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M ocletfn E cienql Ol? A Century of Destruction In Four Short Years Scientists have estimated that human beings spend one-third of their natural lives asleep or resting. Anthropologists have also estimated that the average student, until the time he graduates high school, spends an almost equal amount of time in school. Logically, it would appear that the school would have had an important effect on our past and future happiness and outlook on life. Let's loolq back on our four years in Lafayette. Let's go beyond regents, finals, and report cards to the good things in school life: the football games, the clubs, the people we'z1e met, and even some of the teachers. It was during the fall term of '47 that the City of New York gave a pres- ent to the students of Lafayette that would be appreciated for decades to come. Bay 43 Street was paved. Besides eliminating that last stretch of mud and icy pitfalls, the noise of the construction drowned out the teachers on that side ot the school. Two new amendents were added onto the G.O. Constitution. They pro- vided that the GO. President serve at least one term on the GO. Council, or sit in on their meetings, and that the Vice-President serve at least one term on the Student Court, or sit in on their meetings. At that time, Lafayette third-termers hoped to see a football stadium on the field by the time they graduated. Although, through the years, those same innocent, idealistic third-termers have been hardened by Regents ex- ams and the rigors of the daily safari to Lafayette, and grown cynical and mundane, they still have not lost hope. They expect to see a stadium at Lafayette when their children are graduated. ln the Spring term of 1948, Lafayette was honored by a visit from Harold Russell, the armless vet who played in the Academy Award winning film, The Best Years oi Our Lives. The first annual Tri-School Dance was held at Lincoln, with the MC. from New Utrecht. Six hundred, including a goodly representation from Laf- ayette, attended. The Varsity Show that year was The Man Who Came To Dinner. starring Hugo Puglia. The Cheering Squad won a gold trophy in the Loews cheerleader contest. The following term Danny Luciano was elected President of the GO. A campaign was on to clean up the cafeteria. The teachers were beaten by the Iunior Coaches and Leaders in a volleyball game to benefit needy chil- dren. That term New York City celebrated its fiftieth anniversary and the athletic teams and band marched in the big parade. l949 was the tenth anniversary of Lafayette and the school celebrated in a big way. A scholarship fund was started. Also a portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette was presented to the school by Le Commitee Francais de Sou- venior de Lafayette. The impressive ceremony, at which the grandson of George Clemenceau was present, was recorded and broadcast on Voice of America. by ED MOSER and FRED STERN Twenty