Tottenville High School - Purple Parrot Yearbook (Staten Island, NY)

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He startled me so that I dropped the glass on the floor, smashing it to bits, cut my linger picking it up and slipped on the freshly waxed floor as I went to get the broom and dust pan, bruising my personality in the bargain. Finally I pulled ,lunior out of the closet. You may conclude this para- graph Ior yourself as the details are too gory. A few hours later Mr. and Mrs. Kiljoy returned. Was little ,Iosah good? she asked while looking around for signs of a struggle. Hvliell he is now, I answered as I accepted my pay. I collected my things and started home with a gleam in my eye as I thought of ,lunior tied in a knot, his mouth gagged and nailed to the bedroom Wall. Itis things like this that do a woman a world oi good. Creation Once upon a windy day, As gazing ,cross a snowy field Full with the blooms of May, The dazzling horizon hit my eye And made me wonder . . . Who is it that made the birds to fly, The worms to creep, the flowers to grow? The hand of this creator Must be very sure, patiently slow. This artist with his colors bright, Brushes the shy, the sea, and land, And paints them with blues, greens, and celestial whites. And as the sun's rays shine and gleam, I know I'll never tire of this beautiful scene. B. BosLoW ELSIE BoDENscHATz P. H D. Unlimited Standing here in the front of the class, With a poetry book and yesterday's pass, She teaches us Shahespeareis Hamlet and Macbeth Or a poem about someone's inevitable death. She leads us in discussions about lie and lay, And hnows we'll forget it in only a day. HlVever use jargonfy she says to our class, H01' Till fail you, no less, as quick as a dashf' No Mrun-onsm and better not mahe uincompletes Or else your marks will certainly depletef' Through our tribulations and all of her trials, She'll be our best friend when we're on our last miles. BARBARA BosLoW 33

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lVIrs. Kiljoy told me to wait until they were about to leave and she would introduce me to Junior. I guess she didn't want me to see what I was in for until it was too late to back out. I watched Mrs. Kiljoy stand in front of the hall mirror and spray on enough perfume to drown an elephant, but then again if any self-respecting elephant were as big as lVIrs. Kiljoy he would go on a diet. Then Mr. Kiljoy came down. He was a meek looking man with a high shrill voice. With parents like this, it was hard to imagine what Junior would look like, but I found out. He was about three feet tall and wore great black-rimmed glasses that seemed to take up his whole face. He was reading a book called MEinstein's Theory of Relativityw aloud and holding it upside down at that. As soon as he heard the front door slam he came to life. He began innocently: 4'Tell me a storyf, At this moment I began to think all the rumors about HThe Fiendish Junior Kiljoyw were just idle gossip. Again I was Wrong. HAII right, Junior, Once upon a time there was a little girl-,I MI donlt like little girls. lVIake it a big boy,'7 Junior broke in. '4But I canit, Junior. Did you ever hear of a big boy called Little Red Riding Hood?,' At this moment Junior hit my big toe with a hammer. As I stood holding my foot and glaring at him, I noticed he was frothing at the mouth. I calmed him by suggesting: Hluetls play hide-and-go-seek. I should have known then what I was getting into. I hid my eyes and counted to 100, then I started hunting for little Junior. Fifteen minutes later there was still no trace of Junior and I had looked under, over, through, and next to practically everything in the house. Still fifteen more minutes passed and I still couldn't find Junior. I was beginning to think he was lost. A fiendish smile played at my lips as I thought: 'clVIaybe he ran out into the dark night and is even now being spirited away by bloodthirsty murderersfl Then I remembered I should be worried tbesides if he was missing I might not get paidj. Nervously I got an aspirin out of my purse and went to the kitchen to get a drink of water. I opened the closet over the sink and got a glass. From the second shelf sprang Junior with his air rifle. HRAH-ah-ah-ah-ah I'm a Commando. 32

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In Rcfrosperf ln future years our class will rememher 1950 through 1954 as the years during which our high school days were spent. Pleasant as those years were however, they will he rememhered hy future generations as a period of uncertainty throughout the worldg a period of tension when men wondered whether world peace was really possihleg hut mostly, a period of increasing hope for the future. ln spite of the great contrihutions of science, medicine and literature, those years were dominated hy the shadow of Communism and the threat of world conflict. Three months hefore we entered high school the Korean Wai' hegan. No other single event throughout our high school career had such a profound inHuence upon our lives and the lives of all peoples. The following years were filled with great anxiety as the free world wondered if it could meet the test of Communist aggression. The United Nations fought hard to win the respect of those who had condenmed it. As the world watched, the forces of the United Nations met those of Communism. Then, in June of 1951, the Russian delegate to the United Nations proposed that the Mhel- ligerentsw should hold conferences for the purpose of hringing about a cease- fire. During our sophomore and junior years these conferences continued. Finally, in July of 1953, the long awaited truce was signed. Although the most important, Korea was only one of many events that helped create world tension. The world will never forget the savage war in Tndonesia, the Berlin Crisis, the disclosures that Communists had infested our government and the discovery of thermonuclear weapons hy the United States and the Soviet Union. One must not helieve that those years were filled only with despair. On the contrary, many noteworthy events proved that the world had not aban- doned its hope for peace and that man had not lost his desire to progress. Our greatest asset in the crusade for peace was the United Nations. At the close of our high school career, the world still did not know whether the United Nations had earned a hetter fate than its predecessor. However, it did know that in its nine years of existence, the United Nations had done more to promote world peace and the general hetterment of conditions every- where than the League of Nations did in its twenty-seven years. Over- shadowed hy the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and its agencies have hest exemplified the accomplishments of the United Nations. ln 1952 the people wanted a change in our government. The Eisenhower administration hrought new ideas and solutions to old problems. From an historical meeting at Bermuda came the idea of the pooling of atomic resources hy all nations for peaceful use. A 5'Big Four , conference was held to settle disputes over Germany and Austria. Perhaps the greatest accom- plishments, however. were from the fields of science and medicine. It seemed 34