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A
pleasant and happy
life
Does not come from external
Man draws from As from a
things;
within himself,
spring, pleasure
and
joy.
Plutarch
LONGWOOD VOLUME
3,
COLLEGE NUMBER 2
1967-1968
STAFF Myers
Editor-in-Chief
Phyllis
Feature Editor
Brenda Holly
Poetry Editor staff
Essay Editor staff
Short Story Editor staff
Art Editor staff
Literary Board
Becky Powers
Sharon .Karla
Dietz, Tulita
Owen
Myers
Martha Dofflemyer Suzanne Jones Vivian Gale, Joan Harrup
Emily Gillespie ..Janie
Ragland
Donna Blankenbecker, Martha
Hall,
Diane Henkel, Linda Matthews, Stephanie Posivach, Barbara Powers, Pat Ragan,
Wanda
Rush,
Mary Anne Thompson, Cynthia Wolfe Business
Manager Manager
Circulation staff
Martha Gay Regina Pawlak Carol Brotherton, Kathy Fones, Betty Fulp,
Betsy
Mary Lee McKeever,
Morgan, Diane
Ritchie,
Susan Strum, Pam Wayne,
Janet Sullivan Typist
Page Gehrken
Publicity
Mary
Alice
Carmody
Advisors
Herbert Blackwell
Literary
Dr.
Business
Mrs. Ruth Taliaferro
Art
Mr. Paul Rouillard
TABLE OF CONTENTS Matthew, poem Crumblebutton and the Smalt Tyke, poem Untitled,
poem
Untitled,
pencil sketch
An
Interview with President Willett
Sunday at 2:06, poem The Unnoticed Walk, pen and
Two Characters Ebbtide, poem
A
for a Novel,
.
.
Stephanie Posivach Sharon Collins Martha Hall
ink
.
.
.
poem
The Soldier, short story Index 7, serigraph Neebell Satapied,
poem
Untitled, Bic,
poem
cut
Untitled,
poem
Untitled,
monoprint
412,
The Diary
When
of Kiyoshi
First the
Snow
Masakazu, short story Falls,
poem
Library, monoprint
Unchanging Times,
short story
.... ....
19
Emily Gillespie
20 20
Frances Bain Wanda Rush Carol Bradley Linda Long
Untitled, graphics print
Memory, poem
Cary Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219 2
13
14 14 18 19
Jo Ann Pearson
21
22 ??
.
23
.
25 26
.
27
.
30 30
Printed by The Dierz Press, Inc
109 East
1
Sharon Collins Linda Powers
Becky Powers Janie Ragland Sharon Coll Carol Skelley Sharon Collins
poem
1
'2
Baxter Allison,
Hey, Student Teach, essay
10
Gale Cheryl Predgo Karla Myers Karen Maher Leslie Sedgewick Vivian
of
Untitled,
5 9
Willett
Susan Davenport Frances Simpers Linda Long
Marat/Sade Mushroom Garden, woodcut Review
4 4
Frances Bain Brenda Holly
Henry
poem
3 3
CRUMBLEBUTTON AND THE SMALT TYKE Twice upon a quarter Their beest and were crumblebutton.
MATTHEW Matthew mused on Matthew-money-maker moaning
Sitting silent,
Tinkling gold
flickered
in
and shining
money,
to himself.
love for
lira,
It
a
crumbly
were what
cripsily
"Cripsily and cronkly
I
am,"
The he wisplied
his senseless lust.
Once
life,
to
me,
Then a man
He were having to been And were tipsed tosped
of silken tones that
spoke aloud,
morn
Tickly, gruddily
beckoned.
A A
peace descended on Matthew's
peace Matthew
so peaceful left
his
and purely
soul,
tranquil
gold.
Stephanie Posivach
He
triged
But
it
flickling of
helklin
unto the fogly are.
in veil
to yeller outly.
worst for no bodily to be eared with.
Soft-like, stickly
were
he feeled
tyke,
"May me keepsake lastly
to the
felt
like
open
a hold crumblebutton
Say the smalt So
been holden.
by grimsly paws,
he fellded onto the grubs of some tarsen.
Tinkly with silven tongs he
"It
to spill.
daylight he trackled trickly by the woodbly.
Supply he flecked the
deep in the daily strife, Matthew knew no peace.
how
Wipsily, wipsily, cost he knoded natsy
Living
and seeing Matthew
crumblebutton.
worst and that.
it
Says crumblebutton,
silver
the growing dusk,
Matthew's only sense was Lust for
He were his
upon
larst
full it,
of
I
growgan.
to pattlies.
fond,"
hap and
gladfly,
mummy?"
the crumblebutton
goo washling
Recibered
a
And were
pulsed untie a bunk
For kapeseeking and fon the even
Was
lucked open by
Who
were so glad bulged by deeply
littly
tyker. lash
and
lid
That he everfor did took the well carnd of the crumblebutton.
Sharon Coll
i
/ou
A
yourself
call
seeker after
Truth
Yet you seek Truth In
places where
There
none.
is
You search
within
Yourself
And, not finding an
Answer You do
not even
Pause But hurry on
Chasing
after strange
Glimpses
Which,
spectres,
like
across your
Drift
Soul
Which,
spectres,
like
Have no
substance.
Poor creature! It
not that
is
You
don't
How It
is
know
to find
that
You don't know
How
to seek.
Martha Hall
'AN INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT WILLETT"
"What I
however,
lege,
side
literary
Brenda Holly
your opinion of
is
in
general?"
magazine
literary
it.
was responsible
I
selling
for
trying
and so
subscriptions,
to find
forth.
I
school, college, or graduate school?
Soon
after
President Willett answered several
arrival,
his
GYRE
the students at tion
to
their
office
and,
GYRE
the latest edition of the in
the
literary
staff
immediately,
walked
ROTUNDA,
aspects of
President Wil-
into
up from
he looked
showing
thus
reading
his interest
Longwood College. The
following
"Have you ever
"Well, in
written any poetry or short stories yourself,
did write a
poem and
News Leader about idiosyncracies and I
wrote a
poem
Richmond.
and
a nut
ago.
when
it
I
in
The Baltimore Colts are
dealt
my
the
have
comes
that the Sports Editor of the It
Lee,
magazine.
founded I
with
to
poem."
my pro
football.
Richmond News and
this
foot-
was
so,
in
high
what was the name
It
ManThomas Jefferson in DECLARATION. Then, at Washington
was the
In
the
fact,
fraternity
a
and
magazine, little
at
SHENANDOAH,
worked with the
I
my endeavors
the business end) the Business
in
I
brother
was the
sportswriting
the
mine
of
literary
actually
Manager. campus news-
Business
with
the
paper." are
wife's interests "I
share of
professional
favorite team,
the subject matter of that particular
Richmond
If
have to admit that most of
were
did do a
"What was printed
three years
I'm
Leader actually published. ball.
it
(I
ager of the high school magazine
either recently or in the past?" "I
was
I
direction
this
Also,
questions are taken from the conversation:
it
be-
of the publication?"
interest
Longwood, and would give them an introducnew administrator. Ready for the interview,
two members of the lett's
would
staff felt
I
plays a valuable role on any campus."
it
"Did you by chance ever work on any publication
interesting questions which the
ad-
think
gives you an outlet for creative activity, and, as such, lieve
col-
in
was on the business end rather than the
I
of
vertisements,
magazine
a literary
had some experience with a
your
interests
and
hobbies
and
your
also,
and hobbies?"
have answered
this
question at other times, so
I
have
ready-made answer for it. For the last three years, my hobby was writing the dissertation, and getting my dochope to return to torate. Now, with this out of the way, a
I
some
others.
