Newtown High School - Newtowner Yearbook (Elmhurst, NY)

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After Jim, came Joe, Bob, Jack, Pete, Henry, Butch, and Frank. All in four weeks. Sitting on that raft I vowed that if I were saved, I would never break another heart again. Just at that moment, I saw a ship on the horizon. I waved frantically and after a while a boat was let down and rowed over to me. Forgotten was my chaste promise to God, out came my lipstick and mirror-an officer and the cutest sailor were my rescuers. By the time we had reached the harbor, I had given the sailor my name, address, and telephone number, and had extracted a promise from him to write me twice a week, and to come to see me if his boat ever docked near my house. I was fifteen theng now I am sixteen, and so much older and wiser. GLADYS E. DEFEO MOTHER NATURE'S PROGRAM When summer's gentle breeze Stops whisp'ring in my ear, And cool refreshing mornings Hint that fall will soon be here, The chipmunks and the squirrels Gather stores of nuts and food, For the cold and dreary winter days When shrubs and trees are nude. The streams stop their babbling song, The days grow short and the nights grow long. Then colder and ever colder The winds begin to blow, So southward go the robins To avoid the winter's snow. But soon when winteis over, And the sun shines warm again, Spring comes-and then the summer To inspire the author's pen. The cycle is perpetual, Its end is still unknown, But then again, to whom Has its beginning e'er been shown? OLIVE GATELY 24

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ADRIFT THE SMALL, battered raft floated on the torpid, green sea. A white bird flew over it, and the sun's rays were hot and blinding. A miserable, half-starved figure sat on the raft. I was that figure. At the time, I was thinking of a strawberry sundae. It was so hot. I tempted myself with the thought of eating the sundae, and of the ice cream sliding, cool and delicious, down my throat. Then I began to pray. I pleaded with, and made promises to God, if only He would deliver me from this horrible situation. I was hungry from the soles of my feet to the roots of my hair. I wondered how my shoelaces would taste. Stretching out on the raft, I began to think of my past life. What a life! I thought of my little sister, and wished that I hadn't pushed her off the roof in a fit of temper. I hoped, that when I was dead, she would forgive me for all the things that I had done to her. Especially the time I put her head in the rain barrel, and she almost drowned. I remembered the time that I went to my first date. It was with a gawky, red headed boy with too many teeth, a million freckles and an annoying way of stuttering. His name was Bertram. Poor Bertram. He took me to a dance and introduced me to his best friend, Tom-I went home with Tom. Then, after two weeks and three days of an ardent courtship from Tom CI was thirteen years oldj, I fell madly in love with his older brother, Jim. Jim was twenty-four and was going with a girl his own age, but I was daunt- less. I hounded him day and night, never letting his weary eyes rest from the sight of me. I didn't get any place, so I changed my tactics and avoided him entirely. fln wars they always change their tactics to confuse the enemy.j I guess he missed me, because a weary week later he came over to my house. He was really delivering my mother's groceries, but I never doubted that he had come just to see ,fx EE l me. He left in a hurry, but I - ' , 'fi felt that it was from bashful- If fif . W f il ffffwg, j ness. All boys in love are H ,HQI utuyh ff- bashful. 3Zi5i57i'i ...Rx x ...M After two months of ,,,.,..e, - M . worry and work, I finally wx tricked him into asking me out. ...ig , QF' - . We went to the movies. It was ' 7 -:I N iiirfw so romantic. I went steady Ik fo 4'wiQW fQXfX'4kfw 0 ' with him for twelve days and Q? 2 JAM 533, then tired of his company. P7 if Ah, fickle youth! 23

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