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

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KENNY PAPPA n ca guy GLORIA MOREA SURE YOU must have known h1m Papa Benny Imean He was Papa to everybody on De Kalb Avenue It all started many years ago when Papa Benny opened up a small shoe repalr store From then on all h1s l1fe went mto and came out of that n1ca 111la shoppe It wasnt one of those sp1c and span shops you under stand Because you see Papa was al ways one for atmosphere Besldes that he drdnt beheve 1n domg today what he could do tomorrow So the scraps of leather stayed where they fell and the fmlsha and gotta be gmna shoes were shuffled together on the dust laden counter and h1s bottles of dyes and sta.ns were al ways open for the sake of atmos phere And the ash trays wh1ch flanked each srde of the royal shoe shme chalr were never emptled b cause to h1s mmd the number of butts ln the trays gave a touch of b1gga busenessa to the place On days when the butts d1dnt make too grand a show hed add a few just to bal ance the books He became a combmatron Dons Blake to us klds and a Mr Anthony to our folks Papa Benny was obsessed by two thmgs 1n l1fe-atmosphere and a good show or brgga fronta For h1s own personal front Papa Benny sported a canary yellow and bnck red plald vest wh1ch he set off wlth a cool1ng green pr1nt bow t1e In summer h1:1 Panama and 1n wmter h1S roller derby fplus an all year Havana clgarl added the last touch of ele gance On sweltenng summer days when we klds would head for Coney Island Papa Benny would walk ove to the Broadway elevated board xt s1t opposlte an open wmdow and rude back and forth from one end o the lme to the other to cool off On these nrckel sprees of h1s he always carned the Txmes wh1ch he farmed hlmself wlth makmg sure the flag ol the paper was rn full vlew of every one on the tram lust a l1ttle more of Papas atmosphere The devll 1n Papa Benny really got loose the day the OPA mves txgator came around to check on Papas ce1lmg pr1ces Papa cursed and swore at all the samts from Peter to Thaddeus and when he ran out of names started on the people who owed h1m money Durmg wh1ch tlme the OPA mspector was scrutrmzmg the pm ups wh1ch Papa m true masculme appreclatmon had decorated h1s four walls w1th for 1nsp1rat1onal purposes Papa rn pure bombastrc protamty told the man that I gotta samma pnca fo twenna tree years ana I no gonna changa now fo no bodles wara no wara Roosevelta no Roosevelta rula no rula That mght when Tony Crpolla explamed to Papa Benny that the mspector only wanted to lmow why has pnces were so low compared to the other local shoe makers Papa msrsted 1n a less color ful d1alect that h1s busmess was h1s and that he would run It the way he lxked and that he was only stayxng here temporarrly anyhow and that he was gomg back to the old coun try as soon as he could anyway Theres a sign outslde the n1ca lllla shoppa now For Rent You see Papa Benny dred a death of apoplexy and temporar1ness a few weeks ago But even m death he kept up a brgga fronta He was gettrng ready to go to the Clpollas for dm ner when the attack caught hlm com plete wxth Panama vest bow t1e and Havana clgar 20 1 1 I I 1 I 11 11 ' 1 1 : I .- 1 1 11 1 11 - I 1 1 1 - 11 1 - 1 - 11 1 , 1 A 11 1 ,, 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 11 1 1 11 11 , - 1 1 1 1 - 11 ' ' 1 1 1 ' , 11 1 11 - - 1 n 1 1 1 , 1 1 1 - 11 - 1 11 - - 11 1 1 e' ' 1 11 1 1 1 11 , 11 - 1 ' ' 1 1 I 1 1 1 - 1 1 11 - 11 - 1 1 I - 1 1 . 1 , 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 . 1 11 11 11 I 1 I 11 1, 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 11 1 11 - 1 1 1 v ' - , 1 - - 11 11 ' 11 1 1 1 1

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CAP ANI! GIIWN a que vae GVG EVELYN MART N DIDNT THOSE four year fly though? Why 1t went just like that and here rt ns tune to say good bye already How clearly the f1rst day stands out ln my memory The audltonum was fllled to capac xty and a teacher was trymg to ad dress the group of hopeful fsome hopeless! freshmen Smce he had no loud speaker all he managed to do was appeal to the f1rst flfteen rows of glrls and a few boys among them Perhaps thats the reason that there are only about that many rows of graduates left th1s term Pl Amldst the confusmon and chaos a few words from the frenz1ed speaker h1t home wrth me He spoke most confldently when he saxd I know that four years from now many f you wont be here to graduate but to those of you who make up your mlnds that you w1ll be here I say good luck and oh well you know the rest because you faced 1 at some t1me yourself As for me though I saw a challenge and here I am before you wavmg a frantlc good bye We semors fdoesnt that sound 1mportant 'J had a great t1me wh1le we were here Now IIS our turn to go out mto the world a llttle more lndependent than prevlously to seek our fortunes Perhaps we wont go any farther than a flve cent nde on a subway but wherever 1t 15 well flnally feel l1ke 1nd1v1duals Its taken a long t1me to develop that feelmg especlally after bemg among large groups 111 hlgh school for so long falmost seven years now 1snt 1t'Pl We wont have s1eges of hysterla or such but tlus s stralght from the shoulder Theres a certaln queemess that goes through you at the pros pect of graduatmg and you sort of hate to go Dont mxsunderstand me because I hope to be leavmg wxth the others when the Chpper shlp docks The 11ttle mc1dents and b1ts of fun that we had wont be forgotten Smce I d1sl1ke readmg senous artzcles fsuch as th1s should bel Ill try to curb my feelmgs Any freshxe or soph who thlnks that saymg good bye 15 easy should have the Job of wntmg th1s column mf and when he gets to be a senmor Lxttle d1d I thmk when strugglmg through frrst term subjects that 1n a short t1me fa heml Id be worrylng about passmg Regents m the e1ghth term After grduahon there ll be no crammmg and worrymg about school work That 1S except for tho e who mtend gomg to college tboth of you! faculty To all the teachers who thlnx we smt 1n class sometlmes fall the tlmel w1th vague expresslons on our faces and are bored to the unkth de gree It must be hard on you espe crally at t1me when you feel l1ke Sll tmg back and gazlng out the w1n dow yourself We want you to know that we appreclate you and certalnly are grateful to you fl dont know what we would have done wlthout teachersl Our mmds may have been wandermg because we were makmg plans for when we become famous some day but no matter what rt was we ll always remember you Well 1ts so long for a whxle and m a partnng word to the next sen1or class may I say I hope lt wont be too hard for you to follow 1n our foot steps and to l1ve up to the hxgh level that our class of Iune 45 has set' 22 - H , -0- I gg 1 11 1 n 1 - 5-1 I - I II- ll I u 1 u I . l Il 1 - -' ' 0 . . I - . ' s I - I n 1 I .. Rlght now Il lxke to address the . . . , . l ' .t , , l I ' u 1 ' I ' I . . I ' I - ' u S 1 ' - , , . . A I I I '