Canandaigua Academy - Academian Yearbook (Canandaigua, NY)

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darkies were milling about, laughing and chattering among themselves. Just walking aimlessly, strutting their best clothes. Colored people walk beauti- fully. . A great knotty live oak spread a. thick green shade. Two shaggy oxen lay under it, hitched to a clumsy little cart. T'hey waited there patiently. On the other side of the tree was a small frame building. One saw them around this district for Doctors' offices. The shingle beside the door said, Dr. Brown. Cronik Disieises a Speshaltyf' Once in a while a darky would take his friend into the wood and the sun would light up a glimpse of a brown jug. An old woman had made cake and ice cream, and a young girl, perhaps her granddaughter, was dipping out the cream. She was very pretty with big gold hoops in her ears and long, slender hands. But now the sun is lower. The birds call with a dreamy sleepiness. A shrunken brown old man comes over to the oxen. 'I'hey heave to their feet. He gets in and an old Woman gets in after him and a little boy climbs in at the back. The oxen seem hardly to move at all, but pretty soon the cart is round a curve, out of sight. Saturday is gone. -Alice Cuddeback Tidy Tid-bm There were certainly a lot of girls in the cheering section at the games this baseball season! Shirley sat with her eyes glued on left Held, Jean watched the catcher, Elaine saw only the pitcher, Midge concentrated on our right fielder and Ruth was most interested in the center fielder. A lot of people looked at the boys on the bench, too. Dickie Woodhams is trying to cut into Spook Raines' territory. He lets Dickie see Patty on the nights he works. Howie Meath isn't as interested in the home town girls as he used to be. He likes Irondequoit now. A lot of the lucky boys that escorted the beauty queens to the ball aren't lwlng any time, including Bill Scott and Jack Smith. There'll be a bumper crop of freshmen next year. Bill Cob- bett is especially waiting for one - Charlene Pierce. They thaft can give up essential lib- erty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. THE ACADEMIAN Solution to Cross- Word Puzzle 1. Lomber 7. W. C. 9. Moor 10. Web 12. Be 13. Either 15. Verbal 18. The 19. Eternal 22. Eminent 24. A. D. 26. R. I. 27. Enthrone 29. Always 30. Ace 31. Ruin 33. An 2. Omit 3. Mother 4. Bohemiana 5. Ere 6. Seventy 8. Del. 11. Berths 12. Balanced 14. Renewal 16. R. N. 17. B. A. 20. Tenant 21. NBFFOWEI' ACROSS Ted Vault M. D. Who Erie Ear Tableware Rhyme Oil Lad Arbutus D. A. Es Aged Fir Mints Ergo DOWN Oatmeal Ivory Utter Prelude Haha Elite I. W. Cedar Bough Radio Mast Ba P. M. En F. G. 23. I 25. Deed Harvest Clippoty clop, clippoty clop, The sound of hoofs on the road. An old gray mare comes round the bend, And a cart with its harvest load. The farmer's boy is trudging home 'Iiowards the setting sun. Over the hill, across the stream, And his work for the day is done. Perhaps he remembers wi-th silent re- gret That early the very morn The harvest load on the creaking cart Was a field of rippling corn. 41 . . . Prudence Coyte

