Hewlett School - Special Yearbook (East Islip, NY)

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And We Are Wrltlng Almost Thirteen E1l1e Abbot was twelve and a half Qalmost thrrteen, rn her own words because rt sounded much olderj, and she lxved wlth her two brothers Qnme and elevenl and her mother and her father ln a small brownstone house on Appleby Road She and Kathy Dolan had llved next door to each other for years and were practlcally rnseparable but lately however, th1s had changed because they had become two en t1re1y drfferent people Kathy had suddenly grown up much faster than Ellle and had very startrngly become mterested rn BOYS to El11e's dlsmay Kathy wore NYLONS to church and partres and sometrmes sneaked a touch of l1p rouge from her mother's dressmg table before she left for a party' When Kathy had frrst confrded th1s shockmg deed Elhe tumed green wrth envy especrally smce lrp rouge was strxctly forbrdden by her parents untrl she was fourteen Of course Kathy had a much easrer trme of rt, accordmg to Ellxe, because SHE d1dn't have two, horrible, unforglvable brothers around, pesterxng and teasmg day and nlght' lt never falled Petle and Drckre were always around when you d1dn't want them, such as the tlme when Kathy was ln the mrddle of pamtmg Ellxe's narls w1th her fxrst bottle of nall pohsh 'Deep Dark, and Dar1ng when 1n burst the two brothers frantrcally searchmg under the beds for l-luntmgdon the Hamster' Can you rmagme? Ellre shudders at the thought of that hornble mcldent Kathy left m a huff after her prrze cosmetlc was spxlled by the monsters Then came Tuesday, July 25 1956 at fwe mmutes thlrty seconds past two John Rudge moved lnto the house next door' This was delrcately mscrlbed ln Kathy s drary Of course Elhe though nothlng of the event John was just another hornd male movmg m next door untll Thursday, July 27, 1956 at exactly thlrty mmutes past ten rn the mormng QAS you can see, ELLIE has begun a d1ary'j John Rudge appeared at the door and asked rf the Abbots would lrke therr lawn cut Ellre had answered the door, w1th drlppmg hands and wet apron as she had just flmshed the dlshes To her own amazement mstead of seemg just another gruny, annoymg boy fhke most she knewj here was a tall sort of skumy, crew cutted lawn mower stand mg on HER doorstep, talkmg drrectly to HER, and for the flrst txme Ellle really looked at her dlsheveled self wlth horror She stammered a hasty 'Yes ' and rushed upstarrs and called Kathy Kathy was astounded and shghtly Jealous that John had asked to mow ELLIE S lawn and not HERS, but she sort of laughed lt off and hung up Then Ellre rummaged through her bureau and pulled out a new green sweater and threw on a once scorned sktrt raced down the stalrs, reached the screen and trlpped over Hunt1ngdon's cage wlth a resoundmg crash' As the cnmson rose slowly from the base of her neck, Ellre peaked out the wmdow to see 1f John had by any chance, NOT heard the fall but her hopes qulckly dwmdled as Dxckre and Petle rushed up from a game of softball, shoutmg frxght m front of the lawn mowerj, What happened? What happened? and John could not fall to look Ellle by th1s trme had burst 1nto tears and had dlsappeared 1nto the unhappy seclu sron of her room Why does everythm have to happen to me 7 she thought A few mmutes later the doorbell rang Ellre roused herself and looked out the wmdow There below her stood the tall skmny lawn mower, waltmg patlently at the door' She srghed Here he IS come to make fun of me What shall l do'?' The only thlng she could do was open the door smce everyone else was out S down the staxrs marched a doomed Ellle Wlth a smkmg feelmg she opened the door to her fate and stared 1nto hrs face Hello he sard Are you all rlght? Why, yes b she blurted Would you come and have a soda wrth me? he demanded Why yes, but Please? he asked l d love to thank you ' she f1na1ly sald as she pulled herself together Wrll you wart a mmute'7 Sure' he answered wrth relref And afew mmutes later the lawn mower and the gurl to whom everythrng happened walked slowly domm the street to the soda shoppe Hope Tompkms Grade 10 50 O O Q 0 0 IQ - yy 1 l 1 - 1 ' . V -- . . . , . . 1 1 I 1 1 1 ' 1 - 1 -- , - .. - . . I . , . - , , .... 1 1 - ll u -- ' UP. 1 1 ' . H . U . o . . , . . , - ' u ' 1 , , . . , . O n vu ' 11 ' n 1 - + ll , ut -- su . u ' u u -- vu u an n I 1 - . rl ' 9 1 - ' ' n n un ' ' , - 1

