Lowell High School - Red and White Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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Eight HE thud of bat on ball . . . the intensely in- terested sidelines, always too close to the diamond . . . the studious workers on the benches . . . the gossiping groups in the court . . . the crash of silverware, the bang of trays, the deafen- ing Crescendo of voices in the caf . . . blase promenaders around the block . . . the hoarse, sustained whistle of the peanut wagon . . . every- body busy at everything . . and anything . . but . . . lunch.

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PAIR of high heels leaves the office and breaks the silence of the halls, clattering off on some errandg from the office comes also the staccato tap-tap-tap of a typewriter. Then the clangs of the bell . . . doors burst open . . . the classes pour forth in an irresistible stream. They rush fren- ziedly through the corridors to the next class . . . they straggle along in sewing circle groupsg they hasten from the room individually, each man for himself . . . they march down the hall four abreast so that none may passg but eventually all congre- gate in some pre-destined room until the halls are almost empty. Another bell rings . . . doors slam . . . and busy hum of classes rises anew. . . . l Seven

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YPES in any class . . . the serious minded boy who raises his hand at every conceivable opportunity . . . the girl who is perpetually dis- coursing learnedly to those around her . . . the girl who looks wounded if she gets a bad mark . . . the boy who sits on approximately his seventh vertabra and looks very, very fatigued . . . the in- evitable and insufferable humorist . . . the mem- ber who spends the period glancing nervously at the clock . . . and the one who laughs at all the teacher's jokes, whether intended for such or not . . . and there's always . . . the teacher . . . Nine