Columbia School - Hourglass Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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SENIIIR Pllll Miss Dragnet of T954 ..... Knows the Most about the Most. . Knows the Most about the Least . . Most Depressed by the Double Zero . Most Grimly Efficient ....... Least Sympathetic with the Opposite Sex . Most Sympathetic with the Opposite Sex. . Most Gifted Public Speaker ..... Most ............ Columbia's Gift to the Shadow Wave . . Gripe Most Griped About .... Best Back-Seat Driver ..... Fogbound .... First to Get Hitched ..... Class Old Maids ....... Throws the Longest and Strongest Line . Biggest Bluffer in the Classroom . . Biggest Apple-Polisher . . . Best Excuse for Knitting . Favorite Invention . Biggest Kid . . Highway Menace . Class Martyr. . . Class Wire-puller . Social Butterfly. . Class Hustler . Scrooge . . . Laziest . . Most Naive . . Prom Trotter. . Grave Robbers . Windiest .... Most Heartwarming . 46 . . Galbraith . .Bowman . Baltzer . . Petrossi . . . .Hunt . VanDeventer . . Harris . .Thomson . Morgan . .Cook . Money . . Beale . . . . Lowenthal . . . Beale, Harris Petrossi, VanDeventer . . . . .Morgan . . . . . Pevear . . . . . Foxall . Gnly one University in town . Sunday night parties . . . . .Cameron . . . Lowenthal . Baltzer . .Hunt . Pevear . .Newton . .Thomson . Everyone . . . No one . . . .Bowman . Cameron, Cook . . . Galbraith . Class of '54

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SUN, SAND, AND SEA He was huddled against the pilings driven deep into the sand--conscious only of the cool, moisture-laden air blowing against him in the darkness and the mysterious rumble of the sea . He was alone . Why had he come here? Was itfor the sol- itude, the peace that comes to the world before the dawn? Was it to escape the things of the world and to turn to expression of the soul? Or was it an attempt to flee from haunting thoughts and troubles, to throw off the burdens that the day would bring? lt was probably the last, for the face rest- ing on the strong brown hands bore a look of despair and deiection unusual to one so young . There were furrows between his brows and lines of thought or worry wrinkled his forehead . What was his problem? A lover's scrap? A quarrel at home? Or was this something bigger, a sin or even a crime? Was he capable of crime? The young face was rather hard, and there was nothing about it to imply honesty. There was a look of pride and arrogance in his eyes, which were not shifty, but haughty, superior. The wind blew, the ocean rolled, and low in the East a faint glow could be seen. The glow spread. Fingers, now gold, now silver, snatched at the darkness. And then the sun burst out of the sea, chasing the blackness from every crannyin the beach and turning to gold the long-broken frag- ments of sea-shell nearly hidden in the sand. The day had come. He sat on the edge of the dunes, the noon- day sun beating down on his head and the ocean spread out before him . The beach was a fumbled mass of running, shouting and laughing people, and the water was filled with floats and young people, toys and small children . There was a squad of life- guards, each supervising the activitywith-one eye and appraising the bathing beauties with the other . But he sat alone. He wasn't touched or affected in any way by the mob as he sat on the warm white beach, leaning againsta twisted tree-trunk half-covered by the drifting, eddy- ing sand . He turned his head- and studied the grass- covered dunes behind and beside him . A glitter caught his eye and, to see what it was, he stood up . There, not twenty feet from him, was a sparkling, sequined purse lying on an empty blanket and partially hidden by dune-grass. He looked around, no one was watching, it would be easy. He glanced again, the sequins were beckoning to him. With slow deliberate steps he approached the blanket, trying to look casual. Another swift look about and he stopped . The purse was his. He hesitated a moment, thrust the purse into a capacious beachrobe pocket and turned his steps toward the center of town . The white, glittering sand eddied and shifted, covering the footprints with a thin film of tiny breeze-driven particles. High above the beach in a cracker-box house set on long stilt legs, a coastguard officer made a 'phone call. lt was all there, he had the information right beside him--name, age, height, weight, and beneath it, Wanted for armed robbery, assault and battery, third offence. A new charge would be added soon: petty theft. The whistles and sirens blew. Policemen poured onto the sand . The young man was not on the beach . The sand swirled and shifted. The tracks were gone, obliterated by nature . He emerged from the darkness of the marsh- grass into the pale moonlight and turned to- ward the sound of the sea. It seemed to call him and he hurried toward it. The waves shimmered in the moonlight, rising to a crest, crashing clown, and then foaming and pounding as they hit the beach. The sounds made by the rushing water formed a pattern, but each was an individual, its path could be followed from beginning to end. He stood thus for some time, taking in the beauty and the mystery of it, the moonlight on the water and the mist blowing around him . And then he frowned. This was something