Cumnock School - Chronicle Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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A F BILL PEARSON GUTLER L. HUEBENER IOHN CRAVEN MAURIGE E. BAIRD jR HORTENSE VAGHON LORRY LINTON PHYLLIS GAGE PETE VAIL DELLA K. ROOT HELEN M. BRIGGS Advisor

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it pered to its shining surfaces. Finally tearing himself away from its magnet- ism, from the hypnotic power of movement in bronze, he wandered through the corridors. He saw Greek writings on the floor, and mused in wonder- ment. He saw a thousand experiments, and understood not one. He watched force in a magnetic field, he saw oil brought to the earth's crust, he found an explanation of the laws of chance. All amazed him, nothing failed to arouse and stimulate his imagination. Then the crowning glory of astronomy was his. He entered a great domed room. Music drifted softly in the air. But in the center of the tiled floor stood a grotesque and horrible device. He could not understand it, yet somehow he felt safe. The lights were dimmed, then extinguished. A moment of silence. Suddenly on the rounded greatness of the dome a thousand stars were flung, and a calm voice spoke, This is the Heaven of summer. From that time Man's mind was in continuous turmoil. Galaxies of stars whirled before him. Names in Arabic or Creek invaded his snared tormented senses. His body grew tired with strain, all moved before him. An hour passed, the stars faded. Blacikness. He filed slowly out into the cold of the breezes, his mind cleared, his experiences were but dreams. He looked again at the building, the black and white. He saw the curving staircases silver in the moonlight, and he knew unconsciously Goethe's meaning when he had said, Architecture is frozen music, Symmetry is rhythm standing still. Man shuddered, the breeze was cold. He passed down the walks, white in the moonlight, and was gone. Silence reigned. The wind was cold. Only the shadows remained, and they pressed closer to the monuments. -'Sl

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CO i BOOK l-CUIVINOCK Administration Faculty Students Dormitory BOOK 2-ACTIVITIES Publications Forensics Honor Societies Organizations Social BOOK 3-LITERATURE Creative Writing Features BOOK 4--ATHLETICS lVlen's Athletics Women's Athletics NTE NTS