Catholic High School For Girls - Silver Sands Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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TRACY! dishes have been waiting for them. Their play seems to have been all in vain. Complaining that G-men or criminals don't do dishes, they hesitantly pick up the towel to dry them. Time to do our home assignments comes and all is quiet in the Tracy household But on examining their home work one may find among the papers caricatures of crime The caricatures differ as to the mood my brothers are in Sometnnes the pictures are scenes of gangsters and policemen shooting at each other Other scenes are of Dick Tracy using a newly invented machine for catching criminals Then if Joe comes for me to go for a walk with him Bob insists we need a G man for protection Hell take no bribe less than ten cents before I can send him home to Mother junior pretending to be hat by a cnmmal One may be impressed by these daily occurrences and pity one so unfortunate as to be named Tracy and to have such brothers. I am sometimes exhausted by their tricks, which at times amuse or irritate me. But if Dick Tracy weren't Dick or my last name were not Tracy mine would be a dull life n ce7i'f7R7?5 TC X 5 , . C9 1 ' i ' , . 7 Y - ' . Ls-LSL- Y-1-lv ' T' 'L 'T-L -141 iff, -2

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VER smce I can remember when bemg xntro duced to someone my new acquamtance asks me 1f I am related to that famous rncomparable detectwe Dlck Tracy of the Comxc Stnp How httle one knows of the thmgs I have mn common wxth the sleuth Frequently dunng the course of the day I am re m1nded of Dlck by means of my two brothers In the mormng when everyone 1S trymg to catch forty more wmks my l1ttle brother Bob greets the famxly w1th the sound of a slren He tells us of sur vwmg a nxght filled wxth mghtmares about guns Tracy Jumor Many tunes he wltnesses murders traps cnmmals and the txmes he 16 k1dnapped are numerous The language he uses to fulfill hms role 18 not typ1cal of Englxsh The only escape I have from such a l1fe IS 111 school There I am l1kely to be remlnded that I am a Tracy So as not to let me get homesxck wh1le there my fnends relate Tracy anecdotes mn the locker room The underworld slang xs used Of course Sxster 18 the worlds greatest sleuth ln th1s case If she catches us lt means dom t1me on the th1rd floor The dally trudge home 1S a b1t of exercxse for the ordlnary g1rl who upon entermg her own ne1ghbor 28 EU!! By LILLIAN TRACY 39 hood may see her brothers playmg as boys of thexr age should play But the g1rl who has brothers who practlcally hve D1ck Tracy must be prepared for any th1ng She walks home dreadmg the s1ght of behold mg jumor lyxng m the mxddle of the street pre tendmg to be h1t by some crnnxnal seeklng revenge agaxnst Dxck Stnck em up dxs IS a holdup' Dont make a squawk or youll gxt yer knob shot through Such a salutatlon IS sometxmes alarmmg especxally when I am by myself The feel of a gun agaxnst my back no longer makes me famt For turnmg around I see the culprlt my twln brother Eddle Twlnkhng eyes greet me As long as he xmpersonates desperadoes heroes the whole pollce force and G men he expen ments on me There may be found 1n lus pockets at any tlme art1cles of vanous shapes and forms to use for ammunmons and dxsguxses He IS the director of jumor Tracy The best performance of the day 15 the arnval of the t1me to help with the dlshes Eddie takes the roll of a desperate character and kxdnaps Jumor An oc caslonal home made machme gun sound may be heard and then absolute quxet The purpose of th1s scene 15 to get out of helping with the dxshes But after all tlus strenuous exercxse Uumor inally and heroxc ally escapmg the clutches of Eddie, they find the SILVER SANDS C I I a , . . 9 I ' D ' , , , , , , . 1 Q . . 1 , , n l v ' . , , . . Y .. I , n I u . a . . 7 9 2 s D . . . . . ' ' 9 . . - - . 9 7 ' gangsters, and crnme 1n general. H1s 15 the role of Dxck D u u u . , I ' 9 . . .5 N . . . . . 9 ' 7 . 1 - u , , 1 1 n u SB 11 ' ' . I . , I - - ss - s - - sv ' . . , , . . r , .

