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

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Dear Ilm Im wntmg to apologlze for the way I acted when you were home leave The quarrel was all my fault and Im sorry But after all a woman hkes to be remembered on her blrth day I hope youll reahze th1s after were marned I wrote to your brother I hope I can boost h1s morale Ieanne Dear Ieanne Your letter arr1ved thls mornmg lm glad you hnally real1zed that the quarrel was your fault About the present It really wasnt my fault though I was so exclted about com mg home that I completely forgo your blrthday Im glad you wrote to my brother He doesnt get much ma1l and Im sure hell be glad to hear from you Love 1m Dear hm You have some nerve The quarrel was just as much your fault as 1t was mme And commg home on leave was no excuse for not buymg me present I recerved a letter from your brother yesterday I dont know why you arent as senslble as he He wrltes a very n1ce letter and Im sure he 1snt as hot headed as you Love Ieanne Dear Ieanne We cant go on argumg all the t1me Suppose we forget the whole thmg Im sh1pp1ng you your belated blrthday present As for my brother h1s letters arent any better than mme and he has a ternble temper 1m 23 Dear Imm Your present came yesterday What on earth can I do wxth a hon cub' Surely you dont expect me to keep lt My house would be a wreck ln less than a week Ive made arrangements to glve h1m to the zoo Ive been gettmg qu1te a few letters from your brother lately He expects to come home on leave soon Love Ieanne Dear Ieanne You thought the hon cub was so cute some t1me ago that I sent 1t to you Im sorry li you dldnt hke rt Im glad to hear that Tom IS com mg home on leave Id appreclate 1k lt you d show h1m the town Love 1m Dear Ilm I dont lcnow how to tell you thxs but Tom and I were marrled last week Im very sorry and I hope we ll always be frlends Smcerely Ieanne S3D'I3.I.S SIHOCI '41 WIP lllfllll 1 ' ' 1 . : I . . I u , I . . I , - - , . N - N . o ' Q . . H- I . . I 7.1 :P ' . , i E . I . 1 , ' I , ' l l i I I - ' I I SPUSIJ Sq S391

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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 '

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JANEY ynam e LLER CAROL MY NAME IS Ianey Im ten Mom says Im what you call an II! between Im not qulte sure just what she means Ieanne says 1ts m between a pest and a brat Ieanne IS my sxster Shes s1xteen I dont thmk s1xteen IS so old do you? Everyone says what a n1ce young lady shes gettm to be Well maybe she acts n1ce when shes out and everything but oh boy' they should see her hangm around the house ln a dlrty sport sh1rt and slacks rolled up to her knees Ieanne thmks she s good cause she goes to hxgh school and wears pow der and l1pst1ck Dont b1g s1sters make you slck? Ieanne says she has a lot of boy fr1ends If a boy Just says hello to her she thmks hes her boy fr1end Today Al Schmxdt ambled over to see Ieanne I sad ambled over be cause really there just amt no other way to descrlbe Al Schmldts walk H1 ya mfant Ieanne around? I part1cularly hate be1n called ln fant After all I am ten' I.ns1de grandpa I answered A soon as Al reached the l1v1n room door Ieanne jumped up threw her arms 1n the a1r and cned Why Alexander' How utterly dehghtful' I dont know why all of a sudden she calls h1m Alexander H1s name was Al the whole twelve years he l1ved next door How are you Alexander? My' You look just too too d1vme thls mom mg' Oh Ianey dear why not run along and play w1th your l1ttle fnends? Arent chlldren utterly de llghtlul when they re at that age? She fluttered her eyelashes at Al Now that was a delxberate l1e' Ie une hates k1ds my aq But I thmk Al knows shes show1n off He a1nt so dumb' Al wouldnt be too bad ll he d1dnt treat me l1ke I was a chxld He s better than some of her boy frlends though Especxally that college boy Iohnny Every t1me anyone just mentlons johnny Ieanne starts crym and says 1ts all my fault and she dont know why sl e has to have such a braty k1d s1ster I thmk Ieanne IS tak1n the wrong att1tude After all I couldnt help 1t I yust heard her talkm wlth her best g1rl fr1end Sue and she was say1n how when she and Iohnny get marned shes gonna wear beaut1ful wh1te lace gown w1th an utterly long tra1n just l1ke she saw 1n the movles once Then when Iohnny asked h1m when he and Ieanne were gonna get marrxed and can I be the flower g1rl I d1dnt mean anyth1ng by Ieanne ran upstairs crym Daddy got all red 1n the face and all of a sudden he got a terr1ble cough Mom just looked at me well you know how-and told me to go r1ght UPSIGIIS to bed Arent famxhes sllly some tlmes? They make such a fuss about nothm But I guess IIS just l1ke my very best g1rl fr1end Betty Lou says grown ups gotta be taught They just dont understand' Llke fer 1nstance the txme we had to wnte a letter to a servlceman m school I amt got no brothers to wr1te to so I thought up a RICE name and used an old address of one of Ieanne s boy frlends How was I to know there really was a boy by that name wlth that address? Ieanne wrote and explamed every thmg ar1d he started to wnte to Ieanne 24 3: . I . CX' I -9. ., I ' - I I I I I I I I I -O - 1 . - ' .. M . , V ' ' ' - 1 1 ' I I I I l I I I I - . l I a , . I . G . . I I I . 1 - I U I - came to dinner. one night, I iust . i - ll I n it- . I I I I , . . . n ' I I I I u , I I I