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

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when you became a junior The pace began To quicken. you ioined so many acTiviTies . . . The log, The arT squad, The maTh Team, choral, The orchesTra, The Track Team, The varsiTy casT . . . so many Things To choose Trom, To do, To work Tor . . . you emerged Trom The cocoon oT The sophomore, emerged Trom The Times oT iusT sTanding by and waTching iuniors and seniors . . . when you were The one who was being waTched and looked up To and Tollowed. remember g.o. elecTions, and your Triends who ran . . . The arisTa and arkon inolucTions . . . receiving a maior leTTer . . . boosTer and Twirler TryouTs . . . regenTs . . . geTTing To know people beTTer . . . cramming homework inTo Those precious I3 minuTes oT preTecT . . . regenTs . . . your Triends graduaTing . . . and The prospecT oT being nexT year's seniors . . . you were no longer scraTching The surTace oT lilie aT lincoln: you became embedded in iT, an inTegral parT oT iT . . . sTudying, concenTraTing, learning, Teaching, showing . . . developing inTo a disTincT personaliTy . . . , 1 fs showing . . .

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The maTh Team was The recommen- daTion Trom your elemenTary algebra Teacher . . . The TrighTening enTrance exam . . .The disTincTiveness oT Talcing inTermediaTe algebra when only a sophomore . . . The sTudenT Teachers . . . mrs. greenwald's maThemaTical inducTion . . . The TirsT Team, The compeTiTion, The hushed sTillness aT The meeTs . . . mr. shapiro's wriTing problems on The board . . .being ciTy champs Tor Three Terms , . . The pi mu and The m.a.a .... The Triendship . . . and The maThemaTics. ii 1 Q f.,,...,,f4 '- ff , 5 ouTwardly They all seemed alilce To you: class niTe, sing and The varsiTy show appeared iusT variaTions on The same Theme: buT you, The people in The audience didn'T experience The warmTh, The personal conTacT, The in- Timacy oT The varsiTy show. iT was noT iusT an ouTpouring oT words on a sTage or a hurling oT ges- Tures Toward an audience: iT was a hearTTelT experience. you didn'T see The rehearsals-The sessions where The play was analyzed, where poise and The arT oT proiecTion were learned, and where The arTs oT The TheaTre were delved inTo. you iusT saw The acTing oT The ploT. you missed The eagerness oT mr. blum. you missed The sorrow ThaT sTruclc when mr. blum reTired and The dehecTion ThaT Tollowed and The saTis- TacTion ThaT came when mr. speiser, sTepping inTo a gianT's TooTprinTs, whipped The show TogeTher. The movemenTs on The sTage are iusT The ouTer maniTesTaTions oT The acTorg Too bad The audience cannoT experience The TulTillmenT ThaT comes aTTer a long and Tiring-buT Tun- Tilled-preparaTion. I4 , -4 maTh Team mrs. marcia greenwald varsiTy squad