Pleasantville High School - Green Quill Yearbook (Pleasantville, NY)

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IN MEMORIAM ESTHER ELIZABETH PIERCE September 26, 1902-june 10, 1960 Teacher of Mathematics 1943-1960 It may be so with us, that in the dark, When we have done with Time and wander Space, Some meeting of the blind may strike a spark, And to Death's empty mansion give a grace. It may be, that the loosened soul may find Some new delight of living without limbs, Bodiless joy of Flesh-untrammeled mind, Peace like a sky where starlike spirit swims. It may be, that the million cells of sense, Loosed from their seventy years' adhesion, pass Each to some joy of changed experience, Mfeight in the earth or glory in the grassg It may be that we ceaseg we cannot tell. Even if we cease life is a miracle. Sonnet John Masefield Page 12

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e, the Class of 1961, have come a long way since we started school thirteen years ago. But every one of those years was more exciting than the one before it, for as we grew from kindergarten babies to high school seniors, we learned that most of the fun of growing up had been getting to know each other and learning to work together as a class. None of us can ever for- get those first awkward days. For example: emember: Miss Bixby . . . t0lD-tO1HS and triangles . . . Show and Tell . . . rest-hour mats . . . Dick, Jane, Spot, and Puff . . . Mrs. Tusler's big doll house . . . Think and Do books . . . Mrs. Furcht's multiplica- tion tables . . . Miss Luedke's wedding-Roger was the first to kiss the bride! . . . Reynold's one-room school house . . . Billy Brundage's finger in the dyke . . . Band on the stage . . . Miss Lammers ' . . . Feeding time at the zoo . . . Charlotte's Web . . . the Hall Ta- ble . . . just one school bus . . . coat closets . . . the old St. Thomas School . . . the basement dungeon with the built-in swimming pool . . . Red 1 rover, red rover, let Dickie come over! . . . making ash- trays for Mr. Pratt . . . penmanship class . . . jungle gym gangs . tlge Hallo- ween Parade . . . Funiculi, Funicula . . . remedial read- ing. . . deadwood and pod- ado chips . . . Philadelphia Kickball . . . Abra- ham L i n c ol n 's Birthday Party . . . hopscotch . . . snow- ball fights . . . class mothers . . . Hansel and Gretel . . . friend ship rings . . . the Yankees vs. the Rebels . . . Miss Mich- ael- son's high heels. . . Miss Mangan and Mr. Dark . . . when Patty Curly's hair caught fire . . . trips to the library . . . Sticks and stones may break my bones . . . playing Hide and Seek on rainy days . . . Huckle-Buckle Beanstalk . . . the Roselle Avenue Carnival . . . popsicles . . . Guten Morgen, Fraulein Adler . . . birthday parties . . . when Miss Burns became Mrs. Hart . . . chain letters . . . the Good Humor man . . . the Dawson Drag . . . Susie Washburn's pigtails . . . the Memorial Day Parade . . . Santa Claus . . . Brownie meetings . . . lunch hour games . . . Little League football . . . Cub Scouts . . . music class . . . Remember all that? ,XF