1952 Magnet Yearbook

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out wh ich fair damsel won out
or whether the man is still "foot-loose
and fa ncy-free." J ust out of curtosltv
mind you ... not hing persona l ~
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Come to t hink of it. now th at my
mind is off the social whirl, th e basketball
te a m did well this year. 1
must t ry to discover how those players
ca n pop the ba ll in to the basket
:010 easily. T alk about sk ill and coordina
t ion ! I ca n on ly be sorrv tha t
th e J uniors didn 't get into t he finals.
T hen it might haw been double hon­
OU I":oI for Jarvis. T hey mer-it " AA"
for effort a nyh ow.
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A pollo is still brnKginJl about t he
ope retta. T r ue, "The Chi me s of :\'0 1"­
mandv" was a success bu t he needn't
claim a ll the la urels. ( He proba bly
didn't even go to a ll th e rehear...als.}
J udginl( f rom hi :ol story. you would
t hink he did all the work, but I ha ve
my sus picions that the cast s hould be
g iven a little more credi t than he is
gh'inK the m.
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Isn't it wonderful to han' a vivid
imagination? 1 didn't know where
or ho w or w ho dreamed it, but the
A t-horne Committee sure ca me up
with a dandy when th ey thought of
a "Sout h Sea Island" theme. )oJ\"
guess is, t hat it was probably one o'f
the nig htma res ( ?) t ha t t he bcvs had
while visiting drea mland. ;\loons,
grass skirts. rlc wers, pa lm tree:" the
...oft m us ic of Gui ta rs ... and mon-
.
,
keys ( How d id they get in there "}
can only mean one thing. WhM a
d r ea m I
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Th is mou nta in air is so invlgora t­
ing that my imagina t ion is beginning
to wander again. I wo nder if the )ola g­
net is still ac cepting poetry contrtbut
tons . because. I've just hit upon
a brai n-... term. T hey can edit a colum n
of nu rsery rhyme va riations which
can go something lik e . ..
T hirt y (lil Y." h(lth S I:'/;ff'III IIfT,
,4.pril. J UII I:' a nd
.\"O I' (' lII b l ' l",
A ll t hl:' rest liare thirty-11m',
X fl l/" i .., Owt f ail"?
. .. All r igh t! All r ight ! so I' m 110
poet . . . I 'll hurry to th e Delhi 01'­
ac le a nd come back with a ll Pyt'­
ope ner. You ju...t wa it . . .
... ...
Donald Duck Vislls Jarvis
On Thur.. :'Ilarrh 20t h, a large
num ber of J urvisltes ga thered in the
Ar t Room to .see a dis-play put on by
a ca r toonist from the Dis ney Studio:'
in California,
:'II I'. A . E . Brown of Fa mous Pl a y­
ers introduced )O[is s. Ad r ia na Casek-ttl,
better known to us as the " Voice
of Snow White" . :'Ilis-s Caselcttl ...anz
"whis tle While You Work" and the
whistles were supplied by the males
ill th e audience !
:'1[1', Roy \\' iIlia ms, the cartoo nist
ex plained t he techn ique of drawing
used in the Disn ey S tu dios . a nd ill ustrnte
d it by sketching. Grumpy, Happy.
T he Old Witr h. Pl ut o, Dona ld
Duck a nd ot he r suc h characters. :'III',
\\"illiams also guve words of encc uragement
to the young nrtists present,
an d a nswered qu es- tions conce r-ning
the production of s uch pictures as,
Sn ow Wh ite a nd Fantasia.
... ...
The school a nd t he Libra ry wis h
to express. in this issue of t he " :'lIn g.
net", their tha nks to )lisl'l Bessie
:'Il a c)o! u r r h ~" for the very va lua ble
edition of Tha cker ay from her
father's libra r-y. ) li s-.s :'II adlurl'hy is
th e daughter of the late reve red Recto
r, Archiba ld )oIa d lurchy. whose
work as a teache r a nd Pr inci pa l did
:;0 m uch to establish t he tradition (If
sc holarship in th e Old School.