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

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Mfg fllfwiifs MARILYN PAULSEN ll is QJGILILQJ cf Cf' 51113 LETS GO along on a date w1th e lad1es ol the e1ght1es one f e most danng eras ever The att1c door slammed behmd han as she dropped down on an o trunk on the dusty attlc floor It was nothmg new to L1ll1an and she knew that after an hour of pout1ng Mom would come up and tell her 1t would be all rlght to travel out to Long Is land 1n the car w1th I1mmy She couldnt help sm1l1ng as she thought of how she always got her own way no matter how angry Mother got Lllhans sober gray eyes rolled up 1n the I shouldnt have done 1t presston and then she lxfted herself up from the trunk the very bottom of the trunk The back of L1ll1ans dress was matted wlth dust and cob webs as she stared gloom1ly 1nto the huge well rounded hole where she broke through She should have known better than to s1t on the rot ted wood trunk that belonged to more After pulhng away the splm tered pleces of wood L1ll1an gazed curlously 1nto the remnants of the trunk Smxlmg mwardly she rum maged out of the trunk a packet of letters hop1ng they m1ght be some ol Grandpas love letters before Grandpa was Grandmaws spouse of course Men are so unromantxc alter the knot IS tled Of all the dlsappomtments L11 l1an muttered mcoherently Nothmg but st1ff letters from fnends and a few bxlls Probably destroyed all her personal ma1l the old g1rl before she got caught red handed w1th lt Why 26 1 4 ' . 1 Vf, . ,Q 0 t all L of , 5' w n . X. 'sta I fa 52 F : ,Q . 'N 'f: 5 'D ' ' th . ' ' ' , o th . ' ' Lil- ' I ld Grandmaw. before Grandmaw was no . .. , ex- .. . . . -

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C: sslgznlm1QA' Q PATRICIA LYNCH wer e EXX? ls G3 : its K 'umm MY MIND lets go a thousand thmgs and yet re calls a lme from Keats a phrase from Kllmer a word from M1l1ay Often wh1le watchmg lzttle chlldren at play I suddenly thlnk of a lme from Barter And l1ttle chlldren lookmg up hold1ng wonder lxke a cup The years at the sprmg the days at the morn or Oh to be ln England now that Apnls there Poetry IS a maglcal language of the soul that tmds 1ts core 1n the heart of a poet And yet wxth l1ttle effort and understandlng anyone can mterpret thls beautlful language Poetry IS everywhere' We cannot escape IIS tremendous scope Its range of subject spreads from the tanglble thmgs such as mlce and clouds daffodlls and tears to the mtanglble qualltles of beauty and truth love and death All of us at one tlme or another have had to learn some poetry and 1snt 1t amazxng how stub bornly these words St1Ck 1n our memorles when other seemlngly more lmportant you keep your head when thelrs and blamlng It on Thy most polnted pleasure broad awake thlngs fade? Was 1t i all about you are losmg you? or maybe Lord take and stab my spmt Through poetry the lmest thmgs of hte and the ugllest have been deplcted Below I wlll quote 1n my op1n1on seven of the most beaut1tul l1nes of Amen can poetry They are from the poem Renascence by Edna St Vmcent Mlllay and any attempt on my part to explam these llnes would be feeble The words speak for themselves Oh God Icrled no dark d1sgu1se Can eer hereafter h1de from me Thy radlant 1dent1ty' Thou cast not move across the grass But my qulck eyes w11l see Thee pass Nor speak however s1lently But my hushed volce w1ll answer Thee Here IS poetry m 1ts hlghest form Taste 1t It gnve 1t a chance Who knows you mlght llke 1t swal low 25 A A ll s I Q f2f?o' 5 - .. ' V 2 wifi l X Q ' 5 g . 8 .1 ,, Q -wx' ll 1 Il ma . Q 9. I 1. 4 I L' I 1 Q E 'I 82 . . . . . 5 I , . ' 'v NX . . . . . 1, Va, 4 ' '- o I I or perhaps some April morning I'll start reciting,

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she left us thls old Well w1ll you look at that The attlc was hlled w1th peals ol laughter as Lllhan spotted the photographed letter There the g1rl stood 1n full dress attlre bustle and all decoratmg the letterhead wlth a demure sm1le and a fnlly um brella shadmg the damsel from the glanng sun As long as L1ll1an was go1ng to have to Slt III the stuffy at t1c for an hour she mlght as well enyoy herself and thxs old yellowed letter appeared to be the foundatlon of a very amuslng hour After sklm mlng through the formal addresses 1t began Ianuary 28 1888 I reallze 1t was only a month sxnce our last correspondence but I slmply had to wnte you and tell you of the great event that occurred 1n my young l1fe last nlght Imagme I Es of seventeen went out on my frrst date last n1ght And oh Prunella I had the most graclous tlme When Erasmus Rodencue asked me for the honor of my presence I was shocked but secretly thnlled and even more shocked when my dear parents con sented to the appomtment much to my amazement Rushmg madly for my s1x th1rty ap pomtment I donned my newest most styhsh gown Would you belleve lt Prunella the bustle measures frfteen mches around and the hoop IS the new tnangle style And the shoulders Even I was shocked at the dar lngness of them lmagme me rn a dress Wllh dropped shoulders Of course Mother objected but I fmally persuaded her to let me wear 1t for th1s one special occas1on And then there was my cheeks Oh yes my lovely apple shmy cheeks After rub bmg geranlum petals l1ghtly over the 27 surface I fmally brought them around to the lovelxest rosmest color ever I even dared to touch my llps up w1th them but Mother hrmly demanded that Iremove xt I couldnt blame her for that of course After all there IS a l1m1t to bemg brazen And then of cour e I wanted to change the style of my ha1rdo After much persuaslon Mama allowed Adnan to set my ha1r mto afashlonable upsweep The sw1rl1ng sweep of the s1de halr re mrnded me of the wmgs of a graceful brrd m fhght I looked so matured and fashlonable that I was surpnsed my self Ol course the gown d1d help Papa d1d thmk coral and blue was a tr1fle too brlght a color for so young a g1rl but you know what a young and lovely womans charm can do to a man Even Papa I only hope Eras mus notlced the lovely new whlte czty They re SO sheer They went slmply DARLING w1th my new twelve button shoes Please take notice of the twelve buttons Shoes are wom lower than ever th1s year What wont those lashlon deslgners th1nk of next? Before stepplng down stalrs I crushed a rose to my wa1st so that I smelled hke a fragrant rose on a dewey morn mg I saw Papas frowns at my ar dent aroma but I dared to lgnore them and xt worked Enough of my self now Let me tell you a b1t about Erasmus and our charmmg evenlng together In hrs dashmg raccoon coat and I 1n my adorable popl1n wrap wlth the new three lnch collar we set off w1th Mama and Papa for dmner 1n a styllsh restaurant Returnmg home after dmner the whole famlly sat ln the parlor and hstened to slster Ad rzans plano pxeces Later Mama and I sewed whxle Papa and Erasmus ' s . trella Littleson, at the uncapable age lifle stockings Papa brought from the