Girls High School of Brooklyn - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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NOVEMBER 6, 1941 Sailed from Trinidad for New York. NOVEMBER 13, 1941 1933 miles Arrived New York. Anchored at Quarantine 6 A.M.-Passed quaran- tine. i' W i' The foregoing lines, terse, authoritative, undramatic in the extreme, were written by a man who is but too familiar with long and perilous voyages in the faithful and everyday execution of duty. We who remain at home know very well, yet cannot recall too often, the matter-of-fact courage and resolute selflessness constantly shown by the men of our armed forces and merchant marine. These qualities have been uncon- sciously woven deep into the fabric of the above narrative, and are perhaps most poignantly revealed in the unqualified two-word entry of Iuly 30, 1941- Air Raid. The dates in this log are only an added proof that these men of the Navy, long before we entered the war, were already cooperating with our British allies, calmly enduring prolonged bombings, and still sailing round the world and back if so instructed, despite the submarine menace. These, too, are the men who now hold our first line of defense. And God willing, they must and shall continue as they have begun--toward Victory. GILDA FRANKEL, 7 Authentic Material-EVELYN BOUCHER, 5 Gutter Streams Some slender sticks glide gaily down the gutter streams. 27 These are my men-of-war and those my yachts of dreams- That fiercely thunder fire at the hated foe, Or cruise in whispering waters where soft south winds blow. And I, the captain, gaze at ice-bound coasts, or see The Emerald Isles or sun-kissed sands of Italy. I sight the storms that wreck my rafts and drag them down Beneath the waves to Father Neptune's coral town. I mourn my vanquished boats, that l'll not see again. But all my dreams are not swept down the sewer's drain! LORETTA JOHNSON, s Waslaout I thought you a typical sailor girl, A child of the sea-spray and white-crested waves, But alas! on subjection to nautical climes, How your make-up behaves! And your hair is deprived of its curl. JEAN GORDON, 1 8