Frankly,
I'm
looking forward to playing
some
golf.
haven't played
I
golf
in
long
a
approved the renovation
Visitors has
move
out there.
The Board
time.
of the
probably a
for
us to
it's
renovated, we'll have the golf course across the road so
I
In
know
I'm
going to have some interest
both
like
to play tennis.
I
have to be
I
also
in
She's a very
My
this.
good
wife
and
tennis player.
good shape to be able to beat her. We We've had the opportunity to do so a
in
to travel.
like
great deal. This past summer, the older two boys went with
New
up to
us
England and we stayed with some friends
about a week on
can
try
and
I
find
the time to
do
Mary was always
there,
every summer.
trip
We
of our big hobbies.
we
also like to it.
In
I
out
in
are certainly line
this
would be
some
sometimes
as
my
in
little
first
of the interests, to
lot,
travel
again,
is
gardening, and
I
say
bit with
choice of
and
what constitutes
it's
a
it.
However,
activities.
hobby.
I
guess
in a way that some of the activities of the children become almost that, in terms of doing things with them, and we do try to read to the children a great deal. believe that this is very important and they enjoy it, so we do try
you'd say
I
to
do
this."
your opinion of
answer
to
cousin
first
who graduates from
been influenced by her
favor of
it.
fine.
is
I
but
of
some
the
in
talent.
I
it,
all
I
area think
also believe that there's
I
native talent that you've got to
here and for those that have
make
maybe
certainly
I
be cultivated, but
amount
certain
and
no question
believe that there's
that talent can
Georgia
am
I
have a
I
of
women who are talented in as any man does and think
journalism that you've got to have
of
a
journalism,
in
think that those
I
Journalism?"
into
University
thinking,
have as much to offer
this field this
the
who's also interested
year,
I've in
women going
very carefully because
this
this
wish them well.
I
feel
have they
a real contribution."
"Do you
think
Longwood, being
that
college, should curtail
its
education
you know, about 15 percent of the
state
a
girls
teachers'
teachers?
strictly for
As
here do not plan to
and since the college is so oriented to this program, do you think it should be strictly for prospective teachers
teach,
alone?"
"No,
These
hard to draw a
is
have
"I
one
when
were occasions when she got
the yard to help her a
don't think
So
read a
Chesapeake, when we were
interested
rather begrudgingly that there
me
wagon, you
up so the children can travel fairly well. My went to Europe on our honeymoon. We usually
have one good
to
a station
things
fix
wife
Cape Cod. Having
"What
of
Longwood house year's time when
don't think so.
I
anyone who arts
to
is
In
the
background,
and
I
have the same good
also
think
liberal
arts
there are going to be people training
going
program, and
to find
reasons.
I
first
place,
I
going to teach ought to have
don't
mean
good
a
liberal
— period—ought
anyone
background.
Obviously,
who go through
a teachers'
after they
that they don't
would say that
get into teaching, they're
want
to stay in
this as criticism of
it
for various
the individuals, be-
cause
I
program
training
background,
arts
person,
we
get into
whether they stay
here)
and I
had
(I've
the
is
will
teaching
in
of this.
concerned,
role
I
or
this
graduate program
the
of
not.
liberal
a
educated
well
one
think
I
something that the Board of
this is
be a
spend some time on
to
are going to have to study.
who
good emphasis on
believe the result
I
like
by having a teachers'
But
it.
with a pretty
would favor no curtailment lems
know whether we
don't think any of us ever really
a thing or not until
certainly
I
of our prob-
this
the
college
give-and-take,
and
and
believe that there certainly
is
room
for
people
are not planning to go into teaching at Longwood.
think that obviously the
primarily
teacher
for
objective here
I
legislature established this institution
training,
good
a
is
is
but
liberal
feel
I
that
our
background
arts
definite
for every-
one."
advantages and disadvantages
think are the
a small college
of
as
which way would you
compared to a large university and see Longwood go?"
like to
"Having been to, as an undergraduate, Washington and Lee, which is half the size is
now,
I
found a
lot
of
advantages
comparatively small school that I
for
in
a
small
that
school,
Longwood
the small school or
undergraduate work.
I
think
know the student body so much better. Also, generally you can say that the situation is somewhat
you get
feel that
less
good
to
formal than
in
the large institution.
lationship of the faculty
more personalized
and
attention,
students,
and
it
I
In
terms of the re-
believe you receive
doesn't
become
just
a
listen
over
is
learning,
bring
what
forth
be bad.
think could
I
idea, but as a day-in, day-out
where you never have
I
also
chance
a
would
I
feel,
being
have
to
term
active
realistic,
the average freshman doesn't possess the maturity of a junior
and
There are problems of adjustment.
senior.
students,
this
home, and
I
adjust better
can
in
the
is
don't believe there's any question that you can in
the comparatively smaller situation than you
Now
the larger one.
Longwood ought
feel
that.
one
problems we
of the
this
do
a
particular topic,
lot
eventually
asked
go
to
Some
it
feel
we
don't know the answer to
do is
a lot of studying
going to have to
estimates say that
dormitories
of
that
other estimates say don't think
I
ought to be. we're
dis-
size that
we ought
to
about 2,200 or 2,400 students, and we've
the size of 4,000.
I
I
and our board
Some
of thinking.
approval
capacity.
two
to reach.
believe that I'm going to have to
I
on
many
For
away from
time they've ever been
first
cussed with the Board of Visitors was the ultimate
"What do you
of these
room and
not saying that there aren't times, that for a particular
I'm
activity, this isn't a pretty
steady diet of
Visitors, the staff,
some
in
another building. This can get to be pretty impersonal.
in
coming
But as far as your question
this
the lecture
in
sit
over a microphone and the professor
to the lecture
since at
You can have
or swim situation.
sink
large universities where you
I
capacity of 2,400 takes I
we ought
to it
think
that,
us
to
to
that
go on
to
can say today which of the
believe that we've got to
committed
tively small school.
I
would take
but
I
don't
go
to 2,400.
think
that
a
out of the category of a compara-
most of the advantages of a small
school can be realized there.
be too small
to
have the like.
facilities,
optimum
size
weigh a
lot of
going to be
do
time,
in
and
I
and
I
reflect
the
we
elected representatives
go
lation should
along
with
the
believe
it's
will
we can make
people
of
Virginia,
As the
other
state
perhaps
we'll
institutions.
