Lansdowne High School - Lahian Yearbook (Lansdowne, PA)

 - Class of 1937

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Page 11 text:

WITHIN THE CIRCLE lies the building—its severe lines softened by a snowfall—that houses our Little America.

Page 10 text:

FOREWORD Life in the making. Science advances Little America is founded . . . re-established as South Pole suburb . while scientific specialists explore the Ice Age in Antarctica . with funds from Big America . . . where America-in-Miniature flourishes in thousands of towns . . . where lives are charted and courses set. Hence, [a Memory Cruise to a microcosmic world created with the same painstaking care as the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. May it meet with the same success. Set the same compass for Lansdowne High, a little school in a little suburb of West Philadelphia. Little America is just ahead!



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LITTLE AMERICA ANTARCTIC CIRCLE ANTARCTIC CIRCLE. Dec. 28, 1928.—Em-peror Penguin ... of the F. F. A s—First Families of Antarctica—welcomes the City of New York and the Eleanor Bolling ... as they sail into the Bay of Wales. Little America is founded January 1, 1929 . . and construction of the base begins. Conquest by air continues . . . but the sun sinks for the long winter night on April 19th . . . and rises again on August 24th. The Admiral conquers the South Pole by air on November 28th . . . and the First Byrd Antarctic Expedition returns to Big America in 1930. Four years later . . . the Jacob Ruppert and the Bear of Oakland ... of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition reaches the Bay of W ales. The South Pole suburb is found buried in snow and ice . . . with only the radio towers, a couple of roofs, and a stack showing . . . but the lights and telephones in the “Capitol of the Unknown” are still in working order . . . and experts begin the Exploration of the Ice Age. The “Bear of Oakland” alongside a mountainous section of Shelf Ice in the Bay of Wales where a ship can get nearer the South Hole than at any other known place. Hep rod need hv Special Permission of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition ★ 8 ★

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