Lafayette High School - Legend Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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' f +.:fu'u-.-aw-A . wvwzrfr Y ' ' Dear Boys and Girls, I feel humble and grateful for the part l've been allowed to have in these Wonderful few years of your lives. It is a great privilege to help boys and girls grow up. You have been the kind of class that has made that privilege an honor. I know your school days at Lafayette have been happy and fruitful ones. I am proud of the scholastic record you have made and proud of the generous service you have rendered and most of all, I'rn proud of your whole goodness as people. My sincerest hope for you is that your goodness of charac- ter, Willingness to help and devotion to duty is now so a part of you, that it will stay yours forever. Goodbye and God bless you. Your Grade Adviser, VERA V. DUFORT

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TO THE CLASS OF IUNE 1950: Your class can well be called the mid-century class. 1 grad- uated from Boys High in 1901 and Well remember my first trip to Europe in 1900. The changes that have taken place in these fifty years are many indeed. I-low many of you Will, at my age, in the year 2000 recall with the same pleasure and delight your days at Lafayette and the many changes that will have taken place on this World of ours? May 1 Wish for each of you, as the years go by, more and more of the zest that comes with the giving of oneself entirely to Worthwhile endeavor, of the satisfaction that comes from Work fully and successfully completed, of the true happiness that comes from giving one's best and of finding that best good enough to accomplish all that one has dreamt. Your Principal, FRED'K WM. OSWALD

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I A cz in mo Lociestone. . . by STUART SELBST In 1492 I discovered America, only it wasn't America then. The only civilized place on the east coast was Brooklyn. So I pulled my ships into Gravesend Bay, made my way down Cropsey Avenue, and planted the flag of Spain on Benson Avenue and Bay 43rd Street. The place looks a little French now, which reminds me of a few photos I took when I first landed, but that can come later. What's that, you want to know what I'm doing here? Every 500 years we, from up there, get a chance to come back, and since it's l992, well here I am. This gimmick over here interests me. What do you call it? Oh, it's a Srnellavision set? Do I turn this thing over here? OK .... Who's that? Carl Donato, huh. Was that a joke? I remember when it went- Who was that Signora I saw you with last night? Well, well, what have we here? You say that's Danny Shiffman with him? Also an actor? I remember Will Shakespeare. There was an actor. Even wrote his own stuff. Now what's this thing? Why can't I touch it. I'd like to see Arthur Ginsberg's hydrogonium bomb in action. Well, I've got nothing to lose by it. This bomb is possible only since Albert released his formula. Not Einstein, silly, Altman. It goes-one cup milk, one teaspoon Pablum . . . etc. Great formula! Talk about formulas, I like the one that goes, sugar and spice and everything nice makes Renee Bettleman. Lorraine Hurwitz. Sandy Zavalin. or Ioan Grasso. Ahal-a newspaper. I have to find out how Mama's Borscht made out in the fourth at Sicily. Now look at this in the political section. Fred Stern, pub- lisher of the Chronic. is backing Robert Goodman against Morton Portnoy. who is supported by Stu Selbst's Daily Manner. They're competing for the presidency of the News Advertising Agency. Iordy Hott is chief stockholder since he cornered the market back in '5O. Let's go back to the Smellavision set. I want to see them play Roller Herby CTanzerJ. Ciro Masso and Emie Mayer are on the Brooklyn teamg and what a team! That women's squad really takes Ithe cake with Sylvia Green- berg, Elizabeth Gervasi, and Ellie Balter in tonight's lineup. Switch to another channel. Is that interference? Oh no. It's Frank Parisi's latest artistic master- piece. Bob Stanger's new paintings are also being exhibited. There's going to be another exhibit of designing work by Pat LoCicero. Antoinette Falanga. Gloria Brenner, and Ray Hougnou. Notice the musical theme in the back- ground. It's by Gloria Lingua and Florence Owens. Back in the great beyond there- was quite a ruckus when Henry Morgan heard of the radio program in which Matty Aronoff comes on, says Hello Eight