This
decision
and
their
legislature
first
pretty
have to grow
know
I
that
the
statement the other day, and
this
a pretty important thought.
quantity.
this
are going to have to
the legislature.
in
to college, then
he was concerned our than
It's
we
see what
to
determine what portion of the popu-
board made
rector of our I
try to
of thought to this.
pretty well
the
of
absolute,
believe you should
I
sure,
don't think that
thinking
and the people
lot
I'm
interesting,
believe that
alone.
but
and give a
factors
real
have,
to
an
there's
priority
said as far as
ought to be quality rather
my
sums
well
He
thinking
on
this
"What do you consider of Longwood right now?" To
this
question,
as the urgent
and important needs
named if
a few needs that he
they were
fulfilled.
First,
a
laboratory school used "for observation and brief one day
the
prior to student teaching."
Library has several
need ing
for
realize that a lot of the things I've said aren't those that
"I
probably are of the greatest concern to the students. a
of the students
lot
needs,
more dormitory space,
converted
into
classrooms
and
type,
that
social
rules
say that on
down
I
don't think
ROTUNDA
The
areas. the
with
and whether or not
all
I'm
unmindful
totally
raised the question
has
need re-examination.
that
three
of
new
lieve
anyone coming
he wants to take a look
into a
willing
I'm
position has
at,
and
lists
take a look at the problem of cars,
will
tainly take a look at the question of
certainly
take a
going to do faculty.
at too.
look
the
it
I
all
down and promise that we will to
sit
"In your opinion,
and then he expressed the
"I
think that
with
Ruffner eventually be-
things
and
administrative
mean
sit
be-
I
of things
he
say
will
I
we
cer-
will
classes,
we
will
regulations per-
don't want to take the credit that I'm
because these have
These are
Saturday
the existing social
at
all
come
me
to
from
staff
areas that they want to take a look
They've also come from students.
need
all
to
certainly couldn't an-
I
swer any of these three question areas today, but
We
of
would simply
I
problems,
these
these
in
some
of
anytime, anyplace, to study and discuss them.
feels
this:
think
I
whether or
continue to have Saturday classes and a few things of
we'll
Secondly, he mentioned that
offices.
more concerned
are
not they can have automobiles on campus,
and
Dr. Willett
would improve Longwood
visits
statement with these interesting remarks:
taining to drinking.
subject."
felt
he mentioned a few other needs, but he terminated
Also, his
perhaps you'd
attract the faculty that
you ought
you can get
that
feel
you cannot offer the courses,
anyone can say
don't suppose
I
also
I
to the point that
So,
I
think that
take a long look at them,
and
I
we
make
study them."
what makes
really the
a
good teacher?"
most important thing or important
have to do with attitudes and to belittle technical training
personality.
because
I
I
don't
think that a per-
son can work,
become
but
I
a better teacher
as a
human being are
best
command
be
a
SUNDAY AT
by having the professional
believe that the attitudes,
2:06
the personality traits
awfully important.
The person with the isn't going to
of subject matter in the world
good teacher
if
he doesn't know how to get
it
across
Henry
At the same time, a person who may have the best personality in the world, but doesn't have anything to think you get across, is going to have trouble, too. So
to the students.
I
have to come back to the question of the proper combination.
The
qualities that
essentially
person:
the
respect
qualities for
make that
your
believe are good teacher, make a good and successful
a
I
fellow
man,
understanding,
pa-
tience and humanness. Finally,
opinion of
the interviewer asked
Longwood graduates
President Willett about
as teachers in general,
promptly replied that he has found them
to
his
and he
be "Top-flight!"
On Sunday
A
at
2:06
whistle sounds a note
Fifty
seven thousand
"Gimme This
rise
and
call
C-O-L-T, COLT."
madness repeats
In cities
But
a
itself
across the land
nowhere more than Baltimore
Den of the Unitas band. The "burglar" they sometimes Football larceny
His victims?
is
—Why
call
game
his his
opponents
Bears and Packers be their name.
The Colts receive the
kickoff
Drive hard on the stadium floor
him
Willett
And
thousands cry aloud a cheer
"Open
door
the
"O Johnny
for
Lenny Moore."
take them
in for six"
The Colt This
A
not
faithful falter
happens every day.
sideline pass to Berry
The sounds above the horseshoe soar
Behind Parker the protection moulds
A
A
buttonhook out to the
Raymond
Now
the opponents have the ball
And up Until
And The
left
Berry has for the score.
move
Marchetti slams the door
For victory
is
shouts "they shall not pass."
Via "The
wages heavy and ability show
There's quiet
No
game
Of
played by the pro.
Its
football as
halftime
now
in
quite the equal
Coltland
on the gridiron's sod
The Colt band
Where weary
is
performing
warriors trod.
Back to action football fans
And Til
both teams scores do mount
with less than two to
go
There's a twenty-twenty count.
Again
the
enemy
The winning score
surges forth to log
But suddenly they lose the ball
Jarred free by a Shinnick "red dog." Unitas looks upon the clock Sixty
The enemy now lets
fast
For there's no
And
out to Lenny
the final half-minute unfolds.
The crowd
the field
battle
Skill
down and
As
seconds
left
to play
strife,
is
reeling
go
a roar
posted upon the board
Bomb" to Jimmy Orr. now in the stadium no
stress,
no
strain
happy Her Colts have won again. For tonight Baltimore
is
w
"TWO CHARACTERS FOR A NOVEL"
EBBTIDE
A
wave washes the shore, seaweed wall an angrier moment.
gentle
And
kisses the
Left at
The yellow flower picked today drops
its
Whispering foam
petals.
The sweetness
"This should not be; It
should bloom for us a week, at
Blows
least.
And
This should not be; Last year
"The flower It
will
is
its
bush even blossomed during snow."
lovely
its
last
it
could bloom is
more on
the snow.
so disgusting."
air,
The old man's
It
is
hair
.
.
.
to the water.
receding waters renew old beaches,
distant
memories wash again
The corridors if
you wish."
plant another for tomorrow."
of thought.
Cold brine up the soaking sand Lets footprints
Frances Simpers
mind
the ebbtide of the
When And
it.
Find another one tomorrow, "I'll
in
saw along the path.
Think no
the
playful breezes toss
Down it
Dropping petals by a vase
"Much
in
lost.
is
of salt
The philosopher who has come
day.
miss nothing."
"You wouldn't have believed
slides o'er the sand,
back to sea and
Slips
Though
still
fall
to time.
the gentle waves,
And
still
Now
the tide
And
the old
the whispering foam, is
coming
man
turns
in
.
.
.
toward home. Linda Long
dancing around the stage, jumping on each other, or run-
A REVIEW OF MARAT/SADE
ning around madly. The audience would have to be quite familiar with the
Vivian Gale
much
stand
French Revolution to under-
history of the
dialogue.
the
of
appears
It
most of the
that
audience from Longwood was not familiar with this history, and the entire film remained disconnected and unmeaningful Undoubtedly, there should have been a seminar on
to them.
the film before
Seeing the film Marat/Sade was an unforgettable
—mind,
Sometimes
—
lota Tau,
fathom why
Granted
campus
Longwood and sponsored by Lambda
of
campus
the
this film
was the
purpose
that the
controversial
films
it
The
students
is
it,
nevertheless,
and with
in
formances
start.
