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

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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

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in mistaking the smoke-filled room for Xuts. Slipping out of this den. .-Xlice raced up the stairs and sidled past a person who held his nose with one hand and lil- tered some yellow fluid with the other. All around him students were luusy ana- lyzing . . . well. just analyzing. Alice heard a strange noise emanat- ing from the fifth lloor. .Xttracled lry it she soon found herself in a large room filled with huge contraptions. It fright- ened her and she quickly found her way out after stumbling over a few lingers. On her way down the stairs she glanced out of the window and saw a chair hurtling down. lt was never fully explained to her. The school was quiet now. This was the ollicial period of all students who weren't unlucky enough to get E.ll.L. lE.U.L. equals ernhezzled ou! of lunch! Alice won- dered why the third lioor was even quieter than the rest. hlayhe that man who paced up and down with the binoculars had something to do with it. Passing a door in the middle of the lloor she was knocked off her feet and almost overcome. A llashily dressed character in plaid dungarees with TH E UAST cigarette-holder to match appeared from lwehind it. flicking tohacco from his fin- gers and casually waving a pink pass with an olflcial seal on it. Alice was fas- cinated. But soon. seeking a little quiet she wandered up to the deserted lunchroom again. There she saw the ghosts of a suspended term council. She heard Judy standing up for w'omen's rights. and she saw Morris Bram loudly standing up for his rights. And she learned that these ghosts would never rest until every penny of the senior dues was in. else they were doomed to live in the PA. booth by day. soothed only hy the music of Buzzy Rohan and the Blue Notes. and to emerge arguing each afternoon. Alice was tired and she knew it was time to go home. But first she had to leave a little note of thanks to the people who had helped to make her day so pleasant. She slipped into the deserted main ollice and left one for Doc. whom freshmen fear and seniors love. A note was left to Nlr. Jackson. the perennial senior council adviser. and another Thani: lou propped up on .l11'kffs reading stand. She left a note for Dr. Meister. a semi-legendary figure in the lower terms. who turned out to he a man with the welfare of the class at heart. whom all students could approach and somelirnes did. Her hand was getting tired from writing. so she left one big thank you to the rest of the faculty and to everybody else she had met in the school. She told everyone that though there were no extra activities when she was there this term. she knew-' they had tried their best to help her have a swell time. And as she left. she saw' the final hreak-up of the class of January '5l. They were walking down the aisle for the last time. to receive their diplomas and then to enter his acts being of seven ages 13