Thomas Jefferson High School - Aurora Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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T roman in ' through o 99 the gloanun' x 5 ' TQ Away back in The disTance a Tuzzifaced, wide-eyed boy slinlcs Through The JeTTerson halls Tor The TirsT Time. lnconspicuous, crushed, sTepped upon, he searches in vain Tor a hole To crawl inTo and hibernaTe Through The Tresh- man year .... The TirsT RegenTs examinaTion- liTTle innocence siTs in a cold sweaT, paralyzed wiTh Tear oT The horrible punishmenTs Tor cheaTing againsT which he is warned by his well-meaning Teachers. Jail senTences and hanging by The Thumbs, congruenT Triangles and alTernaTe inTerior angles. all dance around in his weary brain .... The sophomore year-once more The ex-Treshie can liTT his head and loolc his Tellow-man in The eye. The middle years have The TondesT memo- ries .... SiTTing up Till Two A. lvl. over a Trig'T booln The nighT beTore The big TesT, periodically dousing his head under The cold waTer TauceT To lceep awake .... The TirsT shave-a Two-hour aTTair perTormed wiTh all due cere- mony Trom which a voice Tinally emerges TriumphanT and exclaims, My head is bloody buT unbowed, . ..The l'Teas in The social Torms room in which coTTee and cocoa were served .... The lunchroom, where hash as- sumes The romanTic name oT Mexican STealc .... The Tender messages scrawled by unknown lovers over The JeTTerson deslzs which were an insTiTu- Tion unTil The recenT scraping and varnishing iob. A rainy SaTurday morning in OcTober sTanding in raincoaT and rub- ers, waTching a JeTTerson Team playing TooTball Tor The TirsT Time in Tive years .... Sgueezing The mosT ouT oT our lasT Term, a sudden realizaTion oT The meaning oT The word school spiriT comes To me. Senior days.-The Tour years are successTully weaThered. The senior receives his croix de guerre, an orange and blue aTTair oT Three-inch diameTer, and swaggers Through The halls glowing wiTh red and green class colors. . . . GraduaTion picTures. Gimme ThaT Tar-away loolc-gazing inTo The TuTure Tor new worlds To conquer. Harold Korn