Erasmus Hall High School - Arch Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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ARISTA MEMBER W A R R E N WEITMAN HAS MAINTAINED A HIGH SCHOLASTIC STANDING IN ADDITION TO SERVING AS -vw-su, AND LEADING THE cmnsrz 'M nur-A 4' TReADERs MOST succisss FULLY - . ' , V 1 -V P 1 1 Ll , , 1 H. I r rj -,, CAPTAIN or THE TRACK TEAM A ii .I: . - YARN gk Dx f fry' The class oT June '37 marched on! The Tairer sex had become guiTe experT aT The game oT Tield hockey which They pracTiced each SaTurday aT ProSpecT Park. An all school hockey Team challenged Packer InsTiTuTe and amazed everyone buT Themselves by coming ouT on The long end oT a 2-O decision. I-Ielen I-lines gained The hockey capTaincy oT our grade. The TooTball Team was noT as impressive as ThaT oT The pre- ceding year. The Team was Trounced by Madison and played Two scoreless Ties wiTh Manual. The swimming Team enjoyed anoTher successTul season. They again won The Brooklyn Championship only To go down in The ciTy wide TiTIe race, This Time deTeaTed by Richmond I-Iill. The Erasmus cagemen had a successTul season. They Tailed To win The Brooklyn crown which many experTs had predicTed would be Theirs. We were now sophisTicaTed upper sophomores. We waTched a new Team arise upon The Erasmus sporT horizon, The Tencing squad. The Team baTTTled Through Brooklyn opposiTion and was acclaimed uncrowned champion. The Tennis Team made a good showing in P.S.A.I.. ranks. A new sporTing era dawned aT Erasmus! Previous To This Time Erasmian Teams had won one ciTy championship and had been runner up no less Than Tour Times since our class had enTered The school. The TooTbaIl Team wenT Through one oT The mosT disas- Trous seasons in iTs hisTory. The baskeTeers, hampered by unusually small players, compiled a record OT Two vicTories and eighT deTeaTs. The swimming Team, however, broke The iinx by winning The Brooklyn Championship Tor The TourTh Time in a row and Then wenT on To share The ciTy crown wiTh George WashingTon High School. The girls nexT eIecTed DoroThy Beniamin as Their baseball capTain and Eleanor La Sasso Their baskeTball capTain. Inga Olsen became The TirsT Temale member oT The class To pass her Senior I.iTe Saving TesTs. Eencing was Temporarily banned by The P.S.A.L. board.

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SPCDRTS EraSmus'.Hall, The school ThaT has given The sporTing world Such names as WaiTe HoyT and Eleanor Holm JarreTT, graduaTes This year a Tine array oT poTenTial aThleTic TalenT. LeT us Train our spoTlighT on The pasT Tour years aT Erasmus Hall and recall To our minds some oT The sporTing highlighTs ThaT have 'helped To make our sTay aT This Old Gray School a series oT happy rememfbrances. The maioriTy oT The class was assigned To The Annex, which seemed aT This Time To be The TarThesT ouTposT oT civilizaTion. We had liTTle chance To parTicipaTe in school aThleTics and ThereTore conTenTed ourselves wiTh our inTramural games. The boys won Their numerals and The girls became hockey and baskeTball players. How- ever, in The meanTime, There were big doings aT The main buildingl The TooTball Team, which in i932 had had To Share The TooTball ciTy championship wiTh Theodore Roose- velT High School, was deTermined To again reach The Top. They capTured The Brooklyn Championship wiThouT much Trouble, buT Then wenT down in The ciTy championship playoTT To Flushing High School. Sid Luckman dashed 75 yards To a Touchdown in The TirsT guarTer, all To no avail. The swimming Team, riding on The cresT oT SixTeen con- secuTive vicTories, annexed The Brooklyn championship and Then sank beTore The ciTy champion, The