Catlin Gabel School - Garrulous Pine Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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E Germany has many splendrd young men and women among The mosT 1deaIusTnc an The worId some oT Them I Think I have Iearned a greaT deaI Trom some oT The Germans I have come To know rn SwuTzerIand and Tound a rare sprrnT an Them In EngIand Too I know young peopIe whom I admure Tremendously And so one couId Tund Them rn all Iands These counTrres oT Europe ThaT have sTruggIed Through a generaTIon oT war and wanT and Terr1bIe debTs have been passing Tor years Iaws Tor The and and proTecT1on oT people who were Torced ouT oT empIoymenT And They cannoT undersTand our negIecT oT such Iaws among us BUT I do beheve ThaT The America oT The TuTure us goung To Try To be TruIy greaT and nobIe and wnse I am sure ThaT voung Amerrca us going To serve :Ts counTry wrTh The krnd oT paTruoTnsm ThaT wrII demand Tor her This has been a Iong ThoughT on my parT buT perhaps IT had To Take shape rn words because I have such a hope ThaT you are all Thnnkmg and Teehng ThaT way Too I Tlnd myseIT aImosT ImpaTrenT an my hope ThaT all oT you are Takung The TuIIesT poss1bIe advanTage oT your opporTunlTles aT school French and German one or boTh shouId be The speaking possessron oT every boy and gurl IT he or she us To be properIy equipped Tor exchange wrTh peopIe IH Europe ConTacT waTh deInghTTuI peopIe over here Takes on added dumensnon because There are so many rnTeresTs oT The mrnd and oT apprecrahons To be shared ThaT krnd oT sTored Treasure makes Tor reaI weaITh un IrTe and :T us The kind rn whuch so many Europeans are so rich JusT now I am having a beauTrTuI Tame wnTh musnc I have been drscovernng more and more oT The weaITh whrch Enghsh composers have been adding To musuc IH The IasT Two or Three decades Some one once sand ThaT greaT music was a promonTory mTo The nnT1nnTe And now I musT reIease you Trom IrsTenrng and myseIT Trom wruTung buT I send you all my Iove and The hope ThaT Thus Trnds each and every one oT you happy busy grownng and more and more undersTand:ng oT The world rn which you Irve and more and more aware oT The burned and avaulable T easure whnch :T holds R One day whsle passing by a lovely ThoughT paused n a momenT oT h gh ecsTasy Passed on and IeTT a h ng oT beauTy caug In s moIene s oT Torm and symrneTry I3eauTy and Iove and Tru h all roughT By ma Ter hand To oe TecT un Ty Ixfarh Laod 32 4 TH GARRULOUS PINE The TInesT service in reaIizing her highesT ideals. A G E E K T E M P L E ' I I 1 I I bf,

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THE Excerpl 'from a leller lo lhe gurls ol lhe school wrullen by Muss Callun For many weeks I have been waulung lor lhe lume when I mughl be allowed a long vusul wulh you by leller and now lhal lume has come 'lhus us a wonderlul lascunalung and quaunl old culy Zuruch lhe largesl un Swulzerland bul aboul lhe suze ol Porlland ll us very old undeed havung been once a Roman camp and lhere are slull ruuns ol a Roman wall near Many ol lhe old slreels ol lhe lown go back lo lhe muddle ages and lhe old cuslom ol paunlung legends and puclures on lhe oulsudes ol lhe houses slull prevauls un some ol lhe old guarlers makung a mosl lascunalung slory book ellecl From my wundows I look down upon lhe culy lyung along lhe enchanlung lake wulh lhe snow rummed mounlauns beyond There are lune lrees and gardens lhroughoul lhe culy and I see lhe buuldungs sel un lheur green backgrounds luke a pallern Beaululul old spures and lowers ruse above lhem unlo lhe sky The culy us lamous lor uls old bells whuch lull lhe aur wulh mellow lones as lhey rung oul lhe hours and quarler hours Fave church lowers send lorlh lheur peals lhroughoul lhe days and lhe nughls ll us a good lule and a happy one lhus lhal one sees beung luved un Swulzerland ll us made up ol love ol nalure and lhe oul ol doors lume lor readung and lhunkung love and apprecualuon ol