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

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35-Qzlwug 1 A FRED BATTLINE -ne Q 61274416 lit M6 Ae! 'L y t ,KQQJ m 9 ONE AFTERNOON wh1le s1tt1ng 1n the famous Pubh catlons OIIICB mlndlng everyones bus1ness but my own Laugh1ng Boy Carter got me 1n focus He was gr1nn1ng from lens to lens wh1le leanmg on h1s decrep1t trlpod w1th one foot on a p1nhole camera Laugh1ng Boy told me to try try that IS and Wflle the Nut Bowl Th1s perhaps was the most thr1ll1ng moment of my l1fe except maybe when the Pr1soner of Love escaped I laxd down my copy of The Case of the Long Red Underwear subt1tled To Itch HIS Own used all my energy to ra1se a pencxl tlead you knowj and slowly started to left I mean wr1te CArmy mfluencel GGZIDQ sleep1ly about my eye was caught and my ear subdued Cth1s 1S accompl1shed by my spl1t per sonal1tyJ by a group of cackllng voxces I cut hls ear off Where IS h1s nose Look no neck were among the strange words to be heard Stram1ng my eyes over the long d1stance I saw Boss Lady Lynch stand1ng over G1ggles Egan Bugs He1dSIfG and Nrm ble fmgers Druben They were workmg w1th sharp ened SCISSOIS f1end1sh grms and a madmans laugh wh1le cuttmg out the Senlor Celebntles PICIUIGS There IS a spec1al corner draped 1n black de voted to the emotlonal and deep th1nk1ng men tboth of theml For mstance Mangler Grlmes and Lethal Llebman were d1scuss1ng a story of Ilms 1n whxch a g1r1 was Sllllng on a dock wlth a small trustmg b1rd 1n her hand The blrd looked searchlngly mto the g1rls eyes and 1IS small heart beat happ1ly Now Ih1S was as far as Mangler got and was stuck for an endlng lust before closlng tlme a lra1l l1ttle glrl enters SIIS down wh1le murmurmg someth1ng about a den t1st engagement One day when atmosphenc cond1 t1ons were better than average we heard her tell of a tussle she had Wllh her dent1st Wxth half hearted 1nterest we asked who won No one was the answer lt ended w1th a draw That my dear fnends was Phylhs Osgyam Enough of th1s xt s tlme for me to rattle and roll 16 C xl , .' ,Zf 'x,x. .YK ' l 2' G' '-all I lf K' ' ' I :, 'ix' 0 - - ,j ,,. x x' e o I X.'. 'ze s 2 B , 1 X . X . . . . , 9 tw xr 5- . . . . , . ' I u '-, lg 5 . ' . I' - ' ' I' l xg ,yd ul AQQEI - . . . . ' F u . 1 , .. - 1. - , . I , I I I I 1 I I ' , I I . t. H ,, . .,

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TAM 3 NN . - 2 NAI. 2232 - I WWE AUDREY ARNOLD KEATS ONCE wrote A thmg of beauty IS a 1oy forever Its lovlmess xncreases It w1ll never pass 1nto nothmgness but may we not say that a great part of beauty IS L1sten1ng to mus1c we can hear It It IS beaut1 ful but when 1ts over what IS left? Somethmg We can hold rub our hngers over feel IIS texture? No We have nothmg but a memory of the song m our hearts The mus1c1an sees notes on a sheet of paper but unt1l he beglns to play w1th all h1s leehng and soul there rs no beauty One wlnters day the snowfall was lovher than I had ever seen before I wanted to hold one of the snowflakes As they fell I held out my hand and caught one W1th1n seconds It dlsappeared leavmg only a small drop of water on my warm hand We gazed at wonderment at a lofty mountam and declded to chmb lt When we reached our des t1nat1on we could no longer see 1ts pecullar square formatlons We were too close A rose perfect ln form and fragrance was grow mg 1n my garden I plucked lt wlth the mtentlon of keepmg 1t forever Then I la1d It aslde In a week lt had become shrlveled and IIS odor acrld Its lovhness'-' Gone left A memory Could we have but one of the mxlhons of stars sparkhng ln the heavens but no they must stay there out of reach of greedy graspmg hands so that everyone may enjoy the1r splendor The flame of burnlng candles shmes blue around the wlck and advances to a golden yellow But as the candle bums to nothmgness the flame w1ll fade We cant save the flame we dare not touch 1t for fear of bemg bumt or snuffmg out the glow ahead of t1me Love too mlght be consldered a form of unseen untouchable beauty Love g1ves naught but xtself and takes naught but from xtself Love possesses not nor would 1t be possessed for love IS suff1c1ent unto love 15 o 'T' l i . 4' ' I I ' s:: ' ' --' . l.. ll 1 u I f-5 tr . . . ',' 5 o .- 9' - N 3522- . . . ' Q., m real1ty,- nothmgness? I . I

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goo 0 '. if- 0 Af, no g! 0 by ' ' ,j',..-.nl ff 1'...u',, r-s NNW' a1l THE WONDERFUL Greek mmd seems to have antrcrpated much ol todays arts and learmng and so 1t seems qurte strange that 1ts vrslon rn the held ol mus1c was so myoprc It seems the Greeks belleved that mod eration should be observed 1n all th1ngs and that extremes should be avolded thus all of their mus1c was conhned wrthm l1ttle more than two octaves whrch 15 qulte lrmxted as com pared wlth the more than seven oc taves 1n use today The only mus1c known to them was the kmd used to accompany thelr poetry and thls was melody only lackmg both rhythm and harmony and producmg a very srckly effect The observance of the long and short 17 MADELINE CAVOLI syllables marked the meter of the poetry No harmony enrrched the lone melody for they had not learned to s1ng or play mstruments together and the art of slmple harmony by srngmg fourths ol hlths apart was not leamed untll more than a thousand years later The hrst spark of harmony 1ssued forth 1n the early Mrddle Ages when some one drscovered that two volces could Slng at the same t1me a irfth apart one vo1ce carrymg the melody and the other slngmg the same com b1nat1on hve notes lower Although at that trme th1s probably was a reck less d1scovery lt seems qulte natural to us s1nce the ordlnary soprano and tenor volces have a range of about a fxfth above contraltos and basses and .U Taq. os. o'. .' 1 0 Q .ooo at g . . Q s e 0 K' ' ' 51 . ,G- On -' ...1,, 10lClld... , O AEN' '15 .Q 'S o 0 4 'af V . ,, - , gr' 9990 I .1 - 'J' 'oy 1 1- -