Samuel Gompers Vocational Technical High School - Artisan Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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Senior Teachers was a good student, hut fate was against him. He quit to take a joh in a grocery store. Too had. Wfhere in this hoy's mind there might have heen some great amhition, now was prohahly a cloud. He had also lost the opportunity of heing a high school graduate. By now you have almost completed three years, and the work is getting more detailed. In the low- er terlns, the things you learned were done for you hy the instructor, hut now most of the actual work you do yourself. ,lust turn hack a little and remem- her the first thing you applied your school learnings to. You might have helped to fix a motor for some- one. After taking it apart you were afraid you would have a tough time getting it hack together again, hut, you were enthused hy the simplicity of the ordeal. lVlayhe you had the occasion to fix some- thing in the line of automobiles. Time was marching on. You had gone through seven terms, and had hardly time to realize it. Wlieii you think of the time that has passed, you always

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l 1 1 S 4 no lc-anna ol amy lxnnl. lm! us soon us an lmslu-I Imll le-ann was orgamizvcl, il won slum-cess. 'l'ln-n am inmloor lmsvlrall ta-ann sI4n'l4-al on Iln- roaul l lo mm-4-ss. amml soon after. many other tcauns were orgunizc-1l. lf you remember, our first scholastic yr-ur was an vvry Sll1'l'lEHSl,lIl one. We knew now that 1 l:0Illlll'I'S wus going to lm put on tllo gslllllllw. C. U. posh-rs we-rv plum-ml all ow-r ilu- school. Compers not only put on ilu- Mlllilllv, lull il also won fl l'll1lll1'C lo play in Nlznllson Sllllilflf Czlrmll-n, From llllll linu- . . . w on. ll Inns ln-4-n il lfilllllllll lor lr0IllIH'l'S lo play all lln- llnrllvn. llo yon l'l'llN'lllll0l' llw fe-llow who dill not llllllxtf ilu- ggraulv? Ill- llllglll llilY1' llt'l'll ll svllool vlnnn who wo, 1-onlpn-ll:-al lo la-uvo Sl'll00l. l'rolvz1lnly only onc- ol' Iln- mamy lroys who for soma- l'l'1lS0ll or otllvr 1-oulal not continue-. l rc-lm-nlln-r an ll-Ilow wlnosc motln-r took ill anal who llllll lo quit sq-llool. llc

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.am .Q li-f Senior Teachers ra-nu-mher the first few terms. Those terms. were eulleel the soft terms . But the hau'cl yours wont hy us fust us the soft ones. Before you knew it you were on your lust mile auul rezuly to he grauluuteil. llo you rememher the time you welll tlowntown to lmve your picture tulxeu. Then rememher the school 4lzuu-e. zuul then with an slulclen lunge, the time of grauluution l'0IlllllgI auul passing. You were left alone. to finxl your wuy in this slarlx zuul tlreury world: this universe whit-In is eolcl to ull newcomers. You know that in the future you tuul I will look lmelx mul smile ut these thoughts us they run through your miual. You know that you will always he gruteful to Compers, when you think of how you were prepare-al for competition in the outsitle worlil. livery time you reaul this. it should luring to you an smile. an 1'llll1'lxlt' zuul ai memory of your life us il Uolupersonianl. THE END - -Joseph Villani