Sanford Preparatory School - Chrysalis Yearbook (Hockessin, DE)

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Dramatics, '37f' 3 8 THIS year has seen much dramatic talent being exhibited, in assemblies and at Christmas and Easter. Long before Christmas, parts were being distributed and learned for Peg O' My Heart, the play chosen for the end of the first term. Re- hearsals came and went, and, through many difficulties and some easy times, the play took form. The opening night brought forth an excellent performance, with Ray as the villain and Billy as Jerry julie as Mrs. Chichester almost stole the show. Between the Christmas and Easter vacations the dramatics class put on in as- sembly a three-week serial called The Family Upstairs. The rest of the school either rolled in the aisles, or waited for the next scene uto be continued next week. Other classes gave minor plays, most of them humorous. One assembly period, the ethics class gave the first two scenes of i'Green Pastures, and started something, a pretty large something, for the outcome was the fact that the Sunny Hills High School gave Green Pastures for the Easter play, in which everyone participated. Those on various committees were constantly at work on costumes, scenery, properties, and everything else. There were two dress rehearsals, in which samples of makeup were tried, so that everybody looked an entirely different color than everybody else. Small booths had been built along the sides of the auditorium, in which sat those who were not on the stage at the moment. They sat and sang twenty-five spirituals with much feeling, especially in the throat, as song rehearsal had been as hard, if not harder, than line rehearsal. Again another opening night rolled around, and between scenes smutty-faced angels and soldiers, to say nothing of the main characters, waved to their respective parents, and shifted back and forth along the benches. This was the first time that Green Pastures had ever been given as an amateur performance. Randy, as God, was excellentg Ray played Hezdrel with much zealg Billy and Dick played about four parts each, Ashton made a convincing preacher, and the girls, all except Barbara, who was Cain's Gal, wore angel wings and robes, and figured in the fishfry scenes. Green Pastures marked the end of the season of big plays, and from then on, there was a mere succession of assemblies, and the Senior Class in the thick of it with a local take-off of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

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The Seniors at VVashington THE trip came as a privilege to see and understand the functions of our govern- ment, and to see the historical places which we had studied about. The three days we spent in the city itself were filled with actualities of white marble buildings, exhibits and posters, mechanisms of the Smithsonian Institute, the great bookcases in the Library of Congress, and the green lawns and richly furnished rooms of the White House. The Indian relics in the Department of the Interior, the fingerprint system in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the miniature seventeenth century English stage in the Folger Library held our inter- est, and provided side excursions from the main buildings and destinations. The night we saw the Capitol, the Washington Monument, and the Lincoln Memorial in the strong beams of the floodlights impressed us more than anything else. We had seen them all in the daytimeg the Capitol, solid, marble-stepped, with a dome that seemed dull for all its spaciousness, the Monument, tall and square-cutg the Memorial, clear white marble, shining in the sun. But that night, the dome of the Capitol glistened like spun sugar, the Monument melted into the sky instead of piercing it, and the Memorial, with its wonderful statue of Lincoln, was filled with soft black depths between the strong white pillars. There was also a sunny day when we drove to Mount Vernon and Arlington. The one was dignified, beautiful above the Potomac, the other friendly, surrounded by the grounds of the Arlington National Cemetery. They made different impres- sions on all of us. When we left Washington, we drove south through the famous Shenandoah Valley and the red clay hills of Virginia, and over the Skyline Drive through clear air and above fields and fields the colors of a patchwork quilt. At the end of the Drive, we turned northeast, and traveled back to Sunny Hills, with a wider horizon opened in front of us than before. SONNET TO THE STATUE OF LINCOLN IN THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL When everything seems darkgnaught bright, I'll climb the steps to where I see The man who lives eternally, And on his face there shines a light That shows at once the calm and might. I'll feel him gazing down on me In all his noble sympathy Down from his rugged height. I'll want to reach and touch those hands, And feel their strength in ebb and flow. And while I'rn there the night will wane, And golden daylight come again, Then there'll be joy, and I will know He sees and feels and understands.

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WWE' 'Z-tiftfit if ' ,.u5.... Standing, left to right: 'Eleanor Sawin, coach, julea Stad, Hannah Mitchell, Alice , Thayer, Ann Rogers, Alice D. Simmons, Betty Harrington, Dorothy Kehaya, Gwin- nett Jones, Helen Black, assistant coach. Sitting, left to right: Virginia Daugherty, Constance van Roden, Lydia Williamis, Jean Harrington, Mae Frank Pickering, Barbara Beranger, Jane Kelsey. Hockey '3 7 EVER since there has been a Sunny Hills High School, there has been a Sunny Hills Hockey Team. As the school has grown, so has the team, with more coopera- tion and teamwork among its members than in the years before. At the beginning there were many who had never played, and so the few games we did were against us. The next year found the same members on the team, and there was more unity. There were more outside games, and we were not beaten by so much of a margin as before. We tied one game, and then worked harder than ever, so that this year we had something definite to build on. Practice became much. better, the players more experienced and adept. We played several games with other schools, scored every time except once, won two games, and tied one. Thus has the team grown. In gaining a more successful season, we have also gained better sportsmanship, and learned how important it is. It took a fairly long time, but it was worth it, and this year's hockey team leaves to next yearis hockey team the bottom rung on the ladder that leads to the best.