Columbia School - Hourglass Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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THE RETURN SofTIy as Though afraud To wake The spuruTs of yesTerday I closed The car door A sTrange force whuch had broughT me To Thus sulenT place was pullung me down The paTh To The swummung pool Slowly I Treaded my way along unTul I reached The same bruck fence ThaT had surrounded The pool years ago I leaned on The rough sfone gazed nosfalgucally unTo The dark sulenT waTer and losT myself un a world of beauTuful memorues Then I had been suTTung by The pool Suddenly ucy waTer I came up T lasT Jerry was Too I made lumped Throwung our noTher bouT of ended when I pulled f The pool and sa he cavorTed around eyes my eyes wander down The lake Jerry and l had walked down There many Tumes buf The walk we Took on The nughT of The club dance was The only unforgeT able one The nughT was nearly perfecf The pleasanfly warm breeze was playung a lullaby Through The Trees The sky was a roof of deep purple velvef and on ThaT purple were doTTed duamonds Thaf sparkled and shone as Jerry and I passed by A I was caTapulTed uraTe buf The handsome rubber I IuTTed my The paTh To The we looked up uT seemed To make a sTaTely bow To us alone The sounds of The lake were soofhung The waTer wuTh a sfeady meloduous beaT lapped genTly aT The sandy shore The cruckeTs and The frogs were rehearsung romanTuc mood musuc We lusfened carefully and could hear The swans glud ung slowly along The nughf was warm The sounds and sughTs were lovely and we were young and un love Jerry Took my hand and Turned me To ward hum We shared a kuss noT our fursT noT our lasT sumply a momenT of bluss ThaT promused eTernal love The forlorn whusfle of a Traun rushung by and unTo The darkness shook me from my reverue Those days were gone ThaT love was gone buT more days and more loves had come To full The voud The moon over head suddenly broke Through The clouds and bafhed The world un uTs splendor No longer melancholy I Turned and wuTh a lughT hearT walked away Eleonore Hanson Grade I2 PROFILE OF A FRIEND As I saT gazung unTenTly ouT my wundow my eyes resTed upon a small brown sTrucTure held hugh oTf The ground by a sTurdy pole LuTTle creaTures lookung luke ConfederaTe solduers un Theur blue gray unuforms darTed un and ouT of The aperfure of The munufe buuldung Each member of The army of chuckadees flew sTraughT To The burd feeder hesufafed a momenT whule lookung furfuvely To euTher sude quuckly popped un and ouT of The feeder and scurrued away wuTh hus Treasure Whule conTemplaTung on The burd feedung sTaTuon my ThoughTs Turned To uTs buulder who so lovungly had buulT many oThers before uT AlThough refured now Mr Cafher was The chuef power enguneer aT Easfrnan Kodak Company Thus uob whuch unvolves The heafung of The pIanT requures precusuon because The delucafe fulm us harmed uf The condufuons are noT perfecT Thus scuenTufuc exacTness has been carrued over unTo oTher phases of hus lufe In The hearT of Thus wonderful older man There us a greaT affecfuon for The luTTIe feafhered creaTures whuch add so much color To nafure He has buulT many burd houses and burd feeders each one closer To perfecfuon Than The prevuous model In hus laTesT edu Tuon of a burd feeder a a meTal cone To squurrels The feeder us burds A welcome burds from unsude The The openung a bopper Thus meTal roof and unaccessuble resTs luke The foreugn To The us worked appears aT lower The e un orTunaTe un an neuTher do sad Tale Truder The hus fruends To whom A heaTed founfaun has also been desugned and buulT by Mr Cafher When The Temperafure oufsude us below The freezung pounT a lughT bulb underneafh The founfaun us Turned on Thus generafung enough heaT To prevenT The waTer from becomung uce The burds can Take Theur baThs un The coIdesT of weafher Thanks To a Tune fruend For Mr CaTher The world us full of chuckadee of all suzes Two of a relafuvely large magnuTude have been added To Thus classufucafuon My moTher has become Mama Chuckadee and her daughTer LuTTle Chuckadee A champuon aT brudge Mr Cafher unvaruablv goes home wuTh The firsT pruze un hus hand ETforTlessly he wuns The Trucks wuTh a muschuevous Twunkle un hus eye sayung Aha youd beTTer waTch ouT' Truly a Mr Fax uT man he can do anyThung from mouse proof ung a coTTage To makung a shark fin for a cosTume parTy Yes I ThoughT as I conTunued To waTch The chuckadees Mr CaTher cerTaunly has shown humself a fune and remarkable man MargareT Croffon Grade I2 le! 6 , . . . . I . .. . in. l u . l . u 0 a . o . . . ' T, . - l . ' ' , I un- , - ' us f ' - pale crescenT rocked uusT over our heads. When ' JI d ' 51

