Polytechnic High School - Caerulea Yearbook (Long Beach, CA)

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r m: scu- By Doris Aden Whnl cm I 5:31 In you A: you leave for amp today? Words that are true. To tell you that for you I think, I hope, I pray; And if' uvere mine to do I'd all: that heaven her guiding lay On end: for you. lIJIEIl Could i plan for you arighl With finite sight knnw ynur fish Your huppinen, u Then would I choose for yau All boyhood'n dreams kept bright, Life held sacred out of mndnen Ind udueu, Clearaeu of sight in Iom'l night, Mnnhood'l glory proved h'ue. A charm I'd ask, I. trauma, too. A fIiIh-winged Will: sinll-Ipeed O'er world. to you Tint Corr: meaning cure ' Suppiy your every mgd, Hi: voice through doubtful path: may lead, His love unfold.

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LITERARY You a Soldier. Poem .............. ' ............... Keep the Home Fire: Burning. Story A Mother. Poem .................. Anmial and Snpphira. Story, Under DiiEculkies. Poem ......... The Game Little American. Story Trmgreuun. Poem .. ldeall. Story ............... Land of Tired Eyes. Poem. A World. Poem ............. The Night God. Poem . Etching: ........................ Home F n'e- lnd Wn leh Fire: in Memonun ........................... CLASSES . First Line Defeme .. Second Line Defense . Field Artikiery Aviation Cprpl Light Infantry ..... Veler-m of Other Wm Music ....... Dramatic- .. Debate ... Athletic: Organization: ..... Eitorinl Firing Line ..R;ymand F'uher .......... Eva Hull' ..Rnymond Fisher Raymond Fisher

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meme wee. name 1 imam Bunmuei By Charles M. Purdy Private Larry faced Christmas morn- the celebration of that most wonderful event of over nineteen hundred years before. He wanted it to Ieem like Christmas, and yet. to him, it wasnit. He hreakfaated at 3 easy cafeteria on Hill ltteet, sitting near the front where he could look over across the ltteet at the Iunlit greenery of the perk. The rows of green, sober benches were tilled with crowds of more 10122: people: tired, sullen looking men, Ind faded, from, homeless women. Then the hay realized with a pang, . that others, perhaps, Were lonely too. I He sat looking a: if upon a play of the shabby tide of life, to strongly contralted with the groups of well-dreued, merry-faced people who passed along the sidewalk; on the edge of the equate; the very color scheme of the park itwlf-the green of the grass and the trees and shmbhery, and the riotous profulion 0! may- colored Howerh-it nil irritated him. HlviI-Ig Enished hi: meal, Larry paid his check and left the eltnhliehn meat, but not until the hright-eyed little girl at the cashier's desk had hidden him - cheery Merry Christmal. That, at least, helped out some. Ho cfoued the street mil enterei the square. Ragged little children were playing around the fountain with shrill cries Ind taunts. He wondered what kind of home: than rngamuflim had. Finding I vncant lent on one of the long row: of benches, Lmy wedged himself In between I gnunt-Iooking youth of nine- teen and I Hashily-dreued womn. Thinking, with a my smile. of that time-old axiom, Bird: of I feather Hock together, Larry tried to start a convenation with his neighhor, the 'youth of nineteen aummen. tWit: day, the Ioidier lad remarked with forced eheerfuimu. Uh-huh, ungrncioully returned the buy. It me u a nice day for Chriltmu, he awed, not dlunted by the other'l incl: of interut. Say, what's eltin ytIhWl returned the gaunt youth. Nice day for Chrhtmn-huh. Ye-h, nice duy for Chmtmu, In Inc without - dime te Imlh name. No ham, no nothizf. My 01' men got lure 'callle I' got canned put; school an' told me to go t' thunder. Nice CiIMIIIIl-Ililh! ' And the mhuppy youth dropped into an unhappy silence. I Thu