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

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ASYLUMS So Thor Those oT you Y ,x. no dre Tleeing moy noT TorgeT These boTTle scorred hols vie hereby oppend o lisT oT Columbus lnsTiTuTions. These gpg The +rooiTicnol hongouTs oT lorge numbers oT sTudenTs inTenT upon beT- Ter physicol or menTol nourishmenT or iusT ploin Tun. They ore The plcices obouT which memories ond odors cling. They ore The soncTuories Trom clossrooms, The shelTers Trom poinTul worlc. Long oTTer The leorning Tedi- ously collecTed here hos evoporoTed in The misTs oT Time, picTures oT These insTiTuTions will linger on in our disinTegroTing minds. fmv H , l Q i S I x? .S l P xx :Q FE . i Z mQ ' 'X f' Q.:-5 ,YA17H7 5. Zlllall' THE LIBRARY The school librory occupies o lorge porT oT The Third Tloor. lT hos o reTerence secTion colled lvliss Russell. lT conToins books, mogozines, ond Tobles. lT is used lorgely Tor conversoTion, noTe-possing, doTing, ond duclcing ouT oT sTudy holl. Qnce o sTudenT wos seen loolring oT o boolq . . . To The relieT oT everybody, iT wos soon discovered ThoT he wos merely seorching Tor his bus poss. To The side oT The librory is o sTocl4 room Tor mogozines. No one who enTers iT hos ever been seen To emerge ogoin. lT is rumored ThoT The riTle Teom sToll4s iTs TorgeTs There. A movemenT is on TooT To ploce some reol liTeroTure in The librory-comic boolcs. The Theory is ThoT The cleoners will hove less dusTing To do ond The presenT crop oT boolrs con hove some use os TooT resTs Tor Tired sTudenTs. Then, moybe, lvlr. Dunn con reolly shooT iT ouT wiTh his riTle Teom.