Midwood High School - Epilog Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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AS A DREAM WHEN H ONE AWAKETH Q ,,, 1,1 K lPsalm XXIII. 201 f T A ff ,-, ,- The Dead Sea of Heaven was split in two While the sheen of grey-blue velvet Shimmered and swam, The timid stars turned and fled With the moon far up ahead. And then all was in readiness- Even the cricket held its breath Even the breeze stopped its chatter and waited. And the earth below and the earth around Raised its head like a little child- With parted lips and crystal eyes-expectant. Then it came- First it popped about, only specks in the sky. Then with a roar and a blast And a challenge of color it was born. The purple flush of dawn, Queenly and radiant had risen. FLORENCE INSLICHT - A-M 0 V2 7 S.

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mind and she was resourceful. That was before. The new thought was overpowering. It left no room for anything but its own selfish being. The teacher seemed uncertain. What's that? Teachers are always asking questions you know. This is a sheltered life in this doll house. This is what she had been thinking. It was part of her, like her English lessons that she recited before the class. It was like interpreting The Man With The Hoe in front of all. This is a play we are being cast in. We are the actors. Once, when war was first declared, and only then did one of the teachers stop acting. Maybe she thought of her young child that was out- side of the school scenery. One of the teachers, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor had cried when her mind could not overcome her heart. I wonder if the two can be separated, the heart and the mind? The other day we talked about 'babes' in the Bible. Then someone referred to it in the vernacular. An article in the Log about 'babesf What 'babes' say and do. How 'babes' look. Everyone was alarmed by now. Nida was quite conscious of the audience. She was not speaking hurriedly. She was bringing out the important words. This was a line piece of dramatics. Don't write that their lovers may die so that they will never know them. How can I tell you what I mean? Now Nida knew it. She was telling her soul to people whom she met every day but whom she could not decide upon as friends. Our silly iniquities mean nothing. Why aren't we all nrowing up together? Why are only a few of us growing aware? Why are they gathering the pressure inside and not allowing it to come out? The period ended. Nida came to school because the eighth period she would knit for the soldiers. Maybe hers would get a sweater. At home she looked at the casualty lists and cried over some of the names. School wasn't what it should have been. It wasn't flexible like Nida. I know, because I know Nida. Nida's a funny kid. A nice funny kid. IOSEPH BRAUNHUT 7

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IESQIFSQQQE TOOK SWEET COUNSEL 5 TQTQGETHER fPsalm iv. 61 LQ fy' and one-half years that have passed we have 7 watched Midwood change. I gg The concept of the City of Midwood could ,E- A - s have existed onl in a hi h school whose fac- mQ Cf V4 ulty and studenfl body hid a sincere love of democracy. We know the course most student governments run. They are born of liberal constitutions, obtained from cynical facul- ties, by a group of aggressive, vitally-interested students. The novelty of the new-found liberty soon wears off and liberty degen- erates into license. We knew this, and were determined that it would not happen to our student government. Accordingly, a constitution was drawn up, and one day we found ourselves Citizens of the City of Midwood. Some laughed. Liberty was new to them and they wanted no part of it. Most of the students, and virtually all of the faculty, took their citizenship in the line spirit in which it was offered to them. Our G.O. dues were taxes. A new precedent was set in student government when, independent of the faculty, we had control of our tax money. It was at the beginning of the third term of its existence that a major flaw was found in our governmental system. Too few people knew its inner workings. Interest was aroused, and the entire student body cooperated as never before. What has the City of Midwood taught us? We may all feel justly proud that, in a world in which gunmen are claiming supremacy over idealists, we have had the courage and ability to produce a student government firmly based on the ideals of liberty and democracy. In short, we have learned through prac- tical experience what Americanism really means, and all that we have learned through our City of Midwood will serve to make us worthy of citizenship in the better world that is to come. BERNARD KORMAN - In February 1941 we came. And in the two 9