Bronx High School of Science - Observatory Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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,Xutlolensky liecame the cityis top miler. Vt estinghouse avvards vvere pouring in tltlfl Science students non honors in such assorted lields as science. math. history. art and even music. An 5.0. store nas estalulished and the student hody voted that footlvall vvas unprolitalvle. PX record HW students made Arista and 56? thought that the LN could maintain peace. As llerlin vvas lneing lilockaded and Nlr. l,evenson lnecame lllaek Nlike. I592 stu- dents vson scholarship certificates and students supported National Health lrlsllratlfff- The Lilvrary eelelvrated its tenth lvirthday and T.l'.lJ. attempted to train discussion leaders. Their as an atomic lvomhexploded in Siheria. llehrevv vv as added to the curriculum. the lalis vvere renovated. and television was accused of competing vvith school vvork. The grads that year vvon ll I state scholarships. vvhile Coronet and the Chicago Sun hoth agreed that Science vsas a remarkable school. The Nlathmen did it again. vvhile the Swimming Team vvas garnering headlines. Then Russia lifted the hloekade .. and people nere dancing in the lunchrooms. The future looked hright then. as hright as it had looked any time during Science-'s l2 year tenure. llut the situation soon darkened. The llussians and Americans soon started arguing again. and more personally the teachers demanded 'Higher Wages' and in doing so stopped all extra-curricular activities. Uh yes the students com- plained hut all that they succeeded in doing was having policenieirs horses step on their feet. School became a lifeless and drah place. and the pupils lvegan to lloek to Nuts and liutts and similar places. Then. as Hussia demanded South Korea. the draft hegan to affect the upper termers and many of them llocked to colleges and a fevv to recruiting stations. Some things vvent onfea prom vvas held. and a daytime graduation. hut the yearbook was delayed. locked up in a closet. vvaiting for the end of the stoppage. With this the old timer lit up his pipe again and pointed to the students pouring out of Scienceis portals. h'That's this years graduating class. and they've got a hard jolt ahead of them. l thanked the old timer. said goodhye. and joined the gang as they vvere leaving the huilding. MRS. ROSE KIRSCHNFTR During the past year the school suffered a great loss vyith the passing of iVlrs. Hose liirschner. Wvords cannot truly express the sadness vvhich vvas felt hy every student vvho had knovvn her. They rememher her not only as an excellent mathematie teacher. hut also as a true friend and adviser vsho alvvays found time to give each of her students individual attention. ln her classes for example Mrs. liirschner made it a rule never to take a nevv topic vvithout lirst making sure that every student vvas acquainted tvitli the old one. Many of us may forget the mathematics that vve learned from her. hut fevv will forget her kindness and guidance which were offered in the hope of making each one of us a lietter person. 10

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.-Xliee rode on the liaek ol' a dragon-lly. Van liortlandt Park had never seemed so pleasant, 'lihen eame humanity. Wildly. they searf-hed the llora. .-X f-allousefl ltiillfl eoxered the Ily with :Xliee still astride. and dropped lioth into a mass of aerid r-otton. Sometime later. thi- jar nas plar-ed on a lable. and Alive reyiyed in the air. Her mind elearing. she san a ligure take a iyatr-li out of his sixeat-shirt poeket and ery. Uh, l'Il lie latel l'lI lie latel llnrning yyilh euriosity. she elimlied vautiously out of the jar. Her legs still nolilily. she soon losl him as he ran through a door rrl-HI'lif'fl lllfTlfYl'lUN. -X eurly-headed ereature nalked moanfully liy erying. Milli. 21 .llllllfi drop in my last lerniis ayeragef' Sympalhizing with him. though not understandin! his dilemma. she followed him. tlraiyling through a lvroken nindon she entered the assemlily hall. Where are your niannersif 'liake your hats ollil llonit read xyhile lim talkinglii The hoarse yoiee made Xhee start and she elimlied into a loc-ker and eoneealed her-ell hehind an eleetrie liullu on a green and gold hat yyliic-ti soon found its nay to the top of a erexi ent. -Xrmed with multi-Colored and moldy jtlisstw this hesper-tar.-led moppet proceeded to ltls Wiorld l.it elass Carrying Alive along with him. After smelling the Iloxxer in his instruetoris lapel. he settled himself on a talile with one foot in Nlike Wolfsonis mouth lnot interested in hearing any more interpretations of Weird Tales from the l.and of the Slayesnt. During a disc-nssion on the relatiye merits of Henry I and Tff'lIfl'Sf' on lnfegrul Czzlellfzls. he gingerly remox ed his senior hat and lvegan to tinker with the hatteries. Something eaught his eye. Uni' senior adjusted his hifof-alsf lQelestials to lflizahethl W here did l at-ijuire this hit of para- phernalia?i' l'romptly Alice was slipped into the luneh of a neighhoring female. .-X feii minutes later Alice peeked out from a salami sandirieh. She seated her- self on a link of the ehain that held the silx ern are to the plates and ohseryed her neu lialiitat. A ioiee lilared forth from the PA. system. That lioy. there. He seatedl l yiant just a feix moments of your time. Eyerything remained in a state of suspended animation iihilt- Seienee super-salesman desc-rilved the leopard-skin triangles and portalile smoking lounges offered at one j third eost priee. Silently Xliee slipped through a eraek in the wall leaxing lie- hind her the strains ol' llurefn' Slot' and the i-hill of eold soup. ,Miter iiliat seemed a long yxhile. Xliee landed with a hump in a lioxxl of mix- ture ill. Hi tootsl Xkhatis wrong iiitli your program? l thought l hxed all lilondes up with a major in luneh and study? llelore she had a ehanee lo reply. Um' entered. lle earried an our- oj-lln'-hllildiing pass framed in gold leaf. nlneh he thrust into the hands of an eager female senior nho had nandered 12