Richmond Hill High School - Archway / Dome Yearbook (Richmond Hill, NY)

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The Bench in N ovember Each Wave above the others rose And crashed against the sandy shoreg And 11ow and then a sea gulll ery Was heard above the oeearfs roar. The beach was dreary and alone, And from the sky of gloom and gray The sun came out, but eoldly shone That bleak November day. Jerry Fuchs, June '42 A :digit SK

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But it was hot, Depressingly hotg I an H It was of no use to dream. 5 if v ,gf z iw: t-tj 'gif The sun bore down on them, Q, yr. V - . A 4 I A5 - - ' 'A . mm ' ' 'f ' . 5, , A And there was no relief from lt A at 5 -1 t r , 'W'fP t? ,A V .5 f t lynn! , - H' Except in the stuffy houses. M f film ' N f , ll A f' f : . . - PM ' 'f4-4-M' The MLN thundered by. f':fifg?,, ff ,J it ' ' - ' Mt. .-'MH' . 'ky , It A small boy screamed u-.1 A V R Aw 1 - 'Wi t , l i n M, .I 5 xt.. ,IN Q X: As a truck barely missed crushing hlm under the wheels. 1 H35 Sun .... E gli n ' - . ,, ,' q figim' And still more sun, :F f a S5 p J Q 5 - E ' N .' Y 7 ,f , 1 Until you thought you'd die of the heatg 31' 'fr How can a dream make shade, or a breeze? pf ' . , They sat there until the sun had gone down, And the city was quiet- For a city. The tinny, wistful notes of the hurdy-gurdy Announced the approach of the organ-grinderg He turned on and on, and the wistful notes became light and And even more tinny. They were no longer on the steps, But at a party at a large country estate, Far away .... They stood up and danced. b EM' A 7 'E' S .s I I .: 4 ' I ,'- A , E 53. T '12 1!'9K'l0fFl 5353 Gene McPherson, January ,39 Page 27

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MATHEMATICS The Bane of My Life I HATE mathematics. Wheriever I enter my math class, I experience a sensation comparable only to that of dropping twenty stories in an elevator. Yet I have friends who can spend elated hours dallying with quadrilaterals, frolicking with rhomboids, and drifting blissfully over the circumference of a circle. Many a time have I yearned to contribute just that little Hsomethingn which leads ultimately to the solution of a 'gwhopperf' But each time I timorously venture a suggestion, I am saturated with a downpour of rebut- tals which do not require a mathematical brain to be grasped. I suppose I have no one but myself to blame for my mathematical delinquencies, but I must confess that for a long time I attributed the fault to the teacher. I secretly expounded to intimates my opinion that math teachers were only half human. I found delight in fixing in my mind the idea that their blood corpuscles were mere icicles, and I would visualize with indescribable joy the day when, one by one, I would strap them before a huge bonfire and see them melt into geometric forms. In this manner I dreamed how I would he glorified throughout history as the person who had rid the world of this this period at least, countless tribe of the storm breaks. A mental torturers. frosty voice, which Of all the hor- produces a somer- rors I daily confront sault in the region in math classes., the of my abdomen, greatest threat to my calls my name. peace of mind is the Miss M-, ever - impending I don't have any doom that I may be marks for you this called upon to recite. third fagainst me . . . Just as I am would be more like about to reach a itl. Face the class Great Compromise and explain in de- with the Fates if tail the method you They will only keep would use in the the teachervs eye s olu t i o n of this away from me for l-1223 problem . . . if you Page 29