Lafayette High School - Legend Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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SPEAKERS' BUREAU COMBINED MUSIC ACTIVITIES BASKETBALL TEAM

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MARQUIS STAFF LAFAYETTE NEWS STAFF LEGEND STAFF

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am GZQ44 Male4 By Melvin Goldberg Have you ever observed the students sitting about you in your history or English class? They're people like you, but what have they got that is so different? During my four long Cand often tiresomel years in high school, l have made an extensive search on the ways and means of our Lafayette civilians. You ought to recognize them. First of all we have: THE WHIZZ 9 He's the one who usually has his hand up all ,f , the timeg if somebody put a match in it, he'd look f like the Statue of Liberty. With a smile across his ll face that signifies superior intelligence Cto him, at , 4 leastl he gets up from his chair in a deliberate I1 X manner and relates his thesis on the causes of the American intervention in Cuba in l9ll when the teacher asks for the President of Mexico in l888. The day that he has laryngitis, he considers it a is catastrophe, although the rest of the class con- siders it a pleasure. On tests he's always busy writing and it's safe to give odds that even he doesn't know what he's writing. Extra reports go hand in hand with home work. Sooner or later half the class will be despising him. But, what does he care, he gets the results when the marks come on the report card. Well, next we havei THE HECKLER Contrary to the Whizz, his hands are never up to answer a question for the teacher, he gets a N special pleasure out of interrupting others. When- ft' ever his mind functions Cwhich is very rarelyl, and an idea stealthly creeps forward, he blurts it out Z and disturbs the class. l-le's usually the class 5 wisecracker Cvery crummyl who, when the English teacher asks for a word with the prefix poly , yells out, Polly wants a cracker. He's constantly conversing with his neighbor about the N.Y.U.- St. Iohn's game in the Garden last night, and when the teacher puts down a ZIP for him, he defiantly states that he was just telling his neighbor about the subject on hand. l-le's always the first to laugh at practically nothing and the teacher has quite a time making out his mark, she doesn't know whether to give him 457, or 5070. What? You know him? l thought you would, but here's somebody you ought to know just by the name. She's QQKJW is