Breck School - Mustang Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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3L v¥t by Jim Barnum and Bill Ellison Here I stand the whole day long, With my right arm upraised And the King of Beasts at my side. What scenes take place Ik fore my eyes? I witness joy, laughter, sorrow. Tears, gladness, friendship, and fear. I am depressed for I stand in the shadows of the corner. Unnoticed by the passing throngs. Why am 1 here 3nd what is my position ? 1 am here for what I represent, and that is Authority! So remember as you round the stairs on the upper floor. I am watching you!

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE 1959 SENIORS Wc the seniors of Breck School in the city of Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, do hereby make, publish, and declare this our last will and testament, hereby revoking any and all wills heretofore by us made. ARTICLE I ANTOINE—Fuller brush man. BALK IN—Chief of Staff 6c Commander of of United Allied Troops. BARNUM—Daredevil driver at stock car races. CRAWFORD—Abbott at St. Dennis’ Monastery, Istanbul, Turkey. FXL1SON—Santa Claus at Dayton’s. GNAUCK—Model for Gleam ads (big smile). HITCHCOCK—First man to moon—last man to return. JOHNSON—Head janitor at Breck. KOZLAK—Tester at Scaly Mattress Company. LICHTHARDT—Manicurist at the “Big Gang” Beauty Salon. RADER—Tavern keeper at Mike’s Bar and Grill. WORTHING—World’s strongest man—1984. ARTICLE II ANTOINE—leaves notebooks for school paper sale and medals for posterity. BALK IN—leaves Mr. Skari his personal analysis of the Civil War. BARNUM—leaves chemistry lab inclosed in smoke. CRAWFORD—leaves Mr. Roth’s waste paper basket full of empty “No Doze’’ boxes. ELLISON—leaves his geometric drawings to the Smithsonian Institute. GNAUCK—leaves the cap off his toothpaste. HITCHCOCK—leaves his glass eye with the remark “I’ll lx seeing you.” JOHNSON—leaves Rychman trying to pay for the yearbook. KOZLAK—leaves trig book in speech. LICHTHARDT—leaves his body-building set to Mr. Bosanko. RADER—leaves his theory of evolution to the Canon. WORTHING — leaves “Toiling upwards through the night.

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UPPER SCHOOL ' hen trying to think of a way to show the dif-doors of the school, we thought of the idea of if a trip with the photographer through the In doing this, we were able to record the dif-ifKCts and activities of (he school. u enter a school from the outside, probably that would Ik the most obvious would Ik the nen. It is on their shoulders that fall tin-work and responsibility. It is their job to nsclvcs for the future This might be a tion or it might be he final preparation adult atmosphere. He is now considered to be part of the high school and is invited to most of the school's social functions. As he gets a little older, and he enters into more and more social events. At this pint he begins to see his objective; most likely college. Then his last two or three years are devoted to preparation for the distant future. He works and works trying to get good grades so that he can attend the college of his choice. Then comes the senior year. A year filled with all kinds of activities both academic anil social. At this l oint the student must bring himself to think in terms of becoming more independent, as he will be in the rest of the years of his life. It is this preparation which our upfKrclassmcn are receiving now and will be as ' starts out in Form I, he is really comm-;chool work but he is placed in a more long as boys will Ik boys.