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THE ACADEMIAN Senior Song Tune- May I Never Love Again May I ever love you, my own C. A. May my friends be ever true to me And when I am far away, I hope that they will stay Ever faithful-ever 'true to thee. C. A. the years spent with you Were not an idle vacation C. A. the times that we knew Were a grand inspiration. May the years that come be kind. May we meet again another day. We've been so happy here and we hold our school most dear And we hope that you'll be proud of us, C. A. ,-...ll-L-1 Where Ideas are Born Over there is a magic land Far from the way of man. The place where mortal dreams . born, The realm of Peter Pan. BYE It's over across the rainbow Just under the brow of a hill, Only as far as a bird call- It rests on the peak of a thrill. The sky is blue as a baby's eye, The clouds are of ocean foam. Ther-e's never a house in a million miles, But everywhere is home. There are dream-castles ever rebuild- ing themselves, While flitting round and about Are the queer little fairies that live in them, Called the Shadows of Doubt. Around the land is a wall of mist That hides it from human view, The gate is guarded by moon-men Who let the dreams pass through. F-or never a single one comes back Once they're out their life there is done, But through them man ya humble man Has found his place in the sun. It's over across the rainbow Just under the brow of a hill, Only as far as a bird call- It rests on the peak of a thrill. ' . . . Jean Borden Alma Mater I often muse and wonder, As I sit here at my desk, What this grand old school thinks of us Who think we are the best. We slam her doors and windows And we litter up her floors And Illl bet she often wishes To even up these scores. We rumble down her stair At the closing of the day And no one has a thankful word To her-to softly say. . . . James Spengler ,,1..11-i-1 Saturday Today is Saturday, the only day that the darkies down South have to them- selves, for on Sunday they must go to church and be good all day. The rest of the week they work hard in the white man's fields, hot and tired-with such tiny wages. But on Saturday they can be happy. This day even seems to last longer for them, for the sun takes more time to sink beyond the last cel- ery row, the birds sing their exquisite liquid song longer, the shadows spread themselves more slowly. Riceborough wasn't a big town, just two stores and enough little houses to keep each other company. One of the stores had an attraction only for men, for there they cculd buy a few -clothes, and there they found piles of farm ma- chinery and hardware and great bins of grain. But the women were exclu- sive too, for in the other store they could buy food and clothes, and they could choose from the big bolts of cot- ton cloth. Th-e storekeepers always managed to keep the darkies in debt, an-d they were never allowed to even touch the things they were buying- n-o foolishness about trying on and feeling the material! The clerk stood behind the counter and held up the fluffy o-rgandy dresses or showed the only kinds of shirts, blue and white stripe or green and white stripe. If they didnlt pick out what th-ey wanted right away the clerk made up their minds for them! It was a restless day. The place boiled with all these colored people. Little old Fords were pulled -off onto the dusty edge of the highway, tired dogs lay under them and folks sat on the running boards. All this time the

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T Hla' A CA DEM I A N , ar? 55 fi: UG? w. ..:: 7 I A -5 ic! X P Q is - .ggi J Q 'Ze o r x Q5l h,,q7y- -ls.-l'i'C:.x':- - -A e i f- ser h Baseball This year C. A.'s baseball team has a tough job living up to the standard set for baseball by the sectional champion- ship team of last year. They are not only living up to this reputation, but they are doing it extremely well. This team traveled to Seneca Falls for the opener of the 1941 season and returned with their first victory. The score was twenty-tw-o to two. The next game was played on the new Academy field against Waterloo, and the second victory of the season was registered. They defeated Waterloo twenty-three to one. Penn Yan Academy was the third victim in the second home game. The score was eighteen to -eight. Next Geneva came to visit C. A., leaving us with the victory again. J-oe Musolino turned in his first no hit, no run, game of the season and the team supported him, piling up four hard earned runs. This is the season's record up to May sixteenth. The team has yet to play Seneca Falls at hom-e and Geneva, Wa- terloo, and Penn Yan away. Johnny Johnson is manager this year, with Jimmy McCarthy as captain. Tennis The tennis team has played six match-es and has won tw-o of them. First they played Naples and were beaten two to one. Next they traveled to Geneva to defeat th Seneca Lakers by three to two. Penn Yan came to them four to Canandaigua to defeat one. The team went to Manchester to Naples then be downed two to one. played here and won again-two to one. Following these matches, the team journeys to Penn Yan and Shortsville, and meets Geneva and Manchester on the home court. The team is composed of three of last year's players and three new players. Bud Bertham and Carl Leonard, who are senio-rs, Charlie MacKenzie and Tom Erdman, who are juniors, Dave Spencer, a sophomore, and Bill Cob- bett, a freshman, make up the team. Mr. Bridgeman is' the coach and bus driver for th-ese boys, an-d Carl Leon- ard serves as manager. 1,,i.li1l T rack So far this year the C. A. track team has won one meet and lost three. Their lone victory was against Victor at Can- andaigua. They lost to Geneva at Ge- neva, Brighton at Brighton, and East Rochester and Brockport at East Roch- ester. On Friday, May twenty-third, the team journeys to Penn Yan and on Wednesday, May twenty-eighth, to Ge- neva for the Finger Lakes Sectionals. On June seventh the winners at Geneva go to the Section Five finals in Roch- ester on the U. of R. campus. This years team is composed of five veterans and about thirty new runners, most of whom will be able to partici- pate in track again next season. Good luck to all these teams from the wh-ole student body and the faculty. -,1..iL.i- Here Skugg Lies snug, As a bug In a rug. . . Benjamin Franklin