Sanford Preparatory School - Chrysalis Yearbook (Hockessin, DE)

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and the baseball and track seasons. At the Gavel Banquet Frankie Pickering and Randy Clark were chosen to succeed BK and Stewie, and after many a headache each senior prepared and delivered a speech for the occasion. In the second half of the year the Class definitely organized and elected Bob, Presidentg BK, Secretary, and Harry, Treasurer. As a class some of the activities participated in were paying dues, drawing up a school seal, designing a school flag, dining at Aunt Margaret's, designing a class pin, planning the Commencement, and writing The Chrysalisfl Memories of the senior year indicate that the sanity of the Class didn't improve much with time: there was the snipe hunt that Alice participated in after finding out that it was not cruelty to animals to hunt snipe, Swifty and his remarkable record for broken shafts on the farm 3' ' we First row-Jean Harrington, Jane Kelsey, Marion Sawin, Katherine Roberts, Barbara Beranger, Marika Daugherty, Anna Virginia Bush, Minerva Norris. Second row-Ann Lacey, Marjorie Walker, Lydia Williams, Hannah Mitchell, Virginia Steins, Betty Harrington, Virginia Daugherty. Top row-Dorothy Kehaya, Barbara Kelsey, Alice D. Simmons, Alice Thayer, Ann Rogers, Gwinnett Jones, Julca Stad.

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In June the first Gavel Banquet was held. At a farewell dinner at the end of the year Mother unexpectedly made it known that she was going to present a gavel to the boy and girl of the junior class who was most worthy of the ideals of the school, who were to take the responsibility of the boys and girls in their senior year. The gavel, amid many cheers, was presented to BK and Stewie. Came the summer time, and came September once more, and the senior class became the Senior Class. After serving as a junior counsellor ih the summer camp, Bob Mingus decided to remain in the school with the Class. A week before school began Harry Kelsey, BK's brother, joined the gang. The last member to arrive was Lillian Scarborough, who came in February. Thus the Class was completed to its seven members. The high-lights of the senior year included the football season, with Stewie the old standby at center, Swifty in the backfield, and Bob and Harry at guard and tackle, winning two games and losing three, the hockey season with Barbara and Alice as forwards and backs, the hayrideg Mother's birthday, the Hallowe'en party, Phil's birthday, the Christmas plays, The Land of Heart's Desire, and Monsieur Boulinard g Eleanor's birthdayg the Spring Formal, the Easter play, She Stoops to Conquer g Line-Thomas McCarthy, Robert Mingus, Harry Kelsey, William Stewart, Randolph Clark, Richard Mitchell, Wilbert Swift. Back Field-Reading from left to right John Williams, Robert Russell, George Achenbach, Richard Geiger.

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equipmentg Lillian became Buttercup,' when she insisted that the daffodils on the table at Eleanor's birthday party were buttercups in spite of the evidence to the contrary in Mr. W. Atlee Burpee's seed catalogue, BK continually shouting Ukwanki' as a number in a French number gameg Bob blowing the morning bugle from his bed after being up late the night before, Stewie wading around in the lake planting liliesg the good old lawn-cutting and whitewashing festivalsg Alice, quite flustered in class, loudly telling Tod to Shut up ing Harry being bitten by a squirrel during vacation, the four senior boys, three-fourths asleep, eating oranges and bananas and trying to write their speeches for the Gavel Banquetg Stewie climbing one of the pines to get a picture of a baseball game, and dropping his camera from the topg and the Senior Class riot-meetings will never be forgotten. Toward the end of school came that never-to-be-forgotten weekend at Rehoboth. The forty-five trees cut down the first morning, the first dip in the oceang Lillian's Oh, do something, someone, as the first breaker hit herg handball and baseball on the beachg sunburng more sunburng the entire Senior Class stretched out helpless after that extra large Sunday dinner, where everything had to be eaten, since it couldn't be left at the cottage. When Sunday afternoon came, none of us wanted to leave, but school must go on, I know not why. It was occasions like this that made the end of the year seem to come all too soon. As we came closer to the end of the year and Commencement we thought often of the good times We had had together, memories we will always cherish, memories that will never be forgotten, memories we can look back upon to live again these years at Sunny Hills' She Sfoops fo COIIQIICVM