John Adams High School - Clipper Yearbook (Ozone Park, NY)

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PHCJTCGRAPHY TIPS :wb CHARLES CARTER 61 DONALD GUCKER IT MAY not be a techni-color master- piece, but it certainly suits our lenses. l'In speaking of none other than Kodacolor film for Kodacolor prints on paper, which can be used in any camera, including our box-camera specialists. The Ansco Camera Corp. has developed a similar color film for more advanced work, which will be explained at a later date. Assum- ing that you have bought the film, Cwe are still using film, of coursel we are already for our first adventure in color. Loading the film in the camera is exactly the same as using black and white film. Remember to keep the film wound tightly around the spool. Save the carton inside to return the exposed film to your dealer. Caution -, do not attempt to have this film processed by ordinary methods. Now for a few notes on the exposing of your Kodacolor film. For best results this film should be used on bright sunny days, two hours after sunrise to two hours before sunset. Try to avoid deep shadows. If your camera has the type lens which can be varied, full instructions are inclosed in the carton. lf yours is the box- camera type, follow the instructions above to the letter. ln color photog- rcrphy we must be acutely aware of color combinations and suitable back- ground. Avoid clashing colors and the extreme, dull colors. The sky affords a very pleasing background. Another thing we must be careful of is reflecting colors . For example, Aunt Haddie wearing her new yellow Easter outfit fsharp, ehl, is standing three or four feet from our newly painted green garage. On the final Kodacolor print the yellow in the dress will be slightly degraded by the green light reflected from the garage. lt is very important that you return the exposed film to your dealer as soon as possible. Upon receiving it your dealer will send it for processing to the Kodak Company. When finished your film will be returned in the form of Kodacolor negatives, from which you may select and order your Koda- color prints. These prints, in most cases will be slightly larger than the negative, but this is more to the good. Another caution-Cyes, anotherl, store in a cool, dry place as recommended in the instructions. Excellent black and White prints can be made from the color negative, by your regular camera shop. So here's luck and good pictures to you as you join the ever growing army of Amateur Color Photographers. 18

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parked by the White sign marked for this and got out of the car. Slowly she walked up the church steps, twist- ing her white gloves in her hands. Passing through the vestibule, she walked down the middle aisle and knelt at the row Richard Carshairs, one of her oldest friends' had saved for her. She nodded to him and he leaned over and Whispered David Iordon is here! Wait, don't turn now, he's sitting in the row in back of us in the other section. For a moment she sat there as if stricken, and her mind raced back to her first meeting with David Jordon. lt was nearly thirty years ago when her younger sister Madge had brought home the tall, gaunt, and rather handsome young man she had met at a charity affair, and had introduced him as her husband. The family was shocked! Paula turned to Richard to say something, but her words were lost as she remembered the years that fol- lowed Madge's marriage. For the sake of Madge the family was kind to him at first, and it wasn't long be- fore they really liked him and were happy in the knowledge that Madge had made a wise choice. David was independent and started his own practice as a lawyer. With his keen mind and winning personality it didn't take long before his practice flour- ished. By then Madge and David had their own home not far from the Bennett household. Sunday afternoons the families could be seen riding in the new autos that were coming into mode, or going on picnics. 'They were married two years when their first and only child was born. Paula remembered the day she went to see the baby. She remembered how Madge had laughed as she said Look, everything pink. Everybody 17 was so sure that he'd be a girl. We were going to name him Paula after you, but now We'll call him Paul. Paul grew fast and sturdy, but when three years old tragedy struck! lt was in February. Flu had been going around and the weather was nasty with slush in the streets. Madge caught cold and it developed into pneumonia. Within three days Madge died. After that David became moody and melancholy. He would go for days Without speaking to anyone or even looking at little Paul who was living at the Bennett house under the care of Paula. - Sitting here Paula Bennett looked at the man sitting on the opposite side of the church. How different he seemed from the David who asked her to adopt Paul so that he could start life anew. Yes-he had changed. Changed a great deal. She knew that he had been successful in another section of the state. His hair was streaked with gray, and his appear- ance was Well tailored. But yet, there was something lacking. His face as he knelt there had a quiet- ness qbout it. It seemed to cry out in his eyes that something was miss- ing. Suddenly the light of the church went on and the Mass began. As Paul came walking down the aisle, she knew that her years of caring for him Weren't sacrifices but a gift to enrich her life. As he came toward her, he smiled and she knelt and re- ceived his first blessing. Her heart found no room for malice, she was happy and her heart was singing with a feeling of humble con- tentment for only a week before Paul had been ordained to the Priest- hood and was celebrating his first. Mass.

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SHIP'S LIBRARY gelweewliefaakenda ETHEL CONNOLLY-ALICE CANFIELD BOOKS! BOOKS! All for the ask- ing. Some of them are new, some old. Here are two dealing with the eastern area. One ot them is a new book which I feel sure will please even the most discriminating ot critics. With the endorsement ot General Stilwell and Wedemeyer it can hardly be any- thing but sincere and authentic. Written by Father Mark Tennier, Chungking Listening Post is a story of the eternal survival of Old China through the ravages ot another war. Father Tennier takes war with all its brutality and stark realism without once sheltering us from the bitter truth. He keeps however a religious outlook throughout. A true lover ot people in general and the Chinese in particular, Father Tennier is the only one to write this story, By it, he brings to our ears the now taint murmur coming from the huge bulk ot land that is China. A prayer uttered in a squallor of Peking or a sigh as a Chinese riverman on the Yangsee looks up athis heaven when the going gets rough. A low murmur but clear and true, and it is picked up immediately by the good Father at his Chungking Listening Post. India the land ot mystery is un- 19 veiled in a small way in My Indian Fami1y written by Hilda Wernker. Although it is a novel it has some factual background. It is a touching of the eternal barriers between East and West. This far off land has many customs that seem odd to us because we understand neither the people or their ideas. Their custom of purdah fthe practice of women wearing veilsl, their manner of eating, the way in which they live, their religion and their rigid caste system are not strange but simply misunderstood. The story is written in the form ot a diary by the mother of an Australian girl who married an Indian and went to live in India. The way in which they adjusted themselves and the small incidents that make up their lives proved to have made a most enjoyable story. These are two recent books Chung- king Listening Post by Mark Tennier and My Indian Family by Hilda Wernker that you shouldn't miss reading. You can read them and any number of new books on the shelves of our own library. We have written about only two. Why don't you go up to the library and look around? We are sure you will tind others to your liking.