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AMALIA CAREY CORONA KNAUFF French "Amalia" Sykesville, Maryland Western Maryland Preparatory School Browning Literary Society; J. G. C.; P. D. C.; Norment Prize, '22; Freshman Honors; Honor' able Mention, '23 and '24; Contestant, '23 and '24; Treasurer of Browning, '24; College Play' ers, '24 and '25; President of Browning, '25. "And they loo~'d but with divining eyes, For they had not s~ill enough your worth to sing." I and sensitiveness, all blended to form a character whom we cannot help but Nthis unique member of our class we find genius and perseverance, humility admire. Her actual knowledge is boundless; her ability to. acquire knowledge is still more limitless; and, what's best of all is that she is eager to help others in their pursuit of knowledge. It is always Amalia who translates the difficult passage, who solves the complicated problem. Truly may it be said that Amalia has not developed into that rather-to-be- pitied type of person known as a bookworm. Far from it! One might say that her avocation is oratory. Once was she contestant for the Norment prize, and twice did she represent her society in the annual June contest. As a member of the College Players, she has repeatedly portrayed to an appreciative audience both the ludicrous and the tragic-and in a most clever and original manner, too. Beneath the poise and the dignity which we usually see, there is humility and sensitiveness-that sensitiveness which feels an imagined hurt, but which disappears as quickly as it comes. An adequate description of Amalia is impossible, for "We which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise." [95}