It
to
will
in
a play
watching asylum.
asso-
what
of the Clarenton insane
1808. The basic pattern behind the strange peris
individualist,
the
ing
memorized
and
passages
from
the
play,
ence.
If
its
ness,
as
if
purpose
artist's
play. True,
mob
the
of
the
can
become by
is
using
too, the theatre
the
bizarre
these
play
French
in-
who respond
Revolution had instability
of
unstable actors to play the
audience senses that through
the
bars
it
of
is
an
actually
insane
do not answer our question Art work that is grotesque and
factors
—
it,
and why must
presentation?
it
use such a disgusting format
the viewer to feel disgust, hopeless-
Is
or dejection after seeing the film?
The only In
feeling of
the final scene,
de Sade knowingly expounds, "The question
always there;" but what, 12
the work.
purpose? view must have a purposeful effect on the audiwhat to make us realize something this film is
the Marquis
singing,
some
after
in
de Sade does
world by using lunatics
the reviewer was complete bewilderment.
pallid white faces, intermittently speak-
lengthy
de Sade's
the
is
to
for
Marquis de Sade.
But the main portion of the film consists of nauseous lunatics
with straggly hair
just
But
painful
exactly
the argument between the extreme revolutionary
Marat and the cynical
mob
mob. True,
this
future attempts.
by inmates
injustice
the
probable that
or heard of the film
unmeaningful can be
totally
responded. True, he shows how dangerous the
bring to the
seems that
is
not so with
is
tensify the injustice in the
an account of the assassination of Jean-Paul
Marat, as acted
asylum
This
hard to
for the series.
to
is
is
which Longwood students would
who saw
with the society film
It
one chosen society
got the society off to a slow
many puzzled ciate
first
of the
not ordinarily be able to see, film
honor society.
literature
which seems
thought the viewer can find the
experience. The film was brought to Farmville by the newly
formed Film Society
was ever shown here.
clearly understood or, at least, tolerated,
more
"memorable" but "unforgettable"
the reviewer does not say
it
art
may we
ask,
is
the question?
is
THE SOLDIER
Come
with
me
and watch the sea grass grow. Listen to the singing surf
and you
will
know
of love like
waves beating
at a brick sea wall,
seeking escape from their
and entrance
own
trl PP ed down the creaky steps into home He P icked U P his lunch from
Louis
fury
째f h
to the heart of the shore.
'
S
-
the
then walked to the entrance of the kitchen to yell to
his
momma. At
the sound of his step, his
around and flashed him a big that his
momma's
smile
was the
smile.
He
nicest thing
front
hall
the hal1 table
'
good-bye
momma
turned
always thought
about her. With-
out even saying anything, Louis knew she meant to say "you certainly are a fine child." Louis returned her smile with a
Karla Myers
shining white one of his own.
"Good-bye, Momma." "Good-bye,
Louis.
yourself at school."
14
Now
you be
a
good
child
and behave
Louis skipped happily out of the front door.
a minute on
porch steps to
his
He
of the screen door.
Hoping
some of down
to see
was
sight.
in
He
the other
sighed
slightly,
He paused bang
the reassuring
own benefit. he looked down one end
grinned again for his friends,
of the street then
down
listen for
end
his
Pretending he was a great soldier
he whirred
homes
way
the
all
of his friends,
to school
all
on a
in
a war,
shooting at the
tank,
the identical houses gazing blankly
at him.
When bell
"Hey, Glenn, have
"Aw his
legs dangling
read off the
chewing
noisily
first,
his friend.
missed anything?"
in
the
and
relief,
sat
back
Mr. Booker was
air.
He came
of fourth graders.
list
came
then right afterwards,
"Wonder who
No
"Don't know."
of school.
"Hope "Naw,
if
the soldier on TV, right,
right,"
left,
and marched down the he chanted,
himself to hear.
As he neared
voices other than
his
own.
as
good
"I
looked behind the
there,
shucks, no!"
he reached school, Louis rushed into the building.
had already sounded the beginning
in the hall. Louis's mood changed. Suddenly he was What everybody had already found their new classrooms? What would they do to him? His momma would be mad if they sent him home because he did not have a classroom. Louis stood in the middle of the hall. He could not decide whether to cry or not. He puckered his eyes. No tears would come. He screwed up his mouth, but he could not wail. He shrugged his shoulders, braced him-
"Left,
He
sitting
toward
softly I
Louis breathed a sigh of
one was
like
Glenn
in
chair,
his
just starting
to
name
to Glenn's
Glenn and Louis
Louis's.
got up together and walked to their assigned classroom.
scared.
self
of the cafeteria.
friend
his
two traps and treaded
hopped on one foot jumped
then
end
the far
on a piece of gum. The gallant soldier squeezed between the
No one
of the street.
in
door and saw
the three steps, landing flat on both feet as he
to the sidewalk.
The
was
guess
the soldier
this in
is
just
hall.
loud enough for
the cafeteria, he could hear
it's it
"Do you She gives
"Nah.
our teacher
any to
try,"
whispered
him.
Gently he shoved open the cafeteria door. The principal
this
year?"
not Miss Itchy Twitchy again."
think
it
My
could be Miss Deane?
She's really bad.
homework."
brother said she didn't
come
back."
get a drink of water?"
"Yeah." Louis slurped at the cool stream of water, jiggled in
his
Glenn
mouth, then swallowed repeat
the
They
ritual.
pushed open the door
it.
to
their
they both stopped short and a place as
be
won't be."
a lot of
"Wanna
will
he imagined
ought to close
statue
a
his
felt.
mouth.
just
He
His
He stepped rounded
the
classroom. stared.
momma
corner
let
and
Simultaneously
Louis
subconsciously
impolite to stare with your mouth open.
around
it
aside to
felt
just
like
thought he
often told him
it
was
"Good
morning, boys.
stumbled
Louis
They
Louis.
Would you
over
Louis said
to
Glenn
then
in
just
the room. Their reactions were
grew suddenly
short,
and
chair
his
like
rang.
The teacher walked
he
they wandered into
the same.
all
They stopped quiet,
checked
guess
I
himself.
know by now
are
ya'll
that I'm
It
It
was almost as good
was a
fact of his
life
teachers.
like
all
just
finally
bell
middle of the room and
the
Louis liked her smile.
He
wasn't supposed to
just
"Class,
to
your new teacher.
still
staring.
a long time ago, but he could not
I
am. You
My name
is
Miss
He had keep
his
shut
his
mouth
eyes off of her.
the rest of the class were watching her too.
Miss
Randolph continued. "I
know
that
once we
get acquainted, we'll get along
"Now,
let's
name.
begin today by
will
experience you had
room and
this
She had
Naturally
mouth, same as
a big
room.
front of the
I
can't promise that
I'll
learn
it
right
his
away, but
She pointed to Glenn to
start.
Glenn said
his
name, then
year.
Stupid Theresa
story,
just
the
to
sassily
Louis went back
had
just
out,
supposedly.
very pretty.
mean, as
I
"Miss, what
"My name "You are
is is
entered
a pretty lady on the street.
