Niles Junior High School - Milestones Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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GOD'S CHILDREN Take one. give one. Take one, give one. Slowly, mefhodically he had done if year affer year. His face regisTered no emoTion, so one couldn'T Tell whaT his inner self felT. Graduafion Time had come seven, eighf, nine Times. Nine Times he had seen children enfering a new phase of life. How clearly he remembered ThaT day five years ago when his firsf group graduafed. He could sfill recall congrafulafing The fellow who had won The Americanship award. WhaT was his name? Tony . . . Harold . . . Pefe . . . The name escaped him buf noT The face. He would remem- ber him for a long Time To come . . . Suddenly. a familiar counfenance raced him back To realiTy. A preTTy 'liijfle damsel. Popular wiTh everybody. She had a liferary career mapped ouT and if she confinued wiTh her ambifion she mighT someday become a famous and glorious aufhor. Quickly, so quickly. she passed on To give anofher his chance. Hand affer hand he shook. Face affer face wenf on.- Here again was anofher he knew well. 'He had been PresidenT This pasf semesTer. A quief. refined boy. IT had been a greaf source of pleasure To This principal Thaf if had made no difference To The pupils ThaT he was colored. for They were Americans. The line- became shorfer and shorfer. There was only one diploma lefT To give. Oddly enough he remembered This lasT boy's ambiTion. He wanfed To enlisT in The Army. war or no war. Sfrange buf five years ago Today Thaf lasf boy's ambiTion was also To fighf. Well, 'he had. The school was ready To send him a Chrisfmas gifT buf faTe had ofher ideas. He was killed in acTion. IT was over. Two hundred boys and girls had gone. Two hundred more were coming. Our fufure cifizens. They were going To be America. an I 'DIANA ATMAN. QBR THE BATTLEFIELD Over The Top rings a baTTle cry. Men geT ready To live or die. A sudden rush, a bursT of guns, There go our fighfing, loving sons. One falls There, one falls here. Never To reTurn To someone dear. Why. Oh God. do They have To die, To be killed by a bulleT and lefT To lie? Do you wanT To know why These boys died? To save The cause by which we abide ThaT we may live in happiness and peace Even Though Their lives musf cease. Buf over all rings a baHle cry. ' A Men geT ready To live or die. ' - cALviN SMITH. vas 1 '18 1

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TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF 7BI I received your very lovely bul mosl unexpecled gill. and I am slill lrying lo reason oul why you children should have gone lo such lrouble especially when you don'l even know me. I lind lhe leeling I hold very hard lo express in words. and can'l say more lhan lhal il was line ol you and everylhing you senl can surely be used. We hear a greal deal aboul lhe morale ol lhe people al home being very poor. bul lhose who lalk surely don'l lake inlo consideralion you younger people. Wilh boys and girls like you al home. I don'l see how we can help winning lhis war, il only lo lullill lhe hopes and expeclalions ol you children. Sincerely yours, ' ANTHONY NOEL Dear Miss Haskell and 9A4: ' I received your swell package. I wanl lo lhank you very much lor il. The soap and blades are iusl whal I wanled. You see we are on maneuvers down here in Louisiana and we can'l buy anylhing. I wish I was back in school again. l'm sorry I wasled my lime when I was going bul lhal's a'lhing ol lhe pasl now. As ever, FRANK VI SERTO Dear Miss Walers: We have linished our lraining and are wailing lo ship oul. We expecl lo go overseas soon. I am on lhe 9Omm. cannons Anli Aircrall. I haven'l had a lurlough yel bul I expecl one soon. I've been showing lhe Red Cross how lo do some sheel melal work and lhey were greally impressed. Give my regards lo Mrs. Gourin. Mr. Donis, Miss Ryan. and Mrs. Seligman. , Sincerely yours, PRIVATE JOSEPH SPARACO as as 1: ae Weslern Union Cablegram E F M Miss J. V. Evers W J.H.S. II8 577 Easl l79lh Slreel. Bronx 57, N. Y. Many lhanks lor parcel. Besl wishes and good,heallh. Besl wishes lor Chrislmas and New Year. DANIEL KETTRICK H4 :iq as -re To Class SBR I received your mosl welcome and surprising Chrislmas gill. Il was really wonderful. and il could nol have arrived al a beller lime . . . Thanks again lor lhe II8 Chrislrnas Box and bad news lo lhe Axis lrom us all. Respecllully yours, PRIVATE JOHN CARLAFTES Ik Ik HF wk To Class 982 and Mrs. Jane Courlney ' Home wilh you in I944 I hope. Yours, WILLIAM HAMMOND .. I7 -

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44 Ill 'lf ak BK Niles Junior High is very proud of Hs war effort We have received Three ci'ra1'ions: one from The Unifed Siafes Treasury for The purchase of five ieeps, one from ihe Red Cross for our cooperafion. and one 'From 'lhe Commifleeof The Bronx for The Fourfh Bond Drive for our purchase of sfamps and bonds in Thai drive. We are also doing our besf +0 help salvage paper and every Thursday huge packages of paper leave our building. The amouni' of siamps purchased by pupils 'From January I944 fo May 22-V Sl.723.4O. Bonds purchased from February +o May 22-35875. I ' SELF CORRECTION You're mad, you're mad You feel you'll busf ' You can r. you can'+ Buf you lcnow you muslz You've failed. you've failed Noi fair, nor jusl You're mad, you're mad Buf you mush you musl- Buf you'll do wha+'s iusi . You'll mark il' wrong. You mush you musll BERT WESTMAN. 9Bl IRD NPD' ,er 1' 7 IDEA I5 HIT Tiff ENPINS N Q- 'IHF PINGO 1 B T UARLLNG FOR 010 T'll1E' o Y ONE iq -Pee ,-nr' -19- 1 1 l Jokngonvk I Z1 Lf BOWLING g1g --.1