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

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Having hardly wiped the grease from behind our ears and pulled the splinters out of our fingers, we start writing research papers, com- plete with annotated bibliographies and copious footnotes. Winding up the year, we practice three-way evaluation upon not only ourselves but upon our good friends Cby nowb sex Don and Pete. Pierre is elected president of the school, we deter- minedly track down the last shy senior for an autograph, and bid farewell to a superb set of teachers at the last class party. After everyone else has left for cool vacation goounds, we find ourselves idly thumbing through the Johnson O'Connor English Voca- , .L 1 bulary Builder between mathematics review classes. We thank our lucky stars for so wonderful a mathematics teacher Cand general consultantb as Miss Wood, but.even she can do nothing to prevent that terrible Saturday morning at College Board headquarters from finally rolling around. Afterwards, most of us are convinced of our ignorance, but we don't let on. We're almost seniors and have a learned reputation to uphold. 'H1ya, Senior!W Asvwepause for a minute under the big sign over the front door, each of us feels pleasant tinglings of anticipation. Upstairs, at the annual pre- school class party, the class of 1948 listens enthralled to tales of far-away scenes of sunmer adventure while the dance music blares away unused. The reminiscing is at last interrupted by the presentation, to our new principal, Mr. Redmond, of a three- foot pen and pencil set with whichtcmsign our diplomas. We are incurably optimistic! Classes commence the following Monday and we soon learn that Miss Dar1nger's English course lives up to its reputation for endless composition assignments. Our Sunday evenings become nightmarish as we struggle over the wise words of Lecomte de NoUy and Jacques Barzin. After several weeks of chaos, we begin to wish that Mr. Knight were not such an enthusiast for community planning, though we enjoy hearing our planning committee meetings being played back on the wire recorder. The hardy souls who are attending Mme. Browne's French class andfor Mr. Mir1ck's senior mathematics have the sincere sympathy of their classmates, while everyone who is not under Mr. Stolper's World Literature spell wishes he or she were. The year's first assembly brings all our committee-chairman comrades into the public eye, the first Council meeting is ably presided over by Pierre Epstein, and at the first class meeting, we elect Roger Feldman president of the senior class. Class meetings are more interesting this year, with the yearbook, parties, and Commencement constantly on the agenda. The yearbook, through that amazing medium of communication--advertising--secretly accumulates more money than is allowed by Page 59

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