Wadleigh High School - Owl Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Faye? ln 'The cold, gray misi' of morning, In fhe gleam of fhe coming day, By 'l'he banks of fhe sileni' river, A mofher lzneels 'l'o pray. AM N 1 Bofh sons have died in baffle, Her husband long since gone, , Her hear'I' is lefi' wifh noihing ' Bur The hope of a bright new dawn. The river gliding on ifs course The silence does noi' mar, As fhe mofher sends her prayers aloff By fhe Iighi of 'rhe morning sfar. RUTH ECKELT

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. I I . , V . . is nl Q 4 ' ' I -if I - 'ni IQ - I .f: -'Tr' V 1 '-fbi' glxcerlafgi rom an Exgclclreu Ag mm. pau! pogefionf l 'PLT -.ae5-s, , ,..4g -f' - ,--'L'f'g 'I lMrs. Paul Robeson made such an impression on her audience when ' i'WN'TTkT'TwM' she appeared af our assembly early Ihis Ierm IhaI many girls asked if her Ialk couldn I be reprinfed IH Ihe Owl We are delIghIed Io prInI parIs of - Mrs Robeson s splendud address and regreI IhaI lack of space prevenIs our Including all of II When I was a school girl abouI 35 years ago In IhIs same Wadleugh HIgh School I remember abouI a loI of Ihungs I was one of Ihose eager sIudenIs wIIh a greedy mind I was always asking quesIIons always wanfed Io know and undersfand abouI Ihmgs I remember IhaI I occasionally found myself Ihe only Negro girl In my classes and I remember some of Ihe problems which arose In my mind because of Ihls For InsIance I remember dIsIIncIly IhaI nearly all Ihe gurls In my class had an Old CounIry excepI me The parenIs of many of Ihe children and ofIen Ihe children Ihemselves had come recenIIy or noI so recenfly from England France Germany lIaly Spam The Balkans The Near EasI Russia When we came Io Ihe sIudy of hIsIory or geography nearly every child had a special personal InIeresI In some counfry excepI me This worried me a lIIIle Like all chnldren I dIdnI wanI Io be ouIsIde dIdnI wanI Io be dlfferenf I wanIed Io have come from somewhere speclal and InIeresIIng Io have an Old CounIry like Ihe oIher children Even Ihen a school girl I KNEW I WASNT dIfferenI I was a child very much like oIher chIldren I had Ihe same or very sImIlar physical menfal moral reacIIons my classmafes had The calm blonde Slgrid from Scandinavia wasn I supposed Io be dlfferenf from Ihe very dark vivid sparkling Carlfa from Spam YeI Ihere wasn I so much differ ence befween me and Ihe resI of my classmates In general as Ihere was beIween Ihose Iwo I IusI WASN T dIfferenI Of course I had come from somewhere My ancesIors had come from --rf! 'W Africa Perhaps II IS Inaccurafe Io say Ihey had come I should say QTQI' Ihey were broughI from Africa The reason I dldn I have an Old Coun Iry In school was because Ihe schools didn I Include Ihe sIudy of AIFICB In hIsIory and geography Well some day I musI do someIhIng abouI THAT I sand Io myself 62 - . -I '. . . , . I ' '- I I U Il Il . I . I I , I I I I I 0 I I , . I 0 I . 0 ' ' ' I ll ' .ll I I I Il ' ll o I I ll ll 0 I I I ' . . . ' - I . i ' l . . ' I . I I . ' - -elQ,4-,qs.-- ' . . I. . . . . 2 I . . I . 'A ,5:2A I I I . ' I A . . . ' ' Q wi. , . . I- :A aw r TT .. I began Ihen In school, by findung ouI abouI my Old CounIry. ff:g 5,5 I Ex - Hfsiif 5 I - 0 v - . ll ll -'il-I-',5',w4s..-ga I I ll Il - o I ll '-I..-A-' 1 s '- , - fu V ' lg n n l o s .L A I ' ll 0 ' I I , , 3:1-, I .I ll - ' 4 I . 1 I ll.- 4, fig 27 . ' . J!