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

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Tliis little piece is a mirror designed to reveal you to yourselves. l tiope it is a good mirror, yielding a slaarp and clear image and tlaat ttie lace you see will be a familiar one. But ot that only you can lie ttie judge. G. B. Straw once said tliat it is a sliame tlae way youtll is wasted on young people wl1o donlt linow l1ow to enjoy it. Presumalaly, it is to tlie oldsters learned in tlie ways of tlie worlclretlie matliematics of pleasure and tlie cliemistry of pain'-tliat youtli slaould lae given. Actually, of course, we spend all our lives studying liow to live and tlien wlien we tlnnlc we Hnally liave learned our lesson, we find few opportunities to recite. Youtli ouglit not to lae wasted. It slaoulcl lne a tlairilling, joyous period. Tlae springtime of lile is full ot prom- ise and lnloom and liope. But tliis is all tlaeoretical. Tluat is tlae way it loolcs to us old fogies. ln reality, youtla is laeset lay prolalems, not necessarily grim and tragic ones, lnut serious dimculties, nevertlaeless. Young people are suspended lietween two worlds, or ratlier lnetween two livesg one not yet dead, tlie otlaer not quite loom. You are growing into life, tlaat is, slowly talcing on tlwe lialbits and tldouglats of adults, and saying a long. lingering good-laye to ctiilcllioocl. Goodtnyes to sometliing we love are always liard and a little sacl. Xve cannot quite drop liold of tlie liancl and turn away. Tliere are countless adjustments you laave to malce as you meet new experiences of all lcinds and gradually slied the disguise of clailcllioocl you liave been wearing so long. lt is not easy to carry on tlae game of malce- lbelieve clay alfter clay, for you and for tliose into wliose care you liave lbeen entrusted. lndeecl, it is clillticult to lue neitlaer caterpillar nor lnutterlly. People, it would seem, cannot decide what to aslc of you. i-Xt one moment you are criticized for lueing a ctiildfsince tliat is tl'1e very moment wlien parents and teacliers want you to line an adult. Tlie next minute you are eluded for trying to line a grown-up, for tlwat is precisely tlie time wlien tlaey want you still to remain a claild. You must not mind ttiis too mucli. for young people laave always been treated tl1us. XV e, your parents and teacl1ers, were once young lilce you, strange as tlaat may seem to you, and we also used to grow confused at times in trying to fatldom ttie caprices ot adults. XV e too could not easily decide on ttie type of person we wanted to lne or tl'1e style ot lite we wanted to lead. You must lie patient witla us if we forget tlaat we were once wlaat you are now. You are trying to learn tlie lines of a new part you are soon to play. But you are not quite ready to step out on tlwe stage. Restless as you may lnecome witti tlcie clailds role wlaicla you lqnow so well, too well you exclaim, you yourself are afraid to let go of it. You are puzzled and lwesitant laecause you are not entirely wliat tlae worlcl expects of you or wliat you slaoulcl expect of yourself. Lite is a lcind of picture puzzle you are trying to read ariglat. e Young people, lilce all liuman laeings, want tlaree tlaings: freedom, security, love. Tlaese are tlae most power- ful tiungers we liave. You want freedom, you are fascinated lay tlie novelty and privileges of tlde world out- side your laome. But you clon't lcnow wlaat freedom is or wliat lcincl you want. You relnel, lnut you don't lcnow just wlaat it is you are retnelling against. You tlainlc it means rejecting sclaool, routine, old friends. And you donyt want to remain slweltered and protected lay your parents forever. But you cannot accept freedom, lnecause it laas its dangers and responsilnilities. You see, you also want security and tlaat means all tlie ttiings you discarded in tlie claase after freedom. Tlae same is true of love. You are groping towards tlae love of tlie opposite sex, you are malcing ttie First tentative searcla for a mate, and olataining an invaluable education liere, but ttiere is still tlae powerful tie to your parents, a love attaclament of anotlier lcind tliat you are not willing to admit is still primary. You want freedom, love, security-fit is true. But you are not yet ready for ttiese in adult terms. This you do not realize and will not accept. ll you tlainlc laaclc, perlaaps you will recall tliat tlaere laave lveen two tliemes on wliicla you laave pondered upon every single day of your lciigla scliool career, tliougll neitlaer you nor your elders l1avel3een fully aware of tldem. Tliey are: Uvxfliat do young people need in order to lae liappy?H and Uxvliat do l want of life and liow am l going to get it?H Many ol: us eventually answer tlaese questions to our satisfaction: some ol? us never lind a tliorougldly adequate answer. For every lite period lias its pleasures and joys, its responsilnilities and prolalems. lVlalce tlie most ot wlaat youtla offers you f l really clonyt lnelieve that it is wasted on young peoplel, and tlaen lbecome an adult witla- out any lyaclcwarcl loolcs. Adultlaoocl too laas mucla to offer you, tlaougla you cannot expect it to lne completely smootli sailing. And so, across tlae years l salute you and wisla you Hluon voyagef, GEORGE LAWTON

