Sanford Preparatory School - Chrysalis Yearbook (Hockessin, DE)

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,ff FIQESHMEN - SCDHUMCIQES - JUNICIQS Fizsz' run'-Richard Geiger, Marjorie WValker, Arthur Barab, Jane Kelsey, William Bush, Barbara Beranger, Keneclon Steins, Jean Harrington. Sci-onfl 7'0'1U-Tl10l'll21S McCarthy, Alice Thayer, George Achenbach, Ann Rogers, Hannah Mitclicll, Randolph Clark, Julea Stall, Gwinnett Jones. Top rome Betty Harrington, Virginia Steins, John W'illianis, Mae Frank Pickering, Robert Russell, Virginia Daugherty.

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ALICE D. IIMMDNI New York Ciiy Born December 24, 1918 at New York City Alice is the dancer of the class, and her entire nature resembles the refined, graceful movements of a good ballet. She Writes splendid poetry and has served on the literary board and art committee of Golden Leaves. As a tennis player she is hard to beat. She is genuinely interested in the Welfare of her classmates, and there is nothing sho would not do for them.

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HISTDIQY UF SUNNY HILLS BARBARA F. KELSEY HERE we are, the senior class, on the point of graduating, in this year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven. The longest that any of us has been here is two years, and yet we feel as though this had been our home for a lifetime. In fact we felt that way after the first few days we were here. When we first came to Sunny Hills the Upper School was just beginning, and we were rather proud to be the highest class in the school, even though we were only juniors. Most people have to work their way up from insignificant freshmen, but not we-we start and finish at the top. Of course there had been a Sunny Hills School for quite a few years before the Upper School was established. The official opening date was the twenty-fourth of September, nineteen thirty, the unofficial date a good deal earlier. September twenty-fourth marks the birthday of a little boy whose life was at all times an inspiration to his mother. He passed away when he was a small child. This experience many times causes an embitterment or a shrinking-within for those who come into contact with it, but a few rare natures it broadens and softens. The mother's sorrow lent her understanding, and her love grew to include not only her own children, but all children. The mother began to realize the great need there was in the world for a place where children would not only be taught the fundamentals of educations, but also a workable principle of Lifeg something by which they could guide their course at all times, a place where Love, Truth, and Harmony would ever be made manifest for the growth of the child. One day a boy came to stay with the family for two weeks. This was the beginning of the school, for instead of two weeks he stayed ten years. Little by little a group of children gathered. At first they were friends and relatives of the family. Later on, as more people began to hear of the school strangers found their way there. Friend or stranger, all were heartily welcomed into the household. The idea of Sunny Hills, however, was not fully developed. At first it was known as Sunset Hill, a summer camp, with eight children staying the year round. As the years went by it became necessary to find a larger home for the children. Like the old woman in the nursery rhyme, the mother was beginning to have so many children that she didn't know what to do. It was in nineteen twenty-nine that Sunny Hills was moved to its present site. 0'1f ' '1