Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Motor scooter riding was one fall and two F alls ago Skating 15 miles down the highway was thirty years ago. And when he laughs in a restaurant or movie, the people interrupt their thoughts, look at him, but return. iiWhen this college was new? says President K, iiwhen we had just moved out to Towson, Carroll would come to me with a new plant and say look what I have found and we would plant it and the college grew. And when he paints, he paints a blue sky, a white cloud, and green grass. He is self-taught, naturally. II took Carroll to my summer house and told him to keep all the doors locked at night because of vandals that were around. And one night I had to fly back to do some work and all the doors were locked-the screen doors too and the windows-and I knocked loud and hard, but Carroll, you know, hes a little deaf and couldn,t hear me so finally I took something and cut the screen but the latch to the next door was on so I cut the screen of another door and finally got in. And when I went

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I saw him the other day cutting grass, picking weeds, carressing leaves. I saw him the other night with his blunt earth fingers placing pebbles on a painted wood house. And when I was with him and when I saw him I felt his warm laugh. I saw the little white topped man as his body jerked from right to left, from right to left, from right to left. I listened hard When he spoke, chipmunk stutter. iiLearning to speak when one is deaf is diHicult, isnit H? N ot when you speak to the trees, the clouds, and the wind to learn of tomorrow. He was a coal shoveler when Goucher was in Baltimore and a groundsbuilderlover when it moved. Have you seen him carrying his flop bag of leaves or walking with his trees?

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to my room there was Carroll-asleep on the bed, his fingers around a paintbrush? He paints of wood, on wood. He paints The Abbey and makes the trees and the houses of trees and stone and a picture of the Goucher chapel of the chapel and scaled stick models of cathedrals and the House of Seven Gables.