Sanford Preparatory School - Chrysalis Yearbook (Hockessin, DE)

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MEIIAEE ROBERT W. MINGUS WE, the class of nineteen thirty-seven, the first graduating class of Sunny Hills School, are about to enter a new era in life, going into a life of many adventures. We have obtained our formal schooling, and we have also received a very practical education. We have changed from our former mediocre way of living to a dynamic, forceful life, which we must always reflect and improve in our future years. This knowledge we have stored away, and since we have learned to live a real life, we are prepared as well as possible for the years to come. Many people, however, are inclined to portray the world as a dark and dull world, filled with one struggle after another. Their world seems to be one of darkness, dullness, and struggle because they themselves make it so. We make our own heaven, and we make our own world. Let us, then, build up around ourselves the most desirable world, the world of peace and happiness. As we depart for a few or many years, let us always remember thc familiar quotation, Those who do the most for others are the happiest. Many believe that in order to be happy one must have certain material possessions. But to be really happy one doesn't need these things, for as one helps others he becomes happy, and as he helps others he helps thc world. Let us, then, since we are the first Senior Class, prove ourselves worthy of the school, and show our appreciation through our deeds.

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1937 CLASS l'I IITUIQY WILBERT B. SWIFT AND HARRY M. KELSEY IN June, nineteen thirty-five, the class of thirty-seven consisted of one girl, Barbara Kelsey, who had just arrived and was in the process of unpacking. CTime marches on IJ The class in September consisted of two boys and two girls, the three newcomers being, in the order of their arrival, Bill Stewart, Alice D. Simmons, and Bill Swift, who were also in the process of unpacking. This was the entire class in its junior year. It must be recorded here that within half an hour of their assembling, in spite of being total strangers, the members of the class were found dancing together like old friends. During the first year the history of the class coincides with the history of all the upper school. It had no special activities as a class, but participated in athletics, dances, dramatics, and the like with the rest of the student body. BK, as Barbara soon came to be known, and Stewie, ne Bill Stewart, found out for the first time the joys of organized sports, Swifty, heretofore Bill Swift, discovered that study could be interesting, Alice found that gardening was great sport, all found new activities which attracted them and gave them a wider outlook on life. Many memories of that first year linger in the minds of those seniors who were here. There was the time that Swifty climbed the sapling at the picnic and swayed above the heads of the picnickers, who were certain that the tree would snap and drop him into their laps, there was the time Alice and Barbara, dressed in old clothes, got into the back of the station wagon, thinking it was bound for Hockessin, and ended up in Wilmington instead, when Swifty put all the shingles on his chicken-coop upside down, when BK locked Dotty out on the fire escape by mistake, when Swifty was swept off the horse, Hickory, by a passing low-hanging tree, when BK and Alice romped all over the hills playing Antelope and Stay at Home . . . in such a condition was the senior class in its junior year.