Bay Ridge High School - Maroon and White Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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l UST UUGI-ITS Listening you hear the savage prrmrtiye rhvthms of a people and thrill to the foreboding wild music A mood of depression and utter futility assarls you The record stops and you laugh your mood ended Singing your vorce mingled vyrth many others vou smile at the thought of hatred and war People who are able to sing wrth one another will be able to mamtam the peace that yyrll folloyy war The piano continues and the song goes on Remembering you recall her tall mayestrc figure likened to a spruce her strong noble features her large eyrpressrye hands her simple philosophy of hfe She seems to be a Roman lady living again in the twentieth century VValltmg the fallen snow crunching beneath your footsteps the trees experience complete and serene peace the quietness of nature Svyrmmmg you sense the greenish blue yyay es coming at you rn a rolhck mg measure Your strokes cut the water deftlv flrmlv and you reach shore happy and fall exhausted on the hot gritty sand Running you feel the ram pour dovyn in great drops vyhrch blot the side yyally followed by harsh thunder and a yagged bolt of lightning The rain rnoistcns your face uphfted mary ehng at the diy erse beauty of nature Kneehng you note a dull thud of bench against the floor and your lynees feel the coarscned yy ood Ihe feeble hghts of the candles cast darlt shadows on the yy all You haye the feeling of being alone yy 1th God in lhs house talking to llrm omcrs NARDO . . , , . . . r J . , . 4' ' .v r I - f 'Y' . v . i g . 7 . . . v 7 .1 7 7 7 v 7 9 - V U V 1 l . K C n. 7 ' . 1 7 and bushes standing still and motionless like yvhite, glistening ghosts, you e 7 . 7 , x ' .f 7 1 7 .if 'f v l .V ' 7 . Y . 7 . . I I , 7 7 J ' v ,V 1 . .7 , 'L 1 ' . . Y- 7 . V I Y

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The dawdlmg over that cup of coffee It tasted so good The congregatrons rn all churches praymg for the safety of our boys The comments on the srgns rn the wmdow of even store Illumrnatzon must be extrngulshed The way our troops looked rn Afrrca with therr Yankee features profiled by those huge sun helmets The way we had our harr cut close rn cherubrc curls The way you enyoyed harmonxzmg rngle angle rngle off kev The way everyone cherrshed her ratron book even more than her pocket book These are thrngs I wrll remember ust slmple meldents ust thmgs IMARIE PIRONE lllllllllUNMU100910UN!willll!UMUUMUllltlllllllllllllllll ! 7-iii .-fi-if -3 .153 Drmout I bum lblARIA . . I. 1 . . . 7 7 H . . 4 . . ,, . . . . . . . . . H . r r - , I , I. ,, . . J . . . 1 . 1 . aoooooooooooooooosscones: ,,,,.-, , i Z- 'l -- Jian Hd F, M A, - ,4.f' MLW, -Y ga--.-. ,E-12157 'jjj dn, , ', 'i T-I---' - -L f gf- Y T 112' 4- 'f Y Y, 6' - Y -7, -iii..-J-,:if1f,, , -' K 54 - -Q ' ,ff ,H - gf 'i , -- - W ,., T -- - ' ..,! L , F.. ,4, ...df I--- -' lf' 'fi' - V ,- S -f 'fr . ' ,K - Q ,,.,f ,,..:-- S' V .- ,, 7 fi.- A17 , ,..- r l - v - , v, 4. . r . .

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