King School - Kingsmen Yearbook (Stamford, CT)

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Dead Wood Jack Stauffer T963 It was a cold afternoon in March 'I881 Jim Davis and Sam Hudson were seated In a lighthouse 22 mules off the coast of Maine playing checkers Both men were In their middle fifties and it was their 'ob to see that the lighthouse was in good order Today though being the first of the month was relief day and Sam would be leaving Another man would come to the lighthouse to help Jim Relief time came once a month and during the last month .lim and Sam had become good friends The launch would be there at dusk with supplies and Jim s new helper Dusk came quickly and soon the two men could see the launch plowing through the waves trying to reach the leeward side of the lighthouse where the waves were not so rough lam went down to the shore to say good by to Sam and to puck up supplies They could see the waves on the windward side of the Island smashing into the rocks sending spray over twenty feet hugh Finally everything was unloaded and the launch took off .lim turned to meet his new helper but he was already trampxng up the slope with a bundle of supplies in his arms Jim packed up the rest of the food and tools and started up the slope after the other mon The sea gulls were squawklng but .lim scarcely heard them He was used to their cry When Jim got into the lighthouse he got his first look at his new helper It was Pete Masterson the man he had sent to prison and nt was the man who had sworn to get has revenge Long time no see snarled Pete What are you doing here? replied .lim angrily Oh I lust thought I would come up for a lnttle visit You see l spent five long years tracking you here and now that I ve found you lm going to stay for awhile But .lim knew that he was there on no visit He was there for some thing else and Jim had a pretty good Idea what After that night the two men talked with each other They ate their meals an silence and then departed Both did their duties without speaking But Jim knew that Pete was planmng something lt was on a Frtday though that Jams suspicions were finally confirmed Pete was up working on the glass at the top of the tower and Jim was working on the wall of the lighthouse by the front door Suddenly there was a loud thump on the ground beside hum He looked down and saw a huge monkey wrench lt had missed his head only by a couple of inches Jim looked up and saw Petes head peering over the railing Sorry It was an accndent Pete shouted But .lum knew that at 1 - 1 - 1 , . - 1 . . . 1 1 , . ' 1 . . , 11 - 11 , . ,, . H . . . . , . H . . . . , . . , , . 1 1 - 11 , . . . , . . 1 1 - 1 . . , . H . . ,, . . 1 1 -

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The Thurteenth Planet Peter Muckelson 1961 At the last meetung of the Faurfield County Astro nomncal Socuety on January I5 a topuc was brought up that gave me an unspuratuon One of the members had been trackung an asteroud Vesta 4 and he made a bruef report on hus success After the meetung he passed out hand made maps of the past and future posutuons of the asteroud durung the month of January It was also a councudence that I brought a large aperture wude field telescope to that meetung Thus unstrument would be excellent for spottung thus faunt oblect otherwise unvusuble to the naked eye Plans raced through my head as I sat there through the meetung lustenmg to the lecturer descrube the fan tastuc Kutt Peak prolect sponsored by the Natuonal Scuence Foundatuon lmmeduately after the meetung I went to the planetaruum and wuth the heavens at my finger tup control I swung the stars unto the appro pruate posutuon for that nught Then comparung the small map wuth the sumulated heavens I found the place where the asteroud should appear Funally after much preparung on January 27 I went out wuth my scope and pounted ut un the area where Vesta should be located There ut was Vesta the fourth asteroud to be duscovered Thus seventh magnutude obuect duscovered un T807 by Olbers us two hundred forty mules un duameter Iabout the suze of Pennsylvanual and reflects twenty sux percent of the sunlught strukung ut lmmeduately I ran un and brought out the astro camera I hasutly set ut up un the druveway and exposed the film Then I took un the camera and contunued watchung for another half hour The next nught I went out agaun thus tume wuth both camera and scope Wuth the telescope I notuced that Vesta had moved consnderably wuth respect to the stars Then I set up the camera and took another pucture Thus tume I stayed out to see Uranus the seventh planet whuch I had never seen before Later I went un and developed the plates whuch showed clearly the motuon of the asteroud Havung seen Uranus I have seen seven planets These are un order of dustance from the sun Venus Earth Mars Vesta Juputer Saturn and Uranus When I get the opportunuty I wull be able to see Neptune and Mercury Thus wull complete all of the mauor planets except Pluto whuch us so far unable to be asterouds curclung the sun between .luputer and Mars but ut at least started me on a great protect findung as many asterouds as possuble for my equupment and not uust planet number thurteen Essence And Lute Dave Rowland T960 Angel del Ruo suts wuth receptuve vusage Mute otferungs to the final ceremony Death between the substance and the shadow Between the creatuon and the essence Who can transcend thus sterule ullusuon And understand the emptuness? Somber shadows stalk the hopeful umage Waut patuently un the dusty corners of afternoon Only the foolush count the teardrops un a sungle graun of sand The wuse realuze the essence of total nothungness Pattern the lost Sybul shunung through the crowds Raundrops warm upon the foolush faces of hope Buryung knowledge un a guarded spot The novlce may be taken by hand and led from the parched garden But not they who have grown so old and neutral un the face of lufe A fool wull realuze the first pruncuple on the first level And then there us nothung more to see Thus us Nurvana Poor sad luttle world covered wuth fog Men buuldung monuments out of hopes and fears Who can break the thread of unreal lufe And understand the lught of the Tao? Lesson un the dusullusuonment and un the smoky sun Fallung behund thus forlorn waste land In beung us the essence and the essence us beung But who can understand and forsake the ullusuon? Unreal ruvers run down to an unreal sea And so shall we come down un the emptuness whuch we are Fallen umage I cannot find you Among the many suded shadows of deceptuon Here un the voud All haul the solemnutude of everlastung nught Nught and lufe and love and very beung All us dark sunce the torture In Gethsemane And the torchlught on stony faces Son of man we symboluze no final achuevement But only the decadence of false essence There us more truth un a handful of dust Than un all of us together For we are alone here un thus The twusted numbus ofa generous God O I I . I I 4 - l c Q ' , . , . l . . . ' I I , 1 . . I ' . . . . I I . ' - I I l A u . ' I , f , 1 I I ' 2 2 1 2 - - , - - I Q . . . ' 1 l I 1 I ' , ' , , seen visually. Vesta is only one of the millions of . v I I 4 I - - , , I I ' O I - I . I . . . - I , . . . . Q . I ' I . . I ' I I . . . I . . . I . . I , . . . . ' . I I I I '

