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

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ls savannas C S DL - if ls a n FW ANDH ARI rIIS'IOR! MODERN PRIMITIVES Here fo Evander we came in February I944 bursfing wifh a desire fo express ourselves ln our naive enfhusiasm we saw wufh fresh childlike vision fhe high school of our choice Each de fail of our new school life we cherished We felf grown up We loved fhe plcfure hung walls and fhe fhrongs of super beings in fhe corridors spoken of so worshipfully as Seniors We wondered if we could live long enough fo be Seniors ourselves' We fook such pride in pulling our program cards ouf of flashy wallefs We displayed our G O buffons as symbols of mafurify We boughf handbooks We loved fhe lunch room fhe gyms and even fhe sfudy hall If was sfill war fume and we Evander Primihves faufhfully boughf War Bonds and War Sfamps lWe even boughf gym spofs from shrewd and hearfless Semorsl We had school air raid drills and we learned fo use a black ouf as an excuse for nof doing homework Who can ever forgef fhe sense of ownership we Primifives had when one day in fhe spring of I944 Evander presenfed fhe Army wifh a leep' We were fhrilled wifh fhe Varsify Play Junior Miss especially as fhose who boughf fickefs were excused from classes We planned fo qo in for dramahcs and finally fo acf on Broadway We were sfrangely qulef affer D Day Affer a gasless summer vacaflon, we refurned in Sepfember, I944, as Upper Freshmen, Second Termers, sfill Primifives, wifh abounding imagi nafion and weak fechnique, no longer in need of Mr. Messing's guidance, for we were given a Guidance Counsellor of our own, Mr Schneider We were allowed fo fake five sublecfs if we were good enough fo gef fhe required average. We sfarfed algebra. We vowed fo major in Spanish when La Prensa of Buenos Aires received fhe Evander vo+e for oufsfanding service fo Pan American relafions. We joined all fhe school salvage drives Whaf loads of paper we carried fo school, nof enfirely ou+ of pafriofism, for fhe class which confribufed fhe mosf paper had been promised free sodas! We helped fill Chrisfmas kifs for fhe army, and we cheerfully con fribufed fo fhe liH'le shuf ins of our cify hospifals. Q vrq ncu il ' SS, :ef zz: r 'V Q EE I gp , I A m E 's , ,- 'X H C ,n X1 , - Q- V M- A x- Cf X . I 3 :L ' - - -s s ge-S :s59s:J,, as Q O ' nfs. 9 .1. A Di! 'Sky I 1-A , n Exif' if l--W F I I' 1 I' ' I ,A N 1 1 ' ' I I - I - . . . ' I I . ' I in - . . I ' . . i . . . .. . . ,. . . I I ' f I

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, E. Efww -45 K, ADM! N I STRANTS JOHN DONOHOE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT BEATRICE BASS COLLEGE ADVISER JOHN BROPHY DEAN OF BOYS

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THE NEO IMPRESSIONISTS Affer a coal conservafuon hollday refurned fo school un February l945 as Sophomores Thlrd Termers sfeeped rn sophnsfncaflon Our fechnlcal skull was greafer fhaf 'rerm and we developed a sense of design and a feeling for Iughf and color Dark mormngs fhose were when we gof up by Easfern War Trme and dark news we offen heard from fhe fronf No wonder we glorled un sunlzghf and color We had a feelmg of a snlver lmmg when we learned fhaf Paul B Mann once chanrman of our Biology Deparfmenf had leff our school a legacy for scuenflflc use In hrs honor an annual Biology Congress was formed On April I2fh l945 came fhe shockmg news of fhe deafh of our beloved Presndenf Roosevelf We had never known anofher presndenf We generously confrlbufed fo fhe supporf of fhe war orphans 'rhaf several deparfmenfs had adopfed On Memorual Day we paid frlbufe fo our Evander dead and fo make sure fhaf fhese boys had nof died In vam we boughf alfogefher S23 000 worfh of bonds and sfamps fo clmch fhe vacfory over Germany More llghf and color were added fo our canvas as fhe S S Mary Ann sfeered In flags flymg THE POST IMPRESSIONISTS In fhe fall of l945 we came back cheerful The war had ended' V J Day had finally dawned on Augusf lbfh and we began fo look for fhe refurn of our boys Posf war demobllnzaflon began wrfh posf war reconverslon and even posf war sfrukes Foofball came back Nylons foo l We began fo send cans and packages of food fo posf war Europe Pamfers spenf mosf of fhaf aufumn decorafmg our bualdmg Rumors of a progecfed Umfed Nahons began fo sflr us THE CUBISTS ln February I946 our Evander lmpressuonusfs rad: cally change We are Juniors now Fuffh Termers compefmg wlfh refurnmg Veferans for 'obs and for school benches We have masfered more or lessl fhe geomefrlcal figures of Sophomore days We fhlnk rn ferms of lme form paffern and absfrachon We reduce our Ideas and our work fo fhe slmplesf forms We have IDEAS OF OUR OWN We long fo break complefely wufh fhe pasf We complain abouf how fhe G O us run We suspecf 'rhaf our feachers are fradnflonallsfs and classucusfs fhaf our books are ouf dafed The age of Afomac Energy us upon us We fhrnll fo fhe esfablushmenf of fhe Unlfed Nahons fhough fo us If seems so simple We fhlnk un ferms of sample plans llnear and angular deslgns - 0 - . . I we . n 1 v . I - v I I 1 - I u I V . . . l I n -u . . . . , . . . ' I I ' . I T . ' - l . -. ' I ' . . .- . . ' . ' . . . u u - 1 u ' '