"Yes," he whispered to
his
far as
companion, "yes, I
can
tell,
she
is
I
think she's
pretty."
to the pretty lady.
your name, please?" Miss Randolph, soldier."
a very pretty lady, Miss Randolph."
"My name
soldier. is
jumped she's
What
as
is
your name?"
Randolph."
Louis, Miss
Glenn punched him.
pointing
to
you.
She wants you
to
tell
a
story."
Louis trudged slowly up the ais'e with his
did not know what to
try real hard."
begin?"
his fellow soldier
"Louis,
go around the room and everybody say
like to
She pranced
As she began her
He and
would
you
or sad
town where the enemy had been driven
to the battle site.
a
of
would be old Theresa.
it
last
did not know when to shut up.
some some funny
letting
us
tell
Who
summer.
Theresa volunteered.
Louis
She smiled again.
I'll
we
to the front of the
"Thank you, all
just fine."
first
stared and shook their heads numbly.
The soldier marched up
knew he was
He knew
their
They both noticed
wondering who
Randolph." Louis
go
then stumbled to the nearest
down. The whole room was
sat silently
Momma's.
that
bashful,
as
house after everybody went to bed. The
smiled at them. as
pronounced
"Children,
watched the other children
around the classroom. The
all
over
safely.
Louis
went
it
them
tripped
and get
seats
find
and so
his,
names as if they were in a trance. After every name, Miss Randolph repeated it. The children kids
Glenn,
managed
finally
please find a seat."
mumbled.
"Yes, ma'am," they
the
tell
about.
head bent.
He decided
new community swimming pool
that
to
had been
tell
He
about
built
for
and family
friends
his
last
summer.
rushed back to
then
the story,
Louis stumbled through
Glenn's turn was
seat.
his
pretty,
of
columns.
three
and young
older than
She was probably
too.
oldest sister.
his
Miss Randolph's red hair. red hair before. to
They
When
by her
sit
in
He had
Louis
his
"Yeah. That's what
tiny
bit
were not
alike
decided he
liked
second.
caught
name, Louis rushed
When
so
almost knocked the chair over
in
dolph
just
like
his
Momma's
Glenn
eagerness.
his
"Me
neither."
The
bell
called
smile
again.
room. They settled
Ran-
Miss
the
turned a page
little
It
in
the reader,
Louis
let
his
embarrassed.
he reached for
his
He
could feel
book he
let
his
As they
to
Louis
soft.
be more
recess, thus
It
was disappointed.
exciting to touch.
to the cafeteria faster.
fall
on the
He was
cheeks glow hotly.
arm brush
his
not have an unusual or different feeling.
and very
book
banged louder then he had imagined.
Then the
was
hers. slightly
He had bell
It
a
As did
warm
expected
rang for lunch
ending the reading. The children scampered
and gobbled down
their lunch to get outside
Hardly anyone said a word
until
they reached the
grader
Glenn?" her,
children
Glenn?"
from
in
thought
coloring
the halls
in
play.
their
all
way
the
They
to class-
into their seats.
we get we would spend
"Children, since I
floor.
base, then
fifth
I
Miss Randolph
something about "teacher's pet" to him. smiled
first
big
right."
all
"Would you want to marry "Naw, don't think so."
maybe
to
A
ball.
so Louis and Glenn went to outfield.
air,
think she's pretty,
"Yeah, she's
and ran
to the chair next to hers.
hissed
and
the
the
pushed, played, and giggled
He
it
in
it
ball,
kicked
then
Louis
"Do you
reading time came, Louis decided to
the circle around the table,
thought."
I
Glenn ran up, kicked the
really
never known anyone with
he could accidentally touch her arm.
announced
a
just
certainly
By the end of arithmetic,
though.
try
decided she was
Louis
new teacher?"
think of the
"She's O.K."
The morning passed quickly. Louis could feel the class relax a little, as Miss Randolph taught them how to multiply numbers
to wait
the ball.
"What do you
he listened to Glenn.
next, so
Glenn
Louis lined up behind
screaming playground. his turn to kick
you
anything
crayons and Glenn,
will
out of school early
like.
this
afternoon,
the rest of the time drawing and
Theresa,
will
you give out the
you give out the paper?"
"Yes, ma'am." "Yes, ma'am."
The paper chattered
rustled
softly.
expect from
this
gaily
in
They were
the still
room not
teacher.
"What are you gonna draw, Glenn?" "A horse." "What are you drawing?"
and the children
quite
sure
what
to
"A
soldier."
Glenn nodded to work.
his
approval and fhey both went diligently
The warm sun flashed down on
arms as he drew
Louis's
head and
his soldier.
Soldier Louis asked
Miss Randolph, "Are you doing any-
thing this afternoon, Miss
Randolph?"
"Well, no, soldier."
"Would you
to
like
go see
the
James Bond movie
that
is
playing now, Miss Randolph?" "I
can't, soldier."
"Why, Miss Randolph?" "You're colored, soldier."
The school
bell
out of the room.
It
rang.
Louis tore up his drawing and ran
was going
to
be a long year.
Karen Maher
There were colors,
NEEBELL SATAPIED
Blue and white and red.
There were people Singing songs joyfully.
There was a mist
Once apond
a
Penetrating everything.
dime
There were buildings
There were a straight scrugal.
These was a probalame
High
Cost he kneed to beest crookly.
An
He
rambulled embossed
It
is
the heavens,
in
made
outline
Seeing for a friend scrugal,
Suddenly I'm
Button he not but could fined once.
Deeper, higher.
Seved he puddled along
My God, WHY!
(he really did)
heavy.
night. falling
Untold he skied.
Help, no one hears
Cost windowed he skied
Loneliness closes round
He
grove
his
humble enter the the hamburgler
It's
End went he came up
It
He wash
I
no longest a goodly scrugal
a jungle from which
have
to get out.
are these people?
Masses, but not attached
That had crooklies
Each one
wood.
Moral: Don't evergreen skied clip your knot panting to
coming nearer
What
Butly nowst worst a sworled scrugal
Like a barbarian polecat
is
see plight a barbarian polecat iron ore a
own
theirs,
but
of the buildings
They show
Shi
of their
The colors are
What
crookly sworled scrugal!
is
Their songs express a part of themselves
us
how we
are.
Individuals, expressing ourselves
HEY, STUDENT
But as a whole
Reaching
Maybe
for
TEACH
something
of unity or of understanding.
To know themselves and Then, to know others.
.
.
Jo Ann Pearson
Baxter Allison and
.
Linda Powers
"Are you a new student? Well, step over to the side and I'll help you in a minute," said the school secretary.
