Lyman Hall High school - Singer Chronicle Yearbook (Wallingford, CT)

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THE CHRONICLE 19 MY HOBBIES M y main hobby is nature study, and in nature study I major in trees. I have made several collections of different kinds of wood, leaves, and buds. I am now working on a seed collection, and along with this I have a small nursery for raising seedlings from the seeds I have gathered. In making my wood collections I have had to walk quite a distance for specimens. In one afternoon I may walk ten miles just looking for wood or leaves. W bile in Maine last summer, I walked miles through the woods, watching for new specimens. I am never afraid of getting lost, as 1 have a good sense of direction, and by being observant it is easy to find my way back. I have as many as one hundred and forty-five different tree specimens. This collection represents wood from Maine and Florida and as far west as California. rhe best way to exhibit a wood collection is to get your pieces of wood two inches in diameter and about seven inches long. It is best to cut different angles to show the grain. In collecting leaves they may be pressed between newspaper to dry them out and then mounted on paper. I think it is best to mount leaves in a notebook, as they can easily be found, and they do not take up too much room. Buds should l e collected near the end of winter. By dipping them into melted parafline they can be preserved and then mounted on a cardboard. I also like chopping and sawing, which is good exercise. I am experimenting with axes to see which type I can chop with best. The axes 1 have range in weight from three to four pounds. I also have learned how to hang an axe so I can get the most out of it. 1 am in the l-H Club, and by exhibiting my nature collections at 4-H fairs and being in chopping and sawing contests I have made my hobbies worthwhile. As I am able to chop and saw fairly well, I got several jobs after tin hurricane. 1 feel I have gained much of value by spending some time each day on my hobbies. Donald Tufts, ’.‘19 A SLIGHT MISTAKE At home alone Ruth took a book and curled up in her favorite chair fora comfortable evening of reading. The chair in which she was sitting was opposite the fire-place, over which hung a large mirror, wliich reflected the doorway behind her. Ruth read for a long time. As she happened to glance up, she saw in the mirror a man who seemed to be slouched over. She tried to scream but the scream froze in her throat. As she watched the man, lie toppled over with a crash and lay very still. In order to get out of the room, Ruth had to pass him; so to make sure that Ik was unconscious, she threw her book at him, hitting the still figure in the head. Ruth heard a crunch and was sure that she had cracked his skull. She rushed out of the house and bumped into her father, who was coming up the walk. She told him her story, and he hurried into the

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18 THE CHRONICLE “Toot toooot” shrieked the whistle as the train came around the bend. This time it carried two other girls to the big city to make their fortunes. What has life in store for them? Like Chris and Joyce, will they add their names to the list of small town girls, who by their courage and perseverance, make good? Helen McCartin ’41 GOOD BOYS Cliff and Jerry were very young when their parents died and left them orphans. It's a 81131110,“ said the neighbors, but none of them offered to help. Finally, Widow Grimms heard about them and went directly to the orphanage where the two boys had been placed. After all the papers had been drawn and signed, Widow Grimms and the boys left the orphanage for home in her big limousine. Years passed and the boys were given everything they desired; they in turn reciprocated Ma Grimms’s kindness and motherly affection with true loyalty and obedience. After graduation from high school, they entered college. Their first two years were very successful; both stood high in their classes. Then they fell intb bad company with boys who lived high and who spent a great deal of money in gambling. Every week they sent home for money, but Ma Grimms thought nothing of it. Holidays she spent alone with thoughts of her two boys. “Yes, it certainly is too bad. She had such faith in those boys,” said the nurse to herself. Ma Grimms was lying in a hospital bed, suffering from a severe shock that she had received that morning when she happened to pick up the newspaper, and saw on the front page a picture of Cliff and Jerry, who had been captured with four other fellows for the murder of a wealthy gambling-house keeper. After this story appeared in the newpaper, Cliff and Jerry were cleared of any connection in the episode. They decided to go home and explain everything to Ma Grimms. On the train they read of her illness and went directly to the hospital to ask to be admitted to her room. The nurse informed them that her condition was critical and that she had been calling for them. Big tears came to Ma Grimms’s eyes when she saw her boys at her bedside. As the tears rolled down her cheeks, her eyes slowly closed and her last words were “I knew they were good boys.” Marion O’Connell, 39 MY FAYOBITE PET He may be a little puppy So funny and so fat, I'd still prefer him any day To a funny old house-cat. White or black, gray or brown, With no collar nor pretty bows, It makes no difference anyway, For he’s someone’s pal—he knows. Ruth Shookie, ’39

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20 THE CHRONICLE house, thinking that the man must be seriously injured. As he came close to the figure, he gasped, “Why, that's my coat!” 1 le picked up the figure, laughing so loudly that Ruth came closer. What she saw made her laugh, too. She saw a wire form that her mother had borrowed from a neighbor so that she could fit a dress that she was making. Mrs. Jones had put her husband’s coat and hat over this form so that if anybody came into the house, the wire form would not be seen so quickly. Emma Okolotowicz, ’40 EXCHANGES We have been glad to receive the following exchanges and have placed them in our school library for everyone to enjoy: The Trade, Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois Windham Croakings, Windham High School, Willimantic, Connecticut Lasell News, Lasell Junior College, Auburndale, Massachusetts The Chanticleer, Willimantic State Teachers’ College, Willimantic, Connecti-i cut The Recorder, Teachers’ College of Connecticut, New Britain, Connecticut The Tufts Weekly, Tufts College, Medford, Massachusetts Wetomhis, Milford High School, Milford, Connecticut The Arnold Collegian. Arnold College, New Haven, Connecticut Margray, Woodrow Wilson High School, Middletown, Connecticut Hilltop Hubbub, Connecticut School for Boys, Meriden, Connecticut Boston University News, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts The Garnet, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine The Emblem, Lewis High School, Southington, Connecticut The Lookout, Derby High School, Derby, Connecticut