Scranton Central HS December 1956 Yearbook (Scranton, PA) - Full Access

Afanu1oijJL, Wilk :oil ·ge, Wilk s– Barre, Penn ylvania; l a r 1.. i r 1 Capen, lark. ummit- bington High chool, lark ummit, Penn- yh-ania; The Lmiat, Wet Readina, P nn ylvania; Froth P nn ylvania tate niver ity niv r ity Park, Penn yh·ania; in ·a1 d World tew– ard Park Hi~h, w York, ew York; The Bl'lzton Vocalizer, Fleet– ville, P nn ylvania; The Aquinas niver ·ity of ranton, ranton P nn. ylvania; Blue and White, West ranton Hi h h ol ranton, Penn ylvania; The Keystonian, K y- ton' Junior ollege, Laplume, Penn ylvania; The Crestiad edar Cr . t ollege, Allentov.:n, P nn.yl – vama. Remember all the. fine publi a– tion. ar waiting for you in our library. \ hy d n't you drop in and ·<•c them for your. elf? Descent Linda Donaghue '57 I tood above looking down To . ee the people . urrying in mpty ha te, Running, tumbling, crawling, e\ 1 walking onfident. " tand . traight and walk." I hout d down; o an. wcr but a h epi h grin a feeble laugh. "Fool ," I thought with orn " fraid to me t the torm." if th e word wer a ignal I ar The wind aro e from it calm with force; tempe t of fury en ir I d my head. he itatcd, wav ring, waying, . t last falling into the crowd b low. Th y topp d to gaz at me, Their eye knowing, y t f rgiving; Then they r wned the hurried pa , Carrying me along. 'Learn," th y murmur d a they w nt "Prid go th before a fall." DE .EMBER 1956 THE LETTERMAN Arlhw Jenkin, '57 Insight into t h e most difficult pa rt of a boy's life John Puhalla '57 you glanc up from your de k, a pi e of n w paper floating aero th quadrangl catche your ye. Anoth r pow rful bla t of chill 0 - tob r wind end it ailing· again t the facad of old \ est Hall and finall permit it to drift lowly to th ground. By all-pr ent igns, tomorrow promi . to b anoth r typical fall aturday. Th t am i. counting heavily on the fact that it won't rain. \ ith tate' lightning-fa t of– fen e it would b di a trou to fac the mud along with the pow rful up tat lev n. It really doe n't make that much differ nc to you. You won't b on th gridiron. You won't v n wit– ne the gam . It will be the fir t game ou've mi d in your three year at tat . It wa. your own fault. You realize that now. You know you hould hav p nt mor time on your work. It' hard to under tand ju t how some peopl ' can learn thing o a ily. You hav to tud hard and burn midnight-oil for v ry . ubje t. You managed to make it v ry other ar, but this fall it wa ju t a little too tough for you. R member how you f It Ia t night after you had r eiv d your grades? \ hen it regi tered in your mind, ju t how badly you had done and what the con quence were it hit you all at once didn't it? A you lowly turn over another page of your book your mind drifts back to the text. You again ar aware that you r ally can't ven de– ciph r th Calculu printed on it. Lifting our ye to tare out the window, you can't h lp noticing the enormity of the bowl ituated far to th right and on th we t rly wing of th campus. The cru lty of your imagination b gins to a ail your ar with hoar e hout intermingled with the unforgettable mu ic of the . hool band. It an never b th arne to you again; you'll nev r have a chanc to romp into the end-zon , scoring an– other precious ix point for th Maroon and Whit of tat . You'll n ver be a part of tho e half-time p p talk that fu the t am lo er together and timulate all the power and ability r maining in your aching body. You'll never ev n b abl to lead the quad under the upright and onto the playing field again. You'r wa hed up Mr. Tou hdown! About the Author Arthur Jenkins, a member of the liter– ary staff since his junior year, has con– centrated mainly on lmpres Ions' "Sports in Review" in the past two issues. "The Letterman" is his first venture into fic– tion. After graduation he plans to enter Dickinson College, where he will pre– pare for the study of law. 7