Lafayette High School - Legend Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Hal Hal You were one of them, huh? But here is one whom all of us know: THE ARTIST DIVINE Pen, pencil, chalk, knife, or key-it doesn't make any difference to him what he uses as long as his desk is decorated. The commonest type is the one that writes or carves his name on the wood, just to make sure that nobody else gets that chair, or maybe because he Wants publicity. Club names are very common, and more than once will 49 the name of the laguars for suchl appear on a desk, in black ink outlined with white chalk. The designer enjoys making sweeping curves or dart- ing arrows on his desk. The gravestone type is also very Well known. He's the guy that can hardly wait until the period is over, and will write or cut out on a drawn-in diagram of a tombstone, Here lies the one who died waiting for the bell to ring. A girl is usually the one who starts a desk correspondence, beginning with, What's your name? and terminating when she runs out of desk space. xx 1 XZ Ma ff Q ft' T Y I' L s S 'x K I -17 if But the desk isn't the only recipient of these fanciful ideas, the looseleaf book ronks high among the line of ersatz canvas. The most common writing on a looseleaf book are the names of people, often connected by the word loves, Cie. Lucky Loves Fischler, etc.l, Can you imagine if she broke off with that fellow? Why she'd have to throw away the book. But does all this mutilation of desks and books worry the BORED of Education? Of course not! Last of all we have: THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE From the title, you can guess that this char- acter is one of Mr. Tholfsen's shadows. I-le's never Ha.T+mrsan in class. On the rare occasion when he honors us with a visit, a recess is given by the teacher, so E4 that she and our visitor can straighten out his al- 5 leged absences. lf he's lucky enough to be friends 9 with the attendance monitor, and the teacher is somewhat nearsighted, well, he has another lunch if period to his credit. Don't think that we mind his M being absent, it's only when he comes back that ' we get grumpy, as we have to take our coats off his chair and put them in the closet. So ends our actual high school days, but not in spirit, tor we always will remember that character that sat next to us, or that gorgeous hunk of blonde that was in front of us in English or that genius who provided us with the answers in history, but most of all, those teachers, we loved them all. Cl'm writing the story, not youl. l8

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THIE GLAMOUR GAL With compact in one hand and powder puff . Q in the other, she's always Ufixing herself up . 5, - Whether it's during a test or in the middle of a 24 serious lecture, she's always in there, smearing x herself up as if she were going to pose for one of if those modernistic paintings. A typical period with her starts when she comes in from the halls, ex- 'f hausted from the tiring job of walking up one flight x of stairs, and flops down into her desk. But we shouldn't really call it a desk because immediately after, it is converted into a dressing table. Her bulging purse, which re- sembles a small sack of potatoes, is then emptied. Let's see now: hand- kerchiefs, wallets, change purse, compact, make-up-kit, comb, mirror, cigar- ettes, matches, letters, a small pad, keys, bottle of ink, picture album, extra stockings, today's lunch, and oh! yes! can't forget our school utensils-a chewed up pencil. I ... Si 'J Oh! I look like a mess! is her usual exclamation as she gets down to her job of reconversion. First it's her hair that gets the works as she pulls out hair-pins and piles them up in neat bundles of twenty each. Then the electricity and the loose hairs start flying out as she brushes and combs her lovely flaxen tresses. After it is combed and reassembled, she goes to work with the powder puff and the lipstick. Thus three-quarters of the period for her is spent, making herself more alluring to the boys, Who, in spite of all her preparation, walk around in sweat shirts and creaseless pants. Ah! me. You won't forget her, will you? This next one is very commong he's THE HOMEWORK MONGBEL Never having any time to do his work at N Q home, he decides to do his homework and copying J ta? T in school, during all periods. Algebra is done in g , X f ff English, English in History, History in Spanish, etc. I lt's a regular schedule. There are two main types X ' of mongrels, first there is the common one who XX- x does his homework and doesn't care what's going H H on in class-thus receiving zeros by the score, and 'Y 5 I - - I il' then theres the intelligent one who knows Whats up and often leaves 3X3-455297-U to answer- Wo wurde die erste deutsche Republic gegrunde? We marvel at him. The best spot for doing the homework is in the cafeteria where expert advice may be obtained-between an egg sandwich and a cream puff- although doing homework while walking in the halls is not uncommon. The funniest sight in the school is to notice a mongrel walking down a crowded corridor talking to himself as he has to rehearse, Tomorrow and tomorrow, and tomorrow .... l7

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