Lafayette High School - Legend Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Zflliill WM, AXNIID ifiillltliltflik Old Father Time is creeping near And We are getting old. That memories Won't disappear, We'll let our thoughts untold. We've gathered a collection rare Of tokens oi past days, Which now We find are fun to share 'Ere starting lile's next phase. Bc wales lf ou ran I fake il zvillz you! Oswald A student body eager to learn, anxious to cooperate and striving to become good citizens. Brenner Our deepest appreciation for his sincere efforts Grady The Four Freedoms: Freedom from girls wearing slacks, Freedom from black suit Wisecraclcs, Freedom from assemblies unruly, Freedom from even yours truly.

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revelation of the protean forces at work within that have transformed him, irrevocably, beyond all help. And once done, he can go nowhere, that is la malcxdie du temps. But the bold who do not shudder at the grotesque harleguinade they have been told is renascence, who are not crushed under the moral thumb of society, they, who are the silent, are alone the ransomed. Still further they searched, pounding down what had remained standing and spreading the dust upon their palms. And they were puzzled to learn what they did: P.T.A. Broadcasts on Voice of Americag All Extra-Curricular Work Stopped. Ginsburg, Valedictorian, Takes Honorsg Rubin Awarded N.R.0.T.C. Scholarship. How to Keep 0rderly Cafeteria? Teachers Demand Wage Increase. Lafayette Plays Host to Third Tri-School Danceg Sheerin, Former Phil Star, New Baseball Coach. And finished with what they had come to, slowly, regularly, they turned to start the lonely hegira across the dead and barren swamps to the crumbling towers they had left, comforted that they would be as before, shelter and retreat. No longer the smug and dispassionate, some were astonished and frightened of the drama they had played, the wiser with cautious intuition had seen a great truth, the warm and still living among them had under- stood. And if the feral men who had once stalked among the buildings of dust were to ask: Did we and for what purpose existg they had only to know that they had caused their children, gloomy men of science, to wonder at their own fallibility, and the rightness of their system, only this to find mean- ing in their lives. Through the brumal sleep it would suffice. Twelve x

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Miss Lowenhaupt . . . Plan cards without conflicts. Mr. Holstein . . . A penmanship course with special note on how to write Aluminum. Mrs. Weiss . . . La Vie En Rose. Mrs. Cohen . . . Happiness to increase in geometric progressions. Mr. Zarachoff . . . lUO study periods for history lessons. The Students of Mr. Zarcrchoft . . . Our sincere wishes for the success of the Yankees. Mr. Gordon . . . Our used copies of Reviewing American History. Mrs. Mackey . . . Bernhardts, Barrymores, and a good script. Mr. Rappaport . . . Holding companies as numerous as his neckties. Mrs. Roth . . . A television comedian with a fine sense of humor. Miss Klieger . . . Two rabbits. The Bio. Lab .... An automatic slide washer. 4Mrs. Iohanson . . . The fourth dimension. Mr. Bonom . . . A Lafayette monopoly on State Scholarships. Miss Koechling . . . loe Adonis to try at the Student Court. Mr. Arbeit . . . The key to the mimeograph office. Miss Holihan . . . An Egyptian mummy to re-do. The Painters . . . Airwick. The Health Ed. Dept ..., A new supply of wastepaper baskets to throw passes in. Lafayette Cheering Squad . . . Gentlemen-the ones who prefer blondes. Lafayette Orchestra . . . A sound-proof room, so as not to be disturbed by the rest of the school. Next Term's News Staff . . . A News, Our Legend Editor . . . An expired calendar for the deadlines we never met. Mr. S. Levine . . . This literary masterpiece to be filed among the last wills of other philanthropists. Mrs. Hauptman . . . An Electric Typewriter. The Photographer . . . A photogenic senior. The Freshies . . . All of our senior privileges. Next Term's Seniors . . . Our best wishes that the teachers get a raise in salary. We've hereby bequeathed our hoard of wealth. May it be used in the best of health. THE SENIOR CLASS Excculorsz BARBARA BURG ELEANOR VOGEL Fourteen lt l if . ill X Lol - fl QQ