Erasmus Hall High School - Arch Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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PL T-TUPPED DESK cession of two hundred dirty gym uniforms tnot washed for four years! executing the intricate steps of a folk dance taught to the boys in third term. Before him looms the bewildered figure of a fellow convict scanning the campus for a familiar person to inquire the location of Room 67. Once again our faithless senior misdirects his own friend. Hah! Foiled again! Here comes Ioe Freshie to the rescue! Bbll Bb!! Halpl Grgl! Grgl! Halp! Our hero dives into the water and is immediately immersed in the rapid current by the drowning manager of the swimming team. He emerges, only to find his slippery victim back in the deepest part of the water. As he jumps in once more, he sees an immense devils eyebrow rise near his classmate. Frightened, he starts to swim back to shore, when he recognizes the voice of the class freak calling to him. Now he is in the chem lab performing an experiment which should turn out to be a rare perfume-the recipe of which is only known to him and one heathen Chinee now residing in India. All goes well until the mixture begins to boil-and then his hand goes impulsively to his nose. The exotic fragrance is none other than hydrogen sulfide. He dashes from the room, up the nearest staircase tto Studio D l, pursued by the forgotten skool. While there, the fire gong rings and he is immediately caught in the rush of panic-stricken janitors, teachers, and other living beings. ln his attempt to get to safety, he is hampered momentarily by the loss of one shoe, two teeth, and a pair of sharpie socks. The senior now commences to snore and as this vocal outburst reaches high HC Csole result of senior singingl, a storm of triangles, Latin verbs, French idioms, The Valiant tof English 5Hl, Miss Batchelor's assigned orig- inal poems, and late slips descends on the restless sleeper's head . . . He awakens, 3 straightens his non-existent tie, smoothes the creaseless trous- ers, swings every bit of his one book over his padded shoulders and 1 walks from the ex- '4.ff. ,. amination room, visas! never giving a jwllfgm second thought to j'e:. the inevitable fail- ure - a senior to ., .. ' . gi -Ill the bitter end!

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T LES FHUM A senior sleeps. His head rests on an English Regents paper, the only 1, vo l y, writing on it being 'vatxx I O a sort of identifi- 4 X X I f 4, cation tag bearing x I I the prisoner's X X I ll name and number X N I , ' 1 . . . lf anyone cares X f ' 'ff to pry open those S - Z o 'A qv gf WIP listlessd ekyes, lgiie ,',i- AY , U 11 will in t em re - 0fQ'A6'.02fl1 Q, gasaigffyf der than fhe poet- ,l g A A ' ical rose, and why Shouldn't they be? '12,-'.f7f,, f-lasn't our indus- f ' U trioushopefulbeen spending the last three days reading through the Readers Digest of Books in a vain attempt to digest half a library, before being confronted by this loathsome paper? As he sleeps, he emits groans - pitiful groans. Let us, therefore, enter his World of dreams and see the cause of his agony- The flat-topped desk on which his head reclines has suddenly become infested with hundreds of long-nailed fingers, each hideously daubed with the latest shade of Hot Dog Revlon. One after the other they poke themselves into the slumberers eyes and with each one, new memories arise to torment him. First he sees himself, the object of the derision of his classmates as Dr. Alexander makes him the butt of one of his sarcastic remarks concerning the vast, desolate space between his ears. Next, he utters a happy exclamation quickly supplanted by a heartbreaking sigh. Ah, hahl We see it alll Mr. Rohrberg has just held out a hundred dollar bill to him but the uninitiated senior has made a bet fixed by this teacher and the latter now again possesses the bouncing bill. Torment again . . . Cheese sandwiches, ham sandwiches, baked beans, spaghetti . . . Ten cents, fifteen cents, twenty cents . . . Whether it's Garfield's, Loft's, Newman's, or the Lunch Room, but one scene is clear to him-rows of prone forms-innocent freshmen-lying scattered about as they are battered down by the energetic senior in his everlasting quest for the inevitable homework. As a loud report is heard, we discover the firecrackers lwhich the senior four years ago placed on a certain teacher's deskl come leading in a pro-

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