Decatur High School - Ravelings Yearbook (Decatur, IN)

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Chambered Nautilus This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings. And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl ! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell. Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew. He left the past year ' s dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door. Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee. Child of the wandering sea, | Cast from her lap, forlorn! From thy dead lips a clearer note is bom Than ever Triton blew from wreathe ' d horn! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings : Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul. As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast Till thou at length are free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life ' s unresting sea! — Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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The Ravelin s 1938 DECATUR HIGH SCHOOL Decatur, Indiana CONTENTS Volume XXIV Chambered Nautilus Preface Dedication and Foreword 2 Decatur High School 3 Floor Plan of New Building 4 If It Hadn ' t Been For Them (Board of Education) 5 Where Can I Find The Superintendent? 6 He Is A Personal FriendOfMine 7 The Builders (Faculty) 8-9-10-11 Lunch Time At D. H. S. (School Scene) 12 Make Way For Tomorrow 13 Freshmen 14-15 Sophomores 16-17 Goodby Old Decatur High (School Scene) 18 Rapidly Progressing 19 Juniors 20-21 In Memory 22 Realization 23 Seniors 24-25-26-27 Facing The Morning Sun (School Scene) 28 Added Features 29 Journalistic In Views (Ravelings Staff) 30 The Quickest Way To A Man ' s Heart (Home Ec) 31 Screaming Sirens (Pep Champs) 32-33 They Howled To Beat The Band (Howling Hosts) 34 35 Won ' t You Step Into Our Office? (Commercial Club) 36-37 We Shall Have Music (Band) 38 Music Hath Charms (Glee Club) 39 The Curse Of The Incas (Senior Play) 40 Aunt Tillie Goes To Town (Junior Play) 41 Turf Terrors (Football — Varsity) 42 Hep! One! Two! (Football — Squad) 43 The Crowd Cheered Them (Basketball — Squad) 44 The Substitution (Basketball — Varsity) 45 Bats And Racquets (Spring Sports) 46 Not On The Curriculum 47 Naturally The Girls Played Too (G. A. A. ) 48-49 It Did Happen Here 50 An Old Spanish Custom 51 Appreciation To Advertisers 52 Advertising 53 to 82