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

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Zeiger led Grade VI by beaT- ing The Carolyn I-IegarTy, I-Ieidi Vorchheimer duo. Again, as in mosT oT our sporTs, we Tailed To win our IeTTers. My classmaTes really grew up when I became a press camera. Those were The days. AT The bowling alleys I was chased down a long slippery runway by a big round Thing which Elaine l2iTTer, Phyllis Schlags, DoroThy I-Iarmon and Gloria Klein, our sTrike arTisTs, assured me was noThing more Than a bowling ball. For weeks aTTerward Though my bellows were a wee biT shaky. AImosT Tinished my career down in The swimming pool when I braced myseIT on The edge oT The pool To sTop Carolyn I'IegarTy in mid-air during a dive. As she hiT The waTer There was a Tidal wave in which I nearly drowned. BuT I was more clever when phoTographing Irene Walker and RuTh Schein-I hung Trom The raTTers and only goT sprinkled. As a climax To our years aT Uncle Desi's, seven oT my TeammaTes became members oT The Leaders Club, our-schooI's aThIeTic honor socieTy. On January 3I, I95O, These girls, Carolyn I-IegarTy, Elaine RiTTer, Carol Zeiger, Phyllis, Lorraine STock, Beverly STock. and I-Ielen AvloniTis, my oTher classmaTes and I, will be graduaTed Trom Erasmus I-Iall. AT lasT we have reached maTuriTy, I as a press camera and They as graduaTes. Now we are all headed in an upward paTh, my Triends, some as sTudenTs, oThers in business. and me, well, l'll go To a school Tor cameras. lT's abouT Time I learned whaT To do wiTh myselT, isn'T iT.

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Qzrls' Sports They call me Snoopy I'm a camera, Class oT January, I95O. I've been ouT To more sporTs during my Tour years aT The Old Grey School Than any oTher Erasmian To daTe. Why I can remember back when I was only a box camera .... Those were The days when we as Treshmen goT up aT The crack oT dawn To play hockey. Ivly TeammaTes, Alice Cardona, I-Ielen AvloniTis, Phyllis Schlags, lvlary Ellen Dyer, and Carol Zeiger, were an enThusiasTic group ThaT spring in '-46. They've remained ardenT hockey players, and won Their E, I-I. in sixTh Term. I didn'T seem To click unTil I was TiTTed Tor a Tlash- couIdn'T see aT ThaT hour in The morn .... In Third Term I had begun To maTure. I became a reTIex camera and had guiTe a Time Trying To caTch Those low serves which Phyllis Schlags execuTed aT Tennis. Whenever l'd geT a shoT oT a TerriTic Torehand drive by RuTh Schein, iT wouIdn'T be in Tocus. In The background Though you would clearly see EdiTh RosenThal, Ann EranceviTz, Carolyn T-legarTy, or Carol Zeiger searching Tor a Thing called Torm. AT soTTbaII I goT my TirsT good picTure. I caughT Elaine RiT- Ter caTching behind Sabina ReisTeId's powerTuI baT. Our TorTe aT This sporT lay in The STock Twins, Lorraine and Beverly, Gladys AugarTen, Teresa SisTo, and CaTherine Riche. Lady Luck wasn'T wiTh us here eiTher. Ouch, my ground glass hurTs . . . musT be grow- pains again, yep, and here I am, now a miniaTure camera. I've Tound Two more wonderTuI sporTs, baskelball and badminTon. AT baskeTbalI, The big six, I-leidi Vorchheimer, Sabina Reisfeld, our Twins Beverly and Lorraine, Mary Ellen Dyer and I-lelen AvloniTis were Too TasT Tor me. I didn'T have To go Tor re- pairs unTiI I poked my lens inTo badminTon. We had IoTs oT Teamwork and acTion, es- pecially when Elaine RiTTer and Carol

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