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

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:Things to Gome A play in Three acTs presenTed by Erasmus Hall High School sTudenTs. DirecTed by ...., .. The l3aculTy CasT .. ...,...,, Q.4.,,.. T he Class oT January I95O 'A' AcT I High School Life Time: l946-l95O Place: The grey Towers oT Erasmus Hall Through The Tun and laughTer oT high school liTe can be seen The seri- ous beginning oT THINGS TO CCME. We have wiTh us many budding scienTisTs, wriTers, poliTicians, Wall STreeT Tycoons, enTerTainers, mer- chanTs, and lasT buT noT leasT, The inTiniTe number oT hands ThaT will rocl4 The cradles and rule The world. lCurTainl ACT Il GraduaTion Time: January l95O Place: Academy oT Music Long rows oT buTT and blue gowned graduaTes are seen marching To sTrains oT Pomp and CircumsTance. Proud sTudenTs exhibiT Their hard- won diplomas: beaming parenTs waTch Their sons and daughTers receiving awards Tor proTiciency in various subie-cTs. For This we have been sTriving during The pasT Tour years: and There are many THINGS TO COME. lCurTainl

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Clubs As solemn Taced Freshmen we enTered our oTTicial class every day. In order To geT To our oTTicial class or any oTher class, we sooner or laTer had To pass under an Arch. And when we did we couldn'T escape The eTernal TickeTs. FooTball TickeTs, dance TickeTs, Turkey TroT TickeTs, and coTTon ball TickeTs were always There. Sooner or laTer we were Torced inTo buying some TickeTs or oTher. Then since we couldn'T leT The money we had spenT go To wasTe, we wenT To The acTiviTy and discovered To our greaT surprise ThaT we really enioyed iT. And ThaT was how iT was wiTh clubs. Our Teachers would broadcasT diTTerenT clubs regularly, like radio commercials. Finally we decided To go and see whaT Those clubs really were. Those wiTh a noTion To acT wenT To Try ouT Tor FooTlighTers DramaTic Club or The Radio Workshop. Those ThaT were inTeresTed in ioining aThleTic Teams wenT To sTarT Training. Soon clubs were so crowded iT was hard To geT inTo Them. The joining oT The diTTerenT clubs could be compared To The rising oT a curTain unTil iT reached The Top. As Freshmen The curTain was only slighTly liTTed Trom The ground. This was because Freshmen had laTe hours. Only a Tew Things were opened To Them. The elemenTary maTh club was called A. B. C. The Gay Caballeros was The Spanish Club. For sporTs There was hockey in The morning, SaTurday morning To be exacT, and also Tennis. When The curTain reached iTs halT-way mark, we were Sophomores. There were so many diTTerenT Teams, TooTball and baseball, swimming and soccer, ThaT There iusT had To be a cheering squad. Thus The Babs came inTo exisTence. For maThemaTical geniuses There was The lvlaTh Team. Some oT us ioined The Y or The Maccabees or The Newman Club. Our program was Tull. The curTain rose once again. This Time we were Juniors. PracTically all exTra curricular acTiviTies were open To us. IT you liked To debaTe, RosTra was open To The girls and The SenaTe Tor The boys. IT you were inclined To wriTe iournalisTically, The DuTchman doors were open To you, iT you had a Tlare Tor The shorT sTory or poeTry you mighT Try The Erasmian. Finally, The lasT curTain call Took place. We were seniors, and The curTain had hiT The Top. Senior ArisTa was open To T-lonor sTudenTs. The Year Book CommiTTee Took care oT graduaTion picTures and hisTories Tor The Year Book and The prom commiTTee arranged and rearranged The prom. Then iT was all over and much Too quickly-Those wonderTul clubs where so many new Triends were made and where hobbies and oTher inTeresTs were developed. We will long remember clubs Tor They have leTT us much To remember.

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ACT Ill AchievemenT Time: IO years laTer Place: The whole wide world Cur Triends are now very evidenTly in The limelighT. Wherever we go we can hear The much-lauded names oT January I95O graduaTes. From l-larvard To U.C.l..A., Trom NoTre Dame To lvliami, news oT The achievemenT oT our cIassma+es in The Tield oT educaTion reaches our ears. The pages oT The Safurday Review of LiTera'I'ure acclaim The besT sellers wriTTen by sTaTT members oT various Erasmus publicaTions who showed promise in Tormer years. Cars are driven Tor miles on minuTe amounTs oT aTomic Tuel developed by The highly mechanical minds oT people wiTh whom we were graduaTed. PhoTographs oT Wall STreeT Tycoons decoraTe The Tinancial pages oT The New York Times. We recognize These Tamiliar Taces as Those oT our Tormer chums aT Erasmus l-lall l-ligh School. Our graduaTing class now has The addiTional responsibiliTy oT guiding The TooTsTeps oT iTs children Toward The higher and beTTer Things oT liTe. We have achieved our goalg buT There can be no Tinal curTain. Success is never-ending.