Bushwick High School - Senior Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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IQECIPI: I-OI? IVIADAIVI By Run-I HALE Nha? are I:++Ie gurls made of7 Asked a rhyme which I learned as a chlld Bul' where I1++Ie gurls who ve malured are concern The answer ns druvmg me wlld I see In Ihe wundows of 'Fem mne shops WBISIIGCEFS which make me +urn pale Though slxfeen unch walsls are a femnnme whim They re fhe wnll of elashc and whale And fhe curls whuch so ravenly swurl up and nes+I +he head of a former blonde Iady Are no+ due fo na+ure or never say DYE' u because of +he raves over Hedy Theres a preference some genflemen llmul 'ro blondes Who re relucranl' +o harlc fo 'Ihe reason For 'rhe shorrage +hey ve noflced of Iafe whxch us due To Ihe facf +ha+ bruneH'es are nn season Uncanny 1+ seems 'rhar fhe Shallmar hands Sans lemons and Iohons were pale And 1+ hardly seems Illcely were n ver adorned By 'the chlc of a c llu old nall A gurls fIu++erlng lashes I never can vnew Wrlhoul' seeing her veiled In a blu I1 And shell flnnch from my s+are whnch dec des If fhey re real Or a by producl of Ful er Brush There are gllsfenlng 'reelh +hough 'Ihls happens nal' ofren Which appear In a come hu her sm le Bu+ are alleged fo be In +he case of aged Iassles A much +oo cos bre+hren +o hle Now Ive Insfed complalnls wh ch nncessanfly surge From fhe men bu+ I ponder on why A glamor gurl phoney In every delaul Is 'rhe magne+ of every male eye' . ,. F '- - . . . ed. On , V B I I. . . 'l . . .. . i., K. . I 3 ' e I ' '. - I 'I ! .ll n I I 1 I ll l I 4

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AMEQSAGE IIIQQM abyss, AQTQQ MEIQEDITH -D Dugan . no .- To You Who Are ln Pursud' I of Happuness You lrve loday In perhaps The only place leff In rhe world where pursuul' of happuness means everylhmg fha? undersfand by The phrase Fundamenfally The Conshfuhon does noi' hand us an embossed Incense +o go gb runnlng rough shod af1'er any1'hIng whlch may creare a sense of sahsfachon wl'IIch we sum up as happnness When we hI'r a smgle In a baseball game we re noi' happy unhl we reach second Then we wanl' 1'o go +o 1'hIrd Then we canl' be happy unhl we score a run Complefe happIness7 Noi' al' all Nexr we wanf +0 score enough runs fo wm rhe game Then we wanl' +o wm anorher game Llfe IS lrlre Thai' In every derall Flrsl' we wanl 1'o gel' a Iob Then we wanl' io gel a ralse Or a promohon Then we wanl' fo gel' marrled Happy7 Noi' yel' We wan+ a famrly We wan? a good educahon for our chuldren We wan? 1'hem ro be happy and we re nor happy unless 'I'hey are You see happlness IS epldemlc ll pursuzl' IS a welrd i'hIng because In Amerlca a+ leasl' Happl ness can be and usually IS all around us For you lusf faclng fhe foe off In lnfes greal' relay race l 'rhmlc fhe Pursuur of Happlness should be a frrm resolve To fry as soon as possrble +o fu? yourself for 'I'he Iob you hope +o work up In for 1'he resl' of your llfe The besf and heall'hIes1' 1'hIng In lufe IS bemg happy In your work even fhough Il' doesn 1' pay Hollywood salarres You II learn more aboul' happrness as you pursue Ii' Somehmes you wall have +o pay for I+ wI'rh unhappmess grief and desolahon Bul' youll fund 'rhal' Pursull' of Happlness really means carrymg +he ball yourself you Il ge'r Iusl as far wulh I+ as you conl'rIbu1'e foward I1' BU RGESS MEREDITH 29 v 1 A I. l u U, lv' . . we ' , I , ., . . . I ' I . I I I . . . . 0 ll .l.. . . . . . S I I ' I .I ' 0 . - 1 I Q I ' I . . . - . I I I - ll ll' - I . I . . - . I . . . . . , .

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CLAIRE GOES -...-.:: TO TI-IE PROM By RUTH HALE Decorafuon by RUTH DOLOWITZ and ROY HEWITT FROM where I daIIued on fhe second floor Iandmg I could hear fhe Iow muf fled sobbmg which emanafed from my susfer Clalres room I was en roufe downsfanrs from where I had buf recenf Iy been bamshed by my mofher fo wash fhe good earfh off my hands and face for fea Of course I was only eleven III 5 III I IIII 'Y' nur yn -Ai f 'fx-1 Qlllv ed fhe braf sfage so you wlII undersfand why whsle my mofher and her guesf walfed for my descenf I was Iurkung un fhe shadows of fhe hall fo defermme whefher or nof Clalre was reaIIy cryung II' was Claire I knew for I had seen Vuckn buf fen mlnufes prevnously In fhe knfchen So wnfhouf a fhoughf as 'ro fhe correcfness of my behavior I bursf down fhe sfaurs Iuke fhe savage my family acknowledged me 'ro be wnfh fhe Ioud excIamahon Mum Claire s howlung luke fhe dlckens upsfalrs My mofher gusf emerging from fhe klfchen wlfh a plafe of cup cakes un her hand Iooked a buf sfarfled I hope she lsnf :II she freffed She Iooked so flushed when she came In from school She glanced apoIoge'rlcaIIy af Mrs Gadsen I' whom my slsfers and I prwafely referred as Old Gad and Gas Per haps mofher conhnued Id beffer run up for a momenf Klffy she sand wlfh her you oughf fo be ashamed Iook In her eye You snf down af fhe I'abIe and pour fhe 'rea Suddenly whsle If slowly dawned on me fhaf oerhaps I had nof done fhe udeaI fhmg I spled my slsfer Vuckl who ns Claire s besf frlend nn splfe of belng her susfer foo glowermg af me from fhe klfchen Af fhe momenf she Iooked bellugerenf fo say fhe Ieasf Knffy she sand In a foo sweef manner You heard whaf Mummy sand come here and gef fhe fea poi' I knew fo well 'rhe wrafh of ......,,... ., - ., 1 f E- ix A i I - 'ir if I u I ' I - Q . . X I . o I . ,- K X - . Q . - :jf fs A Q 1 x x ' .fx N .. af fhe fime and af wlhai' my sisfers ferm- ' . ' . , I o ' ' ll .ll,. ll -