TO: Miss Sylvia Barrett
FROM: Samuel Bester, Chairman, Language Arts Department
Please announce to your students the New York Chamber of Commerce Essay on: PRESERVING HISTORIC BUILDINGS IN NEW YORK.
Encourage all students to participate.
S. Bester
May I borrow your window-pole? Please give to
bearer.
S.B.
Dear Syl Someone has swiped mine. There's a
run on window-poles today. And on pole-bearers!
Bea
Late Pass:
Admit to class: 8:36 A.M.
Unexcused: Claims IRT stuck.
JJ McH
My Best Friend
My best friend is Miss Barrett, our English teacher. Although this is the first term I have met Miss Barrett, she is pretty, a good dresser, a good marker, and fair in her attitude. She is the type teacher every student likes. For the reasons above mentioned I choose Miss Barrett.
DEAR (SIR, MADAM)
I AM (PLEASED, SORRY) TO INFORM YOU THAT YOUR (SON'S, DAUGHTER'S ) WORK HAS SO FAR
My best friend is a good book. I enjoy good books that are educational very much. Books help your grammer and spelling. Also increase your vocabulary. I am a great reader of books. My best favorite is "Antony and Cleopatra" by Shakespear. In this book I like the part where the author tries to show love. Where Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton make love which I like. I like other good books too, mostly classical.
Memo: Return English as a Communications Art.
I have some best friends and also some worst friends but its hard to write down, its hard to explain what I really want to say about friends and others its hard to explain to anybody I often wisht I had a friend thats understanding. But its very hard.
Dear Dr. Clarke,
Since I began teaching, I have felt a lack of
Please admit bearer to class
Detained by me for going Up the Down stair-
case and subsequent insolence.
JJ McH
My best friend
I believe my Mother to be my best friend because. She always listens to my troubles and trys to comfort me. She has been sacraficing all her life so I could be a credit to her and not a bum and all I did since born is cause her trouble by shooting pools and doing such things. I am apoligizing in this letter. Very truly yours.
Dear Dr. Clarke,
16. JJs Lament
INTRASCHOOL COMMUNICATION
FROM: Paul Barringer, Room 309
TO: Sylvia Barrett, Room 304
Sylvia!
Where did you disappear after dinner last night?
Was I that blotto?
Must be the latest rejection slip. The tone is not only polite but patronizing: Why don't I write of something familiar to me?
The school system is familiar to me.
Am I to write of kids sprawling in classrooms? Yawning in assembly? Pushing through the halls? (You know I never venture forth in hall traffic.)
Am I to write of teachers marking papers? Of McHabe's circulars? (You know I have a low boredom-threshold.)
The only thing I can do with him is give him a song to sing. I call it J.J.'s Lament:
The ceiling fell? The ink ran dry? A student dared to smile?
Of every new disaster
I prove myself the master
By sending out more circulars, more circulars to file!
A missing kid? A kissing kid? A paper on the floor?
For every major crisis
One remedy suffices:
More circulars, more circulars to put into a drawer!
I want him to star in the Faculty Show, but he has another commitment. I'd like to write him a splendid aria, entitled: "It Has Come to my Attention That."
Why do you refuse to be in the Show? You are wasting yourself in the classroom.
Why do you refuse? You are wasting yourself.
A girl who is patient like patient Griselda
Will find all she's getting is elder and elder.
Meet me for lunch?
Meet me at three?
Meet me this evening? I promise to stay sober.
Paul
17. From the Suggestion Box
I wish other teachers would be brave like you and put in a Suggestion Box. They're always telling us what's wrong with us, what about the other way around? Boy, would I like to tell them off. But you're OK even if you are a teacher.
(You said we don't have to sign our name)
Scram! Hit the road! Leave town! If you know what's good for you! (You asked for it!)
A Well Wisher
Don't think you'll get off so easy just because you speak nice and you don't seem scarred of us, last term we had a man teacher and we made him cry.
Yr (
Not enough boys and too many girls in the room. But that's not your fault. Also some schools they have danceing in the cafeteria and they put on different things, why not? You only live once.
Linda Rosen
It was very interesting of you to give the compositions on My Best Friend, there are quite a few persons you've helped. Keep up the good work.
Harry A. Kagan (The Students Choice)
Being you're so young don't be so leniant, we take advantage, especially Joe Farrone, he must be your pet because he gives you so much trouble. Also give out more up to date books than the Oddesseys. They should rewrite the Oddessey over with more up to date incidence.
Failing
Can you make the chalk stop from squeeking?
Nervous
Please tell Lou Martin to quit showing off, he thinks he's so comic well I don't.
Signed Serious Student
Fuk. Screw. Crap. Goddam. Nerts to you.
Unsinged
You ask for revelant matters only. Assemblys too boring. I always know what he's going to say (Clark). Show movies instead.
Don't try so hard, you'll live longer, sit down & relax when you teach.
I have many problems but won't burden you with them in this Box. They're not fit for human ears. Though you seem to be a very understandable person. By that I mean you understand us being not so old yourself. Too bad you're a teacher and pretty like my sister. I wish you were a plain person then we could be close.