Erasmus Hall High School - Arch Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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nce Z1 on af zme NX-64 c ,, r ia as all good sTorres musT sTarT an The Tar oTT lands oT FlaTbush There sTood an old grey buuldung known To The surroundung counTrysrde as Erasmus T-lall Now perhaps you are wondernng why wrTh all The green goblins and blue Talrles and punk pruncesses I could wrlTe abouT lpucked Erasmus l-lall as The subgecT oT my Tale The answer us gulTe slmple as all answers are once someone gnves Them To you You see :T was The sTrange magacal creaTures ThaT 1nhab1Ted Erasmus l-lall ThaT were ever so much more 1nTeresTung Than prnk goblins and green Talrles and blue prln cesses or some such Thang Who The ancesTors oT These parTucular creaTures were could l am sure be discussed by someone more qualrhed Than l Tor To my knowledge There had never been anyone quuTe lake Them unTll The very TnrsT baTch appeared The sTrange Thang was ThaT They would enTer Erasmus l-lall as regular people The same as you or l Then aTTer Three years resrdence aT Erasmus They would mysTeruously be TransTormed nnTo ThaT mosT unusual creaTure known as The Sensor wrTT1esT and mosT wonderTul ThaT Erasmus l-lall has ever had JusT ask any one oT Them They II be glad To Tell you and usually do One can easlly 1denTnTy The Senior Tor he rnvarlably yells The loudesT aT TooTball games Talks The mosT rn or ouT oT class and any place else where someone us walling To lnsTen To hum and wears his buTT and blue badge as proudly as :T he were sporTrng The Congressuonal Medal oT l-lonor UnTll hrs ap po1nTedTnme as up he enloys The envy oT Non Senrors and as ever so Tond oT rememberlng way back When he was a lowly Freshle 0 l ' l- Each group oT seniors is alike in ThaT They are easily The brighTesT, 1 x' ,f if X l I Jf I2

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Teamed up and came ID T1rsTl Margie Sayers Jan Goodman and June Muller provnded The bowlnng TalenT nn The group As many oT The pruncesses grew older and wiser They were admnTTed mnTo The socleTy oT The Leaders Among Them were Nlna Ballas Lucy Capruo Ellen Cooper Susan EdelsTeln Jan Goodman DoroThy Joseph Joyce Kaplan Gloria Ka z Phyllus LorberblaTT June Muller Ellen Price and lvlargue Sayers Some oT These TalenTed ones reached The Throne and were crowned headcoach Nuna Ballas bowllng Ellen Cooper xolley ball Jan Goodman basl4eTball DoroThy Joseph hoclcey Glorua KaTz soTTball June Muller So maybe The pruncesses dndn T wnn many E s buT The ones ThaT dudn T could always comb1neThe1r E H s To make an E and luve happily ever aTTer THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS We have come To The end oT our lourney We re leaving our school mules behlnd AnoTher advenTure awauTs us A new world To seelc and To Tlnd No Teacher wlll be There To gunde us WuTh a helping hand and a smule No TexTboolcs To gave us dlrecTlons For Traveling each long rugged mule We shall mlss The gyms and The chapels All The laughTer we had Through The years And The shouTs Did you do your homeworlc7 ST1ll rxngang so loud nn our ears PleasanT memories wnll noT be TorgoTTen Nor The knowledge crammed 1nTo our head, We're prepared Tor The Tnelds we have chosen, And, whaTever may now he ahead Q 5 xx - I . ii I . I . ' . ' Tennis: and lvlarqie Sayers. badminTon, all reached This rank. I j X ,JA

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When The Tnme comes Tor The Sensor To move on To greener pasTures one would lmaglne ThaT he would be The mosT happy creaTure on earTh ATTer all :sn T Thus whaT he has been wanTung slnce he TnrsT enTered Erasmus7 BUT no belng a Senior he reserves The rlghT To be an exTremely paradoxical Tellow Tor suddenly he has an unconTrollable urge To grab Tnme by has horns and make hum go back ID The oTher drrecTnon T-lowever :T The Senior us sTubborn so Too ns Tnme who always nns1sTs In going lusT one way and who evenTually conquers all even The m1ghTy Senior So aTTer The Tunal rnTual oT The culT known as Graduahon The Senior Torever guves up The rnghT To be known as such aT Erasmus I-lall years her gray arms have moThered These children and she would be a sTrange moTher undeed :T she drd noT Teel a Terrible sorrow aT Their depar Ture BuT Erasmus knows ThaT she musT noT show her Teellngs Tor arenT The New Seniors lurkung lusT around The corner walTlng only Tor a chance To come ouT and besudes one snmply can T aTTord To cry :T one happens To be an old grey bunldung IT does dreadTul Thlngs To The palnT on The walls' So :T any oT you my dear readers should happen To belong To Thus won derTul Trnbe oT Sensors know how Erasmus Teels when you say goodbye Torever If you are parT1cularly lucky one aTTernoon as you are leavung her you m1ghT Turn around and Tend her wnshlng you all The luck an The world Some wall say ThaT :T rs only a Teacher pullnng down The wnndow shade buT you and I wall know beTTer We ll know ThaT :T was a wnnk I 3 ,ggi i., x-K R xv The Senior, oT course. is sad, and so Too, is Erasmus. ATTer all, Tor Tour . . - r . . I . I xv . gg TX