musuc and paunlung and lhe olher arls And a leelung ol good wull lor lhe world and love lor lheur lruends and lamulues So lar un lhe huslory ol lhe counlrues ol lhe world whuch are workung loward cuvuluzaluon Swulzerland us probably on lhe whole lhe besl con duluoned wulh more lrue lreedom more lusluce and less unuusluce more peace and less musery lhan any olher counlry un lhe world ll us no longer necessary lor poverly lo be lhe lol ol anyone sunce wulh lhe unvenluon ol machunery ul became possuble lo produce enough ol everylhung lo guve all lhe peoples ol lhe world enough Bul so lar lhe ellorl ol lhe groups conlrollung machunery has been ralher lor lhe end ol makung money and prolul lhan lor organuzung lo meel lhe needs ol all And so loday unslead ol plenly lor all we have lhe mosl lerruble sullerung and poverly lhe world has ever seen even un lhe ruchesl counlry un lhe world our own 'loo many people have nol developed lheur hearls and lheur sympalhues lo keep pace wulh lheur munds and abululues And now we musl ul we wull save lhe peoples ol lhe world lrom deslroyung lhemselves and each olher brung lorlh a new old spurul and a new leader shup wulh lhe good and well beung ol all un our hearls and our purpose When we do lhal we wull be real Chrusluans and nol people who uusl call lhemselves Chrusluans GARRULOUS PINE 3

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E EDITORIALS Every year above The nosse oT The crTy among wooded halls we presenT an old English May EesTuval Gay banners Tly everywhere colorTul posTers pounT The way To The Punch and Judy show and To The reTreshmenT booThs where Engllsh lasses serve The Tarmers laborers and nobles oT The surroundnng counTrysude l-lark' A bugle blows and These same lasses lonn The Tarmers and laborers and nobles IH a dancang procession whnch escorTs The kung and queen To The green sTage A bursT oT song greeTs The crownung oT The royal palr For Theur amusemenT plays are presenTed ST George and The Dragon Robln T-lood Then a comedy unTerlude w1Th scenes Trom Shakespeare and The sTunTs oT The camel The hobby horses and The clowns AT lengTh The Eaur closes wuTh The song Ye Maids oT l-lelsTon and The gay Troupe disappears unT1l anoTher year The preparaTuons Tor The TesTnval begun In The early sprung BoTh upper and lower schools parTnc:paTe and suggeshons come Trom nndlvlduals and groups As soon as maTerual as selecTed Trom These suggesT:ons The work oT organnzahon as begun ln commuTTees Tormed Tor each dnsTlncT acTlvnTy The gurls subordunaTe Themselves To work wuTh each oTher and Theur respecTuve chairmen Finally all The parTs come TogeTher under The cenTralnznng nnTluence oT Mnss Sawyer and The PageanT goes on ATTer The May Day as over we look back and crlTlc1ze ourselves we see how much we have learned oT The old English cusToms and songs someThung we wanTed To do and could noT and Thlnk oT someThlng we hope To do The nexT year And always There IS The cry Where shall we geT The Tlme7 The only soluTaon as a plan whereby we gave The Tunnshed lvlay EesTaval once every Two years We may spend The alTernaTe years In Tryung ouT new xdeas nn prachsung new plays In perTecTung The dances and songs IH bunldung a coco nuT shy or perhaps an old English mn un organuzung a more saTnsTacTory plan oT presenTaT1on The May EesTaval has grown Tor many years and 1T sTell conTaans many posslbll1Tres oT grovvTh buT we musT have Tame and concenTraTed eTTorT To develop These possubuluhes Thns year The T:rsT meeTlngs oT The sTaTT oT The Garrulous Pane were concerned wuTh a very seraous declsuon Should we aTTempT To publush The annual during a year of such wudespread Tlnanclal sTraan7 We realized how dnTT1culT :T would be To raise money we realized Too ThaT we mnghT noT be able To publlsh more Than perhaps a pamphleT BuT In spuTe oT The condnTuons we deTermuned ThaT as our publncaT1on us an TH GARRULOUS PINE 5 how well we have susTalned The aTmosphere. Always we remember