Scranton Central HS December 1955 Yearbook (Scranton, PA) - Full Access

THROUGH a till day thi fountain soars an unb lievable four hundr ·d fe t into th air. We pent the afternoon crui ing on Lak eneva. Lat •r that day w' took the night train to Pari., France and the entennial 'onfer– en e of the \ orld s lliance of Y.M..A.'s. Robl 1l Fratl nby, '56 P Rl , fl' CE ~ e arrived in Paris. France, on ugust l L 1955. II of us had h ard about this exoti city of romance and wh n we arriv •d th r . we rcaliz d that e\·et)" word was true. tn eye. were thrilled with uch maje tic igh a. th mo . -cover d bank of • T otr Dame, th hamps Ely•;ees, the Arch d Triumph, the Louvre Napol on' Tomb and th Eiff l Tower. On one occasion we had the opportunity to make an ex– cur. ion . 'era! mile out. id of Paris to Ver aille, the b autiful home of Loui XIV. and the burial ground of world \var . We pent the whol day there walking through the ca tle , art gallerie , mu cum , and garden.. That C\'ening a p ctacular production wa put on whi h r '– creat d for u th French Re,·olution , nd the as a . ination of ~Iarie Antoinette. We enjoyed it irnmen ly and r turned to our room with a broader knowledge of French histo- 1). \Ve found during our twelve-day tay that Pari could be ven more enchanting nt night off ring to us DE EMBER. 1955 EUROPE tt colorful . id '\\alk cafe and u h Parisian landmark a the Latin Quart r, 1oulin P ouge, Pigallc, and the Follie Bcrgere . Paris unlike th oth r citie our P nnsyhania d 1 gation had "i ited, h ld u to a definite purpo e that of attending the lder Boy' and irl onfer •nee which wa a pat t of the entenary onf renee of th World llian of Y.M. .A.' . Thi. lder Boy and Girl. Conference brought togeth r ov r on -thousand youth from forty- ev n nation repr s nting all part of th world to con ider th bigg t chall ng facing mankind, 'Living Together." The e boy and girl., from fifteen to eighteen year. of ag , came from a wide variety of o ial, e onomi , politi aL religiou., and educational backgrotmd ; at Pari.. how ,·er all met a. equals, e king the under– standing and unity upon which world brotherhood rnigh t be e tab– li.h d. ur tw lw day. in gay Par e cerned to A · and b ·fore we knew it, we were headed toward th Ia t lap of our trip, Belgium and England. H rIll)' ... H rrm '56 BEL IUM D E L lTD n the 24th of August we boarded our bu. e and had our last look at th ity ni" r itaire. \1\'c had njo ·ed our ta} in Pari. but w re glad to get back on the road again. . we trav led toward our de tination ieuport, B lgium we noticed that the land was becoming much flatter. Thi 1 b au e B 1- gium i the econd flattest country in Europ . We arrived in icuport ab ut 5:00 P. M. ju t about the time our friend. back hom wer itting down to their noon m al. W tayed in the Y.~I. .A. camp there which was about 200 yards from the ~cashore. Many of us rented bicycles and rod around the Bclo-ium count•)' ide for th next few day . ur Belgian camp leaders w re ex– cell nt hosts and made our three– day tay at the camp mo. t njoyablt>. The next city in our thirty-day tour of Europ wa Brus 1 . It was quit a change from th mall town of Ni uport a it i the large t city in Belgium. \! e vi ited many famous churche and witne cd a beer fe ti– \al in th vet)' famou market quare. The highlight of our stay in Bru el how ver, wa the excur ion to \• aterloo ' h re apol on m t hi d feat at the hand of th Duk of \ ellington. t the battle site there' is a great mound of earth om 135 f ct high which wa built by the wi\'c and weethearts of tho e who had di d during the apol onic \\'ar . The p ople of Belgium were o kind and friendly to u that we really hated to leave the quaint and interesting ountry. A hort time lat r, however we found out that the p ople of England wer ju t a friendly toward u American . It wa fa cinating to b in Great ilritain, th country about whiclt w had read ~o many book . \ "i ited man · hi torical place uch a Bu kingham Palace the Tower of London, Big Ben, the hou e of Parliament, St. Paul' athedral, \ e tminister Abbey, Picadilly Cir– cus, o. 1 0 Down in.~ tre t and many others. During our tay in London we al o took a trip to Strat– ford-on-Avon where William Shak - 11