Manual Training High School - Prospect Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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JM I 3 C5 L if IVVA Hwsmcnel i , .- 7 1 , 'T' , we 1 + ef, . ' gm. ' - v .... ,ig Good-Bye N ow that all the preliminaries of grad- uation, such as ordering rings and pins, consulting dressmakers and telling what gifts you would like, are disposed of, nothing remains but to take our Regents, and-graduate. Since Regents are such trivial matters when compared with the kind of gift we want for graduation, we feel that there is nothing left but the most pleasant and at the same time the most distasteful task of all, to say good-bye. Shall we say the usual thing, that we can never repay our teachers and friends for all they have done for us, and that we shall never forget the happy days spent in the Manual Training High School? How much better to omit the words and to prove by our deeds when we have left school how much we honor and thank our Alma Mater for all she has given us! After all, words are easily spoken and more easily forgotten, deeds are the more permanent proof of our gratitude. And so with the promise to try our best in everything and to accomplish our tasks according to the highest ideals we know, -that is how the class of june, 1923, would express its appreciation and thanks. The Girl Senior Reviews the Past It seems almost superhuman, but could you possibly go back to the day four or five years ago, that first saw you honor- Twen t y-:ix ing this school with your presence? Can you review with me the time spent, and the events that occurred, in those four years? Does your mind permit such a task? It does! Let's go! When we gentle creatures of the weaker sex entered Manual we came in by the back door, so to speak. It was in the Annex that we Hrst saw the dawn of a high school education. All our subjects and the method of injecting them into our craniums were new to us. The most popular club in the Annex was the Literary Club. For proof, ex- amine the Senior records. However, we enjoyed ourselves there, and what nobler purpose could any club serve? Don't think by all this that the girls were the' only freshmen. Far from it, but of the boys I can say nothing. Let them speak for themselves-and they do, much too freely and unnecessarily. Now for the Sophomore term. Know- est thou the meaning of the word? It is wise young fools. To use the vernacu- lar, Webster said a mouthful. We cer- tainly thought we were wise, and quite likely, we acted like fools. That term, double session was introduced-O Double Session, what crimes are committed in thy name! In those days we were ambi- tious, and took as many as five subjects a week. Now we are brilliant if we take three. Another summer passed and again we returned to school. How different we

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145. Snap out of lt! VVhite, Vivian, 939 58th St. I-E11fCI'Cd in 4th year from lfastern High School. Detroit. Mich.g French Club C45.-4Hunter. 146. You know me, Al. Willcnbrock, Alexander, 52 Sunnyside Ave.: Track C153 Industrial Chemistry Club C353 Interclass Baseball C2, 35g lnteryear Tennis C451 Prospect Cl, 25: Membership Committee 8th Grade.-Cornell. 147. Keep that schoolgirl complexion. Willieombc, Veronica, 1342 73rd St.:- Hockey C453 Literary Club C153 Aristag Girls' Day Committee C252 Record Committee 8th Grade.-Adelphi. 148. He always used to get the blame. XVilpon, Isidorc N.. 198 President St. 1- Frcnch Club C25 g Midget Baseball C253 Midget Basketball C351 Intcrclass Baseball C35.4New York University. 149. The Hidden Treasure. VYilson, Loretta, 32 East Second St.:-End- ball C155 Swimming C3, 455 Hockey C459 Girls' Day Committee.--Teachers Training School. 150. Yon Cassius hath a lean and hungry look. XVolf, XYilbur, 304 82nd St.:-lnterclass Baseball C25: Cross Country C353 Radio Club C45g Secretary, Junior Arista.fCornell. 151. Strictly Business. Yalan, Alexander, 751 DeKalb Ave.:-M. A. S. C1. 451 Glec Club C452 M. T. H. S.g Weekly C45, 2 M's: VVeekly Ping Chair- man Menibership Committee 8th Grade.-N. Y. U. 152. Beside her other graces h ' ,-'-- at baking pies. . Zinunermai tr ff ' 2 E. 9th St.:- Toy Club C1 ia . Crafts Club C253 Art in 'fra qi: C25'yfristag Dramatics C2, 3,,1 ,M . H. 1 Young Americaf' it -Made M ' ome Out of the 'E men, Mauna 11iesg Class Day Com- mittee Sth Grade.--Art School. -v-7 V Q Twenty-55112

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looked! Could these blase, sophisticated young ladies be the pig-tailed girls we had known? Could these superior young gentlemen be the boys of last term? Now that we were in the Junior year we were more in the swim. We had a chance to be prominent. and were even eligible for Senior Arista, where Many are called, but few are chosen. A great surprise and a delightful one awaited us that term. Dr. Lamb was appointed disciplinarian, and he introduced us to all the joys of detention, probation, suppression and suspension. And now at last, we are completing the long awaited Senior year. We thought that when we were Seniors we might have a bowing acquaintance with Dr. Snyder, but instead, we are very intimate with Dr. Lamb. We thought we had social obligations before, but they were nothing compared to those that claim us now. Eighth grade dance, Kid party, Senior Prom, Beach party and Senior day all follow each other in rapid suc- cession. And how the money rolls out! No wonder a Senior is always poor. All good things come to an end and here we are at the parting of the ways. That thought makes us a little melancholy but the memory of four glorious years will lighten the gloom. That memory will cheer many lonesome hours and rekindle in our hearts our love for our Alma Mater, dear old Manual High. -..,..O...... The Boy Senior Sees the Future Graduation is generally accepted to be a time of great and universal rejoicing. It is the end of the trail-the end to which all successful students must come sooner or later-the Rome to which all academic roads lead. It is the culmination of all effort-the reward of faithful ser- vice. Yet to me graduation has always pre- sented another side. It is not only the end of the course - it is the end of friendships which have endured through four years of pleasures and disappoint- ments-of joys and sorrows. Some of my best friends are those which I have made in High School, but I know from the experience of other graduates that those friends must now leave and live in memory only. The friends with whom we now swap lies over sodas will soon be gone-forever. Far off colleges will claim them. Now and then a letter will come back telling of individual achievement-but the ex- aggeration will have no thrill in it. We shall meet, perhaps at Alumni reunions- but there will be something lacking-the conversation will seem strained. A word now and again-a long pause-each will seek for a common topic. Finally one will say, 'Well, Ed, see you later. I must run along. Glad to see you again-so long! and off he goes. . You think of the old days of long- winded arguments over nothing, and you wonder if he is the same chap. He is changed. So are you. Another old friendship is ended. Yes, graduation is and should be a time of rejoicing, but it has another side. Where are the friends of yesteryear? illoil- Last Will and Testament Whereas Cwe were told this is the right way to startj, and whereof Cwe know not of what we are writingj, and whereunto wherefore Cwe really have no reasonj, we, the Senior Class of June, 1923, do, in accordance with all precedent and happy custom, it having been done sundry times and oft before, declare this to be positively our last will and testament. Whereas fthe lawyer said we should use this againj, being possessed of the few senses which the Faculty has left us, Twenty-seven