David Boody JR High School 228 228 Avenue S Brooklyn Junior High 1946 Yearbook
David Boody JR High School 228 228 Avenue S Brooklyn Junior High 1946 Yearbook
David Boody JR High School 228 228 Avenue S Brooklyn Junior High 1946 Yearbook
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ARE TEACHERS HUMAN? ARE STUDENTS HUMAN?
Teachers, teachers everywhere ; Students, students everywhere
upstairs, downstairs- Upstairs, downstairs, even in your
Even in your hair. hair.
You can't talk, you can't laugh The girls and boys,
Cause you'll bring down teacher's With their fresh remarks,
wrath. - f.., And the buzz and noise,
Now I ask you- I . .. . .
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THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS out going the wrong way or getting
OF 7A FRESHIES . reported., By the time they got their
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Today was the first day in a new lunches to their seats, it was getting
school for Margie and Mugsy. Margie late and the monitors were telling
and Mugsy were sister and brother. them to hurry up. With .the little bit
The name of the new school was Boody of food they finally gulped down, they
Junior High School. This was the went hungry again. After a week of
first time that they were in a school this, they family got used to their
that had-a name besides a number. In lunch period.
their other school there were just the AH this time they had not had any
words, "Public School" and the num- departmental!. When the weekend was
ber. over, departmentals started. Now Mar-
gie and Mugsy were more puzzled than
When they got inside, they didn't
ever. There were bells everywhere,
know which way to go, where the stair-
at the beginning and end of each
cases were, where they led to, where
period. They didn't h o w what they
their rooms were, and how to get to
meant or even that they meant any-
each particular one.
thing at all. Besides the bells there
They had eaten a big breakfast in were mysterious staircases that led
order to last from the time they left everywhere and nowhere.
the house (8:15) till the time they
When they got their first-third re-
usually had lunch (12:OO). Cap you
port card, they were surprised to
imagine their surprise and dismay
find that, they failed in some sub-
when they were sent to eat lunch at
jects and got bad conduct marks. In
11' :15? Since they had eaten so much
the other school, they always had good
at breakfast, they were too full to eat
subject marks. They didn't have as
anything, else so early, SO they didn't
much homework and so they didn't
eat and they were hungry for the rest
get as many reports for incomplete
of the day. homework. They were in such a dith-
The next day they didn't eat any er, that after the first report card,
breakfast at all. When they tried to they resolved that they wouldinremem-
gone through the 7A
get food they didn't know how to get * ber all the term. ,Jf .
the food, to get it to their seats, bring for every
the trays back, and get out with- ~iBftUiASILVERGUTE,7B1
SURPRISE! ure. At last Ellen's mother gave the
The room was full of joyful laugh- signal for the fun to stop.
ter and noise. Ellen's Halloween "The time to guess has come. If
party was halfway through and Ellen your guess is correct, you will receive
was about to announce the surprise a prize."
of the evening. They formed a line and each took
"Boys and girls, I know you all a guess, but none of them was right.
are in suspense to know what the sur- "It seems as if the man will have
prise is. I know I am." to present himself in his correct iden-
"Don't you know?" several excited tification." Mrs. Andrews, Ellen's
voices asked. mother, asked the mysterious man,
"No, I don't. Only my parents "Would you please?"
know." "Yes, madame," he said and made
"Well, tell them to tell us." an elegant bow.
At this point Ellen's mother inter- He quickly removed his mask and
rupted and said, "Look toward the the children gave a startled exclama-
the door and you will see someone tion. They would never, never have
come in." guessed.
Obediently, the children turned Yes, it was their mean, strict, math
towards the door, and a figure in a teacher. But now he had a gay and
black costume entered. It was evi- kind expression on his face. He
dent that he was a boy or man, since laughed at the unbelieving expres-
he had tight pants on. He walked over sions on his students' faces. Yes, he
and stood quietly by the other chil- actually smiled.
dren. The prize was given to him, and as
Ellen's mother continued, "You, at he opened the box, a jumping jack
the end of the party will each have jumped into his face. He giggled de-
the, chance to guess who this person lightedly like a young school boy.
is. Now, continue with the party." The 7B children of Ceville Junior
They did, but numerous glances High School never forgot that event.
were sent towards the mysterious fig- JOSEPHINE IERELLI,8B1
DECEPTION of the large, heavy, horn-rimmed
It was the middle of the term, and glasses on top of them. AIJ together,
the junior class of Central High was she looked like a character who wasn't
buzzing with excitement. Two new worth knowing. -But the strange part is
girls were coming into the class. The that she really was a nice girl. Her
boys were excited thinking-about the character was of the best, and she was
possibilities of the new girls, as girl- smart, but no one knew it.
friends and such. At all the hen parties As you have probably guessed, ,
the subject uppermost in -everybody's . Sherida, or rather, Sherry, as she was
mind was the two incoming strange named on the .spot, was received with
girls. Wouldn't you be excited if open arms by the Junior Class of Cen-
you knew you might gain a best friend . tral High. And Matilda-well Matil-
or an enemy? da might as well not have been there,
The day that the girls were to enter . as she just wasn'tnoticed. ~ i c e for ~ i
the school finally dawned, and that, a few remarks from some of the girls
morning, in two new homes in Benning- about how' homely she looked, she
ton, there were two excited girls. At was entirely forgotten.
602 Danton Road, blonde, green-eyed - The term progressed, and Matilda's
Sherida Lake was eating in feverish shyness~thegirls and boys called her
haste and anxiety. She had dressed in stuck-upand Sherry's popularity
such a leisurely manner that there both increased as the days went by.
was no time for eating. But her blue There was a great deal of uneasiness
and gold suit fitted her to a perfction in the class about this time because a
that only a mother's eye and hand can number of thefts had been committed.
achieve. And though she expressed All eyes secretly shifted to Matilda.
doubts as to how she looked, deep One day, there was a special exami-
down in her heart was the vain knowl- nation being given which was very
edge that she was-and looked- important and was being conducted by
beautiful. the principal. Suddenly, the 'principal
At the other new home, there was no called out, "That girl, you will not
leisurely dressing or gobbling of food. be promoted, for CHEATING." The
At Matilda Dennison's home, every- class stared, astonished. Again all
thing was done in a quiet, orderly, eyes shifted to Matilda. They were
clockwork precision. Matilda's hair, not told who the girl was, but the class
though she brushed it one hundred knew, or rather, thought they knew.
strokes every night, was still dowdy, .f As the petty thefts continued, the hos-
stringy, and an-insignificant color of tile, accusing eyes were turned on
brown. Her face was very plain and ~ a t i l d a " ~ e n 1 ~ Like
. a small turtle,
ugly. She had beautiful, soft, gray which withdraws into its shell when
eyes, but they went unnoticed because people are around, so Matilda with-
made her aunt go to school, her aunt
being unaware of what was hurting I
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planted in the characters of my children, Anne, class of 1944, and
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