Country Day School for Girls - Horizons Yearbook (Virginia Beach, VA)

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MAD TEA PARTY On September 18, 1957, thirteen very white rabbits, in the guise of mischievous twelve-year-olds, scurried into the newly-founded, not so very white, Country Day School for Girls. Each glanced at her watch but not one said, Dear me, l'm late! None really cared. Each was here to have fun. Besides, we thought, it's Very fashionable to be late, and it's only a tea party anyway. During the course of this seven-year tea party, we thirteen fthey say that's unlucky, white rabbits were to multiply like mad. While in the process of increasing our numbers, we were to drive at least five hatters mad, institute at least mo school holidays, knit Alice-knows- T how-many mohair monstrosities, invent devilment of every possible sort, and were yet to survive all this to produce as many Honor and High Honor students as any other class in the school. We started our scholastic careers by mixing fame and infamy and getting what we thought was a glorious recipe for fun -- and trouble. The definition of fun, cherished by the white rabbits, differed, it seems, from that maintained by the Queen of Hearts. The cry, Off with their heads! , was often heard reverberating in the halls after our escapades. The Queen found the Bath House Incident, which we had thought a great idea, particularly vexing. She didn't like too many of our schemes. We did, and still do, have a great Qacity for finding very questionable diversions. We were, nevertheless, capable of devising distractions which let us feel mischievous but by which we didn't break any school rules as yet in effect. Two of the most wholesome innovations ever made at Country Day came about by our revision of the school calendar to include TIXIE DAY and an unofficial celebration on April Fool's Day. Our Chalk Caper on April Fool's Day created mild repercussions, but the fun we had made the tongue-in-cheek chastening which we re- ceived seem insignificant. Vlfhen we were not in the process of devising plans to overthrow the Queen of Hearts and set up Bullwinkle, we could usually be found in- dulging in one of our numerous fads. Many of us are pounds lighter than we would have been had we not discovered Sego and Metrecal during our junior year. Others of us bear scars, the result of sitting on someone's knitting needle in the Senior Room. Most of our fads were, however, serviceable although we'll admit we have never found any use for the myriad of popsicle sticks we collected in the seventh grade. In spite of all the stupid, but immensely fun, schemes we devised and carried out, we were, as a class, intelligent. In the eighth grade, we had, at one time, more students on the High Honor roll than did the rest of the classes in the school added together. In our junior year, we proved that we could more than hold our own in the various tests we were required to take. Members of our class broke every standing record except one. This year in june, we will be the first class in the history of the school to complete the full seven years at Country Day as well as to graduate two eleven-year students in the process. We must have found time among all our plots to dabble in learning. The white rabbits have grown now, not completely -- but enough to know that not all of life is going to be a tea party. We like to feel that we have grown in perception as well as in numbers. We don't know if we have accomplished what our Mad Hatters and Queen of Hearts desired. That cannot be told until our little white rabbits are old enough to scurry into the halls of their Country Days. We do know, however, that we have accomplished the goal which we set for ourselves on that first day -- a great, grand, glorious amount of fun at the best Mad Tea Party we will ever attend. 14