Dominican College of San Rafael - Firebrand Yearbook (San Rafael, CA)

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FROM DOIVIINIC TO ALCOTT I had a Wonderful idea, but it cropped up just a little late for Leg Con '68. fBecause that's where I would have expressed it if it had hit me in time.j Let's change the name of the Firebrand to Little Women. QDO I hear applause?j F irebrand : it's such a forboding-almost overly dignified name. And it only includes the seniors- they're the only ones who are too tired to fight, too old to care what their yearbook is called just as long as they graduate, and so terribly thoughtless and uncreative when it comes to a question of including the other classes. So I think it's a fine idea to change the title to Little Women. Then We,d be forced to include all the little D.C. women. I-low quaint! The photographer would be swamped with requests to take pictures. Wed have to include the powder-puff football teams, the home-ec dis- plays, the riot squad, the rallies and dances--oh, just everything that's such a vital part of college life. And character sketches would be a ball to write. It would give the editor and staff something to keep them busy if we had a sketch for every little woman instead of only eighty torch bearers. But we would have to have a theme, a back-drop, some- thing to hold it together. Louisa May Alcott used the Civil War. And I don't think that's a half-had idea. With all the hat1'ed and violence that surrounds our campus fbut never really touches even in slightest wayj, we ought to he able to work up some sort of civil unrest - nothing really serious, just a little something for atmosphere and l68

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DREAM-POEM I hold three gem-stones in my hand, Carved like scarahs. Light from a high cathedral window Strikes down upon them. I say to the little girl at my side: 4'Look! How the sunlight makes the carved lines glow Pliosphorescent gold l Like the first light of spring on Telegraph Hill Or Westminster Abbey. Come, let us take them out into full sunlight And see what happens. S0 we go out on the steps into the sun- Ancl the stones turn only dead and drah. MARY PRENTICE LILLIE BARROWS l Iflxdtfff mf

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effect. So the way I see it, we've got the Amy's, the Betlfs, the lVleg's and the ,Io'sg we'll work on a bloody backgroundg and all we need is a Louisa May Alcott. But I'd warn you: don't even attempt it without a Louisa May because it just might fall flat. SUZANNE STELLA '69