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

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PRO I E PRING PEGGIANN KARPF The Train ierked To an abrupT halr. l.ori Baker, TwenTy-Two years old, iumped To The plaTTorm. I-ler anxious gray eyes scanned The Throng oT waiTing people unTil They came To resT on a graying, middle-aged man aT The Tar end. Uncle lvlaThew, she called. l-le Turned, a smile breaking over his weaTher-beaTen TeaTures, as he hur- ried Towards her. Why, Lori, how you've grown, he laughed, as he planTed a lighT kiss on her cheek. Lori laughed Too. IT was a privaTe ioke oT Theirs. l have grown, Though, she ThoughT To herselT. Older, sadder, and I hope a Iirrle wiser. I-laven'T you anyThing To say ThaT would brighTen The day Tor an old man? Uncle lVIaTT inquired, as Tive minuTes laTer he drove The beaT-up Ford along The well-paved road. Qld man? Why, I don'T know any old men, l.ori declared sTouTly. Lori smiled, buT her gaze was Tixed on The VermonT counTryside ThaT was slipping by. I-lere and There paTches oT brown showed Through The Thin layer oT snow. Bleak mounTains rose To meeT The darkening sky oT Twi- lighT. There was someThing wisTTul abouT Those mounTains. Lori TelT close To Tears. Luckily, They reached The Tarm Then, and in The exciTemenT oT greeTing AunT MarTy her spiriTs rose. Well, iT sure does seem like ages since you were here lasT, her aunT said, when halT an hour laTer They were seaTed abouT The round dining room Table, helping Themselves To 6 , ' Z? ai rr Zi S iw! generous servings oT The delicious New England cooking. I wanTed To come aT ChrisTmas. buT I had To work. l'm glad I was able To Take Two weeks oT my vacaTion now, she explained. I don'T Think l could have waiTed unTil This sum- mer To geT away. We couldn'T have waiTed 'Til summer, eiTher, AunT MarTy smiled. Lori looked graTeTully aT her plump, gray eyed aunT. ShorT, premaTurely whiTe hair Tramed The happy, pink- cheeked Tace, in which smile lines were eTched deeply. She knew They loved her as much as she loved Them, and ThaT They looked Torward To her visiTs as much as she did. They had no children oT Their own, Their only son having been killed in The Korean War, and ever since her own TaTher had died when she was a baby. she had spend almosT all oT her vacaTions on Their Tarm. lT was VermonT ThaT she had come To look upon as her home, iusT as she had come To con- Tide in AunT lVlarTy and look To her and Uncle IVlaTT Tor advice. IT was To Them ThaT she had come wiTh her childhood ioys and sorrows. IT wasn'T ThaT her moTher didn'T care abouT her: iT was iusT ThaT she had had To work so hard To geT herselT The high posiTion in The company Tor which she worked, ThaT she had sorT oT become more oT an execuTive Than a moTher, even aT home. l-ori, l almosT TorgoT, buT There's a Grange meeTing TonighT. Would you like To come? OTherwise, l'll sTay home wiTh you, AunT MarTy inTerrupTed her ThoughTs.

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proper value upon ThaT realiTy, is a primary obiecTive oT all our eTTorTs here aT school. UnTorTunaTely, ThaT abiliTy oTTen appears noT as wide- spread among The members oT our democraTic American socieTy as we should like. We musT. ThereTore, re- double our eTTorTs To help esTablish The rule oT reason over The dicTaTes oT emoTion, iT our counTry is To avoid The mosT serious dangers oT The con- Troversies ThaT may beseT us now and in The TuTure. Cur Taslc would be an easy one and The soluTion oT our diTTiculTies readily wiThin our grasp, iT a Tew words or a simple Tormula would be enough To save us. Keenness oT wiTs. readiness To use The sTore oT experi- ence and The accumulaTed wisdom oT The pasT, compleTe honesTy oT purpose, and eTernal vigilance will always have immense value in help- ing us cuT our way Through Talse argumenTs and dishonesT emoTional appeals To reach The way oT TruTh ThaT They serve To obscure, Une Tur- Ther cauTion seems in order. The Schoolmen, as The philosoph- ers oT The Middle Ages are called. have leTT us The heriTage oT a word and a procedure ThaT should prove immensely helpTul. The word is The l.aTin verb disTinguo , ThaT may be rendered inTo English as l malce a disTincTion or a deTiniTion and The procedure is similarly The deTiniTion oT Terms or The precise marking ouT oT The exacT meaning oT each oT The maTTers under discussion. Qnce boTh sides To a conTroversy have deTined Their Terms and seT TorTh whaT They regard as The basic issues oT The dispuTe, The way is clear Tor a raTional weighing oT The argu menTs pro and con. ln our Torums and discussions, in school and be- yond our school days, leT us Try To apply The word and The procedure oT The Schoolmen. We shall Thus help malce our C5reaT DebaTes producTive oT True wisdom and lasTing good. l is kk

