Townsend Harris High School - Crimson Gold Yearbook (Flushing, NY)

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A SAD SOPH MEDITATES Soon will go the room spaces, For the crowded, dirty placesg For the busy, rushing parts Where the heavy traffic darts- Automobiles, wagons, carts. No athletes during lunch hour' And twould be quite drab to much our 1' ood outdoors among the mobs Midst rushed men and hasty gobs Laborers hurrying to their Jobs Handball would be out of question, In that maelstrom of congestiong How much different from our school This was built with skillful toolg Of Gothic art a gorgeous jewel. Can the founder sleep in quiet With this turmoil and this riot? With this change from good to bad? Is it just a whim or fad? Or the work of someone mad? G O DUES G O dues G O dues G O dues jumbled In the assembly By Mr Flynn mumbled The faculty sayeth Gainst this paper banded There werent two systems So tis commanded What value notes of hand? Meant but a promise bland So each one was informed And the STADIUM was slandered Theres not to make reply To answer back those on high Theirs but to sit on high So tis commanded Is it fitting or proper to leave these halls without suitable memory? Imagine departing with no final show with no souvenir of the building 7 Ay rip the moulding from her walls The cards from tattered shades For souvenirs of T H H When recollection fades Take plaster from the ceilings worn Remove a desk or chair Bring long a splinter from the bench Of Dr Senftners lair These floors once filled with tales of woe Will soon be of the past So take along a plank or two To make the memory last A nib from Fitzs fountain pen A hair from Fendys beard Remembrances of our dear school Will always be revered A pane of glass with all its dirt A blackboard from the wall Will ever be a memory Of Townsend Harris Hall So dont forget to take along Regardless of its size A souvenir of T H H A thing you re sure to prize 7 , . . . . . . 4 . . , . . . . . , . . , . . , C' ' ' D 1 s 7 , . 7 1 5 , . ,, . . . . . Y . . . . . . ,, , . . . . . , . 9 7 7 - 1 , i 7 . 7 5 7 . , . , , . . . ' v 7 ' . . ., - y . Page Sixty-one

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Arn Anthology of Harms Verse and Humor The allowmg exrerpfr mm the Hom' Glam have been rhoren ar fepreren miner 0 Hdlflf Humor and Vefre and me fepmzled wztb pefmzrrzon mm the mrzozzr edzlzonr 0 the Stadium zrrzzed dllfliig the part remerler REGISTRATION DAY The day we came to register A diagonal we composed It nertled us howe er to find That history was closed Another diagonal then we wrote On Art this one reposed Until we found to our disgust Thar this same Art was closed And this time saver chose We dared not look upon the board For fear that French would close And sure enough our last resort On full list was transposed Cuz just as Pop sweeps up downstairs That section too was closed Ar eight o clock we Til early morn we For ours had been To slave from nine got back home swore the cursed fate til four ALLES WELL THAT ENDS WELL or WORKING THROUGH C C N Y Son MARTEL me Can I do it? Mother The RHODES to success are LONG You can r make it PEI Son O CONTI7 Mother The BOYD have to be strong who could do that Son How THRILLING it must be to have HEFT' Morher But it s hard on the DAMBAC Son You re a PERLMUTTER A 0 f ' , f ff ll , ', jc . ' , . . ,' i ' . ' ' I V ' ' ' f If ' fl ' ' 4 7 7 Y 7 S With rising ire we turned to Math : , . Page Sixty

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Babyloman Capttvn 'y I saw the tow r of Harrrs As I was passrng by The gray tow r of Harrrs Agalnst the pearl gray sky My heart was wrth the Harrrs boys Who leave wrthout a srgh The years Oo fast rn Harrrs The golden years and gay The hoary gothrc tow rs look down On careless boys at play But now the pow rs above decree They leave the green banked Rrver The Oval and the Drrve The Campus and the Terra e To seek out busrness hrve They g1ve therr merry youth away That College growth may thrrve Atop a prle of steel and brrck They ll take up therr abode And rn envrronment mature Thelr youth w1ll find a good The Founder now must srgh to see Them stunt the seed he sowed 99 66 O 0 Ot 7 D . 3 9 S 7 , 7 They put their games away. 7 . 7 7 C 9 S I I ' g S4 rytw