Jamaica High School - Folio Yearbook (Jamaica, NY)

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INTRODUCTION This year Jamaica students were suddenly made aware of their building by a vast modernization project. Staircases and laboratories were closed for remodeling, and when the job was over, new bulletin boards, lunch counters and washrooms had been installed, twenty years' accumulation of bubble gum had been scraped from beneath the desks, and twenty years of history and gossip had been removed from the walls. The halls and classrooms now sparkle with a new coat of paint, and the laboratories have been brought up to date. With all this attention being given to our build- ing, we have begun to realize its importance and its versatility. For our building is really many buildings in one. It is a storehouse of knowledge. It is a workshop, turning out educated individuals. It is the clubhouse for dozens of extracurricular organizations. It is a library and a store, an office building and a cafeteria, a fieldhouse, a laboratory and a theater all under one roof. And it is our home for six hours a day, for four years of our lives. Thinking of our building leads naturally to ideas associated with building. We Hnd that this process is inseparable from life at Jamaica. Within our walls one can always find building going on. Students build furniture in the shop, or stage sets for a new production. In the gym students strive to build muscles, while in the tower they try to build up musical harmonies. On the second floor art classes build mobiles, and on the third floor electronics classes build radios. All classes involve building g we may even say that they are primarily concerned with building, for what activity has a better claim to the title of a building process than education, the building of the mind and char- acter? Yes, building is an integral part of our life at Jamaica, that is why we have chosen BUILDING as the theme of our yearbook. TZYQSQ C179 CZ!! - . l.I i n l l l me e , I i , f l I '91 X 1 :I 5 ilQm1l1Q1lrlTil..' ... 1 ull ld- ll a i wifi, 1 I A ll i llfbn in .ll', if .fill A 'il ll ll: ,II 'al' Il' K ltr lr rl lil l 'kb ng 4 il llll nlrg l., . L lr BUT

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