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Honorable Mention Ttme s of Great Importance T1me s of great 1mportance many famous men have Sald QTIITTC s a pa1n to ch1ldren v-.hen II s t1me to go to bedy But what we d do w1thout tt IS a matter for som thought To pralse t1me just a l1ttle b1t we people really ought WITHOUT IT People would surely be IH a hurry scurry state Breakfast would be early D1nner would be late Then someday a man w1th a far adv a'1ced type bra1n Would say We need a system A svstem that IS pla1n And the system would be made and as people heard a CIIIITIG They d say At last we have a method and the method IS called TIME Melvrna Cannon Grade 8 T1me T1me IS an eternrty of open doors greased doorknobs and greener pastures beyond It IS the pass1ng through the open door the embarrassment of grab b1ng the greased doorknob and the busv serambl1ng over the fence to get to greener pastures Susan Schoenbaum Grade N1ne K1nds of T1me Krnds of t1me are very numerous Exc1t1ng dull sad and humorous Most all klHdS of ttme are found Once your l1fe has made IIS round Sue Cast1ller Grad Ixtne tempus fug1t tempus fug1t very fast seems 1 should have done my playrng last for alas when 1 got throught my homework, hadn't t1me to do only one thmg 1 would l1ke to know where on earth d1d the trme go? Sally Oakes, Grade Ten 49 0 .. . , 1. , , . V V . 1 . . , . . V . , , , . . . C . 1 1 - 1 ' 1- , . - . I 1 - 1 - I . 1 1 Y, Y 11 . 1 1 11 1 11 . 11 . . . V 1 1 1 ' 1 1 ,, . . .1 1 1 1 - Y . . 1 . . ,. , C . V Y

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And We Are Wrltlng Stained Glass Windows The most important use of stamed glass has been for making stamed glass wmdows These windows have been one of the prime color factors rn the decoration of churches Stamed glass is colored by the following var1ous methods flj by metallic oxides in the melting pots this method 15 no longer used for the formula was lost centuries ago and never found Q21 by coatmg the surface of the glass with a f1lm of colored glass thus making flashed glass whrch IS ground or etched away according to the amount of color desired Q3j by applying under fire a silver solution which tums colorless glass yellow and the ground away portions of the flashed glass yellow and also it tums light blue glass green Q-lj by pamtmg the surface wrth colored enamels that are afterwards driven into the substance This fascrnatmg art has had a curious history Procopius the Byzantine historian, praised colored windows m the 500 s A D but the earliest authentic examples now m existence date backtothe twelfth century rn France Among them are superb incredible creations that mark a mastery of light and pure color controlled lead llnes and painted patterns m a manner that is both sc1ent1f1c and artistic These lead lines dlVldC a large wmdow into smaller areas so that the stamed glass can easily be placed and supported This type of architecture IS known as tracery and it was flrst used ln the late 1100 s when church wmdows grew too large to be glazed in one unbroken piece From then on it developed rapidly rn delicacy and became a marked feature of nearly all Gothrc archi tecture Durrng the 1100's and 1200 s m France artists were designers and pure colors were recognized as symbols of spiritual quahtres For example red was the symbol of love valor and suffering Blue stood for wisdom loyalty truth and Heaven itself Yellow for goldjrepresented goodness and sprritual achievement And so on through the whole category of pure colors Therefore the wmdows of that period are not prctures but designed symbols They still fulfill the main purpose of a wmdow by keeping out rough The most anc1ent stamed glass window is in the church of the Abbey of St Dems, near Paris lt was installed during the twelfth century by Suger, a famous churchman statesman and historian One ofthe most elaborately decorated churches is the Cathedral of Chartes in northern France lt contains 146 important wmdows rn whlch 1 359 pic tures appear contammg about 5 000 human figures When the art of stained glass was a lost art 11854 1868j, Walter le Duc wrote an essay on the inner secrets of stamed glass wmdows Thzs essay greatly encouraged the revrval of that art during the early 1900's rn the Umted States and England I-le had been inspired to write his essay after vrsxtmg the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris where hrs eyes had caught sight of the north rose wmdows A1'tlStS and craftsmen gradually forgot the architectural function of a wmdow admit lrght From the 1500 s onward they made pictures rn glass that served as perma nent curtains to screen the light and to srlence its vibrations and rays The art of stamed glass windows reached its lowest level when the busmess known as the Art Glass Industry fxlled many many American churches and public burldrngs with the worst colored wmdows known to the world Drab expresslons of cheapness and uglmess in such places have always had therr own way of challengmg and strmulatmg creative and beauty conscious persons It IS through the trreless efforts of creative talented and eager minded lovers of beauty in archr tecture and 1ts allied arts that the orrgrnal art of stamed glass has again been developed ln America and Europe durlng the past fifty years Dorothea Detwrler Grade 11 Pollcemen Some men who go to college take a course on how to become a polrceman The policemen must leam how to shoot and how to fight Some of them even learn to ride horses because in the crties they sometimes have policemen on horseback Some policemen leam how to read codes and they take care of swrtchboards The policemen protect us and they guard school crossmgs The men who become polrce are always kind and alert They protect us at all trmes There is usually a pollceman on duty rn every town Whenever you need a policeman he IS right there If there IS a wild dog or a dead animal that you fmd on the road the policeman will take it away for you All policemen have to be mce or else they would not have been hired Vicky de Fere Grade 7 51 O O O O Q QQ 1 o if . U . . y . 9 , ' y , Y . 5 . . 1 ' 1 ' . . . I . l . , . . . ., . x , r y ' l . . . A . .- ! .. ' . . A . I i ' 7 3 4 r , v7 3 1 ' Y ' ! ! weather and letting in light -- glorified light. ' Q , . ' 1 v 7 3 ' 1 . . . . H to . . , . . - , . ll nl ' ' - ' - ! . Q . , 1 - . . .- I I Q! v if , . , . , . . . . I . y !