Ocean City High School - Caravel Yearbook (Ocean City, NJ)

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Carau The Log of The Caravel N September of l925 a shlp 'lhe Caraxel by name a huge masted schooner carrying a rew of over a hundred was christened and prepared to sail under the guidance of capable officers At first there was rather rough sailing as the entire crew was rnexperrenced however they soon learned their duties and the ship progressed rapidly But there was a battle namely halmg between the first and second ranks with the second vrctorlous After this peace rergned and the good ship contrnued to port On the next tr1p rn the year l926 we left port w1th much the same crew and ofhcers ThlS being the second voyage and eyerythmg not so new the trrp was more successful Once again there arose a battle between the crew of the Hrst voyage and the new crew but thls time we were victorious Financially a huge cargo was conveyed to port lnhe thlrd voyage Real seamen at last what a wonderful feeling Of course we weren t as proficient as the officers and mates but we were certainly more efiicrent than the new crew A great deal must be accomplished financ1ally th1s tr1p for we must give the first mates a dance and that meant hard work' But wrth such capable ofiicers and such an energetrc crew as we had we were xery successful and as a s1Un of our POSIIIOUS we recerved very beaut1ful rrnvs Ah Now comes the last and most important voyage the final return to our home port where each would become captarn of his own ship but before we graduated as captarns we planned to go on a pleasure trrp to Washrngton that IS if our cargoes were rich enough to perrmt And with the aid and cooperatron of all on board we reached Washlngton When we returned we were g1ven a dance that seemed as fine to all as ours had been the year prevrous Then came the final preparat1ons towards recervmg our certrficates of our captarncy how eager eseryone was for th1s rndeed is a great event but yet with all the eagerness and happrness there was a b1t of sadness Sadness at the thought of leavlng our ship the shlp that had taken us safely through four years of mingled pleasure and knowledge lhulu L I 9 - 9 el fl il f 1 1 1 11 V 1 ,- 1 1 - 1 e 1 1 1 1 e . 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1r 1 1 1 1 1 1 1. , e . - 1 1 1 1 ' 1 11 1 1 4. e e , . . 1 , . . y x. X X 1 1 I 1 1g 1 1 1 1 1 e . O , 1 1 1 1 1 . ' . . e 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 , . 1 1 1 1 e . 1 1' 1 1 1 1 Y . 4 , L . ' , .X . 1 1 1 1 4 1 ' '. e ' ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 ' 1 1 1 1 11 L o o' ' 1 1 1 1 ' ' 1 x . . 7 e xc , ' ' 1 1 1 1 ' ' , 4. . 1 1 4 1. 4 . , 1 1 1 1 e . Y 1 1 C, 1 , , 1 1 ' I 1 1 1 ' 1 1 r 1 1 e. e . .Se e'V?

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9 Carav In a few days my rnjurres not berng serrous I was able to srt up and talk over old trmes I learned that Bettre Egolf had made a name for herself as an elocutronrst and Mrt7r Selvagn was an athletrc coach at Swarthmore College John Kassab also followed the professron of an athletrc coach wrth pedagogy as a srde lrne The career of teachrng I found had profited by our frrends Artre Smrth Elrtha Paullrn Mary Donlevre Bertha Wrnkler and Helene Gohs Ernally my broken arms and fractured collar bones were healed to the extent that I was able to arrse from my bed and sally forth once more I stopped for a moment at the drug store across from the bus statron to rnhale a sundae before the trrp home The genral soda slrnger proved to be my old school mate Stanley 'Iownsend He rnformed me that Marvrn Lueke was a star baseball player for the Grants and Jack Assrante held the seat of French professor at Penn Notrce the new artrst s club Stanley sard I aurence Steelman has charge of all rts elevators There s a frrend of ours comrng out Eugene Chamberlarn So trs I observed and a few mrnutes later Erank Bateman and Mrldred Bo7arth also emerged And drd my eyes decerve me? No The slrm frgure of the grrl who stood talkrng to a tall red headed fellow was Marron Solly We certarnlv produced a flock of famous people from our class I e marked Yes rndeed rejorned Stanley Ereddre Mecouch has created qurte a sensatron as an attorney rn the Venable Torbert trral It seems that Dot rs accused of cheatrng rn a brrdge game and Blarr wants her month s wages back Jessre Haefner shrnes rn l1terary crrcles and Jack MacDonald rs one of the Phrladelphra Bulletrn s most valuable reporters Whrle I was carryrng on thrs absorbrng conversatron I drd not awake to the fact that trme was flyrng untrl the famrlrar sound of the engrne of the bus reached my ears Hastrly I left the drug store and caught the bus I saw Joe Wentherbee today sard Brll he s drrvrng a school bus be tween Ocean Crty and Sea Isle And Orazro De Santrs rs qurte reknowned as a chemrst It must be swell to drrve a bus I sard You can always learn so much Oh yes he ansvs ered Why only yesterday I drove two promrnent polrtrcal leaders to Washrngton They re thrnkrng of runnrng Bud MacCotter for presrdent Rrta Dever wrll probably etarn her posrtron as hrs prrvate secretary Her brother Eddre may be appornted Secretary of the Navy and Eddre Smrth wrll be soon exercrsrng hrs presrdentral experrence as Speaker of the House They tell me our prodrgy Howard Bradway rs busy burldrng brrdges Yes hes rncorporated wrth Wrllard Stetser Henry Shaw and George Austrn They re erectrng steel brrdges to connect Cape May and New York Eugene Bachran rs bass on the All Amerrcan Quartette I just learned from lourse Holmes She Helen Foster Ceal Hutchrnson and Ruth Shelley are workrng rn New York Lourst rs a dentrst s assrstant and the rest are secrctarres to promrnent brokers You probably remember Ralston Mrller He has a seat rn the stock exchange They call hrm the Wrzard of Wall Street We had reached home at last and I bade good bye to Brll and wended my humble way toward home My lrttle hall bedroom held for me a restful wel come rn all rts poor srmplrcrty Weary yet very contented I slrpped gratefully rnto my bed to dream once more of the days I had so happrly spent rn my beloved Alma Mater Thrrlq srx I 9 - el I Y , . . .. - - . ,. - .. ll I ' 'II ' ' . . , . H . H 1 f ' e . 4. - H - r rr - - , . - , . , . . . , ,, Y V Y ' YY ll ' YY ' 41 V V ' A6 YY li ' 7 , , . . .. . , . . . Y . . ,, . . . . . ,, 1. , - - - , Y , . , . , ' v - . . , 1 P . , - - .. - H v ' v Y 1 f v v V

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