Brooklyn Technical High School - Blueprint Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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FEBRUARY 2, I943: The six-monTl1 Ba++le of Sfalingracl ends in Russian vicfory. f 'SURVEYS JUNE 8, l942T F RIFLE TEAM CLINCHES B'KLYN CHAMPIO SHIP OINCIDENTAL WlTl-l The TorTunes oT The Tech RiTle Nimrods in Team during The pasT Tour years, has been The rise oT Gil Murpny, sharpshooTer exTraordinary. Freshman Gil Murphy enlisTed in The McGreevy army in Spring lf?-42 and, aTTer a season oT alTernaTe shooTing, was elevaTed To a regular TirsT Team berTh in Spring l943. From Then on, Murphy, Tre- guenTly capTuring scoring laurels, paced The Nimrods. ln The new RiTle League oT Fall l944, Murphy was The ciTy's high gun as Tech placed second, showing six vicTories againsT Two seTbaclcs. CapTain Tom Teare, Jimmy LanTelme, John McLoughlin, and Murphy Hbullseyed The Team To anoTher second place lasT season wiTh seven Triumphs. Murphys Gun Places Ace Varsity Keglers Fowli-Hg is deTiniTely up Tech's al- . , e . e naTion's mosT o uar s orT P ro d U C t of lntras caypTivaTes The inTeresT OTFT sh TechriiTes every Friday aTTernoon in inTramural compeTiTion. TwenTy-eighT Teams in Two leagues vie Tor Team and individual honors. Choosing The cream oT The inTra-pinsTers, Mr. Philip Pierce, var- siTy coach, presenTs a Tried and True varsiTy in inTerscholasTic com- peTiTion. This year The Team is composed oT sTrilcers Bill MaThews, Erwin Greenberg, MarTy l'-lornsTein, Fung Louie, lrwin MendelseTT, STuarT Carlsen, Alan DworeTzsl4y, Manobianco and lNlaThensen. Netmen High In City: Climb aboard The Tech Traclc special and meeT a sTreamlined Team sparked Fetzer Top Trackster by speedmen Al LeTzTer, Sol Chasin, Berny Darrel and l-lugh Walsh. During The l944 season, LeTzTer won The Novice EasTern STaTe crown: Walsh soared To The ciTy high lump crown and Appel capTured Boro laurels in The 880-yard run. Worlcing wiTh such Tine maTerial as Leonard STeiner, Bob Kranz, Don Cooper, l-lans EclcardT and The inimiTable duo oT l-lerb Fleischman and l-lowie Kalb, coach Joseph Burns has guided The Tennis Team To Boro championships in l943 and IQ44 and The runner-up spoT in l945. STeiner, undeTeaTed in his Treshman and sophomore years and Three season veTeran will capTain The lNleTmen nexT spring. Kranz, unde- TeaTed in l945, is The only regular graduaTing.

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JANUARY 27, l943: Roosevell' and Churchill conclude Casablanca conference. 'SURVEY', MARCH I4, I945 HCDOPSTERS CAPTURE DIVISIO CHAMPIO SHIP 'Garden' Victory Crowns LONG DESPERATION shoT missed iTs mark. A blue-and- 5Hl'fZm6l1 Boro CIWGIUPS Wine asa Tigure iespi high To Take The ball oTT The backboard. The reTeree's whisTle blew The news oT The end oT The game. Thousands in Madison Square Garden rose and cheered-The I944-45 champs, TECH! ATTer having narrowly missed The championship by one game during The I943-44 season, The Tech QuinTeT Took The courTs in November T944 deTermined To win ThaT crown. WiTh Sid Schlosberg and Bill Mahi back. and Chuck l-lavel, Paul Schweid and Vince Mono- bianco promoTed To TirsT Team sTaTus, The quinTeT was vicTorious in Tour successive league decisions beTore The midseason graduaTions. Schlosberg, l-lavel and Schweid were losT via The diploma rouTe, and Coach Frank Salz Tilled The gaps wiTh I-lank STrasser, Chris Raber, Willie ScharT, Red O'Brien and Murray