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'nm SEEING EYE AS I SEE IT T FIRST I was astounded really astounded then I became mdxgnant Well wouldnt you have been to have a cranky and radmcal man try to bhght your young l1fe by 1ns1st1ng that you wear glasses? I suppose I felt a httle hurt and yes a httle bxtter too to th1nk that I would be dxfferent You know some people just love to be dxfferent but some how they all agree that glasses are taboo Oh they ll wear nngs 111 the1r ears grease on the1r llps and curlers rn the1r hanr but no glasses I wasnt any dnferent from anyone else My xdeas on the subject were not orlgxnal I merely wept and moaned my fate But the only crumb of comfort I recexved was the thought that I wasn t the nrst and I wouldnt be the last to wear them The admlnlstrator of my m1sery sald I would only have to wear glasses for about ten years Only ten years' They might as well have been a hundred I was seven then and to me ten years seemed a lxfe tlme I used to s1t and plcture myself the lovely herome of some fantastlc dream and the one dark cloud was the fact the herome wore glasses I tned to 1mag1ne myself w1thout them but xn vam My rmagmatlon rambled on and I would see myself at seventeen st1ll weanng glasses Some people feel that they need glasses not only for readmg or wntmg or for some work that requxres a straxn on the eyes but they feel that they need them at mght too They never bother to remove them before ret1r1ng You know the ones who sxt propped up nn bed readxng a novel guaranteed to freeze the blood and who rarely ever fnnlsh It The cause may be e1ther fnght or fatxgue but they fall asleep stxll wear mg the1r glasses Then there are those people who th1nk that any bathlng costume 15 mcomplete w1thout the1r glasses Whether lt be a swnnmmg marathon or Just an ordmary dmp 1n the water the1r glasses do a command performance Im not speakmg of sun glasses now They are a httle d1Eerent from the ordmary glasses nn color These glasses come IH varxous shades If you are partxal to color though you can get glasses wxth a very very slxght txnt of pmk or blue You dxdn t know they came m duferent 30 By MARY RITA DE FAY 38 colors? Oh my yes another conquest of sclence another step an progress Glawes have for years stood as the outward slgn of an up and commg young genmus If she wore glasses she was sure to know her lessons Such a concluslon of long standmg could not be wrong Oh how I resented th1s If only to prove thxs txme honored obser vatlon wrong I longed to fa1l m a few subjects for a day or so So many UIIICS I wanted to shock them out of the1r stup1d1ty But lxke other temptauons they were reslsted and so the tlme honored observat1on 15 stlll mtact For all the1r drawbacks glasses do have some re deemmg quahtles To atta1n that perfect d1gn1ty there IS nothmg to compare wxth glasses They add that certam somethmg that no style of coxffure or eyebrows can a qu1et d1gn1ty that cannot be broken Glasses can be used for someth1ng besrdes an a1d to the s1ght Mme serve as a sort of defense behmd whxch I take refuge Its very rnterestlng to s1t back complacently and study human nature The hght on my glasses makes the correct color of my eyes elusxve as an advantage A person ordmanly glancmg 1n my d1rect1on wouldn t be aware of my scrutlny It s very mterestmg to watch your nexghbor from such a van tage pomt I suppose I sound rather smug and self satxsfied but Im not really You wouldnt accuse me of such an mjustxce lf you could Slt back and study your nelghbor wxthout bemg too much observed I have worn glasses now for almost ten years and 1n all that tune Ive never allowed myself to become too fond of them If I should be allowed to lay them asxde I th1nk I would wxllmgly Almost wxllmgly' After you ve worn a th1ng so long rt becomes almost a part of you It would be like partmg wlth a leg or an arm My dependency on them would make me feel the1r loss more than those who wear glasses only part time I rather thmk my wnllmgness would be nungled wxth a lxttle wlstfulness I lxke to mmagxne that my laymg as1de my glasses would be lxke partmg from an old fnend a frlend nn need Perhaps some day Id wear them agam not because I needed them but gust for old tlmes sake SILVER SANDS I I Q 5 ' 5 I 1' . , . Q - . 9 1 ' ' l s 1 I ' ' 9 , , . . . . . . , , , , , , , . . I . . . . a ' ' . . , t ' U . . f . . . No one can say definitely the right color. This serves U ' 1 . 1 Q - - 1 - Q a Q 1 , D I ' , . . , . , D . . . . . ' , I Q n . . ' Q , . . - t , , . , . . . . . . . ' , . , . . . . . , . . 1 . I 4 v u ' - ' , ' . T- . . . I I . I S