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

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I ev' Kfafsa .Mrifor I-low can I ever TorgeT my Treshman year IH The Bay RIdge T-IIgh Annex7 The ThrIIl oT comIng To a new school was someThIng wonderTul Tor all oT us buT sTrangely orough I wa n T Too exhIlaraTed aTTer TIndIng ThaT I would have To clImb Tuve TlIghTs oT sTaIrs every mornlng To reach my one Tloor school I soon Tell InTo The rouTIne oT ThIngs and seTTled down Tor an excITIng Treshman year And IT cerTaInly was an oxcITIng year Too Above all Thlngs I shall never TorgeT The MISS Charm Ing conTesT wITh ITs Youll never be lvllss Charmmg' slogan rIngIng ouT every Tame your comb or lIpsTIcIc ap peared In The wrong place and aT The wrong TIme IT really Turned ouT To be a clean up campaugn All COITTUFSS Turned suddenly Toward The srmple sTyles l.IpsTIclc wenT eITher down To The naTural IIp lIne IT you Icnow whaT I lIlce wall paper and ThIngs were really hummIng l wonder IT any oT you Annex gIrls remember The assem bly pIogram presenTed To us whIch TeaTured dITTerenT dance Techmgues The dancers gave us a double perTorm ance ThaT day I II never TorgeT The l-lula dance compleTe wITh grass and The apache dance execuTed by a sTudenT A demonsTraTIon oT balleT and Tap Toe also made The assembly very enloyable lx orgo Iho play whereun we The audlence were InTroduced To dITTerenT and amus Ing personalITIes as They alIghTed Trom TheIr ImagInary aIrplane whIch oT course landed back sTage The maIn buIIdIng Choral Club pald us a vIsIT Too ThaT year NexT came The Pan AmerIcan assembly whlch was ITs usual enTer TaInIng selT and Then The EasTer presenTaTIon The la++er leTT us In a holIday mood The many clubs Toolc care oT . I 1 S . . . . . . ' . . X meanl7l or up To The same. l3osTers decoraTed The school I . ,cn'l' 'T I ' , ' , . . Q .i

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W, Jam ATTer ThaT evenTTul day an June l shall greaTly mass your smalang faces as you hurry by an The corradors oT Bay Radge l-l S NoneTheless I reaoace Tor you and waTh you because The endang oT your hagh school days and The begannang oT a new laTe Tor you means TurTher challenge and TurTher growTh cerTaanly The possabalaTy Tor such growTh WhaT laes ahead wall be a greaTer challenge To you Than The years you are brangang To a close Tor whale you were an school your acTavaTaes were broadly speakang ouTlaned Tor you There were cerTaan Thangs you had To do and cerTaan opporTunaTaes ThaT were held ouT To you oT whach you have varaously avaaled yourselves BuT now you wall be Thrown more and more upon your own anaTaaTave an choosang whaT you wall do and whaT you leave undone And you wall dascover ThaT meeTang Thas challenge really searchang yourselT ouT really puTTang all your resources an ycurselT as Tame goes on as a laTe Tame occupaTaon IT Takes courage To make The decasaons ThaT growTh demands when aT would be easaer To conTanue The old more Tamalaar buT ouTgrown paTTerns Those who cannoT meeT The challenge never grow To Thear Tull sTaTure There are unTorTunaTely many people who never undergo The dasca plane oT searchang Themselves ouT who go Through The moTaons oT lavang who lave Two cylander exasTences who do noT come Tully ahve aT all They are never very happy never very graeved never very conTadenT oT any Thang They do never andagnanT over anausTace never really sympaTheTac waTh anoTher s anguash never reverenT an The Tace oT earTh s beauTy never awed by The courage and dagnaTy oT Thear Tellowmen Such people can never undersTand ThaT when your hearT as Tull oT love you re nane TeeT Tall because Thear hearTs are never Tull oT love l hope Tor each oT you ThaT you wall have The courage To grow To use The precaous Treedom ThaT as yours To develop your own abalaTaes and resources To puT an The ThoughT The hard labor The dascaplane aT Talces To become a person an your own raghT and ThaT ThroughouT your laTe whaTever aTs span you may be The lcand oT person who does undersTand ThaT when your hearT as Tull oT love you re nane TeeT Tall ATTecTaonaTely, ILSE GILLAM oT living, buT This is The courage ThaT liTe demands oT each oT us, and

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any spare Tlme we had I remember my own enloyable Tumes ln The swlmmnng Tennus danclng and dramaTlcs clubs There were oThers oT course buT lm only human All These Thungs made my Treshman year a memorable and happy one Qur exTracurrn ular acTuvuTues were com peTe FRANCES lvlcGl2ATI-I Well here I am aT lasT' IT was a Tough TughT buT I Tunally made :T Perhaps Id beTTer explaln ThaT lm reTerr1ng To my sophomore year This new home :T really IS you know cerTa1nly looks luke a hugh school I guess none oT us wall ever TorgeT The scary Teelung we experuenced as we enTered The Mann Bunldung IT made us Teel so small and 1nsIgn1TncanT ThaT we really TelT luke Treshmen alThough now we were known as Unclvullzed sophomores Are They kuddung7 I had qulTe a blT oT dlTTlculTy geTTlng around The school Though Everyone rushed around as Though she were berng pursued by a demon I always remember The Trouble I had To Tund The rlghT sTalrcase and when I dad somoT1meslTTelT as :T The whole school were Trylng To clamb up over me I believed The yarn abouT The swlmmnng pool belng on ID Thesr baTh1ng su1Ts I never had any luck Though In The monTh oT February I became a cuvnlnzed sopho more and I looked Torward eagerly To The Term ahead oT me Maybe IT was due To The TacT ThaT summer was comnng We all had a wonderTul TreaT ThaT memorable Term We were snTormed ThaT The school was To be modernized and Then The Tun really began The class work was 1nTerrupTed conT1nually by Tne hammersng drzlllng and sawing oT The carpenTers ThaT was The besT Term we ever had Some days beTore enTer:ng a classroom where we hadn T done our homework we asked The carpenTer ouTsude To I 0. vi . . I I I ' R I . ' . ' I' ' , I I . . . I . . . . u . . . . 'F ' K f ' . illffxi I 0 . . . . . Lk . The Tloor above The lunchroom, and I used To look Tor girls A 1 , , ' 1 ' ' 'I Q ' I K . I ' 1. ' 0 . ' . ' k I ' . ' . X 1 T - I A I ' I I 1 l I . , 1 f . 'I r nf' l ':T:S....:,.' .2 . 9715?