Columbus School for Girls - Topknot Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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COLUMBUS SCHOOL for GIRLS SHORT STORY CONTEST E ANNOUNCE with pleasure that the short story by Catherine VVeakley, of the class of 1930, entitled Fate, or What You Will, which was published in the last number of the Scroll, is the winner of the Short Story Contest sponsored by the Alumnae Association. The following story by Ellen Chubb, of the class of 1931, received honorable mention. AILAN T HUS SHRIEK louder and more piercing than those heretofore cast upon the humid July atmosphere focused all eyes upon the small group ensconced in the shadiest corner of the Saunder's pool. To the casual observer, accustomed to the ways of the terrible younger generation, the five young girls lounging in deck chairs appeared unusual in no way, they seemed at the moment to be enjoying a game in which the possessor of the most capable pair of lungs was victor. And the competitive spirit waxed great! Clad as they were in scant blue and white suits, which dis- tinguished them as a group from the other bathers and guests, one would have estimated that fifteen was their average age. Had they worn the long evening frocks which were the latest mode that summer, straight from Paris, the ignorant man would have placed his bet on twenty-one. Neither guess would have proved correct, for each boasted the tender, yet not too innocent, age of seventeen. And all five were rocking, rolling, shrieking, and even weeping with convulsions of laughter. The merest casual observer would have brightened with interest had he watched the speedy progress of a pair of flashing brown arms and a bobbing dark head across the pool towards the source of merriment. VVhoever she might be, this girl's perfect form and her amazing speed fairly took one's breath! More than one pair of eyes watched this sprint, and admired the easy grace with which Harriet Blake - for it was she - pulled herself up on the side of the pool. She, too, wore a blue and white suit, which marked her as a possible siXth member of the Clan , by which name the merrymakers were known to the Summer colony. The knowledge that the blue and white suit was in her possession exactly a week before five others like it had appeared was a matter trivial H21