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END GE TERM BLUES As the end of the term approaches, an unusual occurrence takes place in my house. I begin to lose my high opinion of school regulations at Columbus, Qwhich wasn't very high anywayj and my mother loses all her sense of proportion! All this takes place because of a Columbus ritual called Post-Regents Week, or, How to make your mother suspicious. My mother sees me leave for school at eight-thirty and return home at nine-thirty. Trusting soul that she is, she immediately thinks of one thing-I CUT SCHOOL. Trying to convince your mother that there's nothing wrong in getting up at 7:00 A.M. and going back to sleep at 9:30 A.M. is hard enough, but when she keeps on insisting that the teachers are secretly on strike or it's a Communist- devised plot to uneducate American youth, it's really some job. I finally quiet her down by showing her the schedule: On even-numbered days go to odd-numbered periods and on odd-numbered days go to even-numbered periods exvepl on Wednesdays. Then you go to odd-numbered periods if it's an odd-numbered day and even-numbered periods if it's an even-numbered day exvept on leap-year. Then you go to all odd-numbered periods on your best friend's program, and he goes to all even-numbered periods on your program exfepf on even-numbered years. Then you go to all your periods in a different high school. Since that day was an odd-numbered day falling on Wednesday in a Leap year which just happened to be on an even- numbered year, I knew just what to do. I did what every Silver and Blue blooded Columbusite would do .... I stayed home! GIL MARLOWE TRIBULATIONS OF A YEARBOOK STAFF Of course it is the simplest task in the world to turn out a yearbook! What is it but a few sheets of paper with pictures on some pages and printing on others. When we informed the general public about our respective positions on the Anchor, everyone assured us that there was nothing to it. Merrily we joined eight clubs, one for every day of the week and two for Wednesday. Next we reported to Mr. Ames for assignments. The first step was the jingle sheets, named so, not because they tinkled like bells, but because it was upon them that we wrote those supposedly witty rhymes. It turned out to be a larger step than we could climb in five or even seven weeks. As we opened the closet door a pack of mimeographed papers bounced on our heads. fYou can blame our imbecility on that if you like.j Yes they were the jingle blanks that you received two mornings later in home room. Sending them out was comparatively easy, that required only six hours' work. It was getting them back that greyed our permanent locks. Honestly, it was as difficult as capturing your puppy after foolishly letting him off the leash in his first snow fall! We still carry loaded pistols for those wits who answer Certainly to our written query for name: City dumpl' for address, and Pushcart on Delancey Street for occupation. In between breakdowns, the forty-five committees run races all over the school attending to photographs, teachers, and other miscellany. Our class mates help by criticizing the jingles we have written about them, and we heartily agree that they are not as they should be. Then we dash off to scribble our 506th. We never heard of the pupil, and he has left Remarks blank. But of course intelligent sayings are little enough to ask. Finally the jingles are done, and we jump to the next step, which is the literary work. Our editor proceeds to give everyone a nervous breakdown by continually asking, Have you written anything yet? If the answer is No,', we get twenty lashes. No one has found out what happens if you say Yes Every morning we bind the broken fingers of the typists who have stayed up all night typing lists and masterpieces. We agree, it is the simplest thing in the world to turn out a yearbook. Now won't you pardon us while we toddle off to our padded cells ? CAROLE BERGER
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S Q X XX Qt a t-C-1 H ,Q - tt, t B fl 'V Cfllwlgtjil Y THE BOY COLUMBUS .... What then does this sailor boy who became Admiral of the Ocean Sea say to the boys and girls of his namesake school as he daydreams on the wharves of Genoa? That the dream is only a beginning, the beginning of good hard work? that unless it provides the motive power for action it can encourage the dangerous habit of futile reverie? Yes, our Boy Columbus was first and foremost a prodigious worker and student. He sailed the seas at fourteeng he studied maps, made and sold themg he studied the stars and other heavenly bodies. We read that he was not satisfied until he knew all there was to be known about his field of interest in his day. It took as hard work then to become a master mariner as in our day to become a master scientist. It took, besides, superb strength of character in the face of ridicule and other obstacles to demonstrate his thesis that to go east you sailed west. It is the hope of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Trageser, the generous donors of this work of art, that it will not only be a joy to the eye, but will inspire the students of our school to high ambition and courage directed to noble ends. CFrom the presentation address on October 25rd, 1958 of Miss Elsa G. Becker, Administrative Assistant, and cousin of the donors, through whose instrumentality the gift was procuredj
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