What At
blow that was
a
moment
that
moment After
during I
would appreciate was a student teacher and not a new really began. The first big step was maneu-
but that
student, the fun
way.
my
to my ego the first day on the job. discovered there would never be a dull career as a student teacher.
explained to the secretary that
her help,
down
vering
I
the obstacle course,
After successfully dodging
the course, the next step
was
to
better known as the hallthe
students
summon
—
all
—
enter the classroom. There they were faces
all
thirty of
I
I
them.
a
also
running
my courage and sea
of
unfamiliar
But after a week's observation the
names began to match the faces. then had to summon my courage again to stand before those eager pupils and present my lesson which had so carefully prepared. stood I
I
I
trembling, gripping the lectern for moral support.
around the room trying to professor had told
be rushed end 20
of
my
at
me.
recall
everything
Immediately
the end of the period.
lesson
plan,
I
I
began
my so
I
glanced
education as
not to
Having reached the casually checked the time and to
— my
horror realized that there were fifteen minutes remaining
Somehow
the period.
in
and my
day
first
as
made
I
my
eight weeks
the
end
of
drew
it
me
brought
of the class
an end.
to
came
I
closer to the
I
As
day was over.
first
however,
to a close,
each day as
came
student teacher
a
was exhausted and relieved that the
end
the
to
it
dread
to
end
my
of
Throughout the eight weeks, experiences
other
the
with
was
it
interesting
One
of
my
a
"Why
composition on the topic
Hall."
His
running
in
from the students ranged from a complete
homemade
cookies and a
teacher
pupil rolling a piece of fruit to the front of the
student teacher. The best
had released
into
her
science
his
room
on
project
For the next few
garter snakes.
compete
to find
the
moments
Overheard by
are a
was pushing
supermarket was look at
Contrary
human and
my
to
as
always
not
one student
that
floor
—
of
pair
a
English took a back
restricted
student teacher her this
cart
comment by
the
the
end
of
primary grades as
like a
eight
the
of
student,
local
"Hey,
person."
opinion, nevertheless, the
classroom.
the
aisles
young
a
teacher trying to act
some student
to
the
in
around
me
—
all,
however,
room is
to
each
for the
that which
the gift of experience.
did."
I
with sub-
seat to science.
Experiences
of
gift
outfit
consists of
was
For example, the student English
own.
who walked
— which
the
in "I
this,
the hall because you said to hurry up, so
jects other than their
roll
fruit
ex-
Gifts of appre-
by having him
like
to
warm and meaningful
a
did for other student teachers.
ele-
in
Must Run
I
went something
composition
The secondary teachers often have
Mom,
it
friends teaching
the elementary grades disciplined a student
she
ciation
ended
student teaching
share
to
both
teachers,
student
mentary and secondary schools.
write
my
cannot be taken away from
career.
in
of
perience as
—
we
all
last
web, don't touch
corner into which no
light
is
cast.
passing glance, bottle of Scotch
But
A A
it!
blind spot
—an easy escape.
do you forget?
myriad
of
menagerie
Remember How many
moments, of
memories
— Forget
.
.
.
masters has one soul?
are
weeks approached
hated to leave that sea of not-so-unfamiliar faces. The
A A A A A
I
day
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"412"
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Geometrical perfection. Dark painted ovals
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Crooked holdings r ->'
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s
— shadowy
Beneath.
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of the quill
Black 'gainst a forestry background.
To
|f kT.-.t^ -'lit
you umbrella stems
side of
That have
lost that
which protects
'Gainst the varied droplets.
Do you
feel the rain,
The wind?
Do you Soon
feel the
will
cold?
you orange feathers
Be gone? Will you be laid bare
To But
"
the will
snow? you hold flowers
Next year?
Bt^-^aiJ Sharon Collins
22
— and
in
"THE DIARY OF KIYOSHI MASAKAZU"
Stone
around lanterns
the
pond
branches, and stationed
pond were bridge spanned the
Carol Skelley
which
were suspended
stately
among
several
he could see blooming water
garden.
hanging
rocks which surrounded
the
An arched wooden
bronze cranes.
the pond; and
the
low
highlighted
from
one looked down from
if
lilies
sun was already shining through the trees
and casting bizarre
shadows upon the rocks and pond.
was the scene
This
Kiyoshi savored as she looked out her window.
Masakazu awoke with
Kiyoshi
joy which she at
she
remembered
a feeling of expectancy
— today,
August
6,
kimono
of
blue
light
matching obi around her
brocade.
slim waist
Kiyoshi
(just
Kiyoshi's
six
Myeko, was already warming the
one
honor of
city
Masakazu's home, frame
and
walls
like
most
which
in
more modern ones. The
supported
a
heavy
tile
roof.
This
home
long
amid the exquisite garden which surrounded it. Nutrees had been artistically planted
suited the climate of
Japan and seemed
secure.
Itsukushima
She
sitting
As
in
the tokonoma, the most important part of
She excitedly sank
to her knees
and ate her
Asano
part of the
day
thought,
for
she loved to walk
beneath
the
at
Park. in
many bamboo and
to
Kiyoshi
rice
coming
spend the greater delighted
at
the
the coolness of the park laurel
Like
trees.
most
Japanese, Kiyoshi revered nature and she knew the precise
Japan, consisted of a wooden
style
warm and of the
Kiyoshi had been given the
She and her family were going
day.
which reflected traditional Japanese
architecture and customs as well as
all
silence as she anticipated the events of the
balls in
family's
Kiyoshi and her family lived on the outskirts of Hiroshima.
was a prosperous
—
family already knelt around a low table.
her birthday privileges,
of
the house.
breakfast of rice balls over the hibachi.
It
inside
reminded her
But Kiyoshi could not tarry on these thoughts.
room where her
the
was yet very
It
good it
that
Looking at
folded her mat and bedding quickly and then entered the
but the day promised to be warm.
o'clock),
mother,
tied
her feel
was because
it
Shrine.
her most
and adorned her shining
black hair with several butterfly ornaments. early
in
made
always
Perhaps
1945, was her birthday.
She arose quickly from her mat and dressed beautiful
it
and
Soon, however,
could not understand.
first
it,
The
floating lazily about.
to be-
rock gardens, quiet pools,
and ornate bridges
would
She also thought of the dinner
her
lure
mother would prepare
snapped
merous flowers and dwarf
tempura. 23
her as always.
in
that
evening.
in
the park
Her black eyes
expectation as she pictured her favorite dish
She could see her mother before the hibachi coat-
wheat
ing the fish with the delicious
and egg mixture.
flour
for
Ah, such a day as
fried in boiling water.
Kiyoshi
this!
breakfast.
As
and
left
if
on
the
immediately and held purest
the
bossed.
silk
Mrs.
signal,
room in
She returned
happy because you
her hands a pale green kimono of
flushed
with
Myeko
and
pleasure
As
Kiyoshi admired her splendid
and she vowed
that she
she wasn't pleased with
if
gift,
smiled
his
in
Soon
her older brother's
Murato
could
given
wreathed her face as she proudly held up parents to admire. This was certainly a
a
modern
her.
last
Smiles
to
by
lush
his
tissue,
theirs,
She seemed transfixed.
Her
father
ferns
noted that
day was
now considered
member
holiday stillness
for
a
intermittent
blasts.
The
for the air
to
still
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
a
rustic
to
fill
the
first
Suddenly,
of the family
light
24
shot
rays.
and
across
a
bench somewhat isolated
page
trees.
of her it
new
She
sat
diary.
