Horace Mann Lincoln High School - Lincolnian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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W4 ix iwiss Bcllcvr. Sevior IQKIIIIUS, mir, Ffllilfltilif' give ou! ill ci lighier momenl wiih Rancho Grciiicltau Spanish, like many olhcr of our classes, loofe us ou! of llie Spanish room, inlo iviss BflkC'F'S Hsiiloirn For Hfofin Broirnvx Boclyn we Composed and sang our own music. Such sessions as Ilie one Shown above were noi uncommon in Ilie Jays pre- - rafting our play, V 3 one of those famous co-recreational periocts ilw . V pp ladies and gentlemen of the eiass were partici- , f s X pating in a dwaiicing hack-to-hackn race. Pat Q XX Q and Pierre were hootcect together, wattcing for- warct and haciiwarci, respectively, at a great Q pace. They were matting excellent time when at suctcieniy Pierre sat ciown. One thing ted to 55 another anct, hefore we knew it, the great Chuck I Krasne hact Pat in his armsi This was purely for reasons of transportation, however. A f-N hroicen ankle marie it somewhat awkward for her to reach the Health Qfiice hy herself. So. with parties, dancing school, and Co-ect actiustect to a more prominent social iife. Ai- gym, we ninth graders are gractuaiiy hecorning E though at this stage it is stiti something quite ' 5 :hh .K new to us, we wilt have teamed to take it in 1.4 ,r 1 W, ,J 5 High School and are facect with new and more - f 5 535.1 X x , ! - X H ' bl W 'Q I, 15? I 1 f i X 243 1 . in N, A Y 1 f . i i t ' ,i x 'i - xx r' X -X , I' A G' ,Y K J ga' our stricie hy the time we enter the Senior I 2 important problems.

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TEEN-ACE CONFESSICNS NVQ are all just Uteen-age'rs.', Xvlien we tliinli it over, wc arc a littlc- asldamc-fl tliat wo liavc spent so mircli ol our time aclmiring movic aftors, liste-ning to swing innsiv, ancl clisrussing new vlotlics. lxlost ol tlic girls wore- more 'in- te-reslwliin tlie possilvility ol gc-tting invitocl to the c'ommCnc'0mOnt clanro tlwan in tlic possi- lnility ol' anotlicr ll Jnrnluarton Ualcs roiilcrciivo Tliis was not true ol the liovs. lor altlwougli liill may liave asliecl lxilary Ann out to a movio or a clanfc, lie was still clf-voting most ol luis time to luis worli. Evvn tliougli tlao lJoys clicln-t talqc' tliis phase as soriouslv as tlw girls clicl, tlw sovial lilo ol tlie Class increasecl ancl was maclc miivli more important. Our lwirst Class party tliis yvar was on llallowcvcn. It was a goocl Cliancc to get to lqnow our new classmatos lx-ltcr ancl really to enter into tlie spirit ol Hallowoycn, apple on a string, clurliing lor apples. ancl lortiinci tolling. Tlac party was a groat surress. Our next party tooli plaro on tlio niglwt lxiloro Clirisimas vaca- tion. It was anotlwcr stop lorwarcl, lor it was tlio lirsl time lliat wc were alxlv to rome? to- gcllicr in llic- evening. Vlqlwc sovial vominittce lnevor running out ol' novcil icloasl liacl ar- rangvcl lor ovary girl to luring two pirnic' slip- pers, one lor a lnoy ancl tlio otlier lor lic-rsoll. rl-lic party was a lot ol lun anfl cvorvoiic- liacl a goocl timc. i Tlio most racliCal Cliango in our program Camo tlirongld tlde gym Clepartmont. Xvo liacl vosecl gym onrc a wccli, and inclulgccl in roller slqatiing, social clanring, square clanfing, ancl game-s. Tliis new oxporiment provvcl to luv very siirressliil lancl somvtimos amnsingl. During lllosllv work mul some play licilp lo mukc' CI ljnroln rlfiv.

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WE RE-ENACT TI-IE CIVIL WAR Uxvlaat are we going to do on tlae loody today? -'hlxlargievs loolcing for you witll a slaotgunlqye-filvly luones liave laeen waslaed clean .... H Sounds lilce tlae morgue, doesnlt it? But no, itls only hrloldn Browns Body., in pro- duction. If mall tlae worldss a stage and all tlae men and women merely playersf' tlae nintll grade performance of Hltqreedom Songw was really a repeat per- formance of tlae Civil Xvar and laow it allected ditterent classes ol people. lts world premiere was on tlae pages ol Hlolm Browns Boclyf. lay Steplden Vincent Paenetz and it played in tlae minds ol tlaose wllo read tlae laoolc. lt was in Freedom Song!! laowever, tlaat for tlae lirst time tlme clsiaracters were set down in a script and given deldnite lines to say. But it is easier to set down words and leave tlweir development to tlae imagination ot your readers tlwan it is to produce a play from a laint liere, a word laere, and a verse tlaere, wliiclm is actually wlaat we llad to do. Vxflmen we started to write a script, it was discovered tllat none of us aspiring fand perspiringl young playwriglats laad ever read tlue lvoolc, and tlaat we didnt lcnow Jolm Brown from lxfletlauselalm. Disregarding these small trilles, we set to worlc. For weelcs tlue air was lull of Ulny craclcysf, Soltlan dravvls, and wisps ol? greying laair torn out ol lrenziecl laeads. Vxfe lmad voted to dramatize Hdolwn Pbrowns Pmodyu because we felt tltat it gave tlae luest pic- ture we laad yet seen ol tlae Civil Nvar, even tlaougla we were Warned tliat it would mean writing tlae script ourselves. lt wasnt as easy as we lwad tlaouglat. PREPARATION . . .