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This yearbook is dedicated to the memory of Charles Howe, who was a faculty member at Danville Junior College for thirteen years and was yearbook advisor for the same period of time. Photograph Hands in Times darkroom Dip negative in acid, print A flash-bulb moment. URANIUM AND KNEELING ELEPHANTS The facts of Charles Howe ' s life: He was born in Whitside County, near Sterl- ing, Illinois, on April 25, 1912. He received his B.A. from the University of Illinois, his M.A. from the University of Southern California, and did graduate work in English at the University of California at Los Angeles. He served with the 116th Anti-aircraft Battalion during World War II, and participated in the D- Day invasion of Normandy. Before coming to Danville Junior College in September of 1962, he taught at high schools in Wyom- ing, Nevada, Michigan, Iowa, and Califor- nia. His name is included in DIRECTORY OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN WRITERS, 1971; PERSONALITIES OF THE WEST AND MIDWEST, 1971, 1973; ILLINOIS LIVES, 1969; OUTSTANDING EDUCATORS, 1973; and the 1976 edition of NOTABLE AMERICANS OF THE BICENTENNIAL ERA. He was a member of a number educational and poetry societies and an officer of three writers ' societies. He published two books - BLACK PANTHER SEARCH, in 1951; and URANIUM AND KNEELING ELEPHANTS, in 1973; plus numerous other poems, short stories, and book reviews in various publications. He died on September 21, 1975, at age 63. The important matters of Charles Howe ' s life: He was a poet, a teacher, and a good friend to colleagues and students alike. He is sadly missed by the Danville Junior College Community. 10
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LIFE Life ' s Broncos Our lives have given nightmares we must ride Where hands could grasp no pommel ' s steady- ing wood; No leather cinch secured on bronco ' s hide The saddle ' s strength for rides we understood. Volcanic rage was snorting broken-time And alien flesh was pounding earthquake jolts; Before the ride, we thought that hoofbeats rime, That bucking was a growing-game for colts. Then any bridle on a bronco ' s head Must seem to hold for him inaccurate bit; The reins as routes for power of the mind were dead, Upon such spasmed flesh no thought could fit. We clutched his neck and clung to tossing mane, Were stoned to earth, were bronco-hoofed by pain. POET (Madras, India) QUADERNI DI POESIA (Rome, Italy) STUDENTS Of Solid Song and Tears A veteran of Viet Nam, you come Into my class for meanings I might have; Another source brings word one side is numb. For bullet near the brain I have no salve. Though I am veteran, too, no booby- trap Has left a war ' s half-death for me to face; I only feared the wound, you felt it snap. You seek from possible paralysis a grace. You seek sun-breath for senses in a school; I learned pulse-gift is hung on slender thread, But lack of messages of molecules That sense Damoclean sword swing overhead. Life-beauty? Faith? I would com- municate Some solid song among the tears of Fate. POET (India) All excerts on this page were written by Charles Howe. POETRY Of Images and Balloons He sits On his image; Above him float balloons Of rubber filled with gas; he pulls The strings THE WRITTEN WORD ANTHOLOGY, No. 8 Of Longhand Song Why does my longhand seek so often print? Profound ideas from my fingers wayward trimble; My wrist loops words that totter, merely hint The commonplace of me, I should be humble. . . My hand writes waves that seek to sing in books. AMBER (Nova Scotia, Canada) TIME Splintered Minutes My clock Has splintered ticks. Like cracking heated glass; Unwinding spring or cogs of time Are chipped. INKY TRAILS (Idaho) Of Alphabets and Clocks B.C A.D Jumbled Are alphabets of time; Hours tick from complex clocks, since you Are gone. 1st prize in Cinquain, Haiku, Janka contest of SCIMITAR AND SONG (Maryland)
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