Abraham Lincoln High School - Landmark Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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dispense wiTh during The day. IT is your prerogaTive and should be Taken. Of course, you musT have passes which can be procured Through The proper channels. Be iT English or HisTory. you have The privilege. You are a Senior. Your nexT duTy is To TormenT The Freshmen and make Their lives miser- able. ForgeT ThaT you were once a Freshman. ThaT is all in The pasT. Never Take your work Too seriously, or aTTend school daily, as ThaT mighT prove deTrimenTal To your sysTem. Make iT a poinT To sTay ouT aT leasT once a week and aTTend a local movie To resT The Tired mind. Of course. if you feel exTravaganT, a show in The ciTy is prescribed. Gum should be chewed conTinuously. IT aids in The funcTioning of The mind as well as The iaw. AnoTher maTTer of prime imporTance is The Throwing of papers on floors and The going up down sTaircases. Whenever you geT The opporTuniTy, grab aT iT. Do noT pass up The chance To Throw refuse on The floors. IT marks you a Senior. FurThermore. if you do noT wanT To be Taken as an undergraduaTe, never walk up an up sfaircase. Also. because This is your lasT Term in school. The seniors now may Take as a souvenir anyThing noT nailed down. If all The above sTandards and precepTs are carefully heeded. you will have no difTicuITy in obfaining your diploma in four easy years. lf, aT firsT, There is some difficuITy, do noT become discouraged for we realize The above regulaTions are anyThing buT lax. If in ThaT case you wish To consulT us, wriTe To DeparTed Senior Freshman Division Any College U. S. A. LINCOLN., .... -

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In walking Through The halls you should speak roughly To The Freshman loT course, This applies only when seniors are noT aroundl, and when They ask you where The Dean's oTTice is. send Them up To The library. When you speak, leT no dog lTreshmanl bark. Moreover. you now learn To answer your Teacher when she addresses you land only Thenl. And now comes The Time when you gyp passes. NOT Tor you To use, oT course, buT Tor The seniors who ThreaTen To Tear up your books if you don'T. To become more auThoriTaTive, you obTain a posiTion in The Service Squad, Thereby giving you more Treedom To command. IT is now Time Tor you To Take upon yourshoulders The responsibiliTy oT Taking The baskeT around and picking up The papers Trom The Tloor. This gives you a chance To leT people know you exisT and Torm an impression oT you. Also aT This sTage you Take upon yourseIT The posiTion oT Board Moni- Tor so ThaT when The Teacher's back is Turned you may erase The home- work on The board. Then everybody can have a good excuse. This is an imporTanT epoch oT your high school IiTe and all advice given above should be Taken and adhered To. III For The Junior IT is aT This Time oT your IiTe ThaT you come inTo Treedom. You have now been in The school Three years. You can Tell your program adviser whaT you wanT and don'T wanT. Be sure To sTress The TacT ThaT if given The undesired subiecT, you will noT aTTend classes. The purpose oT This is To demonsTraTe ThaT you have a mind oT your own. The posiTion oT baskeT moniTor is now IeTT To an under-classman. while you Take The pass and sTay ouT The TirsT Tive minuTes oT The period, in order To be able To say ThaT you didn'T know oT The assignmenT. You musT now Try, all you ambiTious Juniors, To Take The pass ouT as oTTen as you can and Tor as long a Time as possible. The sTraTegy involved is noT To leT The Teacher geT wise To you. ' IV For The Senior You have now reached The beginning oT The end oT your high school career. The school is yours because you are a Senior lor, so you Thinkll You may now use The passes and cuT your classes: any class you desire To LANDMARK

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BIGTOWN SMALLTALK January 29, I958 Topsy Turvy Talk: Sol Rauch has made hisTory by convincing The Supreme CourT ThaT The ConsTiTuTion is unconsTiTuTional. When asked To say someThing Tor The genTlemen oT The press, he had only one Thing To say. EOOl . . . Do you remember lsrael Goldiamond. who used To pose Tor The We Grow Hair shampoo adverTisemenTs? He is now chairman oT The NaTional Bald-Head AssociaTionl . . . And Talking abouT high oT- Ticials lwho doesn'Tl, Irving Gedanken has i.usT been elecTed presidenT of The Elks . . . Paul Borsky has enTered The diplomaTic corps. He is our new ambassador To The U.S.S.R .... Three cheers Tor EThel Margolis. The TirsT woman ever To become a member oT The Brain TrusT . . . Now ThaT Roslyn Cohen has become a Teacher aT The Abraham Lincoln High School, we have her whole Tamily There . . . One sTep higher in educaTion is Lenore Leiblich. who used To work in a library keeping silence. She is now a college proTessor. Teaching speech .... FooTlighTs and FilmsTrips: STanley Gilinsky. who banged his way To Tame on The drums, was honored wiTh The Benny Goodman Award Tor The besT band in The counTry . . . Edward FinkelsTein, a very Tunny come- dian, who has waiTed a long Time Tor Hollywood recogniTion, is now sTeal- ing The picTure, OT Mice and Seniors, in which Fred lTskowiTz plays The male lead . . . Renee Swoiree, imporTed French glamour girl. is Taking The Temale lead. Rumor has iT ThaT she was really born in Brooklyn. and ThaT her real name is Irene SchwarTz . . . Nancy D'Amico made her debuT aT The MeTropoliTan Opera House, and was enioyed by The criTics . . . Two of The besT voices in The counTry can be heard over The SweeT Melody Hour : Dolores Bruno and RuTh Blair. RomanTic Rumors: VicTor Gershek, Tammany big-shoT. and Lillian Oransky, jewelry heiress, have been seen TogeTher quiTe oTTen. Could They be Talking abouT poliTics? . . . Evelyn Tobin, one of The besT music Teachers, whose name has oTTen been romanTically blended wiTh Eugene Berger. The one-Time sTage TavoriTe, says she ihTends To keep her own name Tor years LANDMARK