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

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4V-W N-. Frgf J jg? Q X KW m f ,VJ QQ? I Kas! Wzll and YQ Castaway! Km? ' 9 ILDITH RANFT From the tables tn the lunchroom, To the place where Miss Keller dwells To the dear old campus grounds we lone so well, See the Adams qenlors assemble, Wzth thezr zolces ralsed on hugh And the lamentatlons 0 thelr partmg casts a spell We Seniors are rapullv reading the last ew paragraphs o a chapter ln our lues We are eager to continue on, but m the uture there lull be many moments when we wlll turn bflllm and reread these uonder ul pages With deep appreetatlon we, the undersigned, do herebw bequeath To Mass Ixeller, the greatest OLHUOII ez er or thost beautl ul, large economy slzed, Senlor Buttons To Mr llarlse, our slupper, a motor or the lllpper Slap to speed her on to tontmued success To all Pngltsh Teafhers subscnptmns to tht News To Mr Patterson, N0 LOITI' RUVI signs to be posted on the assem bly doors To the l ardeners, a better crop o grass on the campus or the lun: hroom To Miss laws, many thanks or her gundam e, and a neu senior class wtth euer problems To Mr I' ,I llarlse mans more M9fll0Tl0U9 Medals rom lolumlna To Mr Iamlers, ewer RED blooded AHIPFIFIIIIS To Ur lon ov, a lasso to rope all students IIILSIIIHQ, across the cam :us be ore thf fnd o the selenth pertod secllon To Wr JIUOIDSOYI bear traps to catch late students steallng thelr nas through the rear erlts To 'lime de Kernm and Wlle lones tuo tallang French Poodles for the fonzersalzon tlass. To Ur I oldman a better smelling set of roclss for has l'arth 51101169 I lass! s. To 1115805 Breltenbmh and Berner, musu rlasses uho haze no trouble contortlng their faces to pronounfe final Tls and D,s. To Mr. Ml'f:lll, a book entltled, 'gllow to Strengthen the Spealung Voir e ,' And to the new Semor flass, a shl1IqS log wlth ezerx page filled ulth wonderful times The Semor Class Februars I. 1949 28 4 mf,- e s 1 ' n ' -ff AQ? - S All gs N ! 1.7 X 7 , .AO , 5 .eve Y .N J-Q s 1 Q5 W ' A 117. A 9 ll' N .-:1 x . ,V ,, 4 ' ' 29 lkf ax - J . . ,nl t l , . , . 4. Q .4 A . . , f ea - an f - h if i if I .R , . . Q f , ' . J - -' e f 3' Q ' a 1 l 'Y 4 3 1' -s -I . , V 1. . 1 I . ' , - t t : ., f . f K ' f. Q .. . . J. . J -, 5 ' ' . . f J '. 1 - f e I f - ' ' . 1 . ' .' , . 0 . , . ' v Q . : Q i V . A It . J A '--S I- ' - ..'. . --A I. , ,

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lzrfzfmg 0,7 FOUR YEARS AGO on a cold dreary day a group of red nosed expectant younasters stormed the doors f Adams eager to explore the school of the1r chotce and to mvestrgate the tfpe of llfe they would lead durmg the four years to follow And now the four years have come to an end The younasters who may st1ll be red nosed are no longer young They have four years of learntng planted tn the1r mmds and are ready to 1o1n the ranks of the many who have graduated before them and who are successfully accomphshmg the1r goal Do you remember the fun we Je had here? To begm vtth most of us were blessed wtth wonderful teachers teachers who w1th all the patrence they could get together helped u bmdoe the gap of tle change from elementary htgh school from chtld hood to adolescence They have been cooperattve teachers When asked by the GO counctl to atve of the1r free t me perhaps to chaperone an evenlna dance or a basketball game rn the gym to stay one afternoon a week to gulde a stamp club or perhaps to aaree to play a basketball game ogarnst semor grrls who have had much recent practlce when the teach ers themselves havent so much held a ball tn the1r hands for years the tave been onl too happy to cblrge These are the wonderful teach ers we are leavmg and to them what else can we say but Thanks Conttnumg mth our hne memorres we recall our freshman anttcs t pangs of hurger gnawtng away at ur stomachs whtle we made a maa aash for the lunchroom at the begm n1na of the seventh perxod how many QI us were sent to room 325 by those kornble monsters we knew as Sen tors ' We were only freshmen at the t me but we knew and knew well the zteamng of the passmg of Pesrdent Eoosevelt and of the great Allred V1c tory a few months later rn lapan We then knew the safe secure feehng of peace But th1s was peace from physr cal host1l1t1es We were yet to undergo another war a war of nerves Even now as we graduate we are enterrna mto a world of uncertalnty and unrest let us 1n leavmg dedtcate ou selves to the preservahon of democracy m Amer1ca Let us work to make our country a safer place tn wh1ch to hve know the devastatron of war wh1ch we rn our youth were unfortunate enough to w1tness So tt ts with thts serrous note lll Goodbye Goodbye ana Thanks Thanks to Mr Clarke ldhss lxeller Mrss Laws and everyone else to whom we of the Sentor Class of lanuary 49 are mdebted Thanks Qood Luck and so long fo novt Craduatesl See you at the Alumm 1 eettngs i l 30 . . T . . . N ' Y g ne 1 I T P ' l A O I , . Y . , . . I f I - - I - I A . , 3 - -A im life! so that our children will never have to 1 1- ' ' . A Tu I , T f f 1 - 1 ' ' ' ' , , s say ' ' Q Y 1 2 A . s ' s l , H 4 J 1 - , ' I A A GS d I A TT, 1 ,sv l . . .