Elmira District Secondary School - Oracle Yearbook (Elmira, Ontario Canada)

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I Tank To The Farm It was Monday morniiig. I awoke and regarded my watch through half- closed eyes. '4Seven-thirty,', I said sleepily and rolled over on my other side. 'Seven-thirty?7' I repeated, this time with eyes open wide. I'll be late for work! So, in less time than it takes to tell, I washed, dressed, ate a very small breakfast, leaped on my bike fwhich I had forgotten to put away the night beforej and headed for the farm. While going, I observed fmuch to my dismayl that it was likely to be a fine day, and consequently, there would be plenty of work. On my arrival my employer informed me that he had borrowed an extra mow- er and we would begin cutting grass that morning. After receiving instruc- tions on the operation of the mower, I mounted it, and started off, constantly repeating, uOil these cups every two rounds, these every fourg this pedal raises the blade, that puts the mower out of gearg watch out for stones',- and so on. For the first few rounds all went well, but, since the mower had been ad- justed for a tall man, I began to grow tired of trying to reach the different levers, and when I arrived at one cor- ner, the horses automatically began to turn. Making a valiant effort to reach the pedal which raises the knife, I missed it, and heard a sickening crack -the dividing-board had broken off. From then on I met with nothing but troubleg the knife became clogged with grass several times and I lost the hook on the end of the whiffle tree. Because of these mi-shaps, I decided I had better stop, and so, putting the mower out of gear, I started for,home. The journey home led through a creek, and .as I was carrying the bro- ken dividing-board in one hand and was trying to keep from falling off the seat with the other, the horses got a little out control. First the one horse lunged into the stream and then the other, their ,Z big hoofs splashing water in my face. When we emerged, the bolt fastening one of the whiflie trees to the double tree had also disappeared! Well, for the rest of trip fwhich was uneventfulfl, I wondered how I was going to explain these disasters to the owner of the mower. But as that is an- other story, I shall not deal with it here. -EDWARD HILL, XI Naugatuck Chemical Classes One morning last November lVIr. Currie read an announcement in assem- bly to the effect that '6Naugatuck Chemicals here in Elmira was to open, on the following Wednesday, a series of night classes in Chemistry. Some of us, being vitally interested in this subject, met later in the day to talk over the possibilities of this offer. Wednesday night about a half dozen of us met and Went together to the factory. Upon our arrival there we found that one doesn't just go in and sit down. First we had to sign a book telling the time that we entered and later, the time that we left. The class we found was under the supervision of the very able and ami- able Mr. Dickson. The class itself was made up of about eighteen young men from different walks of life in Elmira. Everyone at once became very much interested, for who isn't stirred when he sees two or more substances mixed together, watches a perhaps violent re- action and finds that something entire- ly different has appeared seemingly from nowhere? Later in the year when the rink came into being and there was skating on' Wednesday night it was decided to change the time to Tuesday evenings so that those holding season's tickets could use them to the fullest extent. I .believe that in chemistry there is a future and that these classes are one of the best things that could have been undertaken by Naugatuck Chemicals for the youth of this community. -C. GINGRICH, GRADE XII 65

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