Hewlett School - Special Yearbook (East Islip, NY)

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Other Fine Literature Contentment Come, dewy Mom, And banish with light filled shafts The brooding gloom of night Send that blinded keeper of the dark Back to his Mother Deepest Discontent Where she black Goddess of the nethermost cave Dwells with attendant splrlts Unhappmess and cursed Misery And so hither speed freshest Mom, And bring with you sweetest Contentment For I Wlfll this fairy to be my friend And ride with me Life s oft disastrous sea For by her serene countenance The most troubled waters can be lulled to spirit free We shall take a walk th1s nymph and I, Among glades ne er trod by me before We shall seek Enchantment who lrves deep in this peaceful wood Where weathered rocks raise craggy heads And darkest pine sink eager fingers Deep in Nature s mossy breast And we shall come upon a brook Whose tumbllng wake Resembles Nature's lacy pettlcoat And asplritng trees lift green clad arms To catch Apollos new minted gold But perhaps Contentment were better pleased indoors Then to the fire 5 cheerful blaze And to an ancient book of yore Whlch yields descriptions of the bravest knights We would grve homage While out of doors Winter s fiercest breath Flings flying snow lnto fantastical forms While Jack Frost pounds admittance at our door If these brief sketches would come to pass To Contentment would I then hold fast I-larrrette Robblns Grade 12 Above and Beyond lies a Heaven awaiting your call There comes a time n ew ery man s lrfe when he must leaye it all Above and beyond the beauties of life another world awaits A world that gives one peace of mind when free from all mistakes The road one takes is long and hard but the reward is worth the price For when you pass unto its path You ll find your reward will entice Aboxe and beyond our busy world, so full of woes and sorrow I'here lies behind some peace of mind for happiness tomorrow So when you find that you and life haxe found the time to part Just think of the y orld, above and beyond and peaee will enxelope your heart Sally S1mone,Gradt ll l ' 2 S 7 A 7 7 I . 1 1 3 . ' 7 . V. . , , . Y I 7 ' I ' 1 Y 5 Y ' 1 J 3 3 . . , . 7 Y Y if 19 Above and beyond this world of ours, ' I Y I ' 1 r V . l I I I V l -- 3 I ' V f ' ' r s ' ' J 1 .- y Z ' , ' - - 1 .J - 1 V l X '4 1 '3 '

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And We Are Wrltlng Stained Glass Windows The most important use of stamed glass has been for making stamed glass wmdows These windows have been one of the prime color factors rn the decoration of churches Stamed glass is colored by the following var1ous methods flj by metallic oxides in the melting pots this method 15 no longer used for the formula was lost centuries ago and never found Q21 by coatmg the surface of the glass with a f1lm of colored glass thus making flashed glass whrch IS ground or etched away according to the amount of color desired Q3j by applying under fire a silver solution which tums colorless glass yellow and the ground away portions of the flashed glass yellow and also it tums light blue glass green Q-lj by pamtmg the surface wrth colored enamels that are afterwards driven into the substance This fascrnatmg art has had a curious history Procopius the Byzantine historian, praised colored windows m the 500 s A D but the earliest authentic examples now m existence date backtothe twelfth century rn France Among them are superb incredible creations that mark a mastery of light and pure color controlled lead llnes and painted patterns m a manner that is both sc1ent1f1c and artistic These lead lines dlVldC a large wmdow into smaller areas so that the stamed glass can easily be placed and supported This type of architecture IS known as tracery and it was flrst used ln the late 1100 s when church wmdows grew too large to be glazed in one unbroken piece From then on it developed rapidly rn delicacy and became a marked feature of nearly all Gothrc archi tecture Durrng the 1100's and 1200 s m France artists were designers and pure colors were recognized as symbols of spiritual quahtres For example red was the symbol of love valor and suffering Blue stood for wisdom loyalty truth and Heaven itself Yellow for goldjrepresented goodness and sprritual achievement And so on through the whole category of pure colors Therefore the wmdows of that period are not prctures but designed symbols They still fulfill the main purpose of a wmdow by keeping out rough The most anc1ent stamed glass window is in the church of the Abbey of St Dems, near Paris lt was installed during the twelfth century by Suger, a famous churchman statesman and historian One ofthe most elaborately decorated churches is the Cathedral of Chartes in northern France lt contains 146 important wmdows rn whlch 1 359 pic tures appear contammg about 5 000 human figures When the art of stained glass was a lost art 11854 1868j, Walter le Duc wrote an essay on the inner secrets of stamed glass wmdows Thzs essay greatly encouraged the revrval of that art during the early 1900's rn the Umted States and England I-le had been inspired to write his essay after vrsxtmg the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris where hrs eyes had caught sight of the north rose wmdows A1'tlStS and craftsmen gradually forgot the architectural function of a wmdow admit lrght From the 1500 s onward they made pictures rn glass that served as perma nent curtains to screen the light and to srlence its vibrations and rays The art of stamed glass windows reached its lowest level when the busmess known as the Art Glass Industry fxlled many many American churches and public burldrngs with the worst colored wmdows known to the world Drab expresslons of cheapness and uglmess in such places have always had therr own way of challengmg and strmulatmg creative and beauty conscious persons It IS through the trreless efforts of creative talented and eager minded lovers of beauty in archr tecture and 1ts allied arts that the orrgrnal art of stamed glass has again been developed ln America and Europe durlng the past fifty years Dorothea Detwrler Grade 11 Pollcemen Some men who go to college take a course on how to become a polrceman The policemen must leam how to shoot and how to fight Some of them even learn to ride horses because in the crties they sometimes have policemen on horseback Some policemen leam how to read codes and they take care of swrtchboards The policemen protect us and they guard school crossmgs The men who become polrce are always kind and alert They protect us at all trmes There is usually a pollceman on duty rn every town Whenever you need a policeman he IS right there If there IS a wild dog or a dead animal that you fmd on the road the policeman will take it away for you All policemen have to be mce or else they would not have been hired Vicky de Fere Grade 7 51 O O O O Q QQ 1 o if . U . . y . 9 , ' y , Y . 5 . . 1 ' 1 ' . . . I . l . , . . . ., . x , r y ' l . . . A . .- ! .. ' . . A . I i ' 7 3 4 r , v7 3 1 ' Y ' ! ! weather and letting in light -- glorified light. ' Q , . ' 1 v 7 3 ' 1 . . . . H to . . , . . - , . ll nl ' ' - ' - ! . Q . , 1 - . . .- I I Q! v if , . , . , . . . . I . y !

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