Sanford Preparatory School - Chrysalis Yearbook (Hockessin, DE)

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classes. We like it much better than the old method of study and in this respect we are rather sorry that we are seniors. As one boy said, I went to one school, and as soon as I left they made it over and made it much nicer. I went to another school where none of the teachers were very goodg when I left they got a whole new faculty. Now, just as I'm graduating from here they put in a new curriculum! And now comes the first graduation in the history of Sunny Hills, and we are all very proud to be able to take part in it. Yet graduation will not end our life at Sunny Hills, for many of us are planning to come back and serve the place that has done so much for us. Having once known Sunny Hills we can never be entirely separated from it. Sunny Hills is still growing, yet it will never grow so large that the homelike spirit will be lost. Many things come to Sunny Hills, but only what is highest and best stays. With every year the structure becomes taller and stronger until it can be shaken by nothing. Sunny Hills is built upon a rock, the rock of unselfish love and devotion to a worthy cause, and the goal is ever ahead, beckoning. Sunny Hills will ever be reaching upward to new heightsg it will always be expanding its all-inclusive love over everyone who comes within its iniiuence.

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overalls and dash out to whitewash the two miles or so of fence, and the building foundations. Everyone likes to do this, and afterward some kind of refreshment is usually served. Last spring saw the beginning of another tradition, the Gavel Banquet. Last year it l was quite a surprise, for none of us knew what was going to happen until the time came. But we soon found out that every year the gavel was going to be presented to the boy and girl in the junior class who most nearly lived up to the ideals of the school. The Gavel Girl and Boy are selected by student vote, for the honor involves the responsibility of being in active charge of the students during the coming year. i Annual Wh,itewashi11,g Festival Sports play a large part in our lives. Many a time we have sat through a long afternoon class, looking forward hopefully to the athletic period to follow. During the fall there is hockey and football, and in the spring, baseball and track. In the winter there are all sorts of winter sports, such as coasting, ice-skating, and skiing. Many times we have coasted merrily down a hillside, forgotten to turn sharply enough, and ended up with an icy shock in the stream at the bottom. Many of us stay for camp during the summer. It used to be that everyone lived over at The Haven, an old building dating from Revolutionary times, in two cabins, one for the boys and one for the girls. Last summer, however, the boys lived at the Haven while the girls stayed in Stephen May. Those of us who didn't stay during the summer were greatly surprised on returning to see the work that had been accomplished. There were two new buildings, a dining hall for the Upper School, and a house for the small children, known as Hebb Hall. This building was named for the Misses Hebb, whose school Mother had attended all through her school life. Besides this, in back of Sanford Hall, the boys had dammed back a lake, a fine addition to building of a large stone wiener roasts, and other This winter we had the scenery. This fall the boys completed the outdoor fireplace, around which we often have outdoor festivities. a change in the regular school curriculum. It provides for group discussions and project work, as well as for regular

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