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

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I , M' X af3'f'-.4l1.',l. 'f 1 , During quilt- har fillPlIllSll'y the 'llitttl thing hir is almost his slutly periml Jw wurks in the liln'rn'y. Ile works tl in scltmwl all day. Ile has just settled down In do his lwitwwturlx4 l'Iari ynu help ine hnul u translation of Une of tht-sv Greek slutlvnts whu run never lintl any- hitnselfl Aloe helps him Final il. hut hx' then the period mer. lt's nu use starting his lihernislry ltumt-work now. Bt-sides there's plenty of time during the lunch period. At last joe lintls himself in the lum'ln-num where he can breathe more easily. He greets Mrs. Walker who has been making the lunch periods of Erasntians pleasant for twenty-eigltt years. It Kl06Sl1,f take Joe lung to finish his lunch. Now to find Johnny and borrow his Chem litmtewmkl Joe can't understand how johnny gets enough

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their peak. They were tuned perfectly for the race, and for the second consecutive time, Erasmus Hall came home with the Brooklyn Championship Trophy. Don O'Leary won the meet for us by winning hrst place. Ed Draney, last year's Captain, Hnished seventh. The team included: Dick McManus, Maurice Lescroat, Jay McCauley, Louis Diamant, lan MacKenzie, and Fred Faehndrich. Closely related to cross-country is track. This team, like others, suffered because of graduation. Last year, we had a fairly good team which went quite far i11 competition, but Andreacchi and the Feldman twins are gone and it looks like a lean year for the track team. Perhaps Mr. Reinhardt will be able to bring Lady Victory back to his team and restore our track team to its proper place at the top of the list. Lacrosse, the favorite sport of every rough and ready boy, is the game devised by the American Indian. Eras- mus Hall High School always had a good Lacrosse team until the sport was tabooed six or seven years ago by the Board of Education. How- ever, there was such a strong demand for its return that in 1938 Eras- mus Hall again became one of the competitors in the series of games played by borough schools. Under the watchful eyes of lVlr. Row- land, a good team was soon developed. From this team of 1938, Arty Robertson, George Fuller, and Saul Kampf were chosen to be members of the Northern All-Star team which played an All-Star team from the South at Baltimore, Md. This year with Don Wliite, Don Seixas, Wiarren Slavin, Roy Cahill, Fuller, Kampf, Jacobs, and Gurfein plus Bassinette, Freid- lander and others from the football team, the new coach, Mr. Kaasman, should have little trouble in turning out a superlative team. For several weeks the candidates for the baseball team have been trying to impress the new coach, Mr. Dugan, with their respective talents. Base- ball was one sport hard hit by graduation, of last yearis regular team, which had little success, there remains only Joe Mele, the pitcher who pitched a no-hit, no-run game. It will be, therefore, a tribute to the coach- ing ability of lVlr. Dugan, and to the cooperation and teamwork of the squad as a whole, if Erasmus Hall returns to its former greatness in this field of endeavor. ln summing up the activities on the field of honor, for the past year, we find that Erasmus Hall has on the whole had a very successful year and that this success was due largely to the efforts of athletes graduating this year. IT

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MFE. a mistake! Lucky the homework's done. Does he pass the test? When the test is over. .loe relaxes for the rest of the period. Now to Art. He still cannot understand why lie's studying art. He certainly can't draw. Oh! welll anything to graduate. Joe isn't in this picture. lNo. he rlidn't cut.l He-'s outside washing his hands. He always spills the paints. l X, lI's wonderful to lie excused from History. Oh yeah? Not when you have to work on the class exhibit for the bulletin board! The history teacher thinks that because Joe studies art he van draw. That awounts for his assignment to this job. joe's an optimist. though. ' After his study period lie' van go to lunvli. Thats the one period , in the day he really enjoys. l time to do his homework. Wlhat? Oh. Johnny hasn't done his work! Well. he'll just have to find someone who has. The Chem homework was hard. None of ,loe's pals could do it. As they walk into Chemistry, they all look frightened. What if they should have a test? Fear is soon clispelled, as the teacher begins a demonstration. The period Joe fears most turns out to be the easiest in his whole program. It is now period eight, the time for all upper classmen to go l .... Y 2 v 5 .W :Eff . .l t : Qi E .-.1 :gf 9 ' T Tf Q 5'i :5Qif A-ost .gif - s.Q..,o,.... home. But not Joel lle has to write the radio article for the Dutcliman. Last week he wrote about his favorite band leaders Wliat'll it be this week? The Editor suggests he write about vocal ists. Joe has been writing for two hours. but he has no copy yet He can think of only three adjectives meaning superb-swell, colos sal. and stupendous. none of which will do. It is now five o'clock and Joe is given permission to leave. Wliat a Life! 1