Ithaca High School - Annual Yearbook (Ithaca, NY)

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EEEEEQ E E E I E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E Q 3 lil Z E I E E Q 5 E E E E E1 3 E E B E B I E I I I I E I I I I I E KH El E Di E9 EI Ei Ei El El EI Ei EE El CJ I1 El EJ KJ El E1 ES I1 KI El E1 EJ El Il EREEEEEEEEEWE I EE EEEE EEEEEEEEEEWEEW EEEEEEEEEEEEEE And try t-0 draw a meaning from the maze. He sought him out a forest deeply still, Where sable branches brushed the azure sky, And somber twilight draped the musty ground. No bird-note broke the silence 'neath the boughs, Nor any sunlight Hltered through the gloom. No wild flower twined its beauty near the path, Distracting sober thoughts with its allure. Here in pensive melancholy roamed The Dreamer, musing in his troubled soul, If man should mock all love and high resolve To stoop to War and hate and lust and vengefulness, Then what of God, to let this come to pass, And what of goodness on this earth's vast realm ? Thus in his mind he railed and rudely jeered, His dreams all shattered, disillusion keen. Lost in the forest was his earthly form, Lost and bewildered was his aching soul, When all at once a mighty torrent loosed, And nature seemed uprooted from her course. Rain drenched the twisting branches overhead, Deluged the earth and all that was thereon. Wind-lashed and writhing trees swerved dizzily Between the lightning's spears and vivid streaks. Vast thunder from some boundless place awoke Echoes of deep hollowness and gloom, That roared through all the forest's density. Baflled and bruised, crushed bleeding to the ground, The Dreamer lay pinned ,neath a fallen log. How many days -or nights passed on their way, Or how long, without food or drink, he lay, While fever racked his sorely-tortured frame, He had no way of knowing, but one day A Traveler came by, and tended him. He pressed a cooling potion to his lips, He bound his wounds, and gave him food to eat, The Dreamer in his fevered stupor asked, Traveler, what are you, or who am I, That you should stop to ease my pain, and feed My famished body from your meager store ? To which the Traveler replied, saying, I am a Spirit ye know little of, Possessed of several shapes that I put on To suit occasion, and to aid mankind. If ye would know my name, then learn from men The greatest good life in this world affords. Wherever men are joined in honest toil, There, too, am I, but should one stray apart, I'll seek him out and minister to him. I bring to pass each dream and each ideal, And am the Perfect Plan behind the world. Men know my name. Go ye, and learn from them. The Dreamer wandered to the valley's ledge. Back to the place of man's abode he came. This was the sight below that met his gaze: Man toiled with man, as centuries before A bonded nation toiled in Egypt's land --.ii 21 E+..- El EIDE WEEE EEEEEEEE EHIMI EEEEEEEEEEEEE EQ El E1 El E9 E1 Ei lil E9 EI El Cl EI EQ El D9 KI EQ El E9 E1 D9 Ei DQ Ei E9 FQ 59 EQ EQ D9 El EQ Ed D9 DQ 59 EQ Ei KI EJ E E9 E1 El El KI E1 El QQ 55 IH ES El El El El EQ Ei D! K1 Ei El E9 E! EQ KI 59 E E1 EI E3 El KI El EJ EQ Il El EI CJ El El EJ E EZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEMNWENEWNWE WEEENEEEEN U E 5 E11 E E EE EE E E E E E E E E E EEE EE e 'uest llil lil E E E E PART I gl His face was lighted with a holy glow. E His eyes beheld unearthly beauteous joy. Qi His rapt gaze followed every sentence there E E In the book that lay spread open on his knee. Q A Cynic, passing by and noting him EU Thus deep intent upon some printed page, E Made bold to say, Dreamer, what readest thou ? gg The Dreamer smiled, and looking up, explained Q I read a great and beauteous Book, wherein Q E Is written, 'God is love', and man is made E E In the same