He can make you feel well again, if he is wiTh you when you are sick. He can make you feel as if The whole world were wiTh you, when you are alone. IT does noT maTTer wheTher he be a liTTle Terrier or a big SainT Bernard, he will make you happy. lf you live in The ciTy, a liTTle Terrier will give you much pleasure, going wiTh you every- where. ln The counTry, a lovely seTTer or spaniel is a good companion, especially if you go ouT hunfing wiTh him. Some people buy a dog because They see ThaT everyone has one, buT They soon grow To love iT, noT because iT is a dog like Their besT friend has, buT because iT is Theirs and They love iTs sorrowful eyes or iTs happy bark. I Think The saying, Man's besf friend is his dog, will live forever. NATALIE SILVER, '42, farewell NT was Edward MacDonald's lasT Trip and all his friends were There To see him off To his home Town-all his friends who had seen, as The expression goes, a small Town boy make good in The big ciTy of New York, and now. Edward MacDonald was going home. The silvery sTream-lined Train whizzed info The sTaTion wiTh all The smooTh speed of The age ThaT provided iT. Bidding Their friends goodbye, all The passengers boarded The Train. The shriek of The whisfle, as The Train pulled ouT of The sTaTion, seemed To symbolize The Tension felT by his friends as Edward MacDonald was going home To be buried. JOYCE GOODMAN, '39. my class There are Two gigglers in mg' class, By The names of Salmon an Kass. When we're worried or when we're blue, We always have our liTTle Sue. Good old Sallee, on The job, Wifh a hanky when we sob. Marilyn makes an awful din, Abouf her favoriTe, Errol Flynn. GEANE LINZ, '4-2. I'I18I'y Ell'II'IE l'ler hair The hue of golden sands, The golden sands of many lands: Her e es The color of The skies, And The oceans ThaT far disTanT lie: l-ler lips so beaufiful, cherry red. Like Tulips of my flower bed. My Mary Anne. SALLEE FOX, '42, forfy-eighf

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ink pot gone with the wind by MARGARET MITCHELL THE overwhelming enThusiasm Thai greeTed GONE WITH THE WIND is an asTonishing reacTion since iT is MargareT Mi+cheII's TirsT novel. ITs overnighT populariTy obviously gives rise To The query. whai' is The cause Tor This unanimous approval? IT is quiTe safe To use The word unanimous, because up To daTe liTTle, if any, adverse criTicism has been voiced. The firsT quaIiTy ThaT people ascribe To Miss MiTchell is her power of human characTerizaTion, especially ThaT oT Scarleff. The obiecTion To This sTaTemenT, however, in endeavoring To answer The query mighT be ThaT a characTer such as Oliver Alden in SanTayana's IaTesT book, THE LAST PURITAN, is beauTiTuIIy porTrayecl, yeT did noi' receive The boisierous acclaim ThaT ScarleTT won. My opinion is ThaT ScarleTT has characTer- isTics ThaT people find in Themselves, aIThough They may be IoaTh To admii iT, and consequenTly under- sTand her beTTer Than They do Oliver, whose ThoughTs and ideals had IiTTIe in common wiTh Those oT The general public. The conclusion arrived aT, There-:Tore lassuming good characTerizaTion on The parT oT The auThorl, is ThaT The Type of characTer porfrayed wins popuIariTy for a boolc. JusT whaT is iT Then ThaT makes ScarleTT dilifer from oTher heroines? ScarIeTT O'Hara is conceded To be selfish, aggressive, and viTuperaTive: yeT her moTives were clear, and The goal she was so earnesTly Trying To reach-ThaT of re-aTTaining a secure posiTion in liTe-is a direcf resulT of The Civil War, and as such is To be admired and sympaThized wiTh aIThough her meThods were wrong. AlmosT any girl oT sevenTeen, wiTh ScarleTT's inexperience, who is suddenly Thrusi inTo a posiTion oi as greaT imporTance and responsibiliTy as managing a planTaTion, would have hear head Turned and would become bossy wiTh The acquisiTion of power. ScarIeTT's iealousy of Melanie because of Ashley, her disregard of convenTions, her asTonishmenT when RheTT probed inTo her deepesT ThoughTs, her feeling of superioriTy when she made her daily Trip To The mill, The charms which she Turned on Tor The boys' beneTiT, and her na+uraI desire To be The belle of each parTy To malce The oTher girls iealousz These are undersTandingIy dealT wiTh by The auThor. So, Too, are The TraiTs which malce her dislilced: her indiTTer- ence To her children, her selTishness in wanTing Carreen and Suellen To geT ouT oT bed before They Tully recuperaTed from Typhoid so Thai' The pIanTaTion would prosper more quickly, and her venaIiTy in marrying Franlc Kennedy, wiThouT loving him, when he was engaged To her sisfer. The ending of GONE WITH THE WIND did naT deTracT Trom iTs appeal because people realize iT' To be The only sensible one and The ineviTable one. ScarIeTT only loved Those people whom she was unable To order around, as is shown in her devoTion To her moTher and To Ashley. IT she ceased loving Ashley aTTer she was sure of his love, iT is only consisTenT To presume ThaT she would do The same To RheTT. The name of ScarleTT O'Hara has become a synonym Tor GONE WITH THE WIND, for she is The greaTesT TacTor in cleTermining iTs popuIariTy. Miss MiTchelI deserves The recogniTion she received, Tor she labored Ten years wriTing This book. IT MargareT MiTchelI is noT Too preoccupied, in The near TuTure, wiTh The movie version of her book, I hope she will wriTe a sequel To iT ThaT will be equally successful and equally worThy of public acclaim. BETTY BARON, '37. an american doctors' odyssey By Vicior Heiser, M.D. SIMILAR To The Time-worn Tale oT The roving Odysseus who soughT sancTuary from his suffering, we Tind an even greaTer advenTure depicTed upon The sTirring pages of This modern medico's biography. His liie was devoTed To The accomplishmenT of one ideal, The applicaTion of his lrnowledge of medicine To The prevenTion of disease. VicTor Heiser was possessed wiTh The TorTiTude, deTerminaTion and inTelIigence required oT a slcillful surgeon. BuT his noble characTer soughi no personal glory. To serve his Tellow men To The besT oT his abiliTy was all This modern Odysseus aslced of life. Vividly each phase oT his resTless exisTence has been recorded, and one Tinds a Thrilling advenTure, Tense in iTs realiTy, wiTh every new chapTer. As a governmenT agenT, Heiser's worlc led him inTo TorTy-'Five disease-infesTed Toreign counTries. Washing up The OrienT, prevenTing EasTern plagues Trom ravaging The WesTern world, and inTroducing sgfniTary meThods and prevenTaTive medicines The world over-all have been a parT of his unrelenTing e oris. Dr. Heiser has been a medium Through which ignorance and supersTiTion have been dispelled in iavor of inTelIigence and science. AN AMERICAN DOCTOR'S ODYSSEY is a TiTTing TribuTe To a magnanimous individual. CAROL KADEN, '38. TifTy