George W Wingate High School - Mosaic Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Af Wingate, I967-68 Sit down. Relax. You can stop hustling and bust- ling now. Everything has been taken care of- all of the odds and ends are in place and now you can iust stop to think. This year has been fairly hectic for you and everything must seem all iumbled together in your mind. Let's see if you can iron out your thoughts and accurately recall all of the events of the past year. The best thing to do would be to start at the very beginning . . . How many teachers do you think there are? Oh, l'd say about 40. Look at him, he grew a beard. Your kidding, when did she get married? How long do you think it will last? With our luck, the strike will be over tomorrow and then the 'fun' begins. As you know, the strike did not end tomorrow or the next tomorrow or the tomorrow after that. Surely, you remember the procedures that were followed. First there was the stampede into the auditorium . . . Hey, give me a slip of paper! What are these sheets for? So you can get credit for your attendance, man. Are you going to St. Blaise after we get out of here? I guess so, but l wish that the chairs there weren't so hard. After about three weeks the strike did finally end. I bet you don't remember what the first day school was like. Of course, you had an error on your program and . . . Boy, you'd think that iust once my program would be done correctly the first time. What's your problem? Oh, no problem. All they did was to give me the wrong foreign language and no lunch period. Aside from that, everything is iust fine. Boy that's too bad. Yea, l'll probably be emaciated by the time they get around to my program change sheet- imagine, no lunch period. After a few weeks of chaos, organization began to take hold. Accordingly, the first assembly pro- gram was held where . . . We would like to welcome you back from your summer vacation . . . We may have gotten off to a slow start due to the strike, but we are sure that with the mutual cooperation of the faculty and student body, this work can be made up . . . We will now stand for the singing of the alma- mater. All of the hopes placed in our hearts at Win- gate . . . No one will leave the assembly until you are dismissed . . . That group in the rear, please be seated . . . All right, left wing, out the side exit . . . The rest of you, please be seated . . . By the time November camel rolling around, things were pretty much settled. You suffered from a slight hand cramp after filling out book receipts, Delaney cards and enough program cards to start a bon-fire. Aside from that, everything was run- ning as smoothly as could be expected. You cleared up the problems on your program and everything was fine and dandy, that is, except for . . . This gym is freezing. l'm definitely not chang- ing into my gym-suit! Despite your protest, ten minutes later, attired in your sneakers and gym-suit, you struted into the 9Ym- I absolutely refuse to do those exercises! Again you refuse, but alas, your protest is again in vain. One, two, three, four--get those knees straight -one, two, three, four-that's it, all the way down-one, two three, four . . Out of the stuffy locker room, into the nearby lunchroom where the aroma of the food strikes you. What's that smell? The hot lunch, silly. They don't really expect us to eat that, do they? fcontinued on page 221

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