Sanford Preparatory School - Chrysalis Yearbook (Hockessin, DE)

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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.

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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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Front row: Robert Russell, Richard Geiger, Richard Mitchel, Thomas Mc- Carthy, William Bush, William Webb, Kimberley Doorly. Back row: Arthur Barab, managerg William T. Stewart, III, William Aydelott, Ashton T. Geipel, Ray Russell, William Randolph Clark, Howard Jarvis, john Wil- liams, Philip Q. Sawin, coach. Football '37 THIS year's football team has proven the most successful yet. What started out as a small scrub team several years ago, has at last taken its place near the top, winning every game but one this season. Always in the early fall, the team mate- rial is raw, but at the end there are more good players and more boys who have learned to love football as a sport, both as a game and as an opportunity to express sportsmanship and cooperation.