Christopher Columbus High School - Anchor Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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m 'ew g X I A. 1 1 .- , .. 5 r- . ff' 'cf f 'fI f Tr: : -: if TR: pl'--fp -v 5, ft' 4 17 ,J ,,,f,' 1 4,1 3,1 I 5' Lu nf 1 15 . ,',I, fy , fg f fy? gil I Nev' YORK' IRENE SEAM The Teochers occusTomed To inroods oT This Terrible epidemic inTeI- IigenTIy use psychology To guieT The poTienTs. For immedioTe silence, They osk o guesTion, ond To TesT The voice They demond guieT. The whole lesson is conducTed wiTh o mciximum oT inTerrupTion coused ei+her by sTudenTs who Ieove obrupTIy To Tind IosT books or by oThers who pump Their honds wildly in The oir soying noThing loudly, or by Those who Toll oTT Their seoTs while dozing. This IosTs Tor eighT periods including o lunch session conducTed in o ploce decoroTed by The sTudenTs Themselves To resemble The inTerior oT o soniToTion Truck. I-Iere, The mosT Trenzied con only be kepT guieT by sTuTTing Them wiTh The oddesT combinoTions oT Tood. Dr. Loony noTed innumeroble oTher exomples oT sTudenT idiosyn- crocies-Their schizophrenic conducT on o doy colled Blue I.eTTer Doy when They come To school disguised To ploy gomes They leorned in Their crodles, Their peculior hobiTs oT exominoTion Times when They crom Themselves only wiTh ThoT which is noT osked on The exom, or Their hypo- chondrio which keeps Them running To The inTirmory. IT will Toke him yeors To digesT whoT he sow. I-Iowever, Dr. Loony come To The conclusion during Those monThs he spenT in The hospiToI wiTh his broken bock coused by o courTeous sTudenT holding The swinging door, ThoT unTorTunoTeIy TopsyTurviTis is here To sToy. Eloine AsToITi FOR TOURISTS ONLY I hove been To The ciTy, he soid, And I hove seen mony Toll skyscropers There. She lisTened. I hove visiTed orT museums, he soid, And I hove morveled oT Their splendid exhibiTs. She wondered. I hove been To o Iorge sTodium, he soid, And I hove IisTened To beouTiTuI music under The sTors. She wos owed. She could no longer resTroin herseIT. I Iove orT ond music, Too, she cried. Where is This divine ciTy you hove visiTed? 0 Tor in The eosT, he soid proudly. And he showed her o picTure posTcord. New York! she excloimed, And Then murmured, BuT I Iive in New York! DoTTy Shopiro