As
caught one of the
She looked down admiringly and
was almost 8:15. To
ahead
Koyoshima,
Mrs.
and surrounded by bamboo
morning it
had sounded.
all-clear
with
talk
but Kiyoshi continued along the path which
her favorite spot
sun's early
Kiyoshi lifted a fragile watch from
twelve-year-old daughter an adult
family
Suddenly, however, the
she wrote, her gold watch glinted as
daughter
mild curiosity, but he now eyed her sharply as she opened the package which he had given to her. After care-
the box.
stopped
down and decided
with
removing the
Myeko, and Tanimota,
family
neighbor of
would enjoy using.
fully
park and strolled
the
Kiyoshi was blissfully happy, as
and by eight o'clock the
long,
Kiyoshi's
led
his
Let us
sounded each morning when the United States city. The warning blasts did not
raid warning
which she
Tanimota, Kiyoshi's father, had been watching
saying,
weather plane flew over the
diary for her gift
come, the day wastes.
Masakazus took cover but were not too alarmed,
Murato, she knew, was
have
and
daughter as you and are
day was broken by several
the
of
many Japanese boys who preferred the ways of the modern world rather than the ancient customs of their ancestors. Kiyoshi considered this as she unwrapped the package, what
watch that had
much loved daughter
the Masakazus entered
after,
were Murato,
like
wondering
But
are.
together was quite special.
a small
would show no disappointment gift.
her
at
of such a
peacefully along the paths.
her brother Murato
bowed, smiled, and offered her
Kiyoshi saw the apprehension
package. face,
her,
a
depart for Asano Park."
happily for she knew she had pleased her daughter.
stepped before
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
the tears of happiness stinging her cheeks,
felt
"Kiyoshi,
on which white and pink peonies were em-
Kiyoshi
gold heirloom
this
great-grandmother.
Myeko laughed softly we are proud
Masakasu arose from the
no explanation.
with
to her
she choked as she tried to express her thanks to her family.
Kiyoshi put aside her thoughts and soon finished her small
floor
he trusted her with
once belonged
She pictured how splendid the dish would look after being
think that the
whole glorious
of her!
without the
sky.
warning, Kiyoshi
a
tremendous
frantically
flash
clutched
of
her
diary and ran several steps before the impact of the force
threw her
in
the midst of the foliage.
who had earlier felt so secure and special number one of the 78,000 killed as the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by the United
The
little
was now first
girl
just
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
a
WHEN
FIRST
THE
SNOW
FALLS
States.
Many days initial
later,
as
began
the city
to
recover from the
shock of the explosion, corpse details were sent out
to gather the bodies.
After seeing so
many
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;trying
the workers hunted methodically-
human
nightmarish objects were
horrifying deaths,
to forget that these
beings.
However,
thoughtful
member
young
he prayed: "Thank you, God, for sparing
girl
daughter.
me
I
know
if
of
the
When
one
as
The
bent over the body of a
detail
You had desired
it,
of a
book
lifted
her hand and the skin
hand
still
read:
"I shall
He
held the charred
always
in
first the slow and swift, From the cool heights of heaven,
that this form before
Let
Her face
fell
remember
this
picked
day, August
6,
the screen of silence,
Fall like cat's
When Fall
it
a field of velvet.
earthward, they prevent
gently
Slow to a
." .
paws upon
these thoughts
From bursting
And
up and
1945.
first
Mr. Busy-Bound-About
away, but the bones of her
He
down
Present meets Past as the several stars Fluid from
her hand. The rescue worker
remnant.
falls,
When
her melted eyes had hardened on her cheeks. Her mouth was greatly swollen and the once pus-covered wounds on her lips had dried and cracked. She held what seemed to
be the remains
snow
the
sound of whiteness
Whispers gently pensive music.
my own
could have been she."
The girl's skin was red and swollen. It smelled. was wholly burned. The eyesockets were hollow.
first
soft
his
bee-like buzz
let swift
silent
lull
thoughts as our
Mother
.
Soothes with her sweet lullaby
wept.
And
lowers our
lids
to a sleepy stillness.
Sharon Collins 25
26
UNCHANGING
TIMES
Mainly because of the oppressive heat, she had been
Eyre.
reading a
Wanda
Rush
The sound
lately.
lot
her father's
of
As
the grey Pontiac pulled to a slow stop
modest one, not noticeably unique among the other two
Dave
office.
a
Mitchell even at thirty-six was
and occasionally enjoyed playing
story
brown
had only
Surrounding the house were
door.
His
flowers ranging from tiny white dahlias to
which
blended so completely with the
large red
Adding
that
was hardly distinguishable.
the
roses.
quiet serenity to the atmosphere,
plainly
just
been
of lamps, ashtrays
Even
visible.
add warmth
failed to
have
images
the
rosy
tone
to the livingroom, for
fluffed
and
and cleaned so
its
that
tiny figurines
of pile
his
carpet
the
seemed
throughout
nylon curtains pencils
in
in
the
entire
the master
house
from
bedroom
the
as
any passerby
to the neatly
sharpened
dreading to enter the house. his
wife
easily.
He
out of her rest.
It
grey
of
color
natural
however,
Lately,
fit
next
blue-
his
was as
if
a
a
dull
had been steadily
some
For the
last
few years he
apart.
drifting
In
the
past,
abuses and was even
his wife's
extent, but,
because
of the inci-
dent with Jennifer, he was no longer able to find escape so
passed
It
this
had noticed life
his
daughter seemed to be cutting him
and no longer valued
off as
a
stage
all
his
judgments, but he
teenagers go through.
Now,
he could no longer ignore the fact that he had almost com-
station
drifted.
pletely lost his daughter's respect.
Jennifer was
brown unruly
if
able to ignore them to
the study.
Only one room seemed to be set apart from the was from this room that the sounds of a pop radio
hair's
had descended upon them, giving them
veil
he had been able to shut out
white
starched
sprinkling
a
glimmer.
usual
their
lost
boys
As he neared the house from the gravel-covered driveway, pace slowed and his steps lost their habitual springy gait,
and
to
might be considered an intruder. This effect seemed to prevail
hair
physically
the
grey quality.
Inside, this neatness and serenity continued to be extended. The cherry table tops were polished with such meticulous care
that the reflected
had
eyes
clouded
August sun.
were
it
green
large trees shaded the lawn from the blistering heat of
five
light
still
with
ball
many well-tended
on the block.
the Mitchell
in
waved and shouted hello to their father, who was just returning from the
neighbor, Jennifer's
home was
Unimpressive from the outside, the Mitchell
structures
the
in
the Bryant children
drive,
brick
car
drive called her attention from her reading.
now
lying across her
bed
At seventeen Jennifer was beginning
twisting a piece of
hair as she read the closing chapters of
Jane
father's
27
image.
No
longer was he the
man
to
reevaluate
her
she had looked up
to for
guidance, authority, and protection. The
figure
who
had
trips
carried
now seemed
her
tired
from the
sleeping
her
be
to
just
tall
powerful
Of
the community.
in
course,
was not
it
which appeared
night
proved
kiss
weak and
When compared
this.
however,
presence,
ful
she forgot
if
Jennifer
If
to
good-
go
to her mother's force-
wished
help
with
for
he would always
and then say better talk
it
his
in
flat
to
listen
her
and
to
go
with
these
thoughts,
He stopped
to pet Gl, the family setter
always waited patiently for him on the porch, patting against
the
railing.
