Starrett School for Girls - Starette Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Marian Ifrvibzzrgvr Organizations Lou' flu'-1' fzemf before Cuxxiojwiu, ffm Laffy in flu' Cfmir STUDENT COUNCIL Sjmllmr MRS. EIIIZABETH B. SMITH O'wl't'I',Y CiIl'SIfY WYNIAZKOOI' Pm-xiilrzzf Gipsey was eliosen our lC.lLlCl' Ifor liei' Sweetness and friend- liness, too. In every place tlmt we've mei lier, XYe've surely found lier true blue. Nlfx1n'.InNiz DUPU ssis lvffi'-I,7'i'AfilI'IIf IK' depemlnlwilily is wl1.1t you want, Anil .1 disposition like Llle sun. It you w.1nL .ln all-nrouml girl, Vlilien Nlary' -lane is tlie one. limi 'r Ku-11N S1'1'7'i'lIlV'j' AIJIICI l1.is earned lor lierseli .il Nfllllkll A I1lIlHl7,'l' ol' glories to Adel to lien' n.uneg Iiui liei' populnity witli il .ilI, ls wlmr will really luring liei' fame. 15 SOCIAL XVELITARI' FRIENDLY RELATIONS Miss LOUISA MAY, Sjzomm O jivrrs XIIRGINIA GokMAN I'1'm'mlw1l For president of n elulv wlio motto'S To follow llle Golden Rule Virginigfs surely gl fine one I'or slies known .is tlie sw est Ill sclmool Loulsla IJINNIAN Vim'-I'1'i',xiJe11l louise is noted I-or XVe've never seen I'l.ly slie enters wi asm, XVox'k slie Iinislies ANITA Cnossi, lier pep lier szill Lli enlli winlm ,1 Si'1'V1'l41 lj'-'l'1'1'i1xl1 wr AI1II.llS willing lo emeli task keep xx nlli will As long ns lllCI'ClS one to Ive done. And IIICFCIS nlwnys club of ours, Tlmnglm we Also l fun. one in LIVC IUI III S l m'fy-15111

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by word, he translated the inscription around the idol's base: Iam Jade God- contentment. Death to him who succumbs to my spell, for perfection is a god's state to which mortal man may not aspire. A clammy fear gripped the collector and he hastened to the bedside. Scott Kenedy was dead. Mary Brueshaber, Senior SUSAN SPRAY by SHEILA KAYE-SMITH Susan Spray is the first of Sheila Kaye-Smith's novels that I have read, and I. immediately felt that it is worthy of being known as the climaxing novel of her career, as so many of the reviewers have termed it. The book is written with skill, beauty, and a great sense of the dramatic. In reading the book, one gets the impression that the author thoroughly enjoyed writing it, and found in Susan Spray a character whom she could pity, understand, ridicule, and admire. Susan,s career is presented as the portrait of a masterful woman who makes religious enthusiasm her means to power. Still, this cannot be called a story of a religious fanatic. Susan is not a fanatic, she is a half- educated peasant girl, who by some irony of fate was endowed with an imagination, which she discovered in her early childhood when she found that displays of religious hallucinations, if firmly adhered to, could save her a well-earned whipping. From then on she made those her weapons and never hesitated to use them in her climb upward, nor did they ever fail her when her ambitions were threatened. There is no satire in this book. It is intensely human and the background of the coun- try life is beautiful, and only and naturally does one become aware of the powerful character which is presented. Susan Spray lived in the eighteen thirties, although the book, had it been written then, would not have been understood, for I believe that it is even hard to gain the full significance of it in this day. The full comprehension of how the mind constantly combines and confuses its instincts and ideas, how such a strange combination of greatness and pettiness, of commanding imagination and almost petty ignorance is seen as pure humanity, is at times hard to grasp. The episodes of Susan's life, as a starving child, her first preaching to the Colgate brethren as a child, the pilgrimage to Horcham as a leader of an orphan family, her adolescence as a farm-worker, her Hrst marriage with Strudwick, the hop-drier, her first widowhood, her surrender to sheer passion and the flashy Clarbut, her emancipation and her ruthless imposition of herself upon Pell, her third husband, all show that she was perplexed by higher and lower impulses. She always wanted to command and impress, and feel the Beauty of Holiness. However, when the impulse to make love and the desire to have Bne clothes got the better of her, she left her followers disillusioned and deserted. She is neither a hypocrite nor crazy, but only a woman struggling with her desires, with impulses toward egoism and religious exaltation, which in the long -run proves to be the strongest. She is a better preacher, a stronger woman, and a finer spirit at the end of the book, when she is married bigamously to a man she needs but does not love, and is happier because she has a congregation to fear her, than when she was young and merely a religious enthusiast. Jane Gilbert, Col. I. fContinued from Page 30.1 dis time? I've been a fool! Beatin' it out on you an' Rose for easy bucks. Where's your ma, kid? How's she, huh, how's she?,' Daddy, a long time ado when we were hungry she went to sleep. The men took her away. They said I'd see her soon. But I haevn't, Daddy. Let's go to her. An, dad, can we take her somethin, nice to eat like this good cake? She never had none, and we was always so hungry. Oh, I know you'll find her, won't you?,' Red, his face strangely white, pulled her close, and asked in a whipped, quivering voice, Tom, when do we start for your shack?', Lois Atwood Forty-Four

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THE STUDENT COUNCIL R SOCIAL WELFARE COMPIITTEER Bollom Row: Miss McMahon, NI. Klein, Mrs. Boffom Row: A. Trindcr, L. Hinmnn, AI. Gr.ib- Smith, G. W'ynckoop, M. DuPlcssis. incr, V. Gorman. SNOW, Row: L. Hinmnn In Gilbert B' Brown SUVUIIJ Row: G. Wynukoimp, A. Grosse, M. Bruc- In Tolcr' sliabcr, M. Aamodt. Third Row: AI. Fricscm, G. Field, P. Vlfeinlmrt ' -I. Enron. Top Row: R. Arnstein, D. Wiirers, bl. Sullivan T011 Row: j. Bransky, R. Hou7c, D. Karnps, V. K. Stevens, J. O'Neill. Gorman, J. Sullivan. Alnruf: AI. Hopkins, M. Scrum Tlrinl Row: V. Crooks, A. Grosse, M. Kuchn B. Sherwood, R. Kaufman. HOME ROOM OFFICERS liullnm Row: R. XVcldcn, M. Lunaburg, M. Bindcn, li. Voigt, J. Bcardslcy, C. Ncwbcrgcr, J. Mackenzie SITUIIKI Row: R. Gartner, M. Hank, Grccnburg, Butts, Mrs. Burt, A. Iiggcrt, D. Frost, M. Rudolpli Sullivan. T011 Row: Al. Julmson. A. Wiggins, M. I.. W'ade, R. Wilson, S. Micliell, L. Tolar, I.. Hinmnn, J. Ander- son, P. Montgomery. Al1Xl'IIfC li. MCl,hCfSlll1 1'iUl'fj SI.,l'