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was no accndent lt was a deluberate attempt to klll hum But where was the proof? lt could have been an accident lt had happened before He picked up the wrench and walked Inside Later that nught Jrm walked up to Pete and sand That was no accrdent thus afternoon Pete and you know It Now listen Jlm shouted Pete angrlly you can say what you want I say rt was an accident Jam turned around and walked out of the room He had no time to argue with that crumb He went upstairs to check the lrght As he was walknng around on the platform one ofthe boards underneath hum cracked and broke Jam watched ut fall A hundred ten feet to the ground was a long way He looked at the other boards around the spot where the one broke They were pretty bad He walked all the way around the platform but all the rest of the boards were nn good shape He started at once to repair the faulty boards and soon he had all of them out He looked down the hole to the ground It was a long drop Then he heard Pete s voxce callrng hum He walked around the hole and went downstairs What do you want Pete? Jim sand Just wanted to let you know that lunch us ready answered Pete sourly The two men ate rn silence and then Pete went outside Jim de clded to do some work on the side of the lnghthouse lt was mghtfall when Jrm realuzed that he had forgotten about the hole He went up to the platform to turn the light on He skrrted the hole and turned the lrght on Then he went down to tell Pete about the hole but Pete had already gone to bed Jrm decrded to wart untll mormng to tell hum then lt was three hours later when the bug light suddenly went out Jam knew rust what had happened Pete was up there and he had turned that light out Jnm also knew that he had to turn the lught back on because nf he dldnt a ship rnlght crash into the rocks He started slowly up the stanrs with a candle In hrs hand When he got to the top he started slowly toward the light As he came close to It he felt the forward part of has foot hut cur He leaped back In horror rememberlng the hole But as he dad so he lost the candle He walked on rn total dark ness untrl he finally came to the lrght As he fumbled to turn at on some thang hut hum from behrnd Jam knew that It was Pete on has back and struggled to free hemself Finally he got free and stumbled backward Then he remembered the hole He started to move back toward It and at the same trme Pete lunged Pete went flyung through the hole and plunged downward Jmm could hear Pete s body struke the cement below He turned on the lught and hurrred downstanrs pucked up Petes body and land It on a couch Then he went up to repair the dead wood . . . H 1 ' ' ' ll , . 11 - - 11 - 11 1 1 1 . . ,, 1 1 , . . . 11 11 ' - , . . 11 - 11 1 1 ' ' - 1 - 1 . . , . . . , . - 1 - 1 . , ' , . . 1 - , . . . , 1