Walker High School - Pepper Pot Yearbook (Simsbury, CT)

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n Ty even more nus ge T er ou gnng eyes d aly a e mouTh whrch seems To gwe hrm selT conhdence when he needs IT Added To Thus he always seems To have an unkempT look abouT hum wearung colors whuch lusT barely avond swearung aT each oTher BUT you asked me whaT kund oT man he as ThaT IS very hard To answer In acT Im noT sure I know To Thrs day I suppose he coul b descrubed as a man wITh an deal ThaT he lusT seT Too hlgh Tor hImselT To reach From whaT I can see hs I eals have hardly changed Trom The day he goT ouT oT college I Thank ThaT IT was Harvard ThaT made hum decade To be 1 wrrTer He Tauled aT everyThIng else and wrITIng wa someThIng he could Turn To as an escape He could reveal has Ideas wIThouT The use oT a reTerence book or wIThouT men Iaughung aT has vlews To has Tace He Trred To wrITe a novel his sophomore year aT Harv rd abouT a gIrl he was InTaTuaTed wTh Hrs marks became so low ThaT hu TaTher Tlew easT Trom ST Lous To see whaT The Trouble was He ended up by payung The grrl To leave Cambrldge and To plea e hls son he Trned To have The novel publnshed Mr PIoTkIn even oTTered To pay The publlshrng company buT The publusher was a good Trlend and wouldnT permIT such a TransacTIon To Take place And whaT dud he do nexT7 Inguured her Trrend now absorbed In The Tale benng relaTed To her Then he resolved To seTTle dawn He decuded To malor In husTory a sublecT he had adored Trom boyhood because he adored The Tudy oT people and whaT They would do under gIven cIrcumsTances and how pasT evenTs were so closely reIaTed To presenT occurrences Then Teelung agaun The TerrlTIc urge To wrITe he Trned an hIsTorIcaI novel porTrayIng one oT The men In Napoleon s army In EgypT PIoTkIn TeIT ThaT aTTer sTudyIng h1sTory aT Harvard Two years he was a capable as The nexT oT wrITIng a successTul novel on The subIecT The Tunushed producT sounded Ixke a TwenTy Tuve cenT pockeT edITIon wITh The name Napoleon To recommend IT InsTead oT The promrscuously drawn cover gurl whach usually appeals To The publnc eye He even frankly sand To me ThaT IT maybe he had rewruTTen IT aTTer seeing The world a bIT IT mIghT have been more uccessTul Eh blen hrs Ta her adored The boy and gol a 'ob Tor hum IH Chucago aT a Publ c Hugh School Teachlng hIsTory To The sevenTh grade Poor grades aT Harvard pre venTed hum Trom dolng any beTTer Than ThaT AT IasT he ThoughT hed seTTle down and he did Tor abouT seven years never going ouT much mosTIy readung anyThIng he could geT hrs hands on However aT ThrrTy seven IasT year he decnded ThaT now havrng really plenfy oT money he would come To Europe a hope oT long ago when he learned abouT Charlemagne and Charles MarTeI IH HIsTory class Across The ocean perhaps would be dITTerenT A new people perhaps a new begunnung ThaTs how I meT hum He came dIrecTIy To Paras aTTer land ng aT Le Havre H s second day I rneT hum In ST Germaun aT a Table where he saT all alone He looked o luke a small Teddy bear sITTIng among The usual Terocuous Inons ThaT TreguenT The caTes ThaT I was zmmedIaTeIy d awn To hm and The TrsT hour we Talked I TeIT I knew hum beTTer Than I have ever known myseIT I began To have rendezvous wITh hum oTTen ano would sIT There TascInaTed Though sorry Tor hum In a way I began To pray ThaT he would aT IeasT wrITe a successTuI sTory 94 mag If W, lar , ra h I I I , an usu I pip In his ' '. I :I T I .N Q d 3 . . I ' ' I . I Id ,, . . K . . C . . . . . . . . . 5 ' ' I , ', 's . I I. ' ' , s s . ,. 4 . V . y . . . . Q I 1 I - y I T I , . T' I I , A I I . I I ' r I , I , , . . . .

