Lakewood High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Lakewood, NY)

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ef LITERARY ef Concerning the literary geniuses of L. H. S., a great deal could be said. Among the most prominent are Dorothy Terrill and Bertie Anderson and Win- nie Peake. Early in the fall there was a contest for the best essay on Wash- ington in conjunction with the Washington Bi-Centennial to be held. Many of the History C Class and English students competed. It was a nation wide contest conducted by the states and a few months after he competition the papers announced the winners of the state and Albertais name was one of the honorable mention. ' Also in conjunction with the Washington Bi-Centennial was a prize ora- tion contest-in which Dorothy competed-her essay was said to have been the best in matter of composition and research work involved. In fact, all dur- ing the year, her written work has been of highest Commendation. Every year at commencement, there is a prize given for the best essay written during English IV. This year, Miss Cooper says she found three es- says so deserving of the prize that it was next to impossible to finally decide on a winner. But there had to be one'-so we have printed in the following pages the best essay of the best. Congratulations to the winner! There was stiff competition, we assure you. C. A., '32 RUDYARD KIPLIN G There is a poem of Kipling's, The Two-Sided Man,', in which he very aptly describes himself. The first verse is quoted- Much I owe to the Lands that grew- More to the Lives that fed- But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides to my head. This first appealed to me as a rather clever but nonsensical bit of verse. It was also original and new. I have since derived a new meaning-no doubt the one Kipling had in mind when he wrote it. Born and brought up as he was in India, he is essentially British. These are the two, English and Indian,

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30 THE CARDINAL - 1932 Popularity Contest Boy Girl Most Representative of L. H. S. ...... james Gardner Virginia Stafford Most Popular ................................................ Everett Dailey Mary Gardner Best Athlete ............ ............. W esley Burke Jeanette Freed Most Studious e........... ............. H ugh Clark Dorothy Terrill Best Sport ............ ............. D uncan Simons Mary Gardner Best Looking ......... Most Quiet ............... Most Attractive ...................... ............ Most Sophisticated Most Talkative .........,. ............ Most Stubborn ........... ...,......... Most Dignilied ....... Most Friendly .............. ............. Most Convrncing ............. ............ Arthur Swanson Clark Elial Catlin Best Dressed .....,........... ............. .Richard Nichols William McConnell Everett Dailey Most Romantic ............... ............. .Donald Falldine Gilbert johnson William McConnell Fred Anderson .Winston Peake Most Modern .............. ............. E lial Catlin Most Original ..............., ............. I ack Smith Nearest The Altar james McGraw Biggest Flirt ................. ............. P aul Coe Biggest Clown ........... ............. J ack Smith Most Modest ............ Best Natured ......... Cutest ................... Snappiest .......... Happiest .......... Raymond Cornell Millard Wilson john Crumb Paul Coe Millard Wilson Helen Freed Louise Swanson Evelyn Bemus Virginia Stafford Josephine Van Vleck Lillian Peterson Elizabeth Madden Beth Borgerding Ruth Few Florence Gron Alberta Anderson Mary Coe Neola Fry Ora Waterman Mary Coe Alberta Meyers Louise Swanson Florence Gron Mary Frances Isbell Lillian Peterson De Etta Ogilvie

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32 THE CARDINAL - 1932 sides of his nature. He is a realist and romanticist, and a writer of verse and of stories. At first one thinks of Kipling's first name, Rudyard, as of Indian derivation but it is said that it was chosen by his aunt from the little lake of Rudyard where his father's and mother's romance started. His father was an artist and the curator of the British East Indian Museum at Lahore fthis upon moving there not long before Rudyard was born.j Being an artist Mr. Kipling has modeled all of the illustrations in his son's books in clay which are then photo- graphed for the plates. His mother was also a very talented woman whom her husband fquite naturallyj called the wittiest woman in India. Her sisters have married famous men or have had famous sons. Kipling is a cousin to Stanley Baldwin of the present British government. Thus many famous names are linked up with that of Kipling. Rudyard learned Hindustani before he learned English. But this was quite natural for his nurses were native. Being able to understand and speak these native dialects his bedtime stories were no doubt tales of Indian folklore, tradi- tions and ideals. Besides being taught by his nurses of this Indian culture he quickly learned from his Indian friends for habits of observation were early formed. Many of his habits have Indian origin. It was only by his father's command that he finally learned English. But by this time he had become heir to one of the world's oldest and richest civilizations. In learning the English language, ideals and customs he inherited another of the world's old civiliza- tions. Kipling was sent to school in England with his sister. There he was with his aunt a good part of the time who read much to him from the Bible. This colors his poetry now and then. The book, Stalky and Co. is a story of Kip- ling's college life at United Services College. An army career was expected from most boys who attended it but Kipling was entirely different in respect to other boys. He took his pleasure in reading and in other literary activities. He had read an enormous number of books for even then schoolmates said he read five or six lines at a time yet thoroughly getting the meaning of the text. He edited the school newspaper while he was there also. It was not his ex- ceptional brightness which brought him to the foreground but his enthusiasm and capacity for work. As early as this he wrote a number of poems printed now and then in an obscure corner of the newspaper. Finished with college he returned to India to a journalistic career being given a position on a paper in Bombay. There is something of the journalistic attitude in his works even those written after he left the newspapers. He expresses popular opinions and writes of the appealing things of the moment's interest. Many of his first poems were published in the newspaper he worked for as filler. Stories were put out in cheap editions in India but in America and Britain he long had a hard time finding a publisher. Finally an American publisher in London agreed to put