Jacksonville High School - Crimson J Yearbook (Jacksonville, IL)

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Dedicated to the spirit of willingness and capability as we found it in our friend and advisor CLARA SMITH CRIMSON Page five

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PROLOGUE Life is a great adventure. But when some people have exploited life, they become hard and bitter. They think that life itself is futile. They call it The Ironic Adventure”. Colin teas only eighteen, but he thought that Life was an Ironic Adventure and perhaps you couldn't blame Colin. Life hadn't treated him any too well. He sat on the window sill and looked pensively out thru the gray April toward the park where the grass teas shott ing green among the misty rain trashed trees. The opal raindrops pelted against the win- dow. But Colin did not hear, for one cannot hear when one’s heart is brooding. Anti as he thought he lazily thumbed the pages of an old ship's log that he bought from the little book shop down on 81st street. “Queer old thing, isn't it?” he thought to himself. “The Ironic Adventure is awfully like a beastly voy- age. But I’ve encountered mostly heavy seas so far.” Life’s a voyage.” And with this thought, with the drone of the rain, and with the swish of the wet tree branches, he fell asleep in the half light of the late afternoon. And this is lrhat he dreamed. CRINON Page four

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3n IWemoriam TRUMAN POST CARTER 1863 1926 Lift holds diversities of fate— Sorrotv and joy with love and hate. In life his proud spirit gave all, .4 great soul answering Service’s call. Now that his strong heart has been stilled ff 'e know it was what God had wi lied; His mem'ry lives on down the years I ndimmed by futile, hu- man tears. CRIMSON Page six