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

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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

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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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0W, WAS born ln the thrrd largest clty of Germany Cologne on the 16th of August 1920 Good graclous a neighbor of our household ex cla1med 15 not thls planet crowded enough w1thout a newcomer dropprng 1n7 Then she peered at the tmy object xn the cradle 1n a very crxtlcal manner Thus was I greeted by the world But just then I was not the least b1t concerned about the1r att1tude toward me Anyhow my mother turned adonng eyes upon me Soon I was a very hvely 11ttle bemg wxth dark eyes a httle round nose and blonde p1g talls I was carefully guarded agarnst all manner of 111s and spent my ch11dhood mostly among my famxly When I was three years old we moved to the sub urbs very close to the romantlc Rhlne There I spent mother often told me stones and taught me kruttlng whxle my mother made me dolls houses and a big stage Many a ramy afternoon we would s1t to gether for hours and pamt or perform httle plays I hked best to be aken on long walks along the Rhme to go boat rxdmg to v1s1t museums and cathed rals or to s1t wxth my mother ID a cafe for afternoon ea About once a month Mother would go wxth me to plays for ch11dren or ballets and when I was four years old I was taken to my Hrst opera Hansel and Gretel Thns was an unforgettable evenmg for me I sat very quletly mn a box between my mother and grandmother and could not take my eyes from the stage That was the begmnmg of my apprecxatron for good musxc Fmally a new chapter commenced I was ready for school Fxrst I was xnspected by the school doctor Because I was too dehcate the school would not accept me and I never had the prlvxlege of gomg to pnmary school Mother was puzzled but soon found a way out I was to be mstructed at home A pn vate tutor was secured and I was mtroduced to new worlds Thus years passed the glonous years of SILVER SANDS ATIVE L By YVONNE ERNST 39 cluldhood durmg whlch I learned played and grew These were years of unforgettable happmess and pleasure Germans are a people possessed wxth an lntense love for nature and an The folk song plays an everxm portant part ln the1r hves and House Muslc IS cul txvated nn a home both IH the C1'Y and ln the country So when I was exght years old I was presented wxth a v1ol1n and IIISCIUCYIOIIS followed 1mmed1ately Often Mother and I spent many hours at a concert But st1ll I found time to play wlth my dolls and soldrers Behmd our apartment was a 11ttle garden where our landlord kept ch1ckens and doves On warm summer even1ngs the swallows would whlzz past my W1!1d0W or mmgle wlth the doves wh1le the breeze earned the fresh scent of flowers from the nexghbormg gar dens Th1s was l1ke a Paradxse to me there I would buxld 1magmary palaces dream of strange lands or talk to the cluckens One day around my nmth bxrthday I recexved the message that my father was comlng to V1S1t us from Amerxca Smce I could not remember lus last vaca t1on abroad I made blg eyes at th1s news and opened my mouth 1n astomshment Fmally my father came and all three of us spent excxtmg days together Then Daddy had to retum to Amer1ca smce he works on a newspaper and can never go on a long vacatxon So he went back and we promxsed to follow hzm soon Smce we knew that IH a short tzme we would be leavxng the fatherland Mother and I began to go out every day to those places whxch we held dear It was wzth a sad heart that I climbed the vme clad h1lls of the Rh1ne for the last tune I bade farewell to the old castles forests and vxllages Then one day xt was all over The clock struck twelve on a warm May nlght xn the year 1932 when I found myself ln the tram to Hamburg The tears blurred everythmg around me and I could not even eat the chocolate my mother gave me 31 I I . . , . ' . . , , . 9 U ' it ' 1' ' l n D 1 n 1 ' ' ' 9 ' , . M n . . . , , . - , . , , , . , . f . i . 7 . I. 1 . . , , . ' 1 n 9 I . .l - 3 the happ1est hours of my young l1fe. My grand- - - - , , , s s , . . q - ' ' ' f 9 l . 9 . ' 5 . . . . . . . . . 5 9 1 I ' ' , . . , ' I . . . . , l , . il ' , . . ,. . . . D I 7 . 3 ' . I . I Y I ' , . , . . , . I . ' , . . U . 4 .' I . Q . , .