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Why, you don'l have lo slay home. l'm nol a guesl lo be pam- pered, remember. I lhink l'lI go lo bed early, anyhow, Lori assured her. You're sure you don'l mind being alone? Uncle lvlall asked. ll's nol loo imporlanl. ll you slarl pulling yourselves oul lor me, l'll leave now, Lori in- sisled. I know you wouldn'l go un- less il was prelly imporlanl, and I don'l mind being alone. Well, l'll lighl a lire in lhe lire- place lor you, Uncle lvlall sug- gesled. Wilh an open lire, a good book, and Tally here al my leel, whal more could I wanl? And il was lrue. she lhoughl laler when, aller lhey had gone she sel- lled down on lhe couch, lire belore her, book in hand. l-lere was a lile lhal ollered everylhing - love, heallhy living, pels, and lhe special conlenlmenl born ol being your own masler. All I need is someone like Uncle Mall, she said, aloud. Nol like Russ Milchellf' She lhrew lhe book down. There was no use lrying lo read now, and she knew il. She could only sil lhere, and lel il all come back . . . Il had been in lhe beginning ol Oclober lhal she mel Russ. I-le had iusl had an appendeclomy, and she was his nurse. While he was con- valescing, lhey had ollen lalked, and by lhe lime he was ready lo leave. lhey were good lriends. I-Ie had asked lor her phone number, and she had given il lo him. She wanled lo believe him when he said he'd call, bul she was alraid lo. So, when lhe call had come, she had been happily surprised, and surprisingly happy. I-low would you like lo go lo a play Salurday nighl? he had asked. l'd love lo, she replied, almosl singing. Fine. I'll pick you up al seven- lhirly. Okay, See you lhen. 'Bye. I-le called, he called, she sang. dancing aboul lhe room, hugging hersell. I-Ier large gray eyes danced, and her shorl, dark hair swung gaily againsl her cheeks. The resl ol lhe week dragged. unlil il seemed lhal Salurday nighl would never come. When il linally did come, she scurried aboul lhe aparlmenl, alraid she wouldn'l be ready on lime. She had iusl linished applying lipslick lo her lull, lrem- bling lips when lhe doorbell rang. I-ler molher answered. Lori, Russ is here, her molher called. Coming, Lori cried, and wilh a lasl look in lhe mirror, caughl up her coal and walked inlo lhe living room. I-li, Russ, she greeled him, lry- ing lo be casual. I-Iello, Lori, he said, his brown eyes lighling wilh approval. Aller lhe show, lhey slopped al a Japanese reslauranl. Belore she knew il, lhey had been silling in lhe small ealing comparlmenl lor al- mosl lwo hours. Funny how we have so much lo lalk aboul, she lhoughl, on lhe way home. ll seems like we've known each olher lorever. Al her aparlmenl lhey said good- nighl al lhe door. l'll call you, Lori, Russ said, his deep voice lowered lo a husky whis- per. Then he lowered his blond head and his lips brushed her cheek. G-good nighl, Russ, she slam- mered, and guickly lel hersell inlo lhe aparlmenl. Il was lhe lirsl lime a boy had kissed her on her cheek, yel il seemed suddenly as il il were lhe mosl nalural lhing in lhe world. Why is il, she gueslioned hersell, lhal everylhing aboul Russ seems so righl and nalural and special? All lhrough lhal glorious aulumn, everylhing conlinued lo be special. They daled ollen, and belore she knew il, she realized lhal she was very much in love. lConlinued on nexl pagel 7 N ...af