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

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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

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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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almost every week Then he was sta honed ln town and I really thought lemme would forgxve me for spo1l1n her romance wlth Iohnny the college boy But dam the luck' when she met h1m at the statron she found out he was short and lat and nearly thlrty Oi course Ieanne blamed that on me too I d1dnt thxnk she should have wrltten that she was nlneteen though Last week Daddy s Aunt T1lly cam to see us Shes tall and skmny and all wrmkled up She cant hear so good and she wears glasses But she wears them on the end of her nose and looks rrght over them I dont even trunk she knows she has them on Mom and Daddy used to talk about who she was gonna leave all her money to when she dled but they never declded cause they always got Ln an argument about how old she was I never met her before and no body told me who she was When I asked Mom who that old lady was s1tt1n m the llvm room Aunt T1lly Jumped up and sa1d What old lady' Ehzabeth Marlow why dont you teach that ch1ld of yours some manners? I guess she a1nt so hard of hear1n after all Ieanne told me she wears a wlg I kept watch1n her halr all through supper unt1l Daddy told me to stop starm and eat I thmk shes borm but Daddy says we have to be n1ce to her Mom had to yell cause her hear1n IS so bad Daddy was hoarse so he let Mom do all the talk1n Mom sald she wouldnt be able to go out of the house all week cause the nelgh bors heard everythmg she sald Old Mrs Dobbs across the street 25 gave me a mckel to hmsh tell1n her about cousm W1llys thrrd Wlfe Yesterday Ieanne and her g1rl lrrend Sue went to get a Job I tagged along untrl 1t was too far for them to send me home They declded they would be usherettes cause then they could see all the plctures fer nothm We went to the hrst movxe we came to but there was no door marked Manager Some people came out of a door marked Exlt so we went ln But we st1ll couldnt hnd the manager so we just stayed to see the plcture I drdnt l1ke 1t much though There wasnt any D1ck Tracy serral Mom was mad and scud 1t was cheatln Daddy sa d 1t was about t1me someone m the Marlow tamrly got somethm ter nothn I wonder when Iecmne IS goln fer another 1ob 'V . . . . , , , . . 1 . . 1 . .. . . 1 1 , , . . . . r 1 I . . . , . . 1 . , . . . , . I -1 H I 1 u -u - I - , Y! . , . , . . 1 . ' 1 1 1 1 1 ' I I 1 . 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 . . 1 , 1 . , . . ' 1 - . , . I - 1 1 f, : . . , . . . , . l V,- I A. I ' ' H ,rf . ' ' . , , 1 ll V . , . , - . , . . I 1 ,,.'1 ,..- N.: 851'-,5 ,, , - , - , I .rj .,c ns- 1 I 1 I K. I 1 . 1 1 . - I , - . I .... , . Ky' - , , x 1