Only
after
picking
up
the
There he met
of his arrival "It's
minutes
his
wife,
Carol,
was basting an overdone
who
at
the
late!
It
looks like
you could
call
ridiculous
it.
The
anyone
for
that
it
to
to
pretend to be
made one seem
only
beginning to form about
tiny lines
his tail
of the responsibilities of her.
marriage he was drafted to fight her with the small
It
entirely too
leaving
his
afternoon
life
many
after
fully
her
as carefree as her hus-
They had married
a
in
She had once been
flict,
in
responsibility
Dave had been given
wasn't
entirely
young, and soon the Korean con-
two-week-old
a
of
Remaining untouched by
bank account.
realizing the situation at
a
desk job
in
Seoul.
Not
home, he had sometimes spent
entire monthly allowance in
one
night.
After
his
period
had ended and he returned home, Dave found
of service
Carol much changed. She had learned to stretch her military
moment
allotment herself
if
retained her figure.
had been forced upon
fault.
the war,
who
roast.
about time you got home! You're already
attempt
baby and
his
newspaper and scanning the headlines did Dave enter the kitchen.
was
it
family
Dave's
habitual routine of entering the house almost totally oblivious to his actions.
She
Her dark black
was noticeably streaked with grey which she refused
the
man"
Dave went through
the room, called
left
hair
still
band, but since her marriage,
directly to her mother.
Occupied
and
after marriage.
So through the
years Jennifer had learned to leave out the "middle
is
her face gave her countenance a hardened expression some-
"Maybe you had
over with your mother, Honey."
dinner
himself at the table.
what implying the changes which had taken place
her problems patiently
voice,
the
thirty-five
foolish to
to a girl friend's, or advice, she
monotone
before
was
younger than they were and
always turned to her mother, not that her father would not listen,
washed up and seated
dye, saying
image faded, making him seem
his
insignificant.
homework, permission
his usual
Jennifer
Carol had not always been such a nagging woman.
that
he no longer cared for her; to the contrary, the hurt expression in his eyes
call
Without a word Dave mechanically Jennifer,
her with material wealth, belonging to the right clubs, and
being active
Hurry and
late.
completely ruined!"
Outwardly, he appeared the ideal father, providing
father.
be
to
when long someone to call car
forty-five
it
you are going
was
to
and
to
provide
for
even save a
to search the
paper
needs
the little
for
of
daughter and
She knew what
bargains and to squeeze every
possible drop of toothpaste from the tube.
28
her
on the side.
After Dave's return Carol continued to control the finances
and
of the family
family's
by
little
little
and
responsibilities
had taken over more
had
become
the
keystone
many teenagers would have by now
of
Jennifer's
the family.
Throughout the meal Dave ate
in
utter silence except
seemed changed
for
an occasional pass-this-please or pass-that-please and thankyou.
Even
if
he had wished to speak,
his wife's
oration
ended
dealing
topic,
with
complaints about the inefficiency.
the
for
the
maid,
the
in
basement?
How much
lawn?
When
last
think
it
could
climax
time you
be found
placing the dishes
in
the
kitchen
where
up again!
his
Didn't
I
"This
washer
it
.
that
was upmost
in
his
Jennifer's father.
was only her
it
angry voices
rose,
And
place!
just
better than to
when
come
I
"It will
was
drawing
come
much
as
ages to find
at the best part!
sneaking up on
my own room!"
in
me
This
I
me
think
I
The
"Look what
father.
take
ya'."
like
Don't you that?
I'm
deserve some
sudden outburst seemed
it had to her father. room saying nothing and nothing had
of a surprise to her as
left
the
since.
was as though
It
it
had
never happened. Before
mind was never even discussed.
of
Then she realized
been said about the matter
this,
Jennifer
uttered a disrespectful
what continued
in
room, with only an occasional murmur from her
Then the sound
"Got
her bed to the
He had meekly
.
Soon, the voice of her mother could be heard echoing
the
hands
of
of
to
wasn't a
she
exact position
by a pair
from her hands, over the side
fell
privacy
is
this
this
when she was reaching
startled
seventeen years old, not seven, and
warn you when you bought
wife's existence,
of,
know
good brand? Look at it! Just look! All the suds overflow no matter how little detergent is used. Every." time you make a decision something like this happens! Dave never had the chance to say a word. The matter that
Just
was
she
event,
mad
almost
book
my
was
wife
the automatic dishwasher.
"Dave," she complained as he entered, acting
the
of
in
you've done now!," she yelled,
After the meal was over and Jennifer had gone back to
Dave entered
It
have
to
grabbing her around the waist and the cry
floor.
cheaper some other place? her reading,
bed
across the
lying
with her back to the door.
plumber
did you say the new piece
and don't you
car costs
was the
the
seemed
this.
since that day.
had been
her husband's
call
matter,
the
doing
her
nothing
the novel, Jane's discovery of the
and
problems,
but mainly with
"Dave, did you remember to
about the leak
mowed
housekeeping
her
how outwardly
ironical
forgotten
prevented
nature
sensitive
an
to
Although
earlier.
Reading a particularly exciting and suspenseful portion of
any such hope. Throughout the meal she jumped from topic to
Her mind flashed back
from her reading.
attention
event which had taken place nearly a week
of the
to
had,
word
unlike
most
teenagers,
never
to either of her parents. This
plague her.
Why
had such a
slight
is
inci-
dent initiated such a violent reaction?
her
I
29
love
my
father,
in
fact,
that
might
just
be the problem.
I
care too much.
It
seems
Mom
like
and Dad are constantly
arguing and degrading each other.
Dad.
ridicules
towards him, the way he that
is
just
the other hand,
How
position.
least
Mom
in
it
I
am
another world.
able to feel the
futility
Maybe
is
when
what
I
Mom
I
How
was
just
trying
to
vantage of him, knowing outrage.
Unable
But
trying to
do.
all
before that.
come, so
just
wish
it
I
I
seem
say such things to
make him stand up
Or maybe
Maybe
it
make?
My
to
my for
that
was taking ad-
I
I
my
feel so useless!
changed week and the week They are as they will be for months and months why waste time wondering why they occur? to
help.
nothing. Things are just as they
to
Mom's
the time he wouldn't react to
what difference does
do anything
to
could
yelled at him so disrespectfully. is
think.
I
of
must be to go on and on arguing and
be torn between the two. himself
feel the
I
more than he does,
never really realizing a solution to the problems.
father?
always
stands there taking everything
were
said as though he
humiliation of his position even
On
At
always seem to end up feeling sympathetic
I
would
were
outburst has
last
I
all
end.
The voices downstairs crescendoed with her mother's voice "You've never amounted
resounding throughout the house, to
anything and you
never
will!
I
don't
know why
I
ever
MEMORY
married you!"
Memory 'Til
is
the
garden where flowers stay
in
bloom
time cleans house with forgetful's old broom.
Linda Long 30
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