Dr. C Owen Roundy Elementary's School Song

Hello! This is Carolyn - Elder and Sister Roundy's "favorite" daughter. Dad told me I could put this in their blog.

With Dad's elementary school just being dedicated, we thought it would be fun to post the lyrics and music of the school's song. Dad wrote and composed it all.

Travis (Elder Roundy's son) and Elder Roundy at the school dedication in June.

Here are the words and there is a link at the bottom of this post to open a media file of the music. You might like to open that up in a new window so you can read the words and listen to the music all at the same time.

We’re Roundy Racers

At C. Owen Roundy School.

We’re Roundy Racers, we use the Golden Rule.

We learn our lessons ‘cause we study hard;

Always fair when we are playing in the yard.

Roundy Racers, we’ll keep our standards high.

Work will always win the racer.

We are the C. Owen Roundy School.

.....

We’re Roundy Racers

Just watch our bright banners wave.

The Roundy Racers will win with time to save.

We have fine teachers and a principal.

All the Roundy Racers are invincible.

All you Racers, come join us in our song.

We’re a happy winning team.

We are the C. Owen Roundy School

Link for music

A View from the Window

On Sunday afternoon we looked out our terrace window. The sun was shining and the air was relatively clear. It seemed like a good time to show the scenes we see everyday.

We are situated on a hill that overlooks the surrounding valley. All of this habitation is called "Metro-Manila." The actual city of Manila is probably 15 kilometers away from where we live, but the entire area is one big place, so it's called Metro-Manila. We live in Quezon City, right by the Temple (as you probably all know). When we look out our south terrance, we see part of Pasig City and Makati City, as well as some of Quezon City. We have a panoramic view from Pasig City to the left clear across to Makati on the right. These show what we see from our terrace. What you see here stretches way down to Makati.
This is the central section of our view, panning from right to left.

This is essentially the same view as above.

To the left of our view is Pasig City. In the far distance (lost in the haze) are some mountains that rise on the east side of the valley. We have a gazeebo in our back yard (you see the roof here). Actually, we rarely go there.

This is a coconut tree in our back yard. Look closely in the center of the leaves. You'll see the green coconuts. About a month ago we had a typhoon and it tried to blow the nuts off the tree, but they held on.

This is another look at Makati. Notice the building cranes in the far distance. Wherever you look there is construction going on. Some of the buildings are never completed because, as we understand it, the property is not taxed until the construction is completed. Hence ... what's the rush?


Now this is from the end of the front walkway. This is Pasig City. See the cranes on the buildings. We go down in this section of town to get our groceries. We try to avoid going downtown very much anywhere else. It's a big place, this Metro-Manila.

Below is a front yard scene. The white wall you can barely see is along the stairs we climb as we go from our apartment to the Temple grounds. It is always kept green. Some months there is a lot of rain (May, June, July). Other times the grounds are watered with sprinklers.

Here you can see the walkways in the front of the apartment building. (Our actual room is on the top floor here, a couple of doors to the right, not shown in this shot.) The apartment building is three, three-storied rectangular structures, set next to each other like dominos placed half way down the side of the other piece, sort of a stair step arrangment. We live in the center building. It is from the far end of this walkway that the picture above of Pasig City was taken.