Lafayette High School - Legend Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Bay!! in 572.0414 By Henry Stem iWell, we the class of lune '46 are finally leaving. Thinking back on the past years we find, a little surprised, how important they were for Lafay- ette's sports. Whether you know it or not, in the three years during which the major- ity of us have tramped these halls our teams won their first football game, took two division and two city soccer championships, organized a handball squad and formed a rifle team. During this time we have also played good baseball, passing basket- ball and fighting football. Well, that's about all that will be seen on the records, but to us gradu- ating frenchies it's the memories of happy victories and sportmanlike defeats that will stay with us. lt's the thrill of watching Artie Pinto clicking behind a team and coming out with a long gain that we'll remember. lt's the sharp picture of the Lincoln games, always packed, always tough that we'll never forget. And for those few of us who were down at soccer games, a clear mind picture will always remain of the old leather dropping past an opponent's goalie for an exhibition tile of-the championships. Only a very few of us will remember the magnificent games played away from home-the leffer- son game in '45, the Boys' High game in which fighting goalie Mauceri played on, though injured. Yes, that's what we take with us, and going back a little farther we come upon the pounding, vibrant feeling of sitting in Lafayette's gym while Red Murphy galloped across the boards, or the time Ierry Remer won a game with two foul shots in sudden death. But, it's not a clear memory that we'll bring away. lt's a happy, thrill- ing, exciting, cheering, watching, chewing, stamping, hoping, cursing, whistling, atmosphere that we all felt whenever, in any sport, Lafayette's teams played, and Lafayette was spectator. lf some of you think that a sport has been omitted, then you don't know the purpose of this page. lt's not to give you records and figures, but it's something that in later years you may look at and let your mind begin recalling your own memories of Lafayette, not mine, your own recollection of a time in your life when the team wasn't professional but meant more because of the people who were playing it for you and watching it with you than any other athletic contest could. We, the class of lune '46 are leaving Lafayette and going out into a tough world. Maybe sometimes these memories of hard contests and good losers will help you take your job in the world. 20

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Dah fn Spmh By Shirley Sutton Leonora Sharpe Lafayette calling! Lafayette calling! Calling all Legend readers! Com- ing in for a four-year landing. Four years of attending gym twice weekly for ninety minute periods has given everyone those familiar bulging muscles and all that vim and vigor. But four years of gym has had some advantages and hasn't been all cholly horses. The most dreaded though was rising at seven-thirty, dressing seven- forty-five, and then udressing at eight-forty-five to do setting-up exercises to Caledonia, What Makes Your Big Head So Hard? lt's too early in the morning to sit down, stand up, arms out, forward march, about face! Remember your first program card? lt said, Ed., ll A, Room, Gym. And like all freshmen, you asked the first senior you came across where the Girls' Gym was and ended up in the basement locker room. This was your official initiation into Lafayette and after that you religiously prac- ticed the same routine on all subsequent freshmen. Well, finally you get to the gym and you're astounded because you've never seen anything so enormous. You're accustomed to doing your gym- nastics in a room about the size of a log cabin. This is going to be fun! You're all set, broken in properly, and the teacher comes along and says, Play ball. She produces a net and a nice white ball. The idea is to get the ball ball over the net. But between serves, you are taught the Rhumba, Lindy, Samba, and the Virginia Reel. Many a time you wonder if four years of gym activity at Lafayette has offered any benefits. The teacher tells you the exercises produce stamina, coordination, and endurance to the human body, and the play periods give every student the opportunity to partake in sports and also to be a good official, something which calls for quick decisions and sportsmanship. I think the girls are inclined to agree with the teacher. ln our sophmore year we learned a new game. We are always pro- gressing, you see. This game is basketball. The main idea is to get the ball through the basket that's five feet over your head. Then you try your hand with a bat in softball and find that you're better off when you're playing first base. Of course, every day you sit down, get up, forward march, about face and do those good old break-your-back-or-bust exer- cises. By this time, you've broken in' more muscles than Atlas knows how to show. And now you're a joyous graduate with just a happy-go-lucky thought: you'll be doing all of this again in college. Whenever you dust off the the maroon cover of this Legend, don't forget to look in and sit down, get up, forward march, and about face. 21