Girls High School of Brooklyn - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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EDITORIAL WhaT is The world ? To me, iT is The sky, The sea, The earTh and all iTs inhabiTanTs, man and animal alike. From The days when The mighTy Roman Empire ruled To The presenT Time, when aTomic energy causes man To Tremlole, power and greed have marked The naTions ThaT make up our world. So Tar There have been Two wars in The TwenTieTh cenTury, wiTh The world no beTTer oTT Tor The suTTering and bloodshed each has caused. Now There are ThreaTs oT anoTher, more Terrible Than any we have ever known. Wars do noT seTTIe The diTTerences beTween naTions. and IT is Tor The young people Today To Tind a way, oTher Than war, To reach a saTisTacTory agreemenT. The desTiny oT The world is in our hands. We can shape iT in any way we like, buT by ignorance and inToIerance we can cause The world To collapse. Upon our enTrance To high school, The TronT sTep oT our way To cooperaTion, The days seemed To pass slowly, because we were ignoranT oT iTs ways. We longed To go back inTo The childish world in which we had TeIT so secure, un- Troubled by The problems oT socieTy. This was impossible, however: we knew ThaT we had To Tace These problems evenTualIy. We were growing up. We held TasT To our obiecTive and conTinued on The dark paTh To success. The TarTher we Traveled, The IighTer The paTh became. By The Time we had reached The Third year, iT had become brighT and clear, and we TeIT secure once more. We had made ourselves a parT oT This scholasTic world. and we didn'T wanT To be Torced ouT. We were ready To conTinue on our way, To help shape The desTinies OT The world ouTside. Now ThaT we are seniors, The door is being closed behind us again, and once more we musT Tace a new phase oT life and iTs problems. We hope ThaT The greaT world will accepT us and ThaT we may do our share in bringing To iT peace and BEST SELLERS I. GreaT ExpecTaTion .........,,....,....,,,,....,.,.,...,, 2. No Place To Hide ....,,,..., 3. Life wiTh FaTher ,,,,,,,,,,,.,,,, 4-. Knock on Any Door ..,,..,,,...,..,. .5 All Through The NighT ,.,.,..,,... 6. As You Like IT ................,... 7. Peace of Mind ............,....... 8. The MinisTry oT Fear ...,.......,,.. 9. BesT Years oT Our Lives ,...,.,..,.,, IO. II. Our MuTuaI Friend ,,,..,...,...., The Journeyman ,,.,,,,,,.,,,,,,,,,,,, I2. LighT Up The Sky ,,,,,,,,,,,,, I3. ' Arch oT Triumph ....,..,..,,,,.... , IT OUT' ,L DELORES BOYD, 8 -K. LILLIAN COLEMAN, 7 ...,.......Freshman in Girls High classes ..........................,...ReporT cards ,..........,.....STudenT IaTe Tor'cIass ..,...,,..-Cramming Tor midTerms ..........,,.,..,,,GirIs High rhumba band ...,.,...,Day aTTer RegenTs are over oTTice Four years aT Q,f9f3.S6IiIor morel class in 428 McCarThy ,.,.....,,....ChemisTry class .,..,,,.,,,,.,,,,,.,GraduaTion 7? ,iw Ti I . c

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Edilorial, Delores Byrd .,,,Y,...Y,,.,....,,,,,.,.. Besl Sellers, Lillian Coleman ..Y,,,...,,,,, A Biller Memory, Chrisline Villano ,,,,. A Day in lhe Cily, Joyce Shapiro .,,.. Paz, Thelma London ........,.....,...,,,,,,........,,,,.. The Unexpecled, Alice Coleman ...,A,.,,.. Three Scenes in a Girl's Life ,,.....,.........,............,.................. The Engagemenl, Mimi Bowman The Shower, Adrienne Herzig The Wedding, Rosalie Gabriel A Piclure ol lhe Selling Sun, Josephine Charlemagne Krazy Korner, Lillian Coleman ...,.......,......,.......A,..,......c,....,.,,.,..,..... l-low Schools Began, Wilma Simms .,,,e ,..,..,,.,.. World ol Dreams, Brunhilda Cannamela .................,..,.,......, My Salurday and Sunday World, Evelyn Norman ,..,,...e Our World, Lorraine Fader .....A..,,,,..c..,..,.,,..A...,,,,,,,.....s...c.........,... Sleep, Ella Brenl-Harris ..,c,,.e,w.......,,..,l,...se,.... Man and lhe World, Fraian Brown ,,......,,,.. ln lhe Classroom, Rolcella Broolcsn. Memories ol My Childhood, Lillian Panco ,.......... One Tolcen, Yvonne Bingley .,..,,,,..,s.........,,,.,,.,,,c,.A, Junior Prom, Bessie While .,,,,w.,.....c... A Broken Dream. Helen Shears ...,..,,... ,..., Two Worlds, Alice Coleman ....,,..,..... , ,,.. - .,.,. ,,.,.,..,,, , This ls My World, Yvonne Bingley ,.,,,,,...,,,,.,,,,,,,.,,,,,,,c,,,,,,,,,,,,,, A Person Whom l Admired, Gwendolyn Nichol ,,,,,,,,,,,. Forgel, Yvonne Bingley ........ - .,,..,,.,,,,....,,,,,.,,,,..,4,,,,,,,A,,,,,.,,,,.,, The World of Books, Josephine Charlemagne ,,,,,,,,.,., My Garden, Marie Florenza .,.,,,,,.,,...,,,,..,,,,,,,,,,,,,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, The World ol Travel, Mildred Carler ..,,,es..... Ulopia, Blanche Lawlon w.......c., ..,,.,.,...e,,,,,..,,, M rs. Levisohn's Leller ....,,..,.

