Knox School - Rose Leaves Yearbook (Nissequogue, NY)

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SENIOR PATRONS cLAss OF I9424 MR. AND MRS. JAMES BARRINGTON ..... MRS. J. C. BIRDLEBOUGH .............. Meriam St., Lexington, Mass. State St., Phoenix, N. Y. COL. AND MRs. G. CouN'rs .........,........ ..........,.....,... Q uarters 107, West Point, N. Y. MR. AND MRS. CARL DE GANAHL ,.................,.. Glen Cairn Arms Apt., Trenton, N. J. MR. AND MRS. CHARLES B. GILBERT .........,..... 270 Washington St., Norwich, Conn. MR. AND MRS. T. C. Hr-:1sEY ............. .............. 3 72 Granville Rd., Newark, Ohio MR. AND MRS. R. OA. HILL ......,................ .............. T he Anchorage, Rye, N. Y. MR. AND MRS. EDMUND H. KEILER ............ ..,........ 1 33 Elton St., Providence, R. I. MR. AND MRS. ROGER L. KNUTSSON ............... ............,,.......,. E dgebrook, Rockford, Ill. DR. AND MRS. E. A. MARKUSH .................. ........... 7 7 Gifford Ave., Jersey City, N. J. Dr. AND MRS. AGUSTAVE NEUBER ............ ............. 1 210 Union St., Schenectady, N. Y. MR. AND MRS. J. J. NEM'BERRY ........... ................................................. R idgewood, New Jersey MR. AND MRs. A. N1ERENBERc ..................... 239 Central Park West, New York, N. Y. Col.. AND MRS. GEORGE V. W. IQOPE ........... ......................................... C amp Claiborne, La. MR. AND MRS. ANTON H. REDLICH .....,.................. 56 Moran Pl., New Rochelle, N. MR. AND MRS. CHARLES U. SAvoYE ..................... 350 Central Ave., Hackensack, N. J. MR. AND MRS. WALKER ............ ........... 2 52 So. 4th Ave., Ilion, N. Y. 86 Y.

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April Twenty-Fifth . It is generally agreed that the sunporch looks like Coney Island. About three o'clock on any ol these sunny days it is impossible to step on it without treading on some upturned face or tripping over a bottle of olive oil. Am l getting burned? is a question asked at least every Hve minutes and if a wisp of white cloud happens to wander on the horizon, a great hue and cry is heard. Eskimo pies are now being served on the back porch. May First' The day began at six with a smothered hushing of whispers outside our door. jumping out of bed, we scurried to the door and there, hanging by a gay ribbon and all done up in paper lace, was the Fifth Form's gift of hyacinths and pansies. Senior day had begun. We couldn't go back to bed: so we donned our shorts and made several unsuccessful attempts with the lipstick before we looked sufhciently blatant. Eight o'clock found us peering out of the senior parlor doors at a black sky streaked with orange and saying lt can't happen here, not on Senior dayl But it did, it poured all through the picnic at Ferry Springs. By the time we got there we were soaked. Nothing daunted, we hung up our stuff by the fire and took turns frying the hamburgers with Liz Marsh as the big chief cook. After a lovely time of stuffing ourselves and singing songs, with Phelps to make us sound right, we scattered about the countryside. The sun came out eventually and made it a lovely day. 'Tonight after dinner at Sherry's we went to the movies, and now amid last minute revelry we are waiting for the ten-thirty deadline that will mark the end of a perfect day. It will be a long time before we forget this day. lt is drawn into our minds in a series of disjointed but indelible impressions. Phelps in a plaid shirt singing while she stacked up the coffee cups at the picnicg Steve relaxed against the fire- place just watching while we sang, Robin perched on the table edge, blue jeans rolled up just enough, her arms hugging a knee drawn up to her chin, Pumpy in a sweat shirt, her hair wet and dripping, those little trees scattered here and there over the countryside, laden with white blossoms now: bicycling down the wet road with white petals clinging to the black pavements and lying in rain- soaked patterns under the treesg a glimpse of a bluebird fluttering among budded branchesg the recurring glint and sparkle of raindrops on an evergreen as the sun shot from a bank of cloudsg jonquils and daffodils growing in clumps of color dripping wet but just a little ragged from the storm, the smell of the air as it blew olf the lake, a warm smell of sand touched with green, and now and then a wispy fleeting whiff of blossoms opening somewhere in the sung birds pricking holes in the day and pouring drops of song into each: Harriet walking down the road in her red raincoat, and Heisey almost hidden under that nor'easter but grinning from ear to ear and chuckling as only Heisey can. We're going to miss the kids next year. Our feet hurtg and we don't like to admit it, but we're sleepy. May Ninth Tennis balls bopping back and forth on the courts from Eve on every morn- ing . . . the crew shells sliding away from the boat house every afternoon . . . the effect of the sunporch showing in people's faces . . . spring uniform . . . the foyer door always open . . . this is Spring at Knox. May Fifteenth The Lower School Garden Party was Alice in Wonderland. We ate ice cream afterwards and lingered around on the back porch long enough to be reasonably late for study hall. Only about three weeks more. It doesn't seem possible that today we sent out our invitations to graduation. So many years, and now sud- denly only three weeks. May Twenty-third The apple trees near the stable look like puffs of cotton candy blown white today. Blackbirds sang down by the stream, and flags Huttered from the brush jumps. The Spring Show was lots of fun. The girls looked marvelous in their stocks, derbys, and polished boots. The horses shone in the sunlight and muscles rippled as they LOOK the jumps. It is alumnae weekend and the song contest is perfect. We almost wept as each form turned and sang us a farewell song. ' May Thirtieth Despite our longing to be out dabbing our feet in some stream and picking wild flowers, finals began yesterday and we must resign ourselves to blue books and study. . June Fourth The trunks are gone, but a smell of camphor still lingers in the halls. Our room is bare and we are wondreing how we are ever going to cram the graduation dress into that small suitcase. Parents, aunts, and uncles have been arriving all day. The building is Hlled with bustle and commotion. Lantern Parade and Glee Club were lovely. Sometime we are coming back just to stand on the porch and see what the Lanterns really look like. June Fifth Class Day went by in such a whirl we can only remember bits right nowg the crew race this morning and the leaping excitement as we came down the lake and heard the cheering on the shore grow louder and louder. Luncheon, awarding of Dixie Cups, the consciousness of our new Class Day dresses, the heat. Class Day exercises against the background of lawn dappled with tree shadows and the blue lake beyond. Tonight the dance, and now we are tired, already a little sad, and very excited. June Sixth We walked up the aisle in the assembly hall knowing each familiar step so well and yet feeling that we had never done it before. We remember the flowers we carried trembled a little in our hands at the end. A listless breeze ruflled the curtains during the address and the Faculty looked unfamiliar in their black robes. The rest is a blur of rushing up stairs and locking the suitcase, of weeping, and hugging people, of glancing out of a window and longing to stay and look at the lake just once more. Tears and goodbyes and the Final trip up the driveway, the pillars suddenly hidden by the trees and the trees blurring with our tears. 85

