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

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.LH The Prom WhaT one Thing occupies The mind oT The Senior more Than any oTher, wiTh The pos- sible excepTion oT holidays? ls iT RegenTs, The Tinal sTruggle To graduaTe, or whaT he will do upon leaving high school? No, iT is noT any oT These, buT a much more im- porTanT problem ThaT holds him. Upon enTering The eighTh Term, The sTudenT is obsessed by The idea of The Prom . Now some oT you may ask, WhaT is The Prom? , buT To mosT, There is no need oT explanaTion Tor They know ThaT iT is The social highlighT oT graduaTion, The Senior Dance. From The momenT The Prom is menTioned, The normal sTudenT becomes pensive and develops a scruTinizing naTure. Perhaps The mosT suiTable way in which To il- lusTraTe This reacTion is To convey The idea by means oT a play lalThough a play in diTTerenT Torm, in which no characTer speaksl. The scene opens wiTh Bill, our hero, planning The Type oT girl he would be proud To Take To The Prom, making sure oT all qualiTies she musT possess To measure up To his expecTaTions. The Prom is The iniTial incidenT in our play: The anTecedenT acTion is in The dim, dark pasT beTore BiII's enlighTenmenT. ATTer his model is compleTed, a Trial period OT abouT six monThs musT be lived Through, during which Bill is searching, waTching, waiTing, ever TesTing The gualiTies oT This or ThaT girl To Tind The acme oT perTecTion. All This is The rising acTion or involuTion in our play. The Torces ThaT are pulling againsT one anoTher are The Torces oT naTure, which declare Bill will eiTher go To The Prom wiTh The model girl , or sTay aT home. Time passes, disappoinTmenTs come and go, and Tinally The seemingly righT girl appears on The scene, in The person oT Mary. BuT alack and alas, she isn'T perTecT aTTer all, Tor iT doesn'T Take Bill long To discover ThaT she cannoT Lindy . This a hearTbreaking discovery, and liTe is cerTainly noT whaT iT should be, nor is anyone perTecT . The nexT Thoughr oT sagacious Bill is ThaT he should be a liTTle less par- Ticular and Try To Teach Mary To Lindy in Time Tor The big evenT. So back he goes, buT all Too laTe, Tor Mary has promised To aTTend The big evenT wiTh some oTher boyf, and Bill is The unTorTunaTe one. This brings us To The climax OT our play, and we Tincl Bill very, very downhearTed and discouraged. BuT suddenly, he remembers The girl who siTs nexT To him in hisTory class: she was raTher nice, come To Think oT iT. He had never parTicularly noTiced her beToreq buT since he has been so busy, how could he? Now, abouT The girl: She mighT be classiTied as The esTheTic Type, and while noT beauTiTul, cerTainly, very charm- ing. She is noT exacTly Bill's ideal girl : buT well, The Prom is drawing near, and one cannoT conTinue The search Tor The perTecT liT There is The perTecT T. Bill goes home exciTedp prepares TirsT This speech and Then ThaT, Trying all The Time noT To be or seem presumpTuous. The wrong speech mighT be TaTal To The desired resulTs, and ThaT would be Terrible. Finally his speech being leTTer 'perTecT, he approaches The girl aT The proper momenT, only To Tind he has TorgoTTen all The planned phrases and is speaking exTemporaneouslyl IT is here ThaT we have our Talling acTion or evoluTion, Tor The girl is very sweeT and gracious, making cerTain ThaT she is sympaTheTic, buT neverTheless, iT is a reTusal. Our hero, compleTely deiecTed, decides ThaT he doesn'T wanT To go aTTer all: ThaT he will sTay aT home and read a good book The nighT oT The Prom . This is our de- nouemenT or end. Bill resembles a greaT many sTudenTs, perhaps even ourselves, and so l mighT appropriaTely end wiTh The saying WhaT Price Prom? . Frances Georgens , A .A A I4 .

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we could be The happy-go-lucky sTudenTs we once were, buT we soon Tind ouT ThaT These doors are Tirmly shuT To us. H There are many doors Tor us To enTer now. The doors oT The colleges and uni- versiTies. The doors oT business, The doors oT indusTry are buT a Tew oT Those which hold a TuTure Tor us. Which door To choose? Which has The leasT hard knocks? These quesTions keep Tlashing across our brains and yeT The only way To Tind ouT is by Trying Them. We all have a key, our abiliTy, and The iolo is To Tind ouT which door The key TiTs. Once we have Tound The door of our dreams we musT lock iT To prevenT ourselves Trom Turning back. We musT go Torward unTil we reach our goal-The door oT success. ' . Irene Galowin L L A A PRAYER Oh my God, Make us brave, LeT us hear wiTh a smile All ThaT comes. Make us sTrong For The Time may be long, Oh my God. LeT us be Like nymph oT delighT, BliThe and Tree. LeT us be Like spriTes seeking Tun and Like a deer Tleeing horrors To escape Trom our sorrows. Oh my God, LeT The sun be shining Like a vasT yellow ball, And leT The cloud's silver lining Turn To us all. LeT iT noT be in vain ThaT I pray Oh my God. Bebe Ginness L L A I3

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