Sanford Preparatory School - Chrysalis Yearbook (Hockessin, DE)

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use. The Senior Class wishes to leave her the tennis court and some excellent part- ners who are almost half as good as she is. Baseball bats we have also fashioned for her, with extra steel casings to keep them in one piece when Thayer's at the bat. Next year's hockey balls we have ordered to be made of soft rubber so that all opponents of Fullback Thayer will not have to appear on the field in clank- ing armor. To Howard Jarvis, Ray Russell wishes to leave his one-man debating team in which all its own arguments and ideas were considered infallible by said debat- ing team. We wish this spirit to be carried on, and the illustrious Jarvis' opinion to never be doubted by any man or trifled with on any account, but to be taken humbly as the final irrevocable verdict. Ray also asked if the sleeping powders he used this year, and which worked so effectively in Study Hall and Ethics class, could be handed down to said Howard Jarvis if his own have given out by this time. And last but not least we have here a gift from Ashton T. Geipel, namely the ability to sit in chairs and Think all day. The Senior Prophecy BY G. H. JONES THE year 1948 will find our present Senior Class widely scattered here and there from New Orleans to New York, each member following a career of individual interest. Anyone going to New York then will find Barbara crisply teaching French in a private school during the day, and still reading lyric poetry and humorous novels at night. Midway down the Eastern coast, in Philadelphia, there may be found three hard-working Seniors. Ray and Ashton will be successful business meng Ray, a partner in a banking firm, and Ashton, sales manager in Wanamaker's. Julie, still living on Chestnut Street, will be guiding youthful fingers through intricate black ancl white piano pieces, and conducting an orchestra of her own in her spare moments. Way down yonder in New Orleans will be Frankie, her golden hair the crown of a society queen, ruling a textile designing shop with her sweet smile and firm will. The flower prints she creates will be famous the world over. And at Sunny Hills .... Ginny will teach seventh grade, following in her mother's footsteps with a vigorous manner and a far-reaching voice. From the art room will issue the voice of Billy Aydelott, art teacher-in-chief, who will always be seen surrounded by clay, paint, or crayons. Nettie will be reveling in food supply storerooms and linen closets, the contents of which she distributes to everybody in Sunny Hills, unlock- ing numerous padlocks with a huge bunch of keys. Not far away from Sunny Hills, Hannah will be in superintendence of a large farm during her leisure hours, for every day she will be teaching three hours of weaving at the Univerrity of Delaware. Thus is the Senior prophecy.

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Class Will ofthe l938 . Seniors to the luniors THE remarkable, talented, and hard-working senior class of this year wish to present to their juniors such gifts as we think will be needful for their last year at school. Although we realize that the oncoming seniors do not have the won- derful capacity and will to learn and work as this year's seniors did, we will tolerantly overlook their shortcomings and fervently hope that they may follow to a small degree in the glorious footsteps of the seniors of 1938! Now on to the will! To Betty Harrington we leave all the stage properties in Sunny Hills for her to preside over and revel in. We want Betty also to inherit all those cute little jobs that belonged to our Senior Gavel Girl, Frankie, of chasing people to bed on the dot of ten-thirty, or pulling their warm covers off them every gray, freezing winter morning around 7 A. M. and barring the delights of breakfast to poor souls who have failed to finish their jobs when the mess call sounds. To Constance van Roden we leave julea Stad's male mania to further enchance her own, also julie's stargazing capacities so that Connie may be a more ardent astronomy student next year. To Bill Webb we leave Dick Geigerls quietness dur- ing classes in which looks like he always knows a lot, which he really doesfwell, we don't know! Randy Clark wishes to leave to his successor the habit of forgetting all Gavel Boy jobs, and so to come through an otherwise strenuous year with no worries or cares about anything. Billy Aydelott's post as class artist we turn over to Bill Webb, and with it all Billyls fast disappearing brushes, paints and rulers, to further his art, and also Billy's artistic temperament to hold it back. To Kimberley Doorly we leave all Nettie's boxes, papers, and numerous books for him to gain the knowledge worthy of a senior. We give him Barbara's studiousness everlasting classes and College Boards. And we give him a loudspeaker through which he will read to the world passages from his own work: Why I Am The World's Greatest Antagonistf' All revolutionary ideas and wild theories for this book will be donated by Ginny Daugherty. And lastly we give junior a complete set of new encyclopedias for him to correct and improve upon. To Bob Russell the Senior Class leaves enough money to supply Alice Thayer with candy for the whole of next year. Nettie leaves Bob Russell her physics- mindedness to console Len for the loss of all the brilliant seniors in next year's physics class. To Alice Thayer we leave all the alarm clocks in the school, and we give her free permission to set them back an hour or two whenever it's time for classes, meals, and bed, so she will have ample time fwe hopej to get 16 lotions on hands and face, 20 growing pills swallowed before each meal, and 15 thinning medicines drunk before each class. We donate to her 25 hair-dryers, one for each hour of the day and the ones to be used at 12 P. M. and 1 A. M. in the morning shall be stronger and larger than all the rest to save the war and tear of strenuous

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History of Sunny Hills By B. F. BERANGER SUNNY HILLS, built as a living memorial to Sanford W. Sawin, Jr., by his mother, commenced with seven small children, the girls in pigtails, you may be sure. School was held in Sanford Hall, a typical red brick house, and living went on for the most part in Quigley Hall. That was in 1930. Gradually, as things do, Sunny Hills grew, and there was a necessity for an upper school and a place for the upper school to reside in. Stephen May Hall emerged out of what was once the barn, and the students quickly made it their own by incorporating loud shouts and general noise into its walls, which now echo with them and will for- ever, we fear. Once the shock of beginning the upper school had been gotten over, events which were to become traditions were started. There were football, hockey, baseball, and track teams which went bravely forth to give battle, seldom returning victorious in the early years. Then there was the Athletic Association, the Christmas Dance, where many presents and a little mistletoeacreated diversion, the Valentine Dance, Wllite- washing Day, when the ever-lengthening Sunny Hills fences were newly coated, as were the participants, namely the whole school. Gavel Day was instituted, and two juniors chosen to take charge of the boys and girls during the coming term. The next year, events proceeded much the same, but there were new buildings, Hebb Hall for the little children, its windows continually covered with seasonal pictures, and a new dining hall. New dogs and cats came and went, the teams become more successful, and the customs more deeply rooted. This year saw the first Class Day and Commencement. However, the year '37-'58 really witnessed more innovations than any other. There was Sawin Lodge built for the boys and, to a great extent, by the boysg the 'lMatthew- son Mansion, a cottage for Eleanor, Dean of Girls, who was a bride in February, the remodeling of Douglas Cottage for Phil, Dean of Boys, and Dottie. The new cur- riculum for classes was carried on from the year before, and made more extensive. The Seniors, to broaden their views on American history and government, Went to Washington. When they came back, a miniature facsimile of the New York Times kept them busy for weeks. Other classes built huts and made water gardens. The Sunny Hills Alumni Association was formed from last year's revered Seniors, and a Gavel Club, composed of all the Gavel Boys and Girls, will be started next year. Time and everything else seems to march on-so does Sunny Hills.