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ords of isdom from the Ma i Qn the eve of your departure you heg of your elders council on the art of living. it is a gracious trihute, im- plying that to tive iong is to garner much wisdom. Despite your naive and ati too evident fallacy, there is a kernel of truth in this. Every hte, even the shahhy and the inconsequential, shapes itsehc at iast into a de- sign which it viewed vvhoie and in perspective, may he said to present an art or a wisdom. But this art or wisdom is irrevocahiy personal like a finger-print or a signature, and incommunicahie. Each long lite, however, has also a scah, a protective crust, spawned hy tear, which is generaiiy offered to youth with grave soiemnity. it is patmed ohf as wisdom, hut it is only prudence. And prudence is precisely what you have no use for, seeing that you are the mas ter of the treasury of time. it is the pauper,s caution to the rich, replete with envy. What is prudence, indeed, it not the exchange of the iargesse of sunny days for the cramped comfort of the rainy ones? You have hut to watch the faces of many ot your eiders and catch the undertones of their words, to reaiize what tragedy may result from such a harter. it will he argued that the rainy days must come to ati-and should not one he prepared to meet them? OF Course, one shouidfhy making certain that they win he crowded with the many memories of the sunny onest Unreal, and tinseied and purposeiess, those days, it may he true, hut so are ati things, coior and shape and perfume over which the sun, Icing of Hatterers, deigns to smite. Yet, who hut the foot and the wiihfui hiind turn their hacks upon the glorious carnivai of the magic Faisehood? There are no duphcations in nature or in history, and every individual, as every generation, is unique and inimitahie. You are, therefore, not only a new creatio n, hut the worid which you are ahout to confront is also new and unparaiieted. Vxfhat spirited youth, then, two uid even for a moment contempiate distorting his per- sonality that it might tit into the grooves of another? Who would wander groping among the mazes of strange patterns? t You must, on the contrary, duck-like, shake Ott the in evitahie Hoods of warnings and dire prophecies of those who no ionger capahie of iiving, weave sad and terrifying commentaries upon hte. You have hut one need-and it puises in your veinsfcouraget Courage! So turn the Icnoh, throw the door wide open, and hait your destiny with a shout of triumphant iaughtert AVEJ VALE! PAUL ELDRIDGE

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Senior Personalities DOROTHY ALPERNP4iVieets the exigencies of aii crises with the inevitahie soiution, UDon,t he siiiyiu EDWARD BAUMANN-Ecarries his major MEN to new physicai, morai and inteiiectuai attitudes. XVILLIAM BRENNERHUhiquitous, ineiuctahie, peremptory, inexorahie-UDon,t you owe me something? HENRY BUCK'-Doesnyt hring ,em hack aiiveg hasnyt got that icind of teethg doe-sn,t pass himsehct THOMAS CAsNERHFoot-loose and fancy free, a piayhoy who puiis cheers from the crowds. RITA DAYHShe Uciouhie ciaresw you to attenct the prom anci not have a harrei of fun. ELBA D1 G1OiAHShe does the shag and wears an HEH so very, very graciousiy-our peach Eiha. GEORGE FREASHI-ie wins picture fame, Big Appie cups, foothaii games anci iadies, hearts. LUCILLE KUTTNER'-X7X!i'1GiIi'1CI itis painting, writing or dancing she Wins the crown every time. HILDA LUBLINER'-'EXpGft at a game which requires nine men to performfeanci puts them ati to shamei NIILDRED I.iUTZERf-'XXI hy is it that when heauty meets hrains, the comhination thinics naturaiiy of money? ALFRED hiASCiA-Not to he confuseci with anyone of the same name, physiognomy, stature or interests. ARMAND MASCIAP-fNot to he confused withfeflh, for Petexs sake you tryireweve mutlfecl tor tour yearst WIATILDA iVhLLERf-Evancteris eminentiy ehuiiient, egregiousiy enticing, enchantingiy exuherant eif, JEROME PECKINSP-Biaiceiyis gift to the Main and winner of the internationai sharpie contest of the Pmronxi THERESA RINK-PCffGCtij7 nameci: ctozens of suitors skate ,round ,tii they fait in sheer ciizzinessi ESTELLE RODRIGUES-Dict she iinaiiy make the Personaiity Group Picture? I hope, I hopei iVilNNIE ROSEN'-Sheis the sociai center of the Bronx Sociai Center of the soclai center of New Yorict LISA ROSENKRANZ-Vct iiice to he pent up in a Peat House in the ciouds on Park Avenuei ANITA SHERMAN'-Her famous namesake oniy saici some strong worcts ahout Vxfarg Anita Fights it, TOM SREAHANF-Laugh anci the worici iaughs with you: scowi anci it iaughs at you. So smiiei BETTY SPRAOUE-uit itis the iast thing I cto, lim going to coiiege-and i guess it,ii he the iast thingf, EVE STEINb1ETZfC3fTiCS hersehf with the greatest of HE,s,H waiiis with an air of Hi do as i pieasef, CLAIRE TRA1NoR'-As iuscious as a hig apple, goicien as a ciay in May, trim as a saii in the hreeze. FRED XVEHRMANHQh, where is there a man iiice Freciwone who shags in a manner weii hrecit