GechTman. The Team copped Three more decisions and The division TiTle beTore dropping The sea- son's Tinale To EasTern. BUT in The playoTTs on The Garden Tloor, They avenged The loss, 32-29, and emerged The new Brooklyn champs. Handballers Win Cit CUP? Golf Team in The Tech Trophy case Tor The TirsT ll1V3Cl6S Green Time since Tech's creaTion. Coached by Mr. Milde, The handballers killed and hooked The paTh To The boro and ciTy diadem wiTh six vicTories and one seTback. GraduaTion claimed CapTain Ray Resnick, Murray NeidorT and Ken Tucker Trom The championship aggregaTion. NeverTheless Co-capTains l-lub Pleva and Gene Gluck, ArThur Wasserman, Joe LichT, Warren STark and Lenny Goodman unraveled a similar record in I945, only To lose a heaTed game in The playoTTs To Lincoln, 3-2. Fore! GolT has come oT age aT Brooklyn Tech. Under Mr. Bal- sam's TuTelage, The Blue and WhiTe has invaded The green Tor The pasT Two seasons. CapTained by fXrThur Schneyman in I944, The Y In I944 a handball cup was placed GolTerls inaugural season had showed Three vicTories in Ten Torays. WiTh Two drubbings over Manual They racked up Tour vicTories in i945 as John Gorman, George DuckeTT and l-lenry Moss sTarred.

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FEBRUARY II. I943: KarIrov recapfured by The Red Army. if If 6 T e c a I AL VELING 0 f A M ECI-IIS GREATEST aThIeTic Teams have been molded during The pasT Tew years-and as always wiTh championship coordinaTion There emerge Those individual sTars ThaT gain perpeTual niches in The Tech I-Iall oT Fame . . . Norm Falkin, on The grid- iron and on The diamond, all scholasTic end Tor The championship I943 eleven, slugging leTT Tielder Tor The championship I943 nine lon To DarTmouTh To play TooTball and baslceTbaIIl . . .Sid SchIosberg and Bill MaITz, co-capTains and veTerans oT Three courT campaigns, drawing The cheers oT Tech Tans as They pace The guinTeT To The I943-44 diadem, Sid The TasTesT dribbler in The Blue and WhiTe Tor haIT a decade Bill becoming one oT The mosT aggressive ball handlers in The league wiTh a lighTning layup . .. AI Veiing, To The cheers oT 'lone more Touchdownfi plowing Through on a 25-yard run in The Tinal period oT The I944 Manual game To brealc The II7 poinT scoring record and laTer moving iT To I44 poinTs, Triple ThreaT Tull bacln, All-IvIeT. recipienT oT The TirsT RoberT Dzenev award . . . Leonard STeiner, presenT Tennis capTain, undeTeaTed in I942 and IQ43, lead- ing The Team To Two championships, WesTchesTer CounTry Junior Grass CourT inviTaTion champ and MeTropoIiTan Junior Indoor champ . . . BFII Maroney, Tive mound Triumphs moTivaTing Tech To laurels in I943, an iron man on The hill oTTen piTching wiTh only Two days resT, masTerTuI Two and Three hif hur- ling and consisTenT baTTing placing him aT The Top oT a briIIianT mound corps . . . Dick KeIIog, Monroe Richman, Rudy Trevisin, Bob Redlich, Larry Wein- be-rg, and many oThers carrying Tech's Mermen To Their phenomenal record . . . George Gerung, TooT- ball co-capTain on The line This year and all scholasTic guard in I944, deTensive and oTTensive sTalwarT. ,O .-I O I Q, 4. 1 n., 355:53 . U.'51lpg', 1 , . I ll lf? -mls --,. ., If gg- 1' ' 1'-um . ' - nn jg V-'ruugli H ,...,.--- ' .f -1 'Ax-. ' , RUDY TREVISIN, LARRY WEINBERG, LENNY STEINER eff! NORM FALKIN, SID SCHLOSBERG, BILL MALTZ .'.', If - I Pg' FRANK DOWNING, BILL MARONEY, GEORGE GERUNG AL FROST, DICK KELLOG, BOB RED- LICH, MONROE RICHMAN