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

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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

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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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E esTabllshed TradlTuOn we musT cOnTunue IT no maTTer how small IT mlghT be WhaT IT laclced an saze we would supply ID qualuTy The paper Thus year belongs To The whole school IT belongs TO The Tour TauThTul adverTlsers and The bussness manager who have earned Our money TO Those OuTslde The school who haze given us Trlendly adverT1semenTs TO The Tour class groups who have been so wsllung TO help us wuTh conTr:buTnOns Tor Tull page adverTnsemenTs TO The gurls who have responded so eagerly In The Three wrnTnng cOnTesTs TO all The gurls who have been unTeresTed In guvung Their besT eTTOrTs In drawing and wrlT1ng and Tunally TO The llTerary sTaTT and Mrs STlllman who have goven abundanTly OT Thenr Tnme and energy TO The selecT1On and arrangemenT OT maTerlal We presenT TO you The Garrulous Pune PARIS The yellow leaves are Tallung on The qua: and nnTO The slow movung Seine The boolc sTalls are open To The nnquurxng eyes OT The many passers l-lere us a young sTudenT unTenT upon some old musTy volume whale There sTands an old abbe engrossed IH an aged manuscrnpT The sTaTely walls OT The Louvre overlook long avenues OT colored Trees IH The Tuulerle gardens l-lere chnldren are playing In The Tallen leaves whale They are sTrrcTly waTched over by erecT and nmmaculaTe nurses An old man slTs On a bench holding an hls hand a piece OT bread around whnch a mulT1Tude OT sparrows IS TluTTerung A number OT people are wallung up and down The Rue de Rnvoln peeping TascnnaTed nnTO The lnTTle dark shops whuch are shadowed by The even arcades On The OTher side OT The rlver more chlldren are plavnng In The clear aur OT The Luxemburg Garden and The lnTTle boys In black aprons are saulxng Their Tiny sall bOaTs IH The large round pond An Old woman slTs lceepung her mlnnaTure TleeT In harbor and renTung each bOaT aT The prnce OT halT a Tranc an hour The greaT square On The Ile de France In TrOnT OT The massnve caThedral as crowded Tnlled wnTh langlung Omnnbuses and speednng Taxucabs The sTarTllng horns OT lnnumerable auTOmOblles rend The arr cOnsTanTly From The door OT a Tramway a cOnducTOr calls The sTOps The pOrTals OT NOTre Dame are always Open TO The passlng world Upon enTerung The busTle and clash OT The OuTs1de dues away The reverenT snlence sOOThes The soul and as one gazes aT The wOnderTul rose wnndows deep as The blue slcy hrs whole hearT ns suTTused wnTh everlasTnng beauTy Such as Paras In The auTumn such ns Paras as l remember IT Alnce l-lenderson STrOng, 32 6 TH GARRULOUS PINE I . X . .