Rice Avenue High School - Unitas Yearbook (Girard, PA)

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The Log of Crew Number 1930 of the Good Ship Union PERSONNEL OF THE CREW IN 1929 Captain ..... .... E llen Wolfe First Mate .... .... I olm Smith Secretary ,... .... D orma Richardson Treasurer ........... Leland Battles And a crew of hftyfseven worthy sailors. On a dismal, depressing day in September of 1926 two groups of inexperienced, trembling, mariners-cast off from their old associations and the safe and quiet harbor of grammar school- entered the perilous and unchartered waters of higher learning in two small ships, The Battles and 'LThe Girard Township . The two cringing, fearful groups of novices were cast into the galleys by the supreme will of the calloused powersfthat fwere, where we remained, the butt of all jokes, the bearer of all burdens, for over a year. At this time, after much delay, a great deal of diplomatic parley and exchange of views, the two small, wornout ships were exchanged for one large, seaworthy, mammoth, The Union , which continued on our former, now triumphant, course. The crew was strengthend and incited to higher endeavors than ever before by the magnificence of the new craft and the new friend- ships formed with the other crew. For most of the crew entered the new life with eager expectation, a few with fear and trepidation. But after a few short weeks all hands joined in shouting the praises of the ship L'Union , proclaiming it as many times hner than either old one, no matter how much we loved the old crafts. In the second year of our journey we were allowed to come on deck and breathe once again the clear fresh air of freedom from fear Cand, incidentally, to scrub the decks for the older, wiser, sailorsj We are now completing the third year of our apprenticeship, but one must not imagine that our three years before the mast have been as dull as this account would indicate for the crew showed themselves a ine time, they feted themselves to a number of parties and a sleighride Cstrange proceedings for shipfboard, but why mention thatb. To raise money the sailors held a food sale and a benefit movie and also gathered old papers and magazines which they sold to the junk dealer. As we near the end of the third year of our struggle, we all feel that we have really attained something, however vague and although we still have a long, hard, path before us, we are thankful that more than half, the unknown, strange, fearful, half of our Odessy is completed and sad that more than half the unparalleled joys are past. Now we must prepare for the last year of our cruise, prepare to finish our journey with colors flying, cannons booming and the cheers of our friends ringing in our ears, when we also, as the others before us, enter the world next spring, fresh from our everftofbefremembered sea voyage, the happiest cruise of anyones life-schoolfdays. ELLEN WOLFE. Page 'l'wentyfF0ur