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ALUMNAE NOTES ' The alumnae notes this year are comprised entirely of marriage announce- ments as follows: HELEN ELIZABETH NEALE, '33 MAR JORY MITCHELL, '38 .......,........... HELEN MAXWELL, '34 .............,.. , SHIRLEY MARRIN, '38 ..,........ MARY ELLA MEAD, '38 ,....... PHILIPPA C. KELLEY, '3,7 ...,.... BARBARA KORFF ..... .....,................ . .. Albert Mahan ...........John Edwin Wing, Jr. .....,.............James A. Schuster ....,...........Sylvan Buchman .......................Wal1ace Baker W. Young . ................. Edward W. C. Russell ALISON LITTELL, '36 .....,,..........,...... ........... E dward DeLancey Palmer MARGARET F. HEILEMAN, .......... ........,..........,..................... G eorge Mayo CLARA NANCY HAGE, '39 ....,....... ..,............................... H erbert Grass BERNICE HERRON, '37 .......,.,..,.... ................. A lbert E. Cacy EUGENIA HUBBARD NIXON .......... SALLY HAMILTON GRASS, '36 EDITH MILDRED JOHNSON, '40 JANE FITE, 38 ,...................,..............,......... CLARA FLAVELLE, '38 .........,.....,........ MARY FAHERTY, '39 ............ EVA DUKE, '34 ................,,........ BIARIAN CHANTER, '36 ......,..... . ELIZABETH COIT, '40 ...,.,.................... ANN CARVER, '37 ..,....,............................. RUTH ELSIE BIRGBAUER, '39 ELEANOR B-RIDGMAN, '39 ............... -IULIET SEELY BACoN, '38 . ...,....... DoRIs BAAS, '39 ................................ MARY LoUIsE PECHMAN, '39 ...........Mark Honeywell ,....5...............George Phibbs ...............Gordon Manning Schaller Lane ...............Danniel Kennedy, Jr. .......................-lose de Gonzalez ...............Colvin E. Wright Fish ...................Samuel Asper ..............Adolph Schreck ............Edward Rodgers ...........................CramptorI Trainer MARY REISINGE8, '37 ....................... ............. A lbert Oelschlaeger, jr. MARIAN JANE SEXTON, '35 ............... . CYRENA KEAN SNEATH, '38 ............ ELIZABETH DENTON ,.,...,... ., ..... ..,........ KATHRYN MELLCR ........................ MARGARET SMITH, '37 ........... ARLINE THIEME .................... ANNA TOOTLE, '36 ....,.... ANITA TUVIN, '38 ...................... MARGARET WHITNEY ..............,... CATHERINE L. WALLACE ....... BARBARA WILLSON, '39 .............,.. VIRGINIA WEYENBERG, '36 , ,... . MARIE BREMER, '40 ...................... MARGARET LANG, '34 .....,..... FAITH COLGAN, '39 ............ MARIE NAYLCR ........................... FRANCES ATHERTCN, '34 ......... MARY BUTLER, '30 ........,........................ ELIZABETH KAMPMANN, '37 JEAN KEILBACH, '39 .,.................... Srmth ...................,.....Wi11iam jew II Woods .................,....FrederiCk Gouge ..................John Taylor .............Chester Baum ..,.............Igor Buketoff .....................Arthur jones .....................Charles Warren ............Herbert Schlechter ..........George Diethelrn ...............WI1lIam Shurtleff ..............Andrew Rebare .................Robert Blatz ..................Haro1d Harbo ,...........Desmond Carrig ..........................-Iames Kuhns Payson ..............Frederic Birmingham ............................Joseph Oakley ..,.............Thaddeus Brown James Hill