Evening star., 1943-07-25
lust Between
Ourselves
BY PHILIP H. LOVE,
Editor, The Junior Star.

BY the time this appears in print,
I shall be off on my annual two
weeks vacation.
Where?
Well, your guess is as coed as
mine.
For the last 13 years have spent
my vacations on my famiiys farm
in st. Marys County, Md, on the
st. George River, just below Dray-
den. For me, it is the ideal place
for a vacation-three miles from
the nearest town, mile back in
the woods from the nearest road,
yet right on salt water, with boat
ing, swimming and fishing limited
only by ones energy.
Naturally, I hope to get there
again this year but, wartime trans
portation being what it is, may
wind up by staying home.
Well, that will be all right with
me. 1 have a long list of good
reasons for wanting to 60 to Dray-
denny share of the family gar
den, for instance; my cut of The
canning, my hog, and, of course,
the perfectly human desire to see
the family again. But, in the
final analysis, who am I to say
where I want to go, and why? Did
Pvt. John Doe want to 60 to Africa,
Australia, Guadalcanal, New Guinea
or wherever it is that he has gone?
If have to stay home, Ill miss
boating, fishing and swimming in
the St. George and the lower Po-
tomac. I'll miss the Saturday night
dances at Piney Point. I'll miss
my share of the garden, my cut in
the canning and, of course, visiting
with the family. I'll miss seeing
Herman, the hog, the fat fellow on
whom l count to help me through
the next winter I'll even miss the
chiggers, mosquitoes, ticks and sea
nettleS
But I know the boys in the Army,
Navy and Marines are missing the
same things-and more besides
so who am I to complain?
If worse comes to worst, I can
make up for the boating, swimming
and fishing by soaking myself in
the bathtub all day. I can dance
to my radio Saturday night or any
other night; l can let the FAMILY
keep my share of the garden aid
my cut in the canning, and I can
visit with them by maui. l can
overcome my longing to see Her
man, the hog, by dropping in on
the chiggers, mosquitoes and ticks
in Rock Creek Park. AS for the
sea nettles-Well. I guess I can
steel myself somehow 20 get along
without them.
This year, where you spend your
vacation is unimportant. The really
important thing is that you have
a vacation. For millions of boys
and girls in the Army, Navy and
Marines, and their auxiliaries. va
cation is just a word that calls up
pleasant memories.
Junior jottings: Working a Vic
tory garden and collecting photo
graphs are the hobbies of Lucille
Payne, June graduate of Mckinley
High School. She bequeathed her
co-editorship of Tech Life to Doris
King Playing the piano and
collecting recordings of classical
music are the favorite diversions
of James Miers, June graduate of
Central High School. Mary
Kriger, another June graduate of
Central, spent II years in the
Orient. Collecting dolls is the
pastime of Mary Louise Hanson, 10,
of Mount Rainier (Md) Elemen-
tary School, Il collect many diff
ferent kinds" she writes, including
foreign dolls, story-book dolls, baby
dolls, etc. I started last Christmas"
=. Silver Spring Md Intermedi-
ate school ended the scholastic
year with a variety show, reports
Lois Metcalf, IL. She and Judy
Wells and Janis Thompson pre-
sented minstrel act that won first
prize. The journalism class of
Central High School edited the
next-to-last issue of the Bulletin.
And a fine job they did of it, too.
=. Robb Howard, editor of the
Central Bulletin, won a four-year
scholarship to Yale. . Pat Neu-
land, June graduate of Central, is
said to have an uncanny knack for
reading illegible handwriting. i.
The Central Review is proud of the
fact that Charles Collingwood, CHS
announcer in North Africa, is a
C. H. S. graduate. Music is the
hobby of Virginia Bradford, June
graduate of Central. :. And Eliza
beth Gillespie, another June grad,
has been on the honor roll every
semester since she entered junior
high school. She hopes to specialize
in dramatics and speech at George
Washington University. Stu
dents of Franklin Sherman School,
Mclean, Va, aided the war effort
this past year by collecting scrap
from all over the neighDorhood," :"