Ear Rockaway Team, aT Columbia Pool. ln Eebruary we enTered The main building. We appeared as very green Freshmen and were TreaTed accordingly by The upper classmen. We conTined our aThleTic acTiviTies To cheering The excepTionally Tine Teams ThaT The Erasmus coaches were Turning ouT. We waTched our Lacrosse Team win iTs TirsT ciTy championship by Trounc- ing our old rival, Manual. lvlr. Badain'S baskeTeers perTormed well and managed To gain Ten vicTories. ff? WH WITH THE CLASS OF JUNE, ff 5 l937, GRADUATE A NUMBER UWA OF GIRLS wHo HAVE BEEN MOST ACTIVE IN THE WORK OF THE LEADERS CLUB, DUR- J, ING THEIR STAY IN ERASMUS Q HALL. I W1--y A , V , ,-'+V ,. If, , ye, 5 fiiiiilfzfm' .2 I 1 I R A 'fgy 1. 'I . sr 1 :.,.,,,Lsvg, ., 'I .sew 'fw's',?.3,,,.,1vJi2-4 I . 'L ' ' -'T A 4 ,QM . . ,, I A -' 'I ' A T A ' if 11 f ' fs- 'JZ Egg' ,- As.. f Laugh' 'W-r, . f:M -L,..I'S gfJ4+'u,, , , , -, ' -,:. 'r' Lu, ,f A. 1 Q , , 'Www-as , -- , , - I ' , T 'Y'f-A ,Q ,-ogg'-H, 1, HL. ,QA 5 A. yy. ,x.' ,- , , I wm- :.1:'.m-,.fr pw-V ful, V 4, wg? if 5.4 '--4 L, f T' ' ,f,2i Tfai F-IH-2'ln-fZf,?2f',A .Ls ,gas 1-if: I'-I -' f T, - '- Q f' A N 2 . , ,. .mA.- 3' Q.1,.,- .-I, 1.4311-.IN .eqjsb .42 f , -:.,. cw I VI I m gy KLf,,,,v,,,,u2, .,, If fs. P' '. 41- .. f in cn : ' -dxf.-'51, 331,-..f H . f- A i' . , 1' . .fe 'T .215 I .. A, A ,II A 1.,. ? ,, ,K ,LS

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The dismal era ended. We enTered upon The year I AD. oT The new Erasmus Hall sporTs calendar. Our class girls hockey Team Trounced The Brooklyn Collegians and also won The school championship. In The Tinal game, HarrieT Merrill saved The day by scoring The decisive goal. The gridders were deTeaTed only by Boys High who became The myThicaI ciTy champions. The Team deTeaTed Madison and Tied Manual. Qur class had seen Manual beaTen buT once in TooTbaII. Three games had ended in Ties: one game was won by The Park Slopers. The mermen again won The Brookiyn Championship buT wenT down To deTeaT aT Columbia Pool. Our Brooklyn crown an- nexaTion marked The TiTTh consecuTive Time, and The ninTh ouT oT Ten Times, ThaT we had won iT. The baskefball Team ended iTs schedule in second place. Lincoln, The Brooklyn winner, spliT a pair oT games wiTh The BuTT and Blue cagers. Ed Ehlers, co-capTain and veTeran campaigner, played his lasT game Tor Erasmus Hall. EooTbaII nexT season will lose Wilson Korona, also a member oT The baseball and swimming Teams. BaskeTbaII will lose Ed Ehlers, veTeran player, who has been eiTher capTain or co-capTain Tor The lasT Three years and who also plays ouTTieId on The BuTT and Blue nine. Bob Holm, a reIaTive oT Eleanor Holm, was one oT The mosT improved players oT lasT year's second place baskeTeers. Also graduaTing is Max ScharT, essen- Tially a Team player, whose presence will be sorely missed on nexT year's guinTeT. Frank MorTon is a second year man who puTs all oT his heighT and TighT inTo his cenTer posiTion. Harvey Goodrich was acclaimed one oT The besT deTensive guards in Brooklyn Two years ago. OTher members graduaTing are Louis Tomiasulo and Joe Shapiro. Dick Cunningham, Erasmus' Top breasT-sTroker, Tinished Third in The P.S.A.I.. swim championship. Ray Frisch is a Tine swimmer. Hal Lesselbaum is one oT The Team's beTTer breasT sTrokers. James RaTTer, ArThur Holleb, George Heller, and William MonTgomery are also leaving Erasmus Hall. The baseball Team will do wiThouT The services oT Bill Egan, one oT The besT piTchers in BuTT and Blue ranks since The days OT CAPTAIN ED. EHLERS LEADS THE MEMBERS OE THE BASKET- BALL TEAM WHO LEAVE THIS TERM. THE BOYS HAVE EN- JOYED MOST SUCCESSFUL SEA- SONS DURING THE PAST SEV- ERAL YEARS.