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

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Dementia Today, The world is dimension conscious. The concepTion OT lengTh, breadTh, and deFTh is commonplace, Cinemascope, microscope, Telescope, and even educa- T'On5l'5COl95' make use oT The dimension TacTors. '3uT iT does noT sTop here, ln The Three dimensional brick building on SixTeenTh AXGVTT-19 belfween SevenTy-ninTh and EighTieTh STreeTs, beTTer known as New UTrechT High School, There are Tour dimensions: The Treshman, The sophomore, The junior, and -,..: 'Tc :cV1lQr, The Treshman, or TirsT dimension, has no breadTh and no depTh. In The scheme C5 fnihgs, he is a mere line going Trom class To class. l-le blends well wiTh The rec- 'i3fneariTx oT his surroundings, The sophomore is Two dimensional. l-le has lengTh and breadTh, and has grad- s ea'neo, accumulaTed, and sTored enough knowledge To be recognizable. BuT Q , fneoreTica ly TlaTg ideally, a Square. i' 's n 'he iunior year ThaT The sTudenT begins To broaden himselT, becoming an a:'xe e x. selT-conTained, possessing lengTh, widTh, and breadTh. T-le has Tinally merges :rom The background. T'e roufrh year adds The TourTh dimension To The senior. l-le now has lengTh, 3 decsn, and-ego. IT is This TourTh addiTion which seTs him aparT Trom his -oe T' makes him Teel ouT oT This world. l-le has aT lasT Tound The -1 ' :-ro geT ouT oT school. T e :' c:nTrary To acceplred opinion, which says ThaT The lasT school Term - iffg ard guieT one, becomes hyperkineTic and TreneTic. l-le sTudies Tor The ejems efamz: ne engages in school poliTicsg he cuTs classes. l-le works Tor a publi- ifg -55 hig picTure Taken, he cuTs classes. l-le Tiles college applicaTionsg he :QV cap and gown: he cuTs classes. I-le rooTs aT all The games, he voTes .95-Qfgegg he goes To The dean.-l-le sTudiesg he sTudiesq he doesn'T cuT i-9 ig Tfra ly awarded his sheepskin. His soiourn in The TourTh dimension is over, ,Q c.i-+5 A - me-.5 line in The COMET, a line in his Treshman colle e class, or a J, , TC G Q ,P -The ranks oT job hunTers. l-le is once again TirsT dimensional. LEONARD DAUBER SevenTeen

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The ,, X if i Ml llillll'y l il as N l T ' Q ' ' i I' GradUUflOn l j if lr 5? li lilii LSQPL, Fr.-mare Ouf of The deaThly silence, The music surged. She suddenly became nervous and a cold sweaf brolce ouT over her face and hands. Quiefly and wiThGuT Cafe- mony, she rose from her seaf on The srage. She surveyed The audience, hoping T: find a consoling loolc in someones eves, buf some-how, all Thai she saw new was a mass of faces. She began To Think of how imporfanf her Task was. This was noT iusT a gradu' afion from a high school: if vas an occasion which would forever live in The hearfs and memories of Those Thousands of people, as well as in hers. She realized rhaf caf' of The success of This occasion would be up To her, and if she failed in This Taslr, The failure would be forever imprinfed on her memory. The lasf few graduafes Toolr Their seafs and The music sfopped. The acclause following seemed To her To be guife deafening. Then The deaflnly silence overfoolr Them again, buf only unfil The color guard marched down The aisles and Took Tneir assigned places. She recifed The Pledge of Allegiance and sang The naTional anfnem rafher mechanically and wifhouf feeling. l-ler hands began To fremble as Mr. Broolcs, The senior adviser, sfepped up To The spealceris rosfrum, signaled everxene To be seafed, and began To infroduce The salufaforian. As The salufaforian delivered his address, she became resfless and mare Tenge Than she was before. She did nof lisfen To The speech because she had heard if Twenfy-eighf Times, and knew every word, period, and comma by heart, The 33. dress was over. She was The nexf spealcer. She arose and wallced To The microphone as guiefly and calmly as She ggmd. Affer The applause had died down, she began her speech. friends, parenfs, Teachers, and especially you, The graduafes. Today is an imporTanT day in your iixeg 35 wel as in mine for as you graduafes all lcnow, These are The firsf graduafion exercises I am parficipafing in as principal of This fine high school . . MARCIA LIFSCHUTZ Sixfeen

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Reality She gazed ouT over The cool, green campus oT The high school and noTiced a sparrow hurriedly TluTTering back To iTs nesT. The sun played havoc wiTh man's world in Tiery red and gold Tones which shone wiTh an awesome noon brilliance. The dark shadows oT The Trees wiTh Their curling branches were like imprinTed ebony Tingers hungrily reaching ouT To cover eTerniTy wiTh Their blackness. lvliss Dawsons high-piTched rasping voice broughT Jody back To her never- escaping world oT realiTy. The class was excused and The walls echoed wiTh ex- clamaTions oT ioy and were Tollowed by a scramble and an exodus oT exciTed, push! ing people. She gaThered up her books, shuTTled Trom her seaT, smiled aT Miss Dawson, and walked slowly Through The door. Jody Took The bus as usual To The lasT sTop and Then goT oTT. Looking aT The row oT Tall, ugly, shapeless, slaTe-gray TenemenT houses-The ones ThaT haunTed her dreams, beckoning To her, sTiTling her, cuTTing oTT The Tresh air-.she sTood There. waTching The youngsTers playing in The narrow sTreeT. Their cloThes were worn, TaTTered, and paTched, yeT They were happy because They were young and oblivious To poverTy. She ascended The Three TlighTs oT sTairs leading To her shabby aparTmenT, un- locked The door and puT her books on The Table. She Tlung herselT on The bed- Too laTe she remembered The broken spring and she TelT a sharp, sTinging pain in The small oT her back. She TelT old and Tired. All aT once she sTarTed To cry, noT gushing sobs, buf a guieT, sTeady, silenT cry, The cry oT one who is cresTTallen and deiecTed. CAROL POLLACK ' , I if ff fa as: lilly fgzf T sa as e wi - ,g l y. if2?T'i- V455 F Nl if 7 Fu? T NX ls fe-fi . e li 'Q l KQQ , 51555. - ' ri 4 V-,M 'NN' as fl s ,, lil' - 4 is ' i T X ' f NX f-f ' 'Q Y K X f f X - J3aQ'uA'7?e4.zFf.3c K EighTecfn