Midwood High School - Epilog Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Wi+h a pang of regrel' we realize fhere will be ofher Edifors-in-chief, ofher Mayors, oiher Foo+ball heroes, o+her PreHies+ girls . . . and +ha'r fwice a year 'rhere is a s+uden'r chosen who is Mos+ Likely To Succeed. Midwood s'I'ays fhe same, and bidding H' Adieu is nof as easy or pleasanf as we fhoughl' if mighl' be. The road before us is no+ very clear, and all of Midwood, all fhe subfle values we had faken for granled loom in our young eyes . . . 'rhe comforlable rouline we grew impafienf wifh, lfhe infer- esi' of feachers we failed +o appreciale, +he friends and enemies, 'rhe halls, 'rhe rooms, +he desks. The 'rhing 'rha+ brings fears +o even +he mosf sophis'rica+ed and disin+eres+ed of us is +he feeling +ha+ rhe cliques, +he sweef- hearls, 'rhe kids we worked wi'rh are 'ro be scaHered +o +he winds of +he universi+y and business world. Teachers who we had begun +o accepf as friends, are being leff behind. We promised 'ro wri+e each o+her, swore 'ro gef drunk +oge+her nex'r New Year's Eve, buf knew if was goodbye. Some of us will hang on +o Midwood. We will have our box full of souvenirs. We will refurn +o hang around +he Argus oFFice, 'rhe Bio lab, fhe Gym, +alk +o feachers, and a few of us will even +ake posf-graduafe courses. I+ will no+ be ihe same. For mosf of us fhe break will be comple+e. Midwood will +ake i+s place as a rafher solid rock we can resl' our memories on. Our gradua+ion, fhe climax of all we have worked for, or even ioked about is a rriumph 'Tempered by fhe more impor+an+ realizafion +ha+ we are no+ +he be-all and fhe end-all here. dick george george dreyer 5 69 wU3flfW oo SJC' we L L3 gf ' J ..f

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we zfemem ber This is for lhose of us who save old Arguses, who may have a big box home overflowing wilh guard bullons, a lirsl' piclure al' lhe Copa, Variely Show slubs, one- hundred per cenl lesl papers, and even a Regenls Review book. lvlosl' of us can'l' remember 'rha+ day in Seplember, '44, bul we associale il' wilh many sfock experiences lhal are lradirional in sludenl life. Perhaps we were fooled by 'rhe swimming pool on lhe fif+h floor, by 'rhe gym spols al a dime a lhrow, or by lhe basemenl' billiard parlor and lounge, beer, prelzels, and cigarelles. Perhaps we wanled fo be. Mosr of us 'fried +o look like non-freshies by opening lhe srarched collars Molher senl us OFF in, covering our French One lexls wilh Brooklyn College labels, and never asking direclions of anyone under 'rhirly-five. Girls pul' lipslick on, and began ignoring lheir 8B sweelhearls, sprinkling lheir chaH'er wilh 'rhe menlion of upper l'erm big wheels. We scrambled for guard posls, over-did our homework, and learned how fo smoke. There was a sigh of relief when lhe firsl' day of 'rhe Second Term began, and we had ceased lo be unlouchables and now were in 'roleraled obscurily. We began 'lhe rocky road lo recognilion. Now deep in lhe P.M. session we saw +he cold logic of Darwin's Survival of +he Fillesl lheory in praclice. Palman Qui Meruil Feral, and soon we began +o recognize lhe same faces a+ 'lhe command pos+s of s'l'uden+ aFlairs .... P.M. Coordinalors, Guard lnspecfors, Sludenl Councilmen, Secrelaries, Mayors, elc. We look our places in lhe sung for A.M.'ers al' lasl, we 'rriumphed over ignominy. By now we were in lhe rouline. We ioked aboul culling, said hello 'lo handsome leachers in lhe halls, or lhose we wanled a passing grade from. We gossiped aboul' lalesl' romances, had li++le alrercalions in lhe Dean's office, chose privale corners in 'lhe Cafeleria, go+ 75 on lhe lnfermediale Regenfs, and a minule laler picked up an honor card in Spanish. We knew lhal' lhe redhead in SS lorry-four was going sfeady wi+h a Yale man. We had laken Chem., and lhe horrible odor on +he norfh side of +he building was merely hydrogen sulphide. Forly-nine hundred periods had licked away, and we now pul' a big S afler our Home Room number. Wilhoul realizing any change in our personalilies we found ourselves seHing lhe example for fhe res'r of +he school. We made mad scrambles l'o buy up Senior hals. ll seemed wonderful fo wear hals in school wilh 4M8 in big leflers, bul affer lhree or four days +hey were less in evidence. I+ seemed lhe all- impor+anl' hairdo reigned supreme. The lisl' was made up, and we spoke of our somelhing-poinl-somelhings as if 'rhey were Major League balling averages. The facl +ha'r our high school average and college applicalions were fail accompli somehow furned our lhoughls lo The more iascinaling and immediale queslions of who fhe Prelliesl Girl is . , . whal lhe Senior Show is like . . . where 'rhe Prom would be . . . how we are going lo gel lhe dough and a big, black car, and when we-'re going lo hear from Syracuse Universily. 4

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in 1f'6f1f0.ilU07f'f The compleTe agieemenT human beings have concerning The use and develop- menT oT The body may be responsible Tor The populariTy oT aThleTics, and wheTher iT is aT a business luncheon in your living-room armchair, or when The car breaks down, The recollecifions of your high school Teams will be welcomed. All will become Class A'ers in The league ThaT TaThers around The Tireside. LeT The living room scene be a sTereoType. A poT-bellied sTove wiTh your TeeT Tipping The TooT-resT, and since The Training rules oT more a+hle+ic days have been relaxed, you will have enTered The class whose privilege is dissipaTion. So, be careful noT To leT The ashes drop, and don'T Tip The glass Too Tar in your sTruggle Tor comTorT againsT The oversTuFFed chair. Allowing such a scene To have influence over my ThoughTs, The TirsT Thing ThaT comes To mind is The no-hiHer Charley GersTen Threw againsT Brooklyn Tech in The finale oT The I947 baseball season. IT had been a year of 0-2 Tor Chuck as he warmed up on The Parade Ground sidelines. The Midwood rooTers in The grandsTand made playful suggesTions ThaT The only way Charley would win was by a perTecT game. The early innings wenT by, and The infielders chanTed, no-hiTTer, baby boy, no-hi'Her, baby boy .... Midwood had gained an advanTage in The run cleparTmen+ as iT came down To The Tinal inning. We were all aware oT GersTen's negaTive aTTiTude Toward Tech baTTers, buT The round shouldered condiTion of Midwood's won and Ios+ record made The prospecT of a no-hiTTer seem miraculous. Quickly, Charley pushed The TirsT o Two baTTers r and whaT was I uT sTepped in. A ball abou+ To become a in which The neuroTic are was The case. The moTions d as TwiTches 0l'l The TBCES of slammed The ball pasT To GersTen, who in iT ThaT makes Thrills which higher- asslsT a school-day evenT in Nahonal League's mosT valuable Hugh School gym Talking abouT 9 ended e sporTs TanaTic alThough baske-Tball and gym shorTs and UP TOY games. The evenTs oT and fhe ouT To The ueens iT as a blind- way in which The game progressed was signiTicanT, Two Teams on The ownership oT The lead as lhg final r . . ua Ter was giving rOOm. Ray Schwarh, who had scored 22 poinTs in The preceding a mediocre day, and iT I Herb BGVSTGTH. and Bob up Tor The slump. Of course a good Tloor This would only deprive unappreciaTed There were abouT ThirTy