John Adams High School - Clipper Yearbook (Ozone Park, NY)

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A MESSAGE FROM TI-IE SKIPPER The launching of THE CLIPPER! What a proud and happy moment for all of us! As this gallant craft leaves the ways, as its masts and spars and rigging take form before our eyes, as the boisunis pipe sends its crew scurrying about the decks making everything ship-shape for this first voy- age, as it breaks out its colors of blue and white from the mast-head and pennants flutter gaily at every point, how our hearts lift up with joy! Gladly we hail it, as it puts out to sea carrying to distant lands, not alone its cargo of song and story, but the glad memories, the high hopes, and the abiding faith of those who have joined hands to make this latest Adams venture so line a reality! To them we extend our congratulations upon the success attending their work. In THE CLIPPER we see above all the vision, the persistence and the industry of the loyal crew who have responded so well to the excellent leadership that has been theirs in the direction of this enterprise. We see, too, the faith and the courage of the Class of June, 1932. Early did they resolve that they would know no rest until THE CLIPPER was plowing the main. Soon they will embark upon a journey that may carry them far from us. May THE CLIPPER, to whose building they have given of themselves so readily, bear for them forever glad memories of the young school they helped to form and of the pleasant, busy life they have known here at John Adams! May fair winds, under bright skies, carry them steadily, smoothly, happily over the waters of life! William A. Clarke 3

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' 1 LITERARY Rosemary Burke ................................... Lawrence Kaplan ...................... A ....... Jesse Fuchs .............. Cora Larney ....... Sarah Kisch ...... Betty Ossa ........ ART Albert Freise ....... .................. Sylvia Feldman ...... ............ Carmen Spingola ....... Frank Tunison ...... Warren King ....... ......................... GENERAL Bernard Rutstem ................................... .Editor-in-Chief ..........Associate ..,.....Assistant . . . .. . . .Assistant .... Assistant ... . . . . .Assistant ........Art Editor ... .Associate ........Assistant ........Assistant ........Assistant .For the Seniors James Miles ............. .... P hotography William Arnold ......... ........... B usiness William Schwartau ...... ....... C irculation Bernard Yesner ......... ........ A ssistant Miriam Tenenholtz ...... ....... C omposing Eleanor Harms ............................... ....... A ssistant F A C U L T Y Marie L. Keller Charles Reichenbach George W. Sullivan, Jr. Joseph Machlowitz

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Ode To Spring Fair fragrant herald of a better tilne on earth Replace our sombre sadness with the wings of mirth Radiant child of nature's generosity! Rid us of our mantle of oppressed misery. Boon of poets, thy renaissance each year To all thy reign is one of cheer. Sweet-smelling sod, new verdant lawns Effervescent brooks, and gamboling fauns. When thou wert by fair Aphrodite wooed Was not thy potent charm the balm that soothed? Did not thy vibrance bring new life To pilgrim fathers fraught with strife? Do not the furr-ed creatures which hibernate Thy clarion call with anxious ears await? In token of your coming here Do not the violets bloom each year? Dreary, emotionless mortals thy new-born ecstasy animates The barren woodside thy magic touch rejuvenates 'Neath azure skies 'midst pastel-tinted hills Glides the vibrant lark which trills In thankful eulogy of thy balsamic fragrance An humble ode eloquent of nature's cadence Thou need'st no further sign of work well doneg Thy just reward is labor well begun. Oh! teach me of thy mystic charm! With such a boon P11 do no harm. If I could hug to me such precious power For all the world I'd make an osprey's bower. On every mountain top Pd place a jewel And make of all, both sage and fool Restless tenants of thy fair domain Waiting for thee to come again. Lawrence Kaplan