Evander Childs High School - Oriole Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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King and his Henclimen It is only as We approacti the period of mature responsibility, that we learn increasingly to appreciate, not with- out a sense of astonishment at their inebdiaustitbie patience, the Worth and wisdom of ttiose to whom has been entrusted ttie tasic of Hieading us fortiiw into fresti educational pastures during ttie past tour years. To F- principat and administrators, to advisers and teactiers, as wen as to the many others who have at some stage tended to the needs of the HHoclc,H we turn in leave-taking to convey to you, tiowever inadequately, the sense of our profound appreciation and the acknowledgment of a delat that shalt be repaid some day witti Iaonor and interest. God keep you tor many happy years at your fruitful tasks.

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was atways ready to taunch off into a tesson in Greek for that other foreign tanguage, Engtisht NN e teamed that the estimahte chairman of the speech department, and one time coach of the Evander hasehatt team, htr. John B. Schamus, has certain vocat and tonat quatities which would quatify him to compete tavorahty with the hIetro-Gotdwyn-Mayer tion. XV e learned how nonchatantty Dr. B. Rohert Sitver coutd add one or two periods to a Htirst to the sixth program. frlqhinlc nothing of it, my tad, t would do the same for anyone.j Xve teamed that any student upon perceiving Mr. Quimhy, coutd do an ahout-face with a speed and efhicien- cy that would cause the memhers of the Health Education department to think Utopia had arrived. Xve discovered among many other things: that Dr. Xvetts is a scholar who tets neither time, nor space, nor gloom ot night retard his historicat researchesg that, hesides teaching Biology, Mr. Mandt is also something ot a snake charmer: that Dr. Deixet ot the Latin department can tett a tunny story and hurst into taughter over it with as much ease as he can transtate a passage t rom Cicerog that according to Mr. Friedtander, Napoleon, too, was a smatt man: that Nr. Zieph maintains that there are no taws in economics, that att existing taws are wrong and that att students know stightty tess than nothingg that it was useless ptanning and truittess trying to present htr. Findlay and Miss Cunitte with an assortment of aches, pains, or other maladies as excuses for cutting: that the grade advisers ptace stitt tess faith in dead or dying grandmothers when they are used as excuses f or ahsences. It took us seyerat years to learn att these things. During these years we underwent an evotution which changed us from confused and naive freshmen, to arrogant sophomores, to sophisticated juniors and Finatty to supercitious seniors. The schoot, too, had undergone an evotution of its own and hy the time we had he- come seniors many changes had tatcen ptace. The trattic system had heen changed, Monday was made un- prepared day for att suhjects, an escatator for the Gunhitt Road station wasHweH, anyway it was proposed. hftost notahte of att changes, however, was the tact that we were now no tonger unimportant tower termers, hut SENIQRS, knowing att the answers fat least until we were caught cutting some ctassj. How different were we from the confused, frightened freshmen that entered the schoot severat years agot So confident were we in our immunity as seniors, that traffic monitors no tonger held any fears for us. We even dared tatlc hactc to them C and had our names taken for our painsb. Moreover, those ot us who had atready hecome memhers of the squads now had their chances to frighten other freshmen out of a totat ot severat centuries of growth! During our senior year the schoot underwent another quite remartcahte change for shatt I say revotutionj. lt suddenly hecame attame with a grand htaze of cotor whose hrittiance was comparahte with that of the rising sun .... Boys suddenly hegan appearing in what atmost seemed foh horrorstj pintc pants. Their feet were hedectced with soctcs whose cotor schemes hrought to tight hues and shades which were not inctuded in the rainhow. The fairer sex, not to he outdone, wore equatty picturesque costumes. In accordance with the an- cient Evander tradition of signing, initiatting. or decorating anything with a ctear surface fwitness Bridges, senior hats, senior year hootcs, destcsj, the young ladies made their appearance in oh'-the cutest tittte jackets which seemed to he a cross hetween a Vxfatt Disney cartoon, the work ot an overzeatous tattoo artist, and an autograph athum. During this new era, reterred to as the sharpy period in Evander history, Heverything wentf, Trousers which appeared to he sorely in need of an invitation to meet their wearer,s shoes, tcerchiefs worn a ta Russian Bahoushtca, hideous cotor cornhinations, summer shoes in the middle of the winter,HaU were per- missihte. After severat weeks of watching these Usymphonies in fcotorn shag, truck, and Big Appte go hy, our scientiticatty minded students were in quite a ditemma, wondering how soon this metange ot cotor would result in a wave ot dark glasses and dichromatism fcotor htindness to youu. So much has Evander taught us. tn addition we have teamed many things, some ot which witt enahte us to hold high and important positions in later hte. From experience ohtained in the Evander cafeteria many of us would he tutty quatitjied to wortc our way through cottege as waiters in the Catstcitts. Evander titcewise has prepared us to he hetter, more sociatty-minded citizens. Certainly an ex-Evanderite witt never he seen putting gum on a seat in the suhway f as do some of the harharians who never went to Evanderj. He win at least have the decency to put it under the seat. Evander atumni witt certainty take proper care of puhtic property fatter the way teachers insisted on covering hootisb. Thus we see, that in addition to Hhootr tarnin, H Evander has also given us something which wilt enahle us to tive hetter and more wholesome tives.

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I r l 1 i 2 SHIRLEY HOLLANDER ALFRED MASCICE Vice-President Presicleni' LISA ROSENKRANZ MILDRED LUTZER TERRY M. RINK Secretary Treasurer ' Historian , I If Q 4 '5 rr 'i -V 5' ' I v