Tower Hill School - Evergreen Yearbook (Wilmington, DE)

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were in Los Angeles we went to Hollywood and watched a movie being made at the Pathe Studio. It was a very interesting thing to see. We went down to San Diego from Los Angeles. Most of the Navy ships that are on the Pacific, anchor at San Diego and I remem- ber the fun I had waving to the sailors from the dining room windows of the hotel. We took a drive down into Mexico, as soon as you pass the border you notice a great dif- ference. Mexico seemed to be awfully dirty, at least that was the impression I got from the Mexican city I was in. We went to Agua Caliente, a famous racing resort in Mexico. The hotel there was extremely beautiful. I don't remember much about San Francisco except that the streets are very steep and hilly and that it was bitterly cold. We went to Portland and Seattle and then up to Cana- da. I think Canada is a beautiful country. There are no ugly billboards posted along the roads to spoil the scenery as there are in the United States. There are no words wonder- ful enough to express the grandeur of the Canadian Rockies. Lake Louise is the most beautiful place I have ever been. It is a love- ly blue lake surrounded by glaciers. Many orange and yellow poppies are growing on the hotel terrace leading down to the lake. One can imagine how beautiful it must be. From Lake Louise we went to Banff. Banff is nothing compared with Lake Louise in beauty. After going a few more places we returned home by way of Niagara Falls. OE 'X' 'F K In spring vacation Mother took my two brothers and me to Florida. A friend of Mother's went along, accompanied by her daughter. CH-, my older brother, was vital- ly interested in the girl.J Mother was forced to laugh at our behavior in the dining room. H- would have liked us to enter in the zap- Tower 7'fi1lSCh00l proper fashion, ladies first, then the gentle- men. Not so this party! The young lady went in first, and then B. -and I, not having reached the dignified age, rushed uncere- moniously in to gain the coveted seats by the young lady. I have had many experiences on my Uncle's farm. About five or six years ago B- and I weren't such good riders, as you can well imagine. One cold, snowy day we were riding a very old horse from the stable to the house without a saddle. As we drew near the farm house everyone started to laugh. We also started to laugh, rocking in our mirth. Soon, clutching each other fran- tically, we tumbled in to a drift, cold, wet, but fthank heavensj very, very, soft. GE -16 BE X- In the summer I go to Ocean City, New Jersey, which to me has no match. I have been to camps in New Hampshire and in Maryland, but the ocean has a charm. I love to ride in on the waves at a breakneck speed, twisting and turning to keep on top, and when you get on top of a wave that is just about to break, you begin to wonder what will happen when it breaks, but usually you can straighten out after it breaks and coast on into the shore. Then of course when a bigger wave comes you can dive through it and then it is fun to turn around as you come up and watch the other people get spill- ed. Also if you know how to swim you can go out past the breakers and tread water, bobbing up and down with the waves as you do so. But of course the waves are not al- ways this big, in fact they are only that big at high tide when you can always find people who are afraid of waves. But the ocean is very kind in considering them also and de- votes half of its time to pleasing them, at low tide. When they can't find any waves to fuss about, then most of them are satisfied