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I.A RENAISSANCE I-IE leaves were lusf begmnung fo furn beaufn jf ful shades of red and orange and fhe sun gloruously rnsnng In fhe easf gave a warm rose I glow fo all In fhe pafh of nfs Ilqh+ The hummvng X C-3-? '77 W of vouces and fhe smell of fresh flowers druffed Xi ug! along fhe sfreefs from fhe flower marlcef and Ed ff-Q. K-.R fhe cars were begunnsng anew fo sound fheur Q! sharp horns unique fo Paras whvch seemed fo say vufe vufe IH abrupf voices A few small shops gp were beung opened for fhe early mornnng shop pers buynng hof cronssanfs for brealcfasf and faxus and fnacres were ID mofuon again affer a nughfs resl' Parls In fhe early mornzng caughf ID anofher of nfs many moods Buf fhough The sfreefs were filled wufh early morning happenings and everyone seemed happy af has work fhere was a window In a small aparfmenf building on Rue Bocador which on fhus day I have descrubed fo you received no rays of fhe warm sunlughf The shuffers were closed 'nghf fhe curfauns drawn Beyond fhe wundow a room usually fulled wrfh colorful prlnfs and a wade roomy bed lay bare fhe placard sfood open and empfy Down fhe sfreef af a small cafe saf fhe fenanf or shall I say former fenanf of fhe forlorn aparfmenf Two large sunfcases confaunnng all her posses sions were beside her feef and across from her was anofher woman of slmalarly non descrrpf appearance And why dld you decide fo go fo Ameruca7 she could be heard aslcang Wufhouf Icnowung If fhls woman had asked a quesfron a safusfacfory answer fo which required fhe revelaflons of a man s Iufe Ordunarlly Mme Gerson a woman of few words would nof have falcen fhe frme nor frouble fo gave fo fhls guesfuon nfs merufed answer I-low ever by relafung If fo somebody else perhaps she could be sure fhaf whaf she was doung was fhe rlghf fhnng and fhal' she would be happy leavung her dellghfful Paras Abouf a year ago she began I mef a man named of all names Ploflcln A pleasanf American I fhoughf and I seemed 'ro luke hrm rmrneduafely As I began fo see more of hum I learned why I Illced hum I was from fhe sfarf made fo llsfen fo hrs Ideas on educafuon I-Ie had gone fo I-Iarvard and held If fo be fhe school of In duvudualusm and of real rnfellecf whereas ofher colleges he sand were merely for fhe refarded playboy a peculvar expression' He also fold me fhaf fursf nlghf af 'rhe Deux Ivlagofs IH Sf Germaun fhaf hrs suppressed dream had always been fo be a professeur af I-Iarvard buf he never was capable of If Thus he had furned fo wrnfrng Wrufnng rs a 'ralenf Ive never quufe undersfood because Ive always fhoughf fhaf anybody who had somefhnng fo say and fhe will fo say If could be successful af If Whaf sorf of man IS fhns PIoflcrn7' her friend quesfloned, puzzled by such a descrupfnon Mme Gerson af fhns resumed her descrupfuon of Ploflun, now usang her hands fo express herself fo fhe ufmosf I-Ie's a funny man Nof very forward wnfh anybody, especially women, alfhough he as an exfremely elnguble bachelor Elugsble rnch, I mean, for he's far from good loolcang, wufh a Icrnd of gnawed af crew cuf, specfacles whrch 93 ,y A1 A257 . . . I .- 0 f 3 r of as If Q I 'e . I g. A ,391 ' E: nl CII . , . . . - . yy 1 I. - . 372 II I A'

