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

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Tl-IE FI AL YEAR it was 7:00 P. M. and Lincotn was dark. in the sixth Hoof gym the wind whistled through the gratings. The hastcets cast weird shadows on the hacia- hoard. One hy one the myriads of city tights Hashed on. City noises and the wind merged in eerie comhinations. in the shadows a dark Figure stood. it puiied its coat around its shoulders and looked at the dark gym. The Figure sat sitentty and then htew its nose and wiped its eyes. it was sad. A lonesome horn hontced in the distant street hetow. The rattiing gym doors seemed to talk: UGrad-u-a-tion, grad-u-a-tionf, The htacic figure thought to itseit, Mitts att over. High schooi is finished. . . . So many peopie I wanted to know .... So many thingsi wanted to do. . . . Too iatef, The wind htew louder. :The Whistling wind . . . whistling . . . somewhere . . . tar in the distant past . . . somewhere . . . a whistle . . . a whistief' Boh was whist ing. XVe trudged siowiy up the hiii towards Broadway. The air was cold. 'the overcast sicy gave the streets a dreary appearance. it had heen a tough cay in schooi and i was tired. XVe hoth waiiced, heads iowered, thinicing ahout the game next Friday, our schooi wortc, the kids in the class. Boh tina ty hroice the silence. HGoing to the cance on the Q8th?H MHOW you jest, man. 1 wouidn,t miss it.H HDances are a Heck of a tot more fun this yearf! Vxfe turned the corner and headed toward the suhvvay station. XV e tallied ahout girls and dates and the tun a gang of us had had at the zoo. We won- dered ahout our chances in the M.A.A.P.S.-the pinwheet and the douhie- pivot attack might he just the thing to win it for us. Vxfhen We reached the station we stopped. it was stiti eariy, so we decided to tant. The iight mood of our conversation suddeniy disappeared. We hegan to tau: ahout the war. Boh told me ahout his cousin who was overseas and of the ietters he wrote home. Yve taiiced ahout our experiences and ahout our ideas, our amhitions tor the future. 'Before we knew it an hour had slipped hy.

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tteflj Etsen and Malone, Hrs! Iwo in selioots tiislorv lo irin four soecer teilers. fevnlert lQtt'Iil1 and Berg. Ho! sun-tml tmsr'1mHgulnr'. friglilt Hoff Hover us we rc'lm'mtu'r him in lmsi-ball. UGotty, itis getting tate. ttct tbetter tae going.. As he departed, Pwotu extenctect tiis tianct. .So tong, Ctiartie. tts tween great tattcing witti youf' Ave stiooti tiancts and tio smitect gentty. Soinettiing tmappeneet insicte me. A surge ot emotion swcttect up wittwin me anct stuetq in my ttiroat. t smitect tbaetq. Ttwen t turnect anct enterect ttie sutvway station. TI-IE FIRST DAY WAS ALWAYS STRANGE Ttle tirst ctay was always strange. Vtqtwe room numimer postett near ttie ctevator meant tittte. tt was ltie taees in ttie room wtien you arrivect ttiat matterect. Some were the same faces. Some were new. Some ot ttwe otct tacos tiact gone out ot your titue. maytve torever .... t tett tost. t tootcect arounrt at ttie sea ot strange taees. Ttmey seemect so seeure. wtiispering anct Qiggting. t sougtit a ctiair. A voiee eraetqect out at me titce a wtiiptastd. My ctear girtf' it saict. Hare you a two-year-otct or merety an ictiot? tt you see ttiere is not a etiair to tue tiaet. tor Heavens satce go out anct get oneft Ttwat was my tirsl introctuction lo progressive ectueation anct tytr. Stotper. .