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

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REVOLT Convenfions, To me, are Those laws which nobody seems To have made, nobody can prove are righT, buT which everybody, excepT a few non-conformisTs, follows neverfheless. From The apparenT picfure, however, These non-conTormisTs are undispufedly in The minoriTy. For, as l see iT, conformisfs seem To conTrol The siTuaTion, considering The impressive sales of Amy VanderbilT's guide To correcT eTiqueTTe, and The number of people who admif To reading Elinor Ames' The Correcf Thing . Take, for insTance, The To-do ThaT occurred lasT year wiTh The inTroducTion of ThaT Caribbean craze called Bermuda shorTs. Before The sandsform subsided, a Bermuda-clad friend of mine was The embarrassed sTar of her own one-woman show on Times Square, and my high school almosT banned The wearing of Them on an annual boafride. Why all The fuss? ls The display of one's knees indecenT, vulgar, or ThaT unpleasanf? The sandsform became a hurricane when abbreviafed panTs began To clofhe The rugged body of The American male, previously immune To all sTyle change. Whaf was The obiecfion? ln The ciTy heaf of The summer should noT men, Too, reap The advanTages of lighfer, more comforfable aTTire? Those who opposed The occupancy of Bermuda shorTs in The modern man's closeT on The Theory ThaT his legs are noT parficularly aTTracTive To The naked eye, need only Think of whaT The ordinary person looks like in his convenTional cloThing To realize ThaT iT:s all a maTTer of geTTing used To Things. A friend of my family who works in a midTown adverfising office inaugurafed an official B-Day , wherein The enTire crew of office men risked public approval and Their jobs by coming To work in Bermuda shorTs. The resulTs, which ranged from a pedesTrian's offer To sew curTains on To his unTorTunaTe Trousers, To a bawiing ouT from The boss, were Taken in sTride, buT The office did noT Try iT again-anofher vic- Tory for convenTionaliTy! l haven'T goT a Thing To wear To an affair like ThaT! is noT an unusual remark affer an inviTaTion has been received To a formal gafhering of one kind or anofher. This may come from a person who seeks an excuse To buy somefhing new, or iT may come from an honesf individual who iusf plumb haTes To geT dressed up , and who owns no fancy cloThes, besides. And why should she? ls she noT able To look as admirable and neaT in cloThing which is noT formal? BuT Try To show up in Tailored or informal cloThing aT an affair which calls for a display of one-'s fanciesf. A normal and mosT naTural occurrence is The appearance of a beard on a man. BuT, in our American sociefy, This growTh should noT be allowed To appear. Beards are for The SmiTh BroThers, for The lndian fakirs, buT cerfainly noT for a group of New York Universify sTudenTs who collecfively decided To grow goaTees. By The Time They were fully grown, Their owners became fully disillusioned social ouTcasTs because of Their bearded faces. MOST of Them decided To call The whole Thing off, for They, or raTher The girls They wanTed To daTe, ThoughT ThaT The enTire noTion was one big flop! And so iT goes! Unless we resisT, we shall be overwhelmed by uniformiTy. I don'T know whaT you people are going To do, buT l'm going righT ouT To look for a man wearing Bermuda shorTs, wiTh a maT of hair plasfered over his chin. lT's Time we sTopped being like everybody else! CAROL BLTTZ

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FORBIDDEN Joe awoke fhaf morning wifh a fense feeling. His head ached from fhe excife- menf of fhe day before. Remembering whaf lay before him, he gof up immediafely, dressed, and hurried down fhe sfairs. Taking one breakfasf pill, he quickly furned down fhe hall fo fhe door marked SCHOOL, Once inside, he furned fhe knob marked Teacher on fhe Televac. The machine hummed for a few seconds and fhen sfarfed fo feach reading, displaying several billboards on ifs screen. Joe eyed fhem wifh disgusf. Af one fime, Joe could nof undersfand why he had fo learn fhe dying arf of reading buf now somefhing had happened. He had made a discovery. He was glad his parenfs had insisfecl on his learning fo read. Since adverfisemenfs were fhe only wriffen maferial exfanf, fhey were used for feaching. AII ofher Iiferafure had been desfroyed affer fhe passage of fhe Liferafure Prohibifion Amendmenf. AII fhis had happened when Joe was a very young child. The new laws making harboring a book punishable by low were sfricfly enforced. Ever since fhe psychol- ogisfs had launched fheir new educafional program fo relieve fhe enormous problems of fhe early fwenfiefh cenfury, fhe mass producfion of robof feachers had confinued sfeadily. Joe waifed pafienfly in fronf of fhe Televac during fhe brief pause fhaf 'followed fhe subsiding of clicks, buzzes and muffled grinding sounds fhaf were emiffed from fhe mechanical feacher. He placed his recorded homework info fhe slof af fhe Ieff of fhe speaker. Hurriedly, he glanced around and fhen ran 'ro fhe window. Wifh fhe press of a buffon, if opened and he hopped ouf info fhe meadow fhaf surrounded fhe sfudenfs' revolving home. Affer fwenfy minufes of running, he excifedly came upon fhe place, a group of small birches, and fhe large oak fo fhe righf. He knelf down befween ifs roofs and began fo dig furiously wifh his hands. Finally, affer a few minufes which blisfered each palm, he saw if. He gof up sfiffly and fip-foed around frying hard fo look be- yond fhe surrounding frees. He fhen paused, froze in his fracks, and Iisfened, buf heard only his sfrained breafhing and fhe heavy fhumping of his hearf. He wiped his forehead on his shirf sleeve, shook fhe dirf from his hands and knelf down reaching info fhe hole wifh greaf precision fo remove fhe prized confenfs. He brushed fhe dirf carefully from if and saf down againsf fhe large free. As he held if in his frem- bling hands, fhe fhoughf of fhe consequences fhaf mighf follow if he were discovered ran fhrough his mind buf he quickly brushed fhem aside and proceeded fo open fhe newly acquired freasure. Sfraining his eyes fo fhe unaccusfomed prinf, he brushed aside fhe dirf from fhe firsf page and began fo read, If was fhe besf of fimes, if was fhe worsf of fimes, if was fhe age of wisdom, if was Ihe age of foolishness .... O SENIOR! DEAR SENIOR! O Senior! Dear Senior! our high school days are done, We've passed fhe regenfsg our diplomas now are won, College is near, fhere's work I fear, buf graduafes are exulfing Eyes follow fhe grand march, fhe parenfs proud and sfaringg Sal Milo f 1 f'9 A 'I Buf O Senior! Senior! Senior! AII fhose failing marks in red, And in fhe school a Senior lies Flunked English and Healfh Ed! O Senior! Dear Senior! rise up and hear fhe bellsg Rise up--for if's blue Ieffer day-wifh cosfumes and all frills, For your pinned up hair fhe senior hafs-for you fhe alcoves Before you, fall fhe freshmen class, fheir eager faces burning, Buf O Senior! Senior! Senior! Do nof a fear drop shed! If's only a dream you failed, oh heck, There's ferm nine fo look ahead. I Buf Dear Senior is mosf sad righf nowg he did nof fill fhe bill, ' I All his fooling did him harm, requiremenfs he did nof fulfill, He fhoughf he was bofh safe and sound, high school closed and done By creafing unrealify, Img fhoulggif hislobiecf won: BufO Senior! enior. enior. The frufh we face wifh dreaq For in fhe school clear senior ies, 3 Q One more ferm fhese halls fo fread. Sum Wendy Freedman I 'II' ' EXC jx I' '

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