Lafayette High School - Legend Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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The great intellect tried vainly to reason with them that it was impossible to reveal the future. Standing next to him were the four great teachers, JUDY BAAR, PHYLLIS GELMAN, SANDY SILBERBERG, and MYRA COOPER, who pre- sented facts accumulated from their great knowledge. After their long talks they noticed that the witches never moved. W'ere these oddities of nature capable of moving? If so, how could one manage it? The class of '52 held a long consultation and decided to call in the great Comedian CHARLIE FLATOW, with his accompanists SAL ALTERNATIVE and SHEILA BORUCHOIV. He used his best jokes, and still they never laughed. Then the actors and actresses of international fame, DEBRAH HOCH, EDDIE GROSSMAN, PHYLLIS MITTLER, and SID KLOTZ entered to present their saddest drama, written by the great dramatists SONDRA HERMALIN and ELISA TESTA. No tears came. RAY ABRAMS, PETER HIRSCH, LYDIA LORBER, and ED BRODSKY painted the most beautiful scenes for the play, still no reaction, in fact, the witches fell into a deep slumber. After many attempts to arouse the witches. the blasting PA. system finally succeeded in attracting someone's attention, The witches were awakened!! The great scientists JESSE BLUMENTHAL and FRED LEVINE came to the conclusion that the witches had no emotions. Re- porters FRANK BORELLI and NORMAN OSTROW during this time gave won- derful stories about the event to their editors JOYCE SCHLACT, and NORMAN ROTHSTEIN: thus in turn the news of the trial spread throughout the world. Everyone was completely shocked to read that SANCI COHEN, SARI KLEIN- HAUS and JUDY KRAUT, our foremost social workers, could not break the witches down. Things began to get tense. To make the witches admit that they couldn't reveal the future JOHN SPRIZZO, MARTIN REMNITZ, and LARRY LIGHTER gave them the third degree, one degree for each witch. They refused to answer, on the grounds that it might incriminate them. Still they showed no movement. Perhaps they needed exercise. DANNY TEITLEBAUM, RICHARD KAUFNIAN, PAUL ADELBERG and RAY GUISTIZIA performed some calis- thenics with them. The class of '52 was astounded when the one inch yellow daisy on the outside lawn grew into a grey six foot flower. Upon investigation they found the witches exhaled radio-active Uranium! Calling these professionals cost money, so BARBARA ABRAMS, ROBERTA SONNENSCHEIN, and GLORIA LE BASSI handled all the financial matters, with large sums of money donated by the rich and thriving Lafayette News. The final day of the long drawn out recess approached. Bolstering the crowd's confidence by their remarkable cheers, were CAROL GOLDSTEIN, MURIEL RADOYVITZ, DIANE TESCHER, and AUDREY SIEGMAN. The cheer that did the most to raise the spirit of the intellects was BO-BO-SKI-WAT-IN-DOTIN- EH-EH-EHEH!! Of course three persons seen at all functions BARBARA BACH- MAN, MIMI PEARLMAN, and STUART PERLMUTTER were there. They were selling automatic double purpose broomsticks, one for sweeping, the other for Hying. Up to the curb came the presidential limousine, and out walked our first female president of the United States, MYRNA LINDENBERG. She walked into the courtroom. Silence was called for. The President spoke, Upon much deliberation among the renown scientists, doctors, nurses, lawyers, psychologists, teachers and entertainers, it is my duty as President to declare that witches do not exist. There is no creature in the universe that can predict what the future will be. For it is only determined by the actions and the efforts of the people today. As these words were uttered the three figures vanished into the atmosphere, never to return to this planet. JUDY BAAR PHYLLIS GELMAN

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fl, ZZ of Wai 30 ZZ Come forth you flair of '75 We Jim!! fell you of tomorrow y By that which we lorofeff, We shall reveal all. Monday morning is always a dull and gloomy affair, everyone is sleepy, dark forebidding clouds Hoat above. So it was on the morning of June 32, 1975. Only this time the gloomy clouds overhead were slightly darker and larger than ever before. This is the morning when it happened! Lafayette High School became host to three strange visitors! Mr. Grady was on his usual Monday inspection tour through the halls, when he suddenly spied three figures floating down the hall. Judging from their long black robes, he was sure they were seniors. When he approached them, he asked to see their passes. WHATP? NO PASSES?? WELL! f'Into my ofiice if you plcasell' The three visitors followed their new friend into his office and seated themselves on the brightly waxed floor. Then came the questions, one after another were asked. It wasn't until five hours later that they admitted anything. We are three witches, they said. uWe have been sent by Shakespeare and Macbeth Incor- porated to this school, to help forsee the future. Mr. Grady knew that the Senior Yearbook re- quired a prophecy page, but could he legally allow these unlicensed beings to predict things to come? Mr. Grady was stumped. Mr. Grady was bafiicd. He began to seek for advice. He didn't know whether to consult Mr. Tholfsen or Miss Hecht. He finally called in the wise and all-know- ing Mr. Kaster. He too was puzzled. Suddenly Mr. Kaster remembered the class of June '52. They,re a smart bunch! Why not call on them to help out with the problem?,' Mr. Kaster then sent notes to the class of June '52 to ask for their advice. There was a wonderment among the students of the class of June '52 to how feasible this statement was. How were they to be sure what the witches said would be true? Who were these witches? What were they? Why were they here? Because of the great confusion, a trial was held to determine if the witches were truly able to rcveal the future. They were kept captive in the Emergency Room with the assistance of nurses ANN GIOR- DANO, BEVY KAUFMAN, and PHYLLIS RONGA, until the following week when the witches insisted on being removed because Mrs. Gardner had sterilized their brewing pots. A trial was held in the Federal Lafayette District Court. The famous Chief Justice of the Supreme Court LILA BLACKMAN presided. By the look of bewilderment on her face when she entered the courtroom, you could plainly see that something was amiss. In her opening address she remarked that this was the most unusual case ever to come before the great court, Therefore Judge Blackman thought it necessary to have a recess and call the great scholars of their time to examine the witches. The next day the strange looking witches were brought to the Lafayette High School cafe- teria, where you could tcll by the smiles that they felt at home. The logical thing to do first was to call in the great specialists, Doctors EDDIE STRASSER and DONALD NOVIN. Upon close examination the doctors found the witches had no hearts. They immediately called in the great pharmicist MARVIN STERN to give the witches his hand made mechanical hearts, for the first time in natural history his discovery had no results. VVhen they were through, they admitted they had done their best but to no avail. Upon examining the minds of the witches, the noted psychol- ogists NATALIE EHRLICH. ROBERT FISHMAN, and RUTH HOROWITZ found that these creatures had no sense of right and wrong. Furthermore it was discovered during the examination that the heads of the witches were transparent, letting light through to form the colors of the rain- bow. ARTHUR FISGHER was ushered in next. '

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