Hillsdale School - Telescope Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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1WF$RW EDITORIAL BUSY AS A BEE has been a welleknown expression since time immemoriul, but the image it conveys is no less real today than it was to Aeneas and his fellow- wcmderers as they sailed by the shores of Carthage and saw its inhabitants qualis apes . . . sub sole labor, like bees beneath the mid-day sun, striving each in its seIf-less way: some cutting stones, others building temples, still others sowing fieldse-all striving both to better themselves and their community. 50 may Hillsdale be looked upon as a bee-hiveeu little community of girls striving together, both at work and play, to achieve a common, and yet separate goal: better human beings and a more beloved school. Just as the tasks of the bees are varied and require different skills, $0 each girl strives in particular fields. This bee gathers honey, that tends the young, 0 third guards the hive. Likewise, one girl excels in ctrt. another prefers science, another is skilled in history; and still another, in mathematics. But a community, however industrious, must provide for its organized survival. Thus the hive has its queen with her two- fold task as monarch and mother. At Hillsdale, Miss Fessenden, its patient execu- tive insures continuous operation with her wisdom and humor, while our loving mothers, organized into various committees, guide our youthful activities. The ultimate product and mainstay of the hive is its honey, collected with instinctive industry from countless blossoms. At Hillsdale, it is culture and knowledge that we strive to gather, perhaps not too instinctively, but with conscious effort, from our teachers whose skill and forbeuring enlist our interest as Howers attract bees. Fervet opus, the work moves on apace, the sevens develop into mature seniors, and thus the never-ceasing life in our Hive rolls on sharing, cooperating, en- lightening, educating! i t t i 'r