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

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0l 40l'lCL I never would have belleved In Thus so called clvlluzed world Qld world Tamous sfghTs were In a sTaTe oT sem: or compIeTe rum The people Them selves were physncally weak Trom lack oT necesslTues and Their hopes were sTIII dlsullusloned Many had TorgoTTen how To laugh I remained There Tor a year and IH ThaT shorT Tfme I saw people beung born again IT made me realnze whaT a greaT counTry Thus Is and how very very lucky we are SYLVIA BERGI-IOM I belneve The greaTesT nnTluence In mv l1Te has been relaguon My beIIeT an Qod and I-Ins love and my accepTance oT Jesus ChrasT as my personal Savnour have made my lITe Tuller and have gnven :T a deeper meanung I have grown up In a home whe e God IS The cenTraI Tlgure My parenTs TaughT us as very young children To TrusT In God s everlasTung mercy and gusTuce I was enrolled In a Sunday School when I was Two years old and have aTTended almosT every Sunday snnce Then Slnce a couple oT years aTTer my conTIrmaTuon I have been Teachung my own Sunday School class I Try To Ilve a good and wholesome I1Te and am ThankTuI To God Tor showing me The way PIRKKO STEPI-IEINISON Being ndenTIcaI Twnns us a unugue dusTlncTnon IXIucoleTTa and Irene always dnd everyThnng alske excepT on Two excnTnng days The day oT Thefr TnrsT Communion when NncoIeTTa came down wuTh chicken pox and The day Irene came home w1Th a broken TronT TooTh aTTer rlngung In The New Year banging on a pan and accndenTalIy huTT1ng her own TooTh IRENE 81 NICGLETTA FI ORIG The aur I breaThed un The park IasT Spring gave me The realuzaTlon oT The beauTy and charm un everyday Thnngs Looking aT The New York 'TuTy skyline Trom a Terry boaT broughT me To see ThaT I am noT In Thus IrTe alone buT am a parT oT a Tremendous world whuch expecTs me To do my share There have been many Tumes aT school when I have been Thrown nnTo The paTh oT a dlTTuculT 'ob AT Times I have emerged The vrcTor aT oThers I Trned To learn Trom my musTakes No Ido noT belueve ThaT The unTIuences upon a person can be IzmnTed To a Tew They musT range In scope Trom The Things we eaT To The people we meeT and To The places we oo We musT plck Trom These experrences whaT us The besT Tor us and Then make Them a parT oT us We musT keep an open mnnd which wuII always search Tor TruTh CAROLE MASUCCI s ' I . T - I , . . . . . I . . I . r v . . , . . , V I I I I . . O s- v - C I ' I I J . . . .

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Q9-0 .S?l LCt!g I Ann Marne Arnold enTered The world on a cloud oT rann haul and Thunder ThaT s The way IT s been ever since conTus1ng buT exc1Tlng' Many wonderTuI people have helped me and The Trlendshlps Ive made wnll Tollow me always Come To Thlnk oT IT so will The vlTamln boTTIe B plus B1 gmves you bounce and pep' ThaTs whaT They Told me Bounce' My word They have had a rnosT exc1T1ng eTTecT The Tour syllable v1Tamnn plus The concenTraTed Ten syllable one malces your eyes glow Golly no wonder The sun shnnes all day' Yes ThaT exTra plus IS due To The Tonucs and vlTa mans devoured In sevenTeen years IT s Tunny you l4now :T you have Them you Thunlc They help IT you donT you Teel Terrible IT They hadn T been lnvenTed you d never miss Them BuT I guess ThaT s The price we human belngs pay Tor oomph' VITAMINS' ANN MARIE AIQNGLD Perhaps :T was IusT The smell oT hoT buTTered ToasT The nouse oT The vacuum cleaner or IusT The pIeasanT sound oT her reassuring volce ThaT made me wanT To be Iulce my moTher I Icnew sevenTeen years ago ThaT There was no one luke her and Invnng TogeTher has lusT Increased my beIleT To be Irlce her would mean ThaT I would have To be pleasanT undersTandlng and noT aTraud To worlc Even when she scolds me I realize The Trouble :T musT be To brlng up a Teen ager IN The TwenTleTh cenTury Yes Through Tears and loys sorrow and happiness I Icnow ThaT TTere s no one gulTe as Tune as my Mom' AUDREY KNUDSEN IT us amaznng how children aT a Tender age can remember uncldenTs especially unhappy ones Talce ThaT Tame when Mom dressed me up so preTT1Iy encouraglng me To ThnnI4 we were bound Tor an enloyable expe rsence enloyable all rlghT Tor everyone buT me I drsTancTly remember The encircling reassurung Taces oT rny moTher docTor and nurse as I drscovered To my uTTer horror ThaT The sTrange Ioolcnng dagger needle ThaT The man IH whmTe was careTuIIy Toylng waTh was being aimed dlrecTIy aT me No amounT oT explanahon IaTer oTTered by my moTher could convnnce me ThaT The pawn caused by my TnrsT unlechon was necessary To ToresTaIl more serious anImenTs Snnce Then IlTe has proved To be a serues oT necessary sTabblngs whnch have persuaded me To dedncaTe The resT OT my na+uraI IuTe To The honesT proTesslon oT docTorlng LILLIAN BENEFORTI In I946 I wenT To Europe To v1slT my grandparenTs and To do as much Traveling as Time would allow The people aT ThaT Tame were re cuperaTing Trom The horrors and disasTers oT The war. I saw Things ThaT

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