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The Tower Cljial I have been going to Tower Hill School for the last ten years. Off and on I have had the ambition to go to boarding school: but every year when I get back to T. H., I am glad I didn't go away. I have always gone out for all the athletics I could. Swimming has always been among my favorite sports. I had a great deal of swimming this summer. Football is my favorite sport. I have had quite a few hobbies during my time. Two years ago, I had built in my room a chemical laboratory. It is now all packed away in boxes, while I am waiting for a chance to build a room in the cellar where I can once more erect my laboratory. Last year I started building model airplanes, which require much time and patience, and I am still building them. Also two friends and I started a serpentarium, with a large supply and variety of snakes. I have always collect- ed stamps-it is a family hobby-and now the family has quite a collection. I have enjoyed these various hobbies, but I have lacked the ability to stick to one hobby and continue at it strongly. if 'JK' it 'JK Before my fourteenth birthday it was really very funny, for whenever Mother thought I ought to go to bed or something like that she would say, You're just a little girl 13 years old. The very idea of you op- posing your Will against mine and staying up this late on a school night. But it's very often the other way around, for sometimes she would say, You're a big girl 14 years old. The very idea of you leaving your room in such a mess! I really couldn't quite make up my mind as to whether I was big or little, but I do know that I'm in the ninth grade and I am enjoying improving my mind, as you might say. me in if as I have had quite an assortment of pets off and on, in all my 13 years, including an alligator, a flying squirrel, some baby rabbits, a baby red squirrel and a Russian wolfhound. These are the ones I remember clearly and of this group I like the baby rabbits and the red squirrel best. One Easter I was out riding and when I got home my brother told me that the Easter rabbit had left something for me. I went around to the side of the house and there, in a nest in the lawn, were four baby rabbits. We took them in and fed them with a medicine dropper. The red squirrel that my brother had brought home from college was only about two weeks old. He had fallen out of a tree and hurt his leg. I fed him out of the medicine dropper, and when he was sick, I gave him cod liver oil. We kept him for nearly six weeks before he died. Several years ago I went to New York to meet my brother when he arrived home from the Jamboree that had met that summer in Birkenhead, near Liverpool, England. It was my first trip to New York and I was quite ex- cited at going to the big city I had heard so much about. On the way up on the train I got my first view of the Statue of Liberty and later when we were crossing the Hudson I saw the fireboats and skyscrapers of New York. Then we went out on the pier to wait for the tugs to bring the boat up the river and dock it. When she was docked they made us go back of the customs so there would be less disturbance. When the scouts came off the pier they were surrounded by their families but I don't think any of them were as glad to see their brothers as I was. it -15 H6 -If When I was eleven or twelve our family took a wonderful trip across the continent to the Pacific Coast and into Canada. We stop- ped for two weeks in Los Angeles. While we azz

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The Tower Clpial to run down the beach noisily and dip their cute little toes in the Water, squeal, and run back up the beach. Every couple of years a lot of sand collects in one place, making a sand bar which gradually fills in, finally turn- ing into extra beach. In the meanwhile the water between the bar and beach is still- water, which means much fun for the kid- dies. After reading this do you wonder why I love the ocean? I hope not. FORTES We come to the earth with the stars in our blood, Tho our greatness be hidden 'neath covering of mud. We find ourselves part of a drama half-done, With wonder and awe then our lives are be- gun. Some fall from the pace of the game that is played, But we carry on till our courage is made. For courage must teach us to live and to die, And they who have lost it must look on and sigh, As brave march to glory in life and in death, And breathe the same pleasure in first and last breath. The fools can hear music and not feel the song, The mad can see beauty and call it a wrong, The brave make their lives and their deaths to be sought, Tho harshness and pain fill their each living thoughtg They live in the sun and they bless its strong heat, Thru beauty they move to the death they will meet. Each chants forth the music of song in his soul, He lives and he dies to its rhythmical roll. J. STUART GOODMAN, '34. CAPE HENRY, VIRGINIA CAPE HENRY, VIRGINIA, where the At- lantic meets the Chesapeake and the James, is a barren stretch of beach orna- mented with two lighthouses. The more pio- turesque of these lighthouses stands inland on a grassy knoll. It was built in 1700 and now the rocks are gradually falling to the ground. The other lighthouse is ultra-mod- ern, shiny and white, but it seems very out of place. The stretch of coast is novel in that at one end, Virginia Beach, automobiles may be driven on the sand with perfect safety and that the beach at Cape Henry is largely ram- bling sand dunes. These sand dunes give Cape Henry a wild and uncivilized appear- ance which makes it seem miles from any- one. Some of them are covered with long waving grasses and waxy-leaved bayberry bushes with a spicy fragrance which blends delightfully with the salty twang from the sea. It is glorious to spend a whole day by yourself at Cape Henry. To lie and bake in the sun for hours, to plunge into the clear green waves which are so powerful that they roll you right up on the beach, then to swim out beyond the breakers, float, and watch the snow-white puffs of clouds floating in the summer sky, to race to shore with the strength you seem to get from the sea, this is my idea of paradise. However, even in this lonely spot, there are indications of life. The beach is covered with tiny sand iiddlers which will crawl all over you if you lie still. It is diiiicult to catch them because they are sand-color and at the slightest motion will quickly scamper off to their holes. From time to time freight- ers will glide slowly by either bringing their goods in to Norfolk or moving out to sea. Usually a school of porpoises will follow the +Qf24