New Utrecht High School - Comet Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Dr. Rogaliifs Message ixfiemioers of time Class of January 1Q4O New Utrecht High School Dear Friends, Permit me' to congratulate you on the successiui compietion of your iriigisi sciiooi course. You wiii agree that as a result of your studies and facuity guidance at this institution your physical and spirituai development are far more advanced than if opportunity for this study had not been made -avaiiainie to you. Proioaioiy tile surest Way to give vveigiit to this judgment is to contrast your present status, whatever it may ioe, with that of time young people in most of tire countries of the world today. I am certain that you wiii say with minions of your fellow countrymen mfiianii God for American it is my sincere imope that one of the many benefits that accrued to you as a result of time education that our city and State gave to you, is tile formulation of an active ideai of Americanism. You, I hope have been so strongly imbued with tiiis lofty motive that ali your iiie you Wiii be actuated by it. The welfare not only of our ineioved Country iout of tile entire World is contingent on the extent to which future generations uptioid Americanism and aii that it impiies. Since you are the proximate group to carry on, do it so that your successors wiii have greatly improved conditions under our spiendidiy democratic society. May I not also at this time Wisti for eacii of you iong, happy, and successful lives, in the service of America and ixfiani Sincerely yours, 6? Principal January 29, 1940

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Dr. Maurice E Rogaljn

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The events and characters of this story are fictional and any simi- larity to the staff of the New Utrecht NUHS and the way it puts out a paper is purely coincidental. The office of the Central Hi Clarion was in an uproar. The paper Cwhich advocated a greater allottment of G.O. funds for their journalistic 'petty cash' and a reduction in . expenditures on such unneces- e sary items as Teachers and Students' Symposium on Whether the Central City Council Should Approve a Bill to Provide the City with a New Council l-fall-S35 D had a 24 hour deadline to meet and no one could find Cyclone Baxter, the Sports Editor. The only sports item pasted on the dummy was an insignificant little paragraph reading something like this: GJ-l.L.S. ON HIKE The Girls' Athletic Club un- der the supervision of Miss Morgan Went on a hike to Red Caverns last Saturday. It was reported that everyone had a grand time. To add to the troubles of Doc Lewis, the Clarion's Editor-in-Chief, the galleys had been brought up from the printer and all the cutting, pasting and correcting was being done in the little 2 by 4 office. ln a corner of the room, Claudia t'Shorty Black and Shirley CGee Ain't Clark Gable Handsomel Ferber, the two feature editors, were haggling with Ace Carlson, the paper's star reporter. By LEONARD BARKIN Look, be sensible, Claudia was plead- ing. You can't have two bylines on the same page. lt don't look nice. At a time like this, l can't be sensible, Ace retorted. That story l wrote on Trees is the best thing this sheet ever had and l'm going to get a by-line if it's the last thing l ever do. lf you get it, Shirley threatened, it's going to be the last thing you ever do. At least on this paper. Gimme my story, Ace shouted. 'l ain't working for you dopes any more. lquitf' 'Good You're fired, Claudia corrected. Ace flew out of the office. What was that? Doc asked, A hurricane? No, only Ace quitting again, came the answer. Gosh darn it. l-low many times a day does that guy hafta quit. ln the center of the office, rather majestically sprawled on the floor was Newsy Baker, the News Editor. All around him were galleys, dummys, paper, glue, scissors and all the rest of the material which dis- tinguishes an exalted editorkfromla common reporter. lust as he opened his mouth to say something, Doc shouted, Pledgee! Yessir, came from a terrified, little lad in a corner. Ten