image of the God of love. E Ig-4 The Cynic, scoffing, said That word is false. gi EE EE Go ye now down to the haunts of men, E And see if there be ought of love amid E E The jangling discords and the greed and hate E lg With which man greets his fellow-brother man. Leave this high hill on which you build your dreams, And go to see the truths that I make knownf' EE EE E The Dreamer sighed, and troubled was his face. E gi The words the Cynic spoke were surely false. lil E Man, made in the image of High God, E S Could not stoop down to jealousy and pride. E E Yea, he would go down from his far hill IE To somewhere nearer to the haunts of men, E And there would prove the truths found in the book. E E There would he see man dwelling in pure love, E E Establishing an empire glorious, E IE According to a noble, sacred Plan. 421 E This was life's greatest good. E Bl E E E I ggi PART II lg E He reached the valleyls brink and gazed below. L31 Chaos and tumult greeted him from thence, Va E And all the ways of men were filled with lust. E E Each domain struggled to attain the height E E Of circumstantial pomp and elegance. E El Man worked with man to make a higher tower la S Than one his neighbor builded from the ground. E Q The greed for gold lured madness to mankind, gl E So that men craved for wealth and pow'r untold, E Sl And fought to gain unjust supremacy. E Q Wild was the roar of cannon that welled up, E Q Terrible the death-shrieks to be heard. Q E Red flowed the blood from wounds man gave to man. E War. swept unleashed where hate and passion reigned. E The Dreamer felt a sickening of heart, E And all the earth went reeling 'neath his feet. This was life's greatest good of which he'd dreamed! E Dead of soul and crushed beneath the blow, Bl E The Dreamer swore he'd leave men's tangled ways Euilililililil H 5? ,gsm 03 CD iw 53 Q.. :E CD -SE? SSP Sw 52 OS ia F55 0 m ,fag Hr 50 CEE? Si? Q3 mi 0 F CD 5 EEEEEE EBEEEE E E E E E E E E E E E E til w Q E E E E E x E E E E E E E E E E E E B Q Z E E B Z B X 5: 2 E E E B E B W B E B E E E R E C E E B E E Ei Ei Ei 5 EEEEEE -4 20 lg? -

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E335 E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E N E E E E E E Bl IQ I K Q I I x E E I E E E K E E E I I C E B E I I I I E El I E El El CJ E9 E Ei El EQ EJ EH Cl El El EJ E1 ll E9 E9 EQ Ei El El Ei K1 K1 K1 K1 Ei E1 E RE EICEUZ IEEE EBI E4 lil E S To build gigantic monuments of stone. Q E4 Man dreamed with man, as in the years gone by 54 li El Great men had dreamed of a new Western world, Q E A far-flung empire 'cross a Continent. E E Building together, each rising higher E E . . . E On his ne1ghbor's firm foundation, E IZ 'Twas not for lust each built a higher wall, Q E 'Twas just because each reached out toward the dream, E And helped his fellow-man build toward the goal lg E Of high perfection, and of progress gained. E El And then the Dreamer knew he had not hoped El E? - lj lg In vain, and yet he must come close to man IE 5 To find man's greatest good, not dream aloof 5, U . . . . 5. Q From all his griefs and bitterness and toil. E E Man builds for many 'tis true that God is love , lg gl And man in God's own image is upraised. 1 . El E The Dreamer saw, and realized at last E El That man, toiling with man, kept ever strong R E . EJ L1f6,S greatest good, true Brotherhood. E -DELIGHT WILLIAMSON E Bl Ithaca, New York April 18, 1932 Q S S x m Z KJ x Q li E EE E an E E li El CJEHEEHEKJEHBEH EEEEEEEEE E KJ IE li N El IE E E3 E E3 S E E IEEHI CHRI E El E an E9 E IE M E E FE EQ X El EIIEEII IKHI E lil El I3 El El El Ili IE Q li E EI lil Q E1 Q IE in E121 E E in E lil E E E El CEI Ell si Q ei si EJ Ei EJ Q E si X E 5 C3 Q EEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEMMEEEEXEEEEEE y -is 22