Colonel E Brooke Lee Middle School - Cougar Yearbook (Silver Spring, MD)

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EMBARRASSMENT Embarrassment is walking into the boy's locker-room on the first day of school. Embarrassment is having to act out Embarrassment in drama. I Embarrassment is being sure you're right, and finding out youlre wrong. 'K 4 Embarrassment is squirting orange juice all over your boyfriend. gm it Embarrassment is dropping your deodorant on the way to school. Embarrassment is getting your maxi-coat stuck in the escalator when the sign warned you. . Avi Embarrassment is buying a lot of clothes and finding out you don't have enough money. 5 I Lf Embarrassment is having your baby sister cry in church. i Embarrassment is when your pants split when you are bending over. Embarrassment is having your false eyelash drop in your soup. 'X , Embarrassment is when your father cusses in the car, and your friends are there. -G Embarrassment is saying mean things about your friend, and finding out she's listening. k Embarrassment is being weighed on the scale when everybody's watching. And most of all embarrassment 1S being embarrassed. Miriam Lefkowitz HOW WE GOT THE CLOUDS Once there was an Indian boy named Swift Foot. He was the son of a chief named Running Bull. Run- ning Bull and Swift Foot were very close, for Swift Foot's mother had died when he was a young child. Swift Foot had a normal happy childhood. He loved the outdoors. On his twelfth birthday Running Bull said to him, My son it is time you learn the practices of a mann. For the next few months Running Bull and Swift Foot trapped, hunted and fished together. Swift Foot was having a wonderful time. His father also taught him smoke-signals. As he grew older he was known as the best smoke signaler in the tribe. People would always call on him. Swift Foot met a girl named Golden Fawn. They fell in love and were married. They had a little son named Little Fox. Five months after Little Fox was born Golden Fawn died. Swift Foot was heartbroken and couldn't bear it. He wanted to be with Golden Fawn. Two days after Golden Fawn's burial ceremony Swift Foot went to the top of the tallest hill. He built a fire and started sending smoke signals. They were to his dead wife saying, Fm coming Golden Fawn. He had given Little Fox to his best friends, Black Bear and White Feather, to take care of him. Then he stuck a knife through his heart. The smoke signals remained in the sky forever. Karen McConnell The Rematch T'was 5 minutes before that very big fight. Joe Frazier had slept but one hour that night. Ali walked in, and there came up a roar, And into the aisles the fans started to pour. As Frazier saw Ali he shivered with fear, And started to run like a fleet-footed deer. The ref stopped Frazier as he let out a cry, Please mister, I don't want to dieli' From his corner Frazier starred into Ali's eye, And fell to his knees and started to cry. The bell rang and Frazier charged into the ring, Ali slugged him, thinking he's be the new Heavyweight King Then Ali threw a left hook to Frazier's hairy face. It looked like Joe Frazier was out of the race. Frazier fell to the floor, his face turning white, And this was the end of the very big fight. Harry Blumenkrantz David Bates S ff f -

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How The Turtles Got Their Shells Once there were two kingdoms, the lizzards and the turtles. They looked exactly alike, and it was impossible to tell them apart. There was a constant argument about who would get more land than an- other, who would get this, and who would get that. So one day the leaders got together and decided to settle these disagreements once and for all. They agreed to have a battle the next day. Both leaders hurried on their way for they had to train their troops for combat. The lizzards decided they would get on the mountain and throw down small boulders on the turtles. The turtles who were not very smart decided that since the lizzards were going to throw boulders down on them they would throw them back. So the day for the battle came. The lizzards threw the boulders down upon the turtles. When the turtles were unable to throw them back because they were much too heavy, the turtles paniced. They ran around in circles. Pretty soon the turtles got hit with the rocks, but instead of squashing the turtles, the boulders stuck on their backs. This went on until the lizzards ran out of rocks, so the lizzards had to surrender. This is how the turtles conquered the king- dom of the lizzards and how the turtles got their shells. Carol Tantum WHY THE MOON IS MADE OF GREEN CHEESE I'm sure you've all heard the story of how the cow jumped over the moon. But that's not really how it happened. The cow, Matilda, was just soaring over the moon, when she decided to stop and explore. So she landed and started to explore. Not far away she spied a beautiful patch of the greenest grass she had ever seen. She walked over and sniffed at it. It smelled soooo good that she started to eat some. It was delicious, and she ate, and ate and ate until she was about ready to pop. Just then, the Man in the Moon happened by. He heard Matilda mooing, so he went and got his milking pail, and began to milk her. Pretty soon, the milk had completely filled the pail and was still coming. In less than ten minutes, Matilda had completely flooded the moon with milk, green milk, from the special green grass. Finally there was no more milk, but there was no more Matilda either! The milk slowly soaked into the ground and turned to cheese. And to this day, the moon is still made of green cheese. Carol Goldberg . ,,7, 7. , 05.41 gg fly, 7 fg ' -1 l CHILDHOOD l Childhood is: getting your very firstlbike. Childhood is: getting your allowance. Childhood is: getting your first cavities filled. Childhood is: sticking a fork in a wall socket. Childhood is: taking your father's raldio apart and not being able to put it back together againl Childhood is: losing one of the pool sballs. Childhood is: not being able to wait jfor fall so school will start. Childhood is:'not being able to wait lfor summer so school will end. Childhood is: getting in a fight and lpsing four front teeth Childhood is: becoming a teenager and wanting to start all over again. 2 Bob Rowe l r HOW THE MISSISSIPPI GOT IT'S NAME Years ago when southerners had slaves to do their work, a few who had harsh masters used to run away. One such slave from Virginia who had managed to flee from a miserable master was Ippi. Ippi was an ambitious little fellow who was willing to work hard in order to survive. He was lucky enough to be taken in by a hardworking family who had settled near a river west of virginia. Ippi was nearly starving when he stumbled onto their land. With care and kindness he was soon well and working hard. Ippi was a talkative young fellow and eager to please. On Sunday the family with whom Ip? i lived decided to have a picnic near the river. It wasp a warm, happy day and the picnic was great fun fdr all until Mrs. Chisem fell into the river. She couldn'l swim. Ippi ran to the water's edge shouting, Aissus, Missusf' Ippi, she cried. Ippi she cried. ppi, help me! Ippi couldn't swim either, but he jumped right into the water to try to save her. Mr. Chisem hear their shouting and luckily he could swim. Ht dived into the water and was able to save both Mrs. Chisem and Ippi. After the excitement was over they had a good laugh when they decided to call the river Mississip- P1 Carol Cooper l

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HOW THE CHESAPEAKE BAY WAS FORMED A long time ago what is now known as the Chesapeake Bay was just a deep barren gulch, known as the Chest-a-peake gulch. 5 It all started when a baby boy was born. His length was one mile at birth. His parents named him Chester A. Peake. As a child he would cut down trees. He was sort of like Paul Bpnyan, only much, l much taller. One day while he was walking home from his hard day's work, he spied his mother and started waving to her. He forgot to look where he was going and he tripped over the Appalachian Mountains. When he fell, his arms sprawled in all directions. He got up and beneath him where he st ld ,ml an 133 lil- : ' Vssg , at i 1 1 I . 'l FQ! R - -K Ben Kramer How Giraffes Got Long Necks Long ago giraffes were looked down upon in the animal kingdom because of their position they held in the kingdom-leaf mulchers. Day after day the giraffes moped about, wearily munching the leaves which had fallen from the trees to the ground into a fine mulch with their slender snouts. The job was such a monot- onous drudgery, munching leaves with their eyes con- stantly focused on the ground. Then one day the giraffes struck upon a brilliant idea, catch the leaves in their mouths before the leaves fell to the ground. How splendid the idea was. It added such excitement and adventure to the job. Soon there was an air of competi- tion and rivalry among the giraffes. The dull, drab job had turned into a fun packed, fast action sport. But a good thing never lasts long, for each day the giraffes necks stretched and stretched and grew longer and longer until finally the giraffes moped about munching leaves off the tops of the trees. Only two things re- sulted from the brilliant idea. Giraffes's necks became extremely long as a result of their craning of them to catch the leaves, and now none of the animals could help but to look up to a giraffe. Up to this time giraffes have been born with long necks which tower into the sky. Peter Vescovi had fallen was an indentation of his body. And in one of the crevaces from his finger print was his mother flat as a pancake. His mother was buried at that spot. And every day Chest fas his friends called himj would go and put flowers on her grave. The tremendous ditch was named Chest-a-peake after Chest. A few years later he went to his mother's grave. He was so sad that for the first time in his life he ltarted to cry. The whole gulch filled up with water. His body made a large bay and his ap ms and legs made rivers. And that is how we got the Chest-a-peake Bay. I l WHY THE BEE BUZLES l Did you know that long ago thai bee never used to buzz? They would talk! Let me tell you the story. There was a beehive in the middle of the Busy Bee Forest. This beehive had two big problems. One was Barney Bee. This bee would talk and talk. All he would talk about was how great he was, and all the medals, trophies, and ribbons he won. Everyone was just SICK of his bragging. The other problem the beehive had was, soon there wouldn't be a beehive because people were cutting down all the trees in the Busy Bee Forest to build apartments. One day while Barney was brag- ging, someone said, If you're so great why don't you do something to save our beehive? Barney said, O.K., I will! Barney thought and thought about how to get rid of those electric saws that were cutting down the trees. He was just about to givel up but he got a brainstorm! He was going to swallow the five electric saws! Everyone in the beehive thou'ht it was a great idea because Barney had a big enoug mouth to do it. So the next day, Barney swallowed the first saw with- out any trouble at all. The second arld the third saws were easy. The fourth one was gettinglharder. The fifth saw was impossible, it got stuck irl his throat. By accident the switch turned on! All y lu could hear was buzz coming from Barney's mouth. ,Everyone watch- ing was so happy because the beehive was saved! Also when Barney started to brag, all hl could say was BUZZ! From then on, all bees ever saywis BUZZ-BUZZ! Chris Sample ' l n 1 l