Scranton Central HS 1958 Yearbook (Scranton, PA) - Full Access

th' eat f01 a Ion~ time. pa.. ing his hands lo\·in~ly over all the Je, er . turning all th knob. , and thinking. The noi e of a pa:. ine; car jolted him out of hi re\ ·ric, and he not down. Findin~ a clean cloth, he be– gan to clean the du t from the hood, wanting to prolong hi tim with thi indc cribable thing. "Dad aid it was 111) mone) I had won for college that mad ' thi . po. ·ible. I have the re't of thi. year until eptembet ." uddenly it hit him. He \\Ouldn't be here from ne't eptember until th June after that! • ·o more haying, milking, no more firemen picnic . hayride no more cah-e to rai e . . . And om '– thing began to ache in him. would nm thi thing for only fi,e months. He heard hi father coming, and he tepped out of the <raragc into th warm air that flowed all around him. Hi · father came up to him .;ay– ing omethina. but th bo) walked 1 apidl) aero the road to the barn. He thought he sa\\ hi father comincr after him, but he wa. not ure. E' erything wa blun d and mi ty .. . The Sea An!!da antomauro '61 The ea i like an ancient fortre With it e\·er tremblina wall., And the dweller "ho li\'e th re are little thing. That laugh when a tnt ture fall·. The ca i a city. \'a t and wild, A city of tranquil calm; The wa\e . gently lapping again t the hore. , • m to whi p 1 an unknown p.alm. The ea i beauty and lo,e; The . ea i power and hat ; It goe along, unending, Fulfilling it timele fate. JC. 'E 1958 Artichoke Ardor An inqui itlve mind I a ml ed ble ing. Carmuz Hcndc1 .1hott, '60 T HERE certainly i much reward in rearing children, but they can do so man) thing. that are a eros· between the hilariou. and the ex– a p •ratio~. Take that daughter of mine. for in tance. Elizab th will never let a ubject alone until he ha pm!>ued it to the Ia t ditch. And the ubje t he pur ue are orne– thing for a p ycholo~i t to figure out. E, erythin~. from ja mine tea to G, ·– lie poetr), intere. t her. _'ot that I don't appro' e of an inqui iti\·e mind, you under tand, but I \\·ond r if it can't be carried t far ometim . \\'hat happened the other da} i a typical example. Durin,a lunch she ·uddenl) a. ked "~Iom, what are the different \arieties of artichokes?" Wondering what had cau ed the udden intere t in artichoke I re– plied, "I don't know what the dif– ferent varietie of artichoke are. \\' h) do you a k?' h .miled that whim ical mil of her and an wer d, "It \\'a men– tioned in a g ograph) le on we had today." he aid nothing more about artichoke then, but I knew b · the look in her ey' that I hadn't heard the Ia t of th m. I wa right. For the next few day , Eli1abcth' · main topic of onver ·a– tion wa artichoke . I wa regaled on the habitat of artichoke , the \a– rietie of artichoke the tate. and countrie. leading in the produ tion of artichoke , the nutritional value of artichoke , and I don't know what el e. In the ''hole block, I b came the be t informed hou ewife on arti– choke. . :\t fir t. thi. artichok enthu ia m wa. amu ing. Then it wa annoying. But "hat could b don about it? I dido t want to tunt her curio ity but on the other hand, I wanted to pre tYe my anit). Then I got an idea. he had ne\'er ta ted an artichoke. Perhap if I bought one and cooked it for her, he would change her mind. I tried it, and it work d. he attempted 'aliantly to ·at it. Doggedly, he dipped th lea'e of the artichoke into auce and ate the edibl· part. But there ar many leaH~ t an artichoke, and by th time he had fini hed them. he wa exhau ted. Then he aw the heart of the artichoke and knew he would ha\· to eat that, too. That "a too much. 'Oh, no, Mother " he cried. "Do I have to eat that?" ... ro Elizabeth, you don't haYe to eat it. ' I replied. "Gee, thank, ~lorn," h igh d. \\ ith obviou relief. he left the table. The next day at lunch I jokingly aid to her ''\\'hat, Eli1abeth no new information about artichoke toda) ?" Quite eriou ly, he ''I\ d ided that 1\ enough about artichoke an wered learned now. B - . ide, I ha,e a new interet." ''\Vhat i it?" I a ked fearfully. miling angelically, . h replied ·'The habit of nail ." 21