High School of Music and Art - Recolte Yearbook (New York, NY)

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and while we made forty minute speeches about the advantages of an escalator, because we were part of one of the swellest places we can think of. Besides, dissatisfaction with one's life of toil and hardship leads to Progress, we always say .... We're going to walk down the aisle of the auditorium and remember the evening concerts and plays, everybody all dressed up, the school warm and festive. We'll remember when it was just a study hall, with a lot of kids doing homework and a lot more trying very hard to. It will be a brave, beautiful morning. They will tell us that we're going into the World. We're not worrying at all. The world's a smaller, rounder place than you might think. For a very short while, we'll go back over all the photographs, pro- grams, test papers, clippings, schoolwork, compositions. We'll remem- ber the crazy mistakes we made on Math tests, and the crazy excuses we gave for being late too often. We'll remember how terrible it felt not to dance with anybody at the term party, but how delicious the ice cream was, anyway. We'll remember whom we fell in love with in third term, and wonder why we fell out of it in fourth. We'll remember the Christmas tree, all lit up, and the old students coming back, looking very adult and sentimental. We'll walk over to the hall mirror and gaze at that person with a bit of blue and maroon over the left eyebrow. Yes, set it firmly on your head. It is a great and powerful symbol of shining tomorrow. LOIS HARMON 43

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There were those with the very terrific lunches and the kids who spent their lunch period looking for the beef in a roast beef sandwich. The fat kids were getting thin and the thin ones staying that way. Then carrie fifth term, sixth, seventh. The regents and inidterms came and we were sitting on top of the steps frantically trying to remember square roots or the future of savoir . . . the future. Thinking about the future because next term is IT .... And IT, when all the important people have gone and left you. It's O.K., though. When we get that final slap on the back, even if it's more like a shove, we'll be ready. VVe've not been sleeping behind the walls. We've been busy talking and planning, arguing and making speeches. But that wasn't all. While wc were planning, we thought of ways to earn enough money to buy an ambulance. XVhen we got through talking, we had decided that we should have a Victory Corps, a real service organization in school, a way really to work and fight. VVC figured that the time had come when we had to fight for the big old school, the paintings on the walls, a student newspaper, the footprints of all the kids, the music making and the campaign posters. VVc want the big schools, the music, the clay warm in our hands badly enough to fight so that we may have them always: all of us together. The Victory Corps and the ambulance were only the beginning, there's much more to do, and we're strong, free, young. VVe've started now and the world of asbestos coats can't stop us till the world is right again for all the kids like us. lt's here-Ianuary, 1944. We're going. WVe know that no one is going to ask us to stay a little longer, just for fun. We're going to college, to learn more about the big job of building tomorrow. We're going to get a job, right in the middle of today, or we're going to get out there and fightg going to war to make a peace. It's been the most wonderful four vears of our lives, don't let us fool you. It was wonderful when we com- plained about all the homework we said it took a whole week-end to do, 42

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