Franklin K Lane High School - Senior Echoes Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Jobs in facfories wifh long hours and low wages have been replaced by beffer working condifions, higher wages, shorfer hours, and an increase in employmenf caused by mass producfion. Doors of opporfunify are sfeadily and rapidly being opened fo youfh. Our faflrrers and grandfafhers considered a few dollars a week high wages, while our children and grandchildren will nof even fhink of working for less 'rhan fiffeen dollars a week. Bigger and beffer indusfries are being infroduced fo us. For example, many of us have heard adverfisemenfs abouf air-condifioning, fhe new and growing indusfry, and felevision, an almosf complefed developmenf of fhe radio. Speaking of fhe radio, fhis invenfion alorig wifh fhe porfable radio, elecfric vicfrola, moving picfures, and ofhers, has broadened fhe field of enferfainmenf for +he youfh of our counfry. Doors of hope and beginning may sfill be opened fo arf, music, and liferafure, as fhey never die. Youfh foday has many roads fo furn on, and fhe fufure may perhaps hold beffer fhings in sfore. The doors of social life seem fo be open more fo youfh 'roday fhan in yesferyear. Nof only socially, buf polifically, youfh seems fo be inferesfed in governmenf affairs. Doors are everywhere! Alfhough fhey may vary and be difficulf fo find, 'rhe doors when opened begin a new life of happiness, hope, and mysfery. Youfh can find doors fo science, educafion, indusfry, enferfainmenf, arf, liferafure, music, and social and polifical affairs if fhey only will furn fhe door-knob and go in. Evelyn Wemssen A CN REVOLVING DOORS l guess we have all heard fhe sfory of fhe man who came fo New York Cify from a very small fown, and wenf fo see all fhe large deparfmenf sfores. Do you remember whaf happened fo him? No. Well, fhen l shall fell you. He came 'lo fhe firsf large sfore and commenced fo walk in, buf he mef wifh difficulfy. Here was a new kind of door. Whaf did you do fo if in order fo enfer fhe sfore? He walked over fo if, and wenf info one of fhe liffle spaces. Then 'l'he frouble sfarfed. He began fo go 'round and 'round and 'round, He didn'f know how fo sfop if. Finally affer he had gone around for abouf fwenfy-five minufes, a sfranger who saw his frouble helped him ouf. This wasn'+ humorous fo our small fown dweller af all: he fhoughf fhaf revolving doors were ferrible and resolved never fo lef anybody have fhem insfalled in his fown. Now fhaf we have heard abouf revolving doors on fhe humorous side, sfop and fhink abouf fhe serious side. l fhink fhey somewhaf resemble a person's life. The doors go 'round and 'round only sfopping when fhe sfore closes. Well a person's life goes 'round and 'round, only if doesn'f ever sfop, nof even when one is sleeping. Life goes 'round in fhe respecf fhaf you are wealfhy: fhen poor, sick: fhen healfhy, and so on. Life never sfands sfill. lf is always doing somefhing new. Of course fhis is nof fhe case of every single individual, buf for fhe maiorify l fhink if is. Revolving doors differ from a person's life in only one ofher respecf, and fhaf is fhe following. Mosf doors of fhis kind are made ouf of glass so fhaf you can see info whaf or where you are going, buf nof so wifh life. No one has fhe charm fo fell

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PREVIEW You sally forfh, from profecfive walls: You eagerly seek life's ioys and piffalls: You ask one quesfion you all wanf fo know: Whaf has life fo offer? Well here's fhe answer fo your excifed quesfion: You'll eaf good pie and you'll gef indigesfion: You'll see beaufiful women and homely old-maids, Fabulous nighf clubs and penny arcades, Large graceful seagulls and deafh-dealing planes, Vicforious people and life's biffer remains: You'll hear Jascha l-leifefz and sfreef fiddlers foo: Af fimes you'll roar wifh laughfer And af fimes you'll say Boo-hoo. Buf live your life fully and sfarf each day new, And remember: fhis is only a finy preview. Marilyn Feldman A A A Tl-IE Pl-IILOSOPI-IIC SENIOR To mosf of us, doors are merely fhe means by which we enfer and leave a building or room: buf fhe Seniors, so close fo closing one door and opening anofher fhemselves, look af doors in a differenf and novel lighf. OPEN DOORS OF YOUTH ln fhis modern day and age many doors are consfanfly being opened fo youfh. Young men and women nowadays have an advanfage over fhe people of olden days. Formerly if was considered a greaf honor fo affend high school, buf foday if is faken for granfed. The older people of foday affended only grammar school, buf fhe fufure generafions will 'rake even college for granfed. Nof only is fhe field of educafion being opened and widened for youfh, buf fhe fields of science and indusfry are also expanding. IO

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herself or anofher whaf is going fo happen. Life is a mysfery. Life is like a closed door fhaf hides everyfhing. My goodness, when you come fo fhink of if, life resembles lofs of fhings, doesn'f if? Now fhaf we have discussed revolving doors on fhe humorous and serious side, l fhink if is fime enough fo cafch hold of our doors, fhaf are never sfill buf always in acfion, and fell you fhaf you have reached fhe end. Our doors are af lasf quief. Lucille Gusfow I A NEW DOOR OPENING One nighf in January a new door will open for mosf of fhe presenf eighfh fermers. Affer graduafion fhis door will lead some fo college, ofhers fo iobs. For, some if will bring happiness and success, fo ofhers grief and failure. , While fhis new door opens fo fhe fufure and brings fhe responsibilifies of man and womanhood, fhere is also one closing. The door fhaf closes will mean fhe end of our high school career. Never again will we sif in fhe classrooms, fool in fhe halls, and cheer af fhe baskefball games as sfudenfs of Lane. We will probably remember fhese four years as long as we live, and now fhey are finished. For a few fhey were easy, enioyable years, while ofhers found fhem difficulf and filled wifh hard work. Buf, now we are receiving our diplomas, we have succeeded fhis far, and fhaf door fo fhe fufure is opening. This opening and closing of doors will remain wifh us unfil deafh closes fhe final one. Each new job or advancemenf, fo some each new degree, will be fhe key opening fhe nexf door fo somefhing higher and beffer, Affer each misfake, we can close fhe door fo fhaf episode and sfarf over. ' l-lerberf Brusf A DOORS OPEN TO YOUTH To fhe average high school Senior doors have a parficular meaning. The problem confronfing us is which door leads by fhe shorfesf roufe fo fhe greaf door of success. However, if isn'f all as simple as if may sound, for fhere are so very many doors fo choose from. Nafurally many of us reach our desfinafions, and yef many more are leff frapped in fhe anferoom. The word frapped is perhaps a liffle foo sfrong for fhere is a mysfery involved which musf be solved. Nof whaf lies on fhe ofher side of fhis porfal, buf rafher how fo open fhis door is our problem. As we leave high school on fhe nighf of Commencemenf, liffle do we realize fhaf never again are we fo pass fhrough fhese doors which we have been enfering and leaving fhe pasf four years. There is no key on earfh fhaf can open fhese doors for us again. Whaf lies inside is fo us a parf of The pasf, and as we leave fhe building, we feel fhaf we are sfepping info a new world. Perhaps we may refurn and wish fhaf I2