Yeshiva University High School For Girls - Elchanette Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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But the girls aren't angels by any means, Come, let me take you behind the scenes. The freshies ask to see, upon entering the school, The lab, dorm, campus, library and pool. The seniors, instead of helping them to learn, Sayi Take elevator five flights and make left turnf' Yes, when I think of them l have to grin. They stuck together through thick and thin, All four years like sister and brother: Even on tests they helped one another! At times they make me want to kill. lim referring of eourse to 'GThe', fire drill. In all four years this was the first. I was so disappointed that I almost burst. I actually ahnost raised my roof. The students had been told I was fire proof. Wvhen they were told I had overheard, And I had believed every single word. Well, anyway when that hell rang The seniors got going with a bang. They were told to walk, and away they went This was really quite an event. On they strolled and upon returning, They found their History teacher was burning. He thought they had been trying to hide. Boy, he eertainly was fit to be tied! He stood there and thought and thought, And decided a lesson they must be taught. He told them to just lille up in pairs And make a few trips up and down the stairs. They had to climb every time they spoke Still, they thought it was a great big joke. But sinee it hurt my staireases like murder, I was glad they labeled him h'Marty the HE1'fl61'.,i The students are more numerous than at the start, But that senior class is closest to my heart. Yes, classes may eome and classes may go But a class like that I'll never know. Truthfully I have had a great deal of fun, Together with the Senior Class of '51, BARBARA ROCK - Twenty-N ine -

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T e Building Speaks While the seniors are saying their goodhyes, I'd like to get a few words in edgcwise. l feel entitled to have my say Since l was with them every day. l'm the huilding, wherein is the school, Sometimes the girls have heen very cruel. l'm sure they did it meaning no malice, But considering 1 used to look like a palace. Wielll But let's go hack to four years ago. I was standing there all aglow: I had just heen washed and was very clean. Then l saw them coming-all sixteen. They looked at me, each in turn. They looked so innocent-Live and learn! The thought of company made me smile For l'd lreen lonely for quite a while. I could hardly wait for them to arrive. For then IRI he filled from nine to five. when they moved in I was tickled pink. Gosh! I'd have a school in megjust think! The girls took over very fast: My loneliness was a thing of the past. The teachers helped to set the pace, And hetween them and the seniors it was some rat race. The teachers arenit kidding. it's far from a game, And no matter what happens. it's the seniors they hlame But to this thought Till put a halt By showing you who's really at fault. The girls are indeed amhitious and lnost of them strive To get from one l'NEW ' teacher a mark over twenty five. But I don't know if it can he done. He fails his students. just for fun. My rooms are nice, my seats huilt well, But from that teacher's actions you can never tell. Having no friends to lose, he makes new foes Wfhenever he isolates those utwo rowsf' He seats the girls with careful prudence, Separating the poorer from the better students. One teacher to keep order has a unique way He takes a pen and tap-taps away. He seems to forget that I am only rented. As a result. most of my desks are dented. - Twenty-Eight -

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Spirit The spirit of jowiality Coupled with energy Forms the personality. Hello out there. let's go hiking Up the steep hills with dungarees And sweat shirts. H01' lct's roll marhles down the movie aisle Ivith our hands hehind our hacks. Our tongues in our cheeks, with sympathetic, scintillating eyes. We must hounce around to the music of energy And generate laughter hv our -food s mirits 1- r- . s I In order to make the world happy with our smiles. The spirit of joviality Coupled with energy ' Can make the world temporarily happy. II The spirit of inner light Must come to fight To show its spiritual might. Yvhat kind of spirit is it that can set the eyes aflame? 'Nhat are its suhliine powers that uplift the soul? Perchance it is the inner light of pleasure and happiness. To which a human responds, for it is a calling from G-d. The knowledge of its existence lends itself to Jersonal creation. P' But to know does not suilice the feeling's need of support. Wre must Create of the existing to forln the feeling sublime. Little we know now, hut ah, so much to see, A world in a grain of sand, and an ocean in a drop of water. If only one would put oneself to feel more than one can see. Spirit of inner light Must cblne to fight To find our delight, and might. JEANETTE KLEIN - Thirty --