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

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uthings are se what they s flb y So you hale lhe waler and you don'l lirsl lhing aboul swim- ming and never wanl lo. You're delin inleresled in any sorl ol waler lhal is higher lhan a drinkingqlias ,and you're a person who calches cold easily. Well, don'l worry. Youfw-ll?never learn lo swim, and l doubl very much il you will ever even louch lhe waler, You see, lhis is how il is in Jellerson. The swimming pool isn'l where you learn lo swim. ll's merely lhe place where you calch alhlele's lool, pneumonia, and rnasler lhe arl ol dressing haslily. ln one minule llal you gel inlo lhe grey bag lhey call a swimming suil, you lake an icy shower, dip your leel inlo a solulion lhal makes lhem ilch, and slip down lhe lile lloor where similar unlorlunales line up lor allend- ance. This day lhere are lour presenl, which means lhal only 26 are absenl. You are lhen inslrucled lo lwisl yoursell inlo a ball, roll smoolhly over lhe lile ledge and mell silenlly inlo lhe yawning waler. lnslead you lall in wilh- oul ceremony, and wilhoul any inlenlion lo do so, and lorgel lhal oxygen is essenlial lor exislence. Aller coming lo lhe pool lor almosl a lull year, lhis is lhe lirsl lime you have louched lhe renowned waler, and are dead sure il will be lhe lasl lime, loo. Belore you have had a chance lo do any swimming, lrom lar oll you hear a whislle which means, dead man lloal or, you musl be oul in lwo seconds. Desperalely you make a vasl ellorl lo hoisl yoursell oul. You grab on lo lhe iron bars and immedialely lall back inlo lhe waler, Every- lhing has lo be done lhe hard way. You lry explaining lo lhe inslruclor lhal you can'l possibly gel oul lhe way you came in, bul in vain. l-lall ol your weighl is waler, Well, aller a heclic slruggle wilh lhe inslruclor and lhe lile ledge, you're oul. You come lo lhe English class lale, wilh mascara dripping down your lace, ankle slraps dangling, bullans unbulloned, hair wringing wel, guile comparable lo a drowned cal. Ol course, you're iusl crazy aboul sailorsg you gel guile as crazy when someone menlions Jellerson's swimming pool. lrene Choldaker ff' J i- i l X Q.. 'TJ i x l i