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4. 'wi W BITTER MEMORY CHRISTINE VILLANO, 8 The TirsT exciTing evenT oT my school IiTe ThaT I can remember occurred when I was seven years old. IT was a windy, IaTe OcTober morning, and I walked slowly To school because I knew IT was Too early Tor anyone else To be There. The leaves had all Tallen Trom The Trees in The school yard, and The wind kepT blowing Those on The ground around in circles like IiTTle elves dancing gaily. As I enTered The basemenT, I was surprised To see rriy Teacher. She was siTTing aT a small Table in The Tar corner, and I didn'T know wheTher To walk over To her or To siT quieTIy on one oT The benches: I could see ThaT she was very busy. I decided noT To boTher her, as I had noT worked very hard on my reading The nighT beTore, and now I could look over iT again. Since I was busily reciTing To myseIT, I didn'T noTice my Teacher walking over To where I was siTTing. When she was quiTe near, I saw her and lumped up quickly. She, Too, was surprised and laughed gaily. Miss Convery-ThaT was her name-- be middle aged and was quiTe young, Though I ThoughT ThaT a Teacher should ausTere. She asked me IT I would like To do someThing Tor The principal and The resT oT The school, and I wondered whaT she meanT. ATTer all, whaT could I do? She said ThaT she would Talk To me again aT lunch Time because many OT The chil- dren had now arrived. ThroughouT ThaT morning I could noT siT s+iII. I TeIT proud and imporTanT, buT I ThoughT ThaT The Two hands on The clock would never meeT To say ThaT iT was lunch Time. Finally They did, and mosT oT The class was dismissed excepT Tor several oTher girls and me. Miss Convery gaThered us inTo a small circle and Told us The secreT. Before she did This, however, she asked if we would be willing To give up our recess Time in order To do someThing To make The school proud oT us. We agreed eagerly, and Then she Told us. There was To be a ChrisTmas enTerTainmenT, and we were going To wear cosTumes and dance. I hurried home To lunch, running, skipping and dancing all The way. I bIurTed ouT everyThing To my moTher, so exciTed ThaT I could eaT very IiTTle lunch. The oTher girls passed my house on Their way back To school, and we all wenT back TogeTher, so happy ThaT we sang. The nexT monTh or so we were TaughT dancing sTeps during recess. ATTer school we wenT inTo The basemenT To pracTice. We were Tired each evening buT also very happy. The closer The day Tor The enTerTainmenT came, The harder we worked. Then, before we knew iT, we were reminded ThaT The nexT day was The Day. We worked Teverishly ThaT aTTernoon because we wanTed To be perTecT. ThaT evening aT home I pracTiced again. My moTher was worried because I wouldn'T eaT. I sIepT resTIessIy ThaT nighT and woke up wiTh a Tever. OT course, I could noT dance Tor The principal or The school. The nexT day I recovered and wenT sadly To school. My Teacher cheered me by Telling me ThaT, enough Though I hadn'T danced, I would have my picTure Taken in cosTume wiTh The oTher girls. I was iubilanT again, and I have Treasured This picTure ever since. Five i I agcfi LJ' .-or H. M. nf V' - gf T! X f'5TT' 4-413