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

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Remember the t1me just a few weeks before Easter when you boast ed the excluslveness of the new sult you bought last week at Lord and Taylor s How dlsappomted you were on Easter mornmg to fmd a tw1n m the small church you attend And to make matters worse she had red accessorles Dont let 1t bother you though because we just desprte copy cats Have you ever gone for a dnve through the country and there r1ght ln the mdxdle of a beautlful b1g lawn you spy your dream home The home you always sa1d you wanted to l1ve 1n 1f you ever got marrled You declde rlght there and then that you must get marr1ed and l1ve ln a house l1ke that You also draw the concluslon that there can be no other house l1ke 1t m the world and th1s drlve on a few blocks further you dlscover a whole row of houses not qurte as large as your dream house but on the same style By th1s t1me you are so d1s1llus1oned you dec1de that you hate copy cats even worse than spmach Well 1ts just about t1me to draw th1s p1ece of wr1tmg to a close be cause I have to I11'l1Sh copylng Ethels book report before I go shopplng for that adorable blouse just llke Edna wore today Gladys Tmkler NO MATTER where I go or how many people I meet there IS one person I shall always remember Although I really never got to know th1s person from the fmrst moment I saw her I felt sure that I had known her for ever so long I cant tell you for sure how old she was for even though her ha1r was tum mg gray and her eyes were dlmrrung to me she looked young As she held out a small bunch of sweet smellzng vlolets I notzced that her t1ny hand was not at all rough as I had expected but soft and whlte Her black coat was qulte long and bore several neatly sewed patches A dark green hat was pulled tlghtly down on her round face and as the w1nd began to blow a few strands of her gray ha1r became undone and waved 1n the Wlnd As the people hurned past her she stood on her comer and asked ln a vo1ce so soft 1t was almost drowned out by the newsboys clamour of head l1nes Buy my flowers? Flower mls ter? As I reached the edge of the crowd and was wlthm talkmg dlSICII1C9 of her she tumed and smlled at me In that moment the tall bulldmgs seemed to fade 11'1tO hundreds of cathedrals and the deafemng street nolses became a symphony Here m the mldst of lt all wars th1s httle old lady wxth a sm1le on her face whlch seemed to say Hel lo there and wlth a nod of her head See you agam some day Wrth that the symphony ended The cathedrals soon became towermg sky scrapers and as I tumed and walked away the last thmg I heard was Flowers buy my fresh flowers? Kathryn Stebner I - , , helps you to like it. But then, as you - -- ff - - - I -Il i - . . I . . ' I ll' I I ' ' u v ll I gg I ll I , .

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WHEN the great grand daddres of th1s fa1r land of ours drew up the COnSl1lUl1On they provlded a clause wh1ch states that populat1on census must be taken every ten years Aslde from the ma1n clause regardmg pop ulat1on there IS a les ser one wh1ch takes 1n the average cuss1n done by the c1t1zens dur1ng each decade Recently when the results of the 1940 census were released the cuss word rate had greatly mcreased and 'nong the varlous reasons for th1s r1se 1n profamty 1t was found that those caust1c exclamatlons resultmg from the breakmg of shoelaces are most pre dommant Who mvented th1s supposed boon to the bootmakers trade IS not fully known However the human who has passed through llfe w1thout havrng at least one shoelace break and thus causmg a strmg of profound language that would g1ve a gangster heart fa1l ure 1S 1ndeed rare Invest1gat1ons show that only two persons smce shoes were 1nvented have escaped lh1S horror One was a hrllbrlly who used gunny sacks for shoes the other a half man 111 a Coney Island freak show who was bom w1thout legs How often when 1C6 skatmg or late for school have you g1ven that one far asf gem alms last pull and pop goes the dear httle shoe lace Then after a very acrld sollloquy you endeavor to practrce everythmg you ve ever been taught 111 the Boy Scouts Then fmally after no l1ttle dxfflculty when you have com pleted your expert job of Spl1C1Ilg you are elther late for school or too worn out to 1Ce skate Th1S 15 deflmtely no laughmg mat ter Men have been known to go 1n sane try1ng to t1e knots 1n broken shoe laces or after succeedmg 111 do 1ng th1s attemptmg to force an over S1Z9d knot through a stubborn eyelet Of course we could brmg back the old button shoes or mstall z1ppers but these would probably only lead to other more mvolved d1ff1cult1es Burld a better mousetrap and the world w1ll beat a path to your door but produce a cheap unbreakable shoe lace and you can have It fThe world that 15, Robert Anghss Dear Papa Hav1ng a wonderful t1me stop Wrsh you were here stop Please Wlfe S25 lmmedrately stop Address Good Hotel M1am1 Flonda stop Please comply stop Is most urgent stop Went bath 1ng yesterday and lost false teeth stop Love Dons Murray DONT you Just desprse copy cats? Theres no 1n1t1at1ve no orrgmalrty about th1s sort of person ,V F fl fs - - I ' . 1 . . . . , . . . 6' ' .1 l F ' l I - . I . .. .,.. .. . . . . I I ' . . . I - I I .. . I , LI.. . . 1 . . I - I . . , . . I - - 1 . , . . . . I - , . . . I -. . , . . I ' - , , , .

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