Midwood High School - Epilog Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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iT'.--'T' MM .9 W mg. r e L R ig HUME RO0M NOSTlllGlll l l+'s your Home Room, and as you walk in, eyelids 7 J weary, you are greefed by fhe usual chaos: fhe bang- X ig H ing of lockers and fhe soff mellow shrieks of salufafions H .I , 5 X 'X fo some girl friend or cronies. Then fhe gossip abouf 'A K yesferday's baseball game sfarfs, and how much money ,X , you won, or, fhaf your boyfriend called lasf nighf and X? l if was so wonderful. Quelle baloney! While all fhis undigesfed meaf is flying around fhe room fhe Teach, hoarse from yelling, slams fhe door. A sudden solemn hush seffles over fhe room Q' enabling you fo hear an afomic bomb drop, and fhen fhe same sfory begins, This is fhe worsf class ever and l wanf you fo falk, buf-fhere is so much work fo be done and pink cards and whife slips and blah, blah, blah .... To inferrupf fhe famous speech, a Go-Geffer enfers fhe room in a sincere affempf fo sell fickefs fo a dance, baskefball game or show, and nafurally, everyone is so in- feresfed in somefhing else fhaf fhe hapless human fickef leaves unnoficed and unsung. Teach checks fhe affendance and makes a few announcemenfs while fhe pupils falk or do homework . . . nobody lisfens, buf if is fhe general pracfice of fhe older generafion fo follow fradifion and so, read on! All of a sudden, Bing, Bong, Bing, fhe S.B.l. Whoopeel When fhe room is quiefed down fo a riof, you hear fhe same announcemenfs fhaf were made in class and you are able fo hear requesfs fo buy fickefs for fhe same funcfions fo which fhe Go-Geffers were frying fo sell fickefs. You see, fhe S.B.l. is for fhe benefif of fhose sfudenfs who did nof quife cafch fhe announcemenfs fhe firsf fime and are less inferesfed in cafching fhem a second fime. Soon anofher brave Go-Geffer sfum- bles info our abode. This fime he is shoufed down wifh commenfs or pennies from fhe affluenf sfudenfs. A The Home Room, seriously speaking, is an imporfanf parf of fhe day. Here we gef a chance fo cafch up on some sleep: we can even sfudy for fhaf coming fesf or do fhe homework fhaf you hear is going fo be examined. You can decide your ninfh ferm program, here liusf in casell. While fhe females dab fhemselves wifh painf and powder, fhe males, if nof carving fheir inifials on fheir desks, are filling fhem in wifh ink. Affer all, fhe world musf know He wenf fo Midwood. If inifials and dafes are carved on fhe desks, everyone will know fhaf Joe Schmoe wenf fo our Ii'I ole schoolhouse. Then, as if planned, fhe presidenf of fhe Home Room fries fo read fhe budgef or a news-leffer iusf as befs are being laid for fhe coming sporfing evenfs. Ulfi- mafely, we bid a fond adieu fo Home Room, and march on fo fhe miseries of fhe second period. Len Newmark I0

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cosfumes, pain+ signs, don'+ spill paint lcosls moneyl. We can do ii . . . novel lheme, clever lyrics, and loads of enfhusiasm. Marks were zooming downward, bul our spiri+s were soaring. When i+ was all over, we siill smiled . . . lhe Ihree-and-half-year siudenfs, fhal is. FREEDOM TRAIN MAKES HISTORY: BRINGS AMERICA TO BROOKLYN . . . HOLD THAT HEMLlNEg HOWLS GO UP AS HEMS GO DOWN . . . NEWS- PAPERS SOLD AT REDUCED RATES. For 'lhe convenience of many s+uden+s, 'lhe school began 'Ihe sale of newspapers al' reduced prices lfive-cenl papers sold for four cen1's, 'lhree-cenl' ones for Iwo cenfs . . . inflafion can never reach us al' +his rafellll. On sale 'lhe firsf period in 'lhe fron? hall were fhe N. Y. Siar, fhe N. Y. Times, and Herald-Tribune . . . money for fhe rapidly clepleied coffers of Midwood Hi . . . and ediucashun for our siewdenfs. MIDWOOD HEARS BUDDING RUBENSTEINS AND MENUHINS. Under Ihe smoolh guidance of Mrs. Tillis, +he Ci+y of Midwood Friday Nighi Concerl Series was inifia+ed. Three concerls were given so +ha'l' our falenl mighl be presenied +o an audience. The firsl concerl' conflicfed wilh Koussevi'lsky's ap- pearance a+ +he Brooklyn Academy of Music. The lasl' was slaled for lhe same nighl as fhe Midwood-Lincoln baskeiball game. The following day was +he College Board Exams and so +he audience for +he Iasl' concerl could be counfed on four hands .... I+ was greaf, Ihoughl THE VARSITY DRAG. The voice boomed over +he loudspeaker: All +hose inferesied in faking Ihe College Boards, allend ihe coaching classes indicafed by lhe scheduIe. Wha+ college are you applying fo? Well, l'd like 'lo go Io Cornell, buf l'll probably end up af Brooklyn. We'd like +o have lingered longer in +he Junior Year, bu+ oh, lo be a Seniorl Joan Leibel '55 lg! in Illl Ti 9

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1.2 . 1 f., Q . S x V. A --Y - f x . 1: , -S 1 Y f y i Senior Day CommiHee Hi-Y Mafh Team Arkon Folic Lore Club Cheering Squad B-7I Civil Service Club