Portsmouth Abbey School - Raven Yearbook (Portsmouth, RI)

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As they forged further into the interior, the barge, leaking like a sieve, began to draw more water than the river had, and depite Walter O'Hearn's valiant efforts to bail it out with his modern mechanized buckets, it ran aground. While Bob Healy, expert canal digger, planned a way to dig the barge off the bottom, Nick Childs, of ornothology fame, travelled into the nearby jungle to study some birds and draw them. When the signal was given that the boat was free, all hands returned, covered with mud and without washing facilities. Sud- denly, a great red ape swung out of the trees with a sack of soap slung over his shoulder, dropped some soap flakes on the deck like manna, and swung away again. Not until he had disappeared did the crew realize that it was Bernie Flynn, returned to his natural habitat. Finally, they reached a clearing in the jungle where there were fields of sugar cane. On the dock, noticeably fatter, was Chief Phil Wakini of the Um- bomboogie Pygmy Tribe. He made the stay very pleasant, even though he did not tell Dr. Murphy where Edgar was. SF SF 56 S6 After their return to Caracas, the party agreed that the expedition had been a success. Fenton Rernick had made some valuable recordings of Voodoo music which he would sell in the U. S., and they knew where Edgar was-Wakini war fatter! A. M. ACKNUWLEDGEMENTS . . To Mr. Henry C. Wilkinson, for his ever- atient attention to su Uestions and his constant dili ence in gb 8 printing both the Yearbook and the Raven. To Miss Margaret Cummings, for assisting the Business Board of the Raven in securing mailing lists. To Mr. John Murray, for his assistance to the Business Board of the Raven in juggling the books. To Fred Switzer, 52, who contributed enormously to the Photography Board without even being on the Yearbook staff.

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FRANK N. GUSTAFSON 81 SONS INC. B U I L D E R S PROVIDENCE 6, RHODE ISLAIND Compliments of A F R IE N D