Lafayette High School - Legend Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Slaves 0 Fate mm' es em e en By STANLEY CORN GOLD They came en masse, arrow-like to the now-slowly Widening frontier: the archaeologists and the anthropologists and the long-named men ot in- tellect. All identical in green-grey coats and polished hair-myopic, pre- occupied eyes peering out behind thick-lensed glasses into the biting air of the loW marshlands, So marched the blunted hammers and cranial calipers and notebooks to record the endless minutiae of discovery. News ot revela- tion spreads fast. Already the bold and toresighted among them had haz- arded to give the unearthed ruins a time-place. Nineteentotwentyhundred, they said. There on the edge ot a vast dark ocean lay a key to the inexplic- able and phantasmal civilization ot the past. There by the sea could be thrown out flashes ot light to a World ot Cimmerian darkness. A clue. A hope . . . To start they broke down the Walls that held the archives. And they were angry to tind what they did: 66The Man Who Came to Dinneri' Successg Coen Pitches No-I-Iitter for Diamondmen. First Tri-School Hop Held at Lincolng G.0. Social Group Holds Square Dance. Relopolsky Breaks Scoring Record with 35 Pointsg City Council Refuses Request to Halt Juvenile Delinquency. Intra-Mural Plans Rejected by Third Term Councilg Lafayette Inaugurates Program for School Athletic Stadium. Ten

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in , 7257 Born and raised in Brooklyn, Miss Florence Mcrrans was a student at Erasmus Hall High School. She then continued her education at Brooklyn College, Oberlin and N.Y.U. Miss Marans' ambition always was to become a teacher. Her ad- vice to the Senior Classeto have fun, but, at the same time, to help maintain world peace. We can thank the depression for giving us Mr Bcxmett Rap paport as a teacher, lt was at that time that he chose teaching as his profession. He was born in Brooklyn, and here re- ceived his high school diploma. Then to further his education he attended C,C.N.Y. Besides teaching he devotes a good deal of time to running a bungalow colony. His greatest pleasure is spending time with his wife and two children. To the Senior Class he leaves this message, Be optimistic in the face of adversity. At all times be courageous and persevering, and graduates. 4, .f things will generally be all right. J Although born in Brooklyn, Mrs. Beatrice Waks attended Morris High in the Bronx. She was a student at Hunter Col- lege, N.Y.U., and C.C.N.Y. Her favorite pastime is square dancing. Students showing a lack of consideration towards others are her pet peeve. Mrs. Waks' advice to the Senior Class is: Bealize that education doesn't end with a high school diploma. Brooklyn College offers many courses in the adult education division that will prove interesting to our 'bi Mrs. Sarah Wczrshaw, formerly from Worcester, Massachu setts, attended one of the oldest high schools in the country. She received her college education at Hunter College. Her hobbies are folk dancing and embroidering. Mrs, Warshaw offers this advice to the Seniors Work hard and be happy By GLADYS WERBELOWITZ

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Where is the significance of this, they cried. Where are the exertions of the great men that led them all. But they never asked or knew to ask: Was it their destiny to mean something to those who follow them. Was theirs the rigid life of action and consequence-three reasons why and for. They never knew, or thought to know, that: school is transition, school is turmoilg school is change. And turmoil and change are not poetry. Yes, they mean. But no, they are not anything in themselves-neither music nor disorder, not gracious, but never impassive. They throw off the cold luminescence of the death's heady and at the same time the coruscations of a vivid growth. They are the imperceptible ash from which arise strength and beauty and perhaps weak- ness and decay. And so they splintered the doors of the second chamber and carefully probed the remants and they were sad to find what they did: Fabulous Football Fever Festival Fridayg Teachers' 0ctet Sings at School Concert. Alumni Night of Stars Called Great g Pocai, Buda in Special Trip to Paris. M. Kahn, French Envoy, Visits School During Tenth Anniversaryg Ardizone Becomes First Student to Gain Pulitzer Scholarship. English, Gym Teachers Clash over Sports Theoryg Darienzo Crashes All-City Team as Left llalfback. Granted, they said. There are no decisive achievements open yet before us. But in what lies the conflict of the tortured race. Where are the fierce denials and treacherous self-abasements of the pained and stumbling evolu- tion. To the cold and juiceless eye these are not apparent. But that criterion is not enough to negate the violence of their existence, these were, again and again, these were. For it is only to understand that to save oneself in darkness is to clear from the mind the illusion of having ever been in the light. Lost is the seething nature that once despairs and looks to the calm and subtler life he knewg and so doing exposes to an unwilling temper only another drifting collision of outlook and ideal. lt is he who must suffer the Eleven