Bushwick High School - Senior Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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aT The Time and aT whaT my slsTers Term- CLAIIQIE GOES TG Tl-IE DPCM By RUTH HALE DecoraTion by RUTH DOLOWITZ and ROY HEWITT FROM where I dallned on The second Tloor Iandmg I could hear The low muf- fled sobbing whnch emanaTed Trom my susTer Claires room. I was en rouTe downsTalrs Trom where I had buT recenT- ly been bamshed by my moTher To wash The good earTh off my hands and Tace . . ' IIIIII II y I Q Tor Tea Of course I was only eleven AUD wi .. ed The braT sTage so you wall undersTand why whsle my moTher and her guVesT wauTed Tor my descenT I was Iurkmg nn The shadows of The hall To deTermlne wheTher or noT Clalre was really crymg IT was Claire I knew Tor I had seen Vucku buT Ten mmuTe s prevnously ln The klTchen. So w:ThouT a ThoughT as To The correcTness of my behavior I bursT down The sTalrs luke The savage my Tamnly acknowledged me To be wuTh The loud exclamahon Mum Claure s howlmg luke The dackens upsTalrs My moTher lusT emerging from The klTchen wlTh a pIaTe of cup cakes In her hand looked a blT sTarTled I hope she nsnT III she TreTTed She Iookeo so Tlushed when she came In from school She glanced apologehcally aT Mrs Gadsen T whom my susTers and I prnvaTeIy referred as Old Gad and Gas Per haps moTher conhnued Id beTTer run up Tor a momenT KuTTy she sand wuTh her you oughT To be ashamed look In her eye You snT down aT The Table and pour The Tea Suddenly whale :T slowly dawned on me ThaT oerhaps I had noT done The :deal Thing I spied my snsTer Vncku who IS Clanres besT Trnend an splTe of bemg her susTer Too glowermg aT me Trom The klTchen AT The momenT she looked beIIlgerenT To say The IeasT KuTTy she sand In a Too sweeT manner You heard whaT Mummy sand come here and geT The Tea poT I knew To well The wraTh oT rx ' Li I ' -3 ' ., R . . I I. ' I . .' I ' . ,lo

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TQECIPE u-GQ MADAM By RUTH HALE Nhal are luHle gurls made of7 Aslced a rhyme whuch I learned as a chuld Buf where luH'le gurls who ve mafured are concern The answer us druvung me wuld l see un fhe wunclows of fem nune shops Waus+lacers whuch make me furn pale Though suxfeen unch waus+s are a femunune whum They re +he wull of elashc and whale And 'rhe curls whuch so ravenly swurl up and nesll 'rhe head of a former blonde lady Are nor due 'ro nafure or never say DYE' u because of +he raves over Hedy Theres a preference some genflemen lumu+ +o blondes Who re relucfani fo hark ro 'rhe reason For 'the shorfage +h yve nofuced of lare whuch u Uncanny uf seems fha? fhe Shalumar hands Sans lemons and lofuons were pale And uf hardly seems lukely were n ver adorned By 'lhe chuc of a celluloud naul A gurls fluHe-rung lashes l never can vuew Wufhouf seeung her veuled un a blush And she II 'flunch from my slare whuch dec des +hey re real Or a by producf of Fuller Brush There are glusfenung +ee+h fhough 'rhus happens no Whuch appear un a come hu her smule Bu'r are alleged +0 be un 'rhe case of aged lassues A much roocos bre+hren fo hle Now Ive lusfed complaun+s whuch uncessan+ly surge From fhe men buf I ponder on why A glamor gurl phoney un every defaul Is +he magnef of every male eye' s due 1' offen - ,.. I1 1 ' ' ' ed, On , B + . 9 . . I I . . To 'rhe facf +ha+ bruneHes are in season. l I. t . I u 3 ' ' ' , ' 1 if

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Vucku I glanced hopefully af Mrs Gadsen expecfung her fo say some- fhung whuch would keep me busy lusfenung unful fhe reappearance of my mofher For one of fhe few fumes whuch I recollecf Mrs Gadsen was sulenf She smuled af me from above her varuous chuns and nodded her approval My mund darfed un all channels of escape Vucku s vouce rose agaun uffy In my panuc I glanced down af my hands Luckuly fhey had been washed un my usual fashuon and I could easuly have convunced anyone fhal' fhey had noi' been washed af all Okay I caroled Buf I beffer wash my hands before I handle any dushes I darfed up fhe sfaurway pursued faunfly by fhe sound of Vucku s vouce mufferung Thaf chuld I reached fhe landung panfung My mofher s vouce comung fhrough fhe door reached me and wufh uf fhe realuzafuon fhal' I had unknowungly kulled fwo burds wufh one sfone I had escaped my susfer s anger and was un a good posufuon fo duscover fhe cause of Claure s woes I sank fo fhe fop sfep and cocked an ear un fhe durecfuon of mofhers vouce whuch was sayung Of course dear donf fell me unless you wanf fo buf I do hafe fo see you so unhappy Mofher s foremosf fhoughf was always our happuness You mughf feel beffer uf you fell someone You doni' feel suck do you CIaure7 If would be such a pufy lusf before fhe prom Thus lasf broughf forfh a loud waul Oh Mummy she sobbed even louder now I m nof goung fo fhe prom Thungs had become so unferesfung fhaf I rusked creepung closer fo fhe door and squaffed cross legged lusf oufsude Nof goung' Mofher was obvuously amazed Buf honey you ve falked of nofhung else for monfhs Whaf abouf your new gown7 Well I I can 1' g g go alone and no one a asked me Buf whaf abouf Pefer7 You ve gone everywhere fogefher all year He fhunks Im gomg wufh Paul Lasf week her cryung had sub suded fo an occasuonal snuffie we were wonderung who would be ueen of fhe Prom He saud fhaf uf he knew fhaf would be fhe gurl he d ask Well I m a candudafe for queen buf so us Beffy Lou and I fhoughf fhaf was who he meanf Well fhe fhoughf fhaf he d consuder any ofher gurl even uf she were queen made me so well nof really uealous buf sur prused fhaf before I knew uf I had saud fhaf I expecfed my cousun Paul I2 ' . 'IK' . . . I Th-fhanks, Mum, buf I'd rafher be alo-o-ne. . . . I .. . Q