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

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Tl-IIS WAS LANE There us an ev rlasTung lughT burnung wuThun The porTaIs oT The school whuch we are now leavung Yes a lughT whuch wull convey a message To all The TuTure graduaT :ng classes ThaT There were Tour hundred and TwenTy Tour sTudenTs who on January 28Th I942 compleTed Theur Tour years oT learnung un The modern classrooms oT Lane under The TuTorshup oT a group oT The besT Teachers un The cuTy These carrued away wuTh Them knowledge and experuences whuch noT one oT Them can deny wull be OT The uTmosT umporTance un hus TuTure luTe Yes Tellow graduaTes we are The class oT January 42 Lane has IeTT her un denuable marks upon us and we hope we have leTT our marks upon Lane We came Trom Tar and wude To a school whose Traunung was essenTual To our exusTence We spenT Tour pleasanT buT noT Too easy years here and I know we wull recounT our ex peruences many Tumes un our TuTure luves We all musT have experuenced The same Teelung when we observed Lane Tor The TursT Tume ThaT red bruck sTrucTure wuTh The ummense gray dome whuch was vusuble Tor blocks away and The new kund OT wundows caughT our eyes and made us sTop a momenT un amazemenT IT commanded our aTTenTuon all The way up The long walk ThaT led To The TronT enTrance OT The guganTuc buuldung Thus was our new school' When we enTered we TelT luke luTTle crawlung anTs Tor The lengTh and greaTness of The halls made us Teel ThaT we were un The power oT someThung over whuch we had no con Trol And where dud one ever see such a large Assembly I'IalI'7 Why uT was bugger Than The movue houses And The caTeTeruaI Oh There was a sughTl Why you could hardly see Trom one end To The oTher Such an aggregaTuon oT people all eaTung aT The same Tume was uncreduble The gym broughT on a Tresh sTream oT amazemenT IT was so long and The ceulung was so hugh and There was such a bug balcony and such lavush equupmenT And There was noT only one such gym buT Twol The beau TuTul swummung pool and numerous rows oT lockers also were Talked abouT un The houses OT every Freshman sTudenT ThaT Term EvenTualIy all oT us were unuTuaTed unTo The socueTy oT Lane We were guven The label Freshue and The expressuon oT mungled unnoc nce and amazemenT upon our unTanTule Taces and The physucal appearances oT The mauoruTy oT us would noT allow us To conceal The TacT ThaT we were new un The school We were ruduculed by Senuors Junuors Sophomores and even Upper Freshmen al ke and They used our ugnorance Tor Theur amusemenT We learned To Take all ThaT was dushed ouT To us Though wuTh The one reservaTuon un The back oT our munds ThaT we would some day do The dushung ouT Yes ThaT Freshman year we had To Take a IoT and ThaT year TaughT us one rundamenTal pruncuple To hold ones Temper us To hold ones own Our nexT sTep was Sophomore hood We sTarTed clumbung ouT oT our knee panTs unTo man suze Trousers We receuved The dusTuncTuon oT wearung yellow uerseys unsTead oT red ones To gym We sTarTed meeTung Junuors and Senuors un our language and maTh classes We were really becomung parT oT The school Soon we Tound ouT ThaT The real Tun un Lane sTarTed aTTer Three oclock un The Torm oT clubs unTramurals varsuTy games and The luke We venTured To loun some clubs and organuzaTuons oT ufhuch many oT us are now oTTucers The Lane spuruT was adopTed by us aT The baskeT ball games un The Torm oT long resoundung cheers whuch we hoped would spur our Team on To wun In Thus year we were unsemunaTed wuTh The old do or due Tor dear oc Lane Tor we began To realu e ThaT you couldn T Tund a beTTer school Than ours 2 I W' Q . 6 . . . . . - n y T I u I I I ' - I I I - - I u . . , I I I . , . ' uu . uu . . . S I I I I - u u - u u r . . u . u f u u u . I . . . . . . I . . .. p i ' - u - I - u' .' , Z . .-fl G5

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