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One day IasT monTh aTTer we had been TogeTher aImasT a year he sand he wanTed To go up To Sacre Coeur nn IvIonTmarTre I agreed as I had only been There once or Twnce and never around The TournsT season We Took The IvIeTro and goT oTT aT The TooT oT The large hnll crowned by The ornenTaI church oT Sacre Coeur We could as you know walk dnrecTIy up The mann sTanrway or go up one oT The many snde sTreeTs whnch end up nn The Place du TerTre The cenTer oT The TournsT aTTracTnon PIoTknn always sand he preTerred To Tace hns problems squarely so we seT TorTh on The long sTruggIe wnTh buT one resT nn The mnddle ATTer much complannnng abouT escaIaTors and how badly The French wenT abouT Thnngs we sTopped and Turned around To gaze aT Parns my cnTy ThaT I had never really apprecnaTed unTnl I saw nT Through hns eyes There nT was beTore and beneaTh us aT TwnlnghT when The InghTs oT The cnTy were nusT comnng on NoTre Dame ahead The beacon oT The EnTTeI Tower and even The sma bunldnngs hardly vnsnble n ThaT InghT added To The over all pncTure oT Iovelnness Then as we Turned There sTood Sacre Coeur large and whnTe beTore our eyes squaT yeT Tall Inke an Indnan mosque nTs dome round and pure sendnng omens nnTo The dark sky abouT nT We walked around The church passnng a blnnd vnolnnnsT a TwenTy Tranc look aT The moon endnng up aT a resTauranT called Mere CaTharnne Yes I know nT well puT nn her Trrend PIoTknn ordered a dubonneT I-le always used To have cokes buT he began To Teel Too Amerncan and Thus he was nnnTnaTed nnTo a French drnnk whnch he sand TasTed aT TnrsT Inke The cough medncnne hns moTher used To gnve hnm Then he began To reveal whaT nT was ThaT he had broughT me up To Tell I remember hns words well because I nearly crned aT Thenr sngnnTncance I-le sand he had ThoughT oT an ndea Tor a wrnTe abouT someThnng he knew an Amerncan nndocTrnnaTed nnTo French ways aTTer a year oT Invnng nn Parns I ascerTanned ThaT he would be The mann characTer and ThaT I was To be nn nT Too ATTer Tellnng me Thns he looked aT me as nT I should be happy aT The news I wasnT pleased aT all aT whaT he sand because I ThoughT ThaT Thns dd noT come Trom hns hearT ThaT he had nusT Trned To Thnnk oT an ndea ThaT would please people and ThaT could be publnshed aTTer so many Tanlures All oT a sudden a loud nonse was heard and down The sTreeT came a group oT sTudenTs havnng some sorT oT rnoT Some were Iaughnng nn Tun and some as a resuIT oT sTrenuous elbow bendnng They appeared To be French buT I deTecTed a snngular Tone nn Thenr accenTs whnch Though noT Too noTnceable led me To belneve ThaT They were Amerncans I-le remarked how French sTudenTs were geTTnng more rambuncTnous every day and I replned ThaT They were Amerncans I-Ie denned nT and called one oT Them over nn hns TrnghTTul accenT whnch could never be mnsTaken Tor French D ou allez vous7 he asked a Tanrly sober member oT The group Illnnons he blandly replned and wenT abouT hns merry maknng PIoTknn saT There Tor several mnnuTes a blnnd expressnorn on hns Tace sTarnng nnTo Thnn anr Thnnknng abouT whaT I dndnT know Then all oT a sudden he Turned To me wn+h convncTnon nn hns Tace The TnrsT Tnme I had really seen Thns and sand Im sorry I was wrong They were Amerncans and so am I as you are French I musT noT pre Tend To be whaT I m noT I m noT French and I m noT a wrnTer and Ive never realnzed T beTore You re The only person ThaT has ever undersTood me and TaughT me ThaT I was reachnng nn The wrong dnrecTnon I would noT be Tellnng you everyThnng nT I dnd noT say I was deeply moved I-Iere 95 . . . I I I 1 novel, one which would really be apprecIaTed now, because aT IasT he InTended To . i . I . . . . I . '