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lung In The flreplace and on The hearfh my dog peacefully IusTennng To The famnly conversafnon The smell of good food was floafmg from The kuTchen I felT happy and suddenly Thankful for The goodness of home wnTh :Ts forever warm welcome I Then recalled anoTher day when a Trnvnal argu menT had nrrnTaTed me IT was a hoT day nn The summer I felT cross and Tnred perhaps because of The Terrific humudafy AfTer dmner I walked ouT of The house slamming The door loudly behnnd me Thus unnecessary noise seemed To saflsfy me The heavy humndlTy how ever had dssappeared and a mnld breeze was blownng genfly Through The Trees As I climbed The hull behund The house I saw an unvnfnng paTch of grass under a spreadung cherry Tree IT appeared a perfecT place To sTop To Thrnk Thungs over The breeze blew refresh mgly Through my halr The birds were chlrpung gally and as I saT un The warm sunseT I suddenly feIT aT ease I shuT my eyes and saw The sun rnsmg nn The oTher hemusphere upon an unfamnlnar world I ThoughT of Those unknown people Dnd They have happy famnlues as I dnd7 or were They hungry sad and clusappounTed7 These quesTuons made me Thankful for The ruch and happy world surroundung and enrnchung my lufe uack ly I realuzed how snlly I had been and as The sunsef faded behind The surrounding woods I began my walk home wnTh a qulck and Invely sTep As I concluded The ThoughTs of my dlTTerenT experu I caughT sughT of The realuzed whaT an op Enfhuslasm ences and Theur books Iyung on porTunnTy lay flashed I was again Ieges which Affer I conTrubuTe To under Three phere The an an college and and prrvn Thmgs whuch I arranged Them The famlly aTmos and a happy I was angry or dusap pounfed I would remember These Thnngs engraved deeply nn my mend I was sure ThaT I would feel for TunaTe and happy As I lay nn bed ThaT nnghT sTalI Thnnkrng of Those unsplrang Ideas I suddenly saT up realuzlng ThaT I had forgoTTen The mosT umporTanT Thnng of all Smnlnng nn The dark I snuggled down un my covers and whus pered To my dog And :sn T :T wonderful To be able To say LeT Us Pray 7 Jane Swan Grade I I YOSEMITE To geT To YosemnTe we had To druve Through The mounfauns down Info The greaT valley As we drove along The wrndnng mounfann passes we began To glimpse The Type of scenery ThaT we would be seeing for The nexT few days huge mounfalns and very small people When we reached The valley we followed a ruver lnTo The hearT of Yosemufe NaTuonaI Park Each Turn of The road broughT new and excuhng scenes To our eyes Now and Then The raver besude us would crash and swell over The boulders or gracefully flow over a ledge The waTer crysTaI clear sparkled un The IaTe afTernoon sun IT seemed To be Talkung To us as we rolled on snde by sude The mounTauns rose all around us and The pane scenTed aur was clear and nnvngoraTrng ThaT evemng we wafched The fnre falls over Glacner PolnT Each nughf aT nine ThurTy There IS an Indian call To Camp Curry and Then glowung coals from a special kund of bark whuch has been burned for sev eral hours are pushed off The pomT The coals cas caded down The mounfazn slde luke a sTream of fnre nes The nexf mornsng we aTe breakfasT on The Terrace wnTh lovely pasfel wrld flowers Agaun The mnghfy Yosemufe Falls Thus Tnme rn The un The early mornung sun near a large clearmg Armed wnTh s IaTer we sTarTed off on a wenT by bus far up Info The Trees belneved To be many even when folnage almosT brughT copper redwood Trees looked almosT as Though someone wenT ouT every mornung lusf To polish Them Affer luncheon we headed Towards The oTher sude of The valley on my way sToppnng aT Inspurahon of Them bear The They Tall somehrnes a year They seem color even brughfer Than IengTh of The greaT valley and :T looks as Though The mounTauns parTed To Ie+ The raver Through Then as we clumbed hngher and hngher we goT a glimpse oT The Suerra Nevada Mounfalns whnch le beTween YosemuTe and The Pacufuc Ocean Fnnally when we reached Glacrer PounT Yosemnfe lay before us as we sTood hugh above The valley floor The Merced Rnver whnch flows Through The valley was merely a Tnny brnghf green ribbon carefully land down The cenTer There were Vernal and Nevada Falls flowmg peacefully El Caplfan a solud cubic mule of rock sfandnng malesfucally as If To guard nfs kingdom and To The rnghT Half Dome which people belreve was once a compIeTe dome We sTood and looked aT The wondrous scenery whsle some fleecy whuTe clouds came over The mounTams as nf To perform for The cameras Comnng back down The mounTann we sTopped To see Brldal Venl Falls There was a lovely rannbow on The falls and The wnnd senT The waTer rockeflng and cascadmg from one snde To The oTher The waTer made a deIncaTe lacy paTTern lusT luke a brndes venl When aT IasT we had To leave Yosemnfe decuded ThaT we had made only a denT un seemg all of :T Our bus drnver had Told us ThaT he and hs famuly had Ilved nn The park for Twenfy years and They hadnT yeT run ouT of new campung snTes We hoped ThaT someday we could reTurn perhaps In a dlTTerenT season and conTnnue our Tour of Yosemufe Suzanne Jones Grade II . 2 . I I I TI' . gngfgafgvel +I-,e words which PoinT, almosT on The valley floor. One can see down The of I I . F T 1 F 1 0 'I 1 i d ' I d. ' - - u - Q . Q 1 I I 1 . I I lf ' 50

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Paygro nd eql. prnent e helped A een Roat Schoo b y SQCIAL SERVICE PROJECTS ra e 4 ch ho r A een Roat Sc oo Grade 5 Wndo Roclc studies science G ng OPENS SC OO Teen age Lee Kyimq Ja Wndo Rocll ol South Korea one of our t o foster ch ldren Sporfg at W ndow Ro lc boys A leen Roat Columbia g ls 'rhs year have enloyed le++ers and picfures from our lwo lndian classes-Grade 4 af Aileen Roaf School, Gallup, New Mexico, 'raughl by Miss Elizabelh Schmalz: and Parf of Grade 5 at Window Roclc School, For? Defiance, Arizona, faughl by Mrs. Marlin. 52