University High School, Jordannus, 1939, Page 5

Description:	I-AM PRI VI LEGEDPerhaps I should be Irish. At least then I would feel at home ingreen. As it is I can simply dance in circles while I chant, “Life issublime” over and over. I feel like a freshman! It is a wonderful,young, bouyant emotion. Here am I, a worldly, careworn junior exultingin the mood of an innocent chaste freshman. You are baffled. Fine. Ifeel like fooling everyone You see, I am in a sense, a freshman. I am inmy first year in a new school. I have no traditions, no codes to live up to.In fact, it is my privilege to lay the foundation for traditions. This Indiana University Experimental School is affording me the chance of alifetime. I am one of the privileged few who are in attendance at thisschool in the first year of its existence. To me is granted the privilegeof looking back, in the years to come, upon the beginning of this school.I am to be allowed to remember the breath-taking cleanness of the newschool both inside and out. (I had been going to a school the walls ofwhich were soiled with hand prints of generation after generation ofstudents.) In years to come, I can reflect upon the spaciousness of hallswith built-in lockers; the novelty of green, yellow, salmon, and aqua walls;the sheen of floors on Monday morning and the tracking of mud on themfrom newly made lawns.In years to come, I shall remember the mystery of having new teachers ; the struggle of getting a newspaper started; the hauteur of high schoolstudents who “go to the university”; the trial of enduring student teachers, and the shyness and nervousness of a student teacher on his first dayof actual teaching; the ecstasy of girls who could take horseback ridingand play basketball in gym class; the superior feeling given to the studentsby the realization that the faculty was treating them as adults; thesupressed desire to spend a day watching the engaging capers of thegrade students; the fun of spending a morning in the sunny, gay kindergarten room; the experience gained from drawing up club constitutions,from putting out a mimeographed paper by hand, from planning classparties; and lastly, ultimately, the feeling of accomplishment, of responsibility well shouldered, of prestige to realize that I, I was partly responsiblefor the start of that school.These, ah, these are the things which I am to be allowed to hold inthe storeroom of my precious memories.Anne Hendricks, Junior.Page fiveA
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