Sacramento City College - Pioneer Yearbook (Sacramento, CA)

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Gold Infinitely cool and gleaming—gold That slips through men ' s fingers in dreams So that they long, on waking, to hold Its coolness, arid know its gleams. Gold—like jar ojj and glistening lodestones, Irresistibly drawing men on Through a wilderness marked with white bones To the goal: through night to bleak dawn. Strangely useless and jutile and vain—it is sold For so high a value, that we Must think of the price they have paid for—just gold; Must ask, what reward can it be? Five

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jP THE PIONEER f oreword a ;ELL a TALE OF BYGONE DAYS—of the search for M i n ice-bound Klondike, in stifling Death Valley, in 1 the dusty Australian desert, in the pot-holes of the Stanislaus; or recount the mad adventures of those who would rob of their golden treasures the palaces of the Incas, the temples of the Orient, the bullion-laden galleons of the Spanish Main—and eyes glisten and blood throbs. History and literature are full of gold: Midas, Croesus, the Golden Calf, the Cities of Cathay, the splendor of Haroun-al- Raschid, bloody pirates with “pieces-of-eight. ,, To find the Golden Fleece, Jason and his Argonauts sailed to unknown dangers; to search for the seven fabled cities of Cibola, Coronado suffered in our arid southwest; to dig for gold, men labored and died in our own mountains in the rush of ’49. Later another type of Pioneer followed in his ox-cart to find the subtler gold of fertile sail. He changed mushroom settlements of shacks to thriving cities and mighty capitals of commerce, while transmuting crude nuggets into the wealth of the West. Gold! Romance and glorious adventure, in all ages, the world over. Gold! The days of ’49 and of the Pioneer. Gold! The theme of the 1928 Pioneer of the Sacramento Junior College. Four

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nr ' , --—---—- v ] THE PIONEER Xs — Dreams of Time By Richard N. Greer OFTLY, the north wind whispers Through aspens bent with age; Slowly the hot sun withers The silent desert and sage. Time ever fast in its passage Marks the going and coming of life, While the ever increasing sorrow Reveals unceasing turmoil and strife. Pictures reveal the dreamer, Structures the artisan builder, While the ruins point to the failure And shifting sands to the sleeper. But life is unhesitant in passage, Fate is alone supreme: The north wind softly whispers, Dispelling our beautiful dream. Slowly the hot sun lowers, Slowly the daylight fades, Lighting all in glory With beautiful hues and shades. The silence heralds the twilight, The birds have made their nest, The sun’s last dying embers Gild the golden west. The monotonous chirp of the cricket, The darkness of a setting sun, Herald the coming of the morrow And mark this day as done. Charles Brown (Jan., 1905—Aug., 1927) Graduated June, 1927 Richard N. Greer (Sept., 1909—Nov., 1927) Entered Sept., 1927