Lawrence High School - Lawrencian Yearbook (Cedarhurst, NY)

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NINETEEN THIRTY-FIVE 1935 CLASS SONG to the tune of “THE OLD REFRAIN” by Fritz Kreisler Goodbye to joyous hours in Lawrence High, In memory I’ll keep those days gone by, I’ll live them o’er again, again I’ll see, Familiar rooms and halls so dear to me. Long after lessons learned have gone their way Your influence will always with me stay, And though I travel far away from you, To you, dear Alma Mater, I’ll be true. Though nevermore will come those treasured days The dreams will linger in our hearts always, So let each loyal student rise and sing, And cheer the buff and blue till rafters ring. by Shirley Ray and Helvn Cohen. Page twenty-nine

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THE LAWRENCIAN FOUR YEARS IN LAWRENCE The yenr 1931 was memorable for bein'? three years before the great blizzard of ’34. Also in this year, the class of ’35 entered Lawrence High and has since managed to steam through vicissitudes thick and thin, and is now graduating. To come to the point, however. As freshmen, we elected Myron Sanft as President, Miriam Doniger Vice-President, Caroline Chaiken Secretary, and WilPam Hawkins Treasurer. Miss Clause was the Faculty Adviser. We unobtrusively sponsored three contests: yo-yo. popularity, and opportunity, all well done. That was also the year Betty Marks and Lea Silver supplied talent to the Senior Play, “When Knighthood was in Flower”. Harrv Buxbaum made the football team. George Kirk the basketball, and Joe Gabriel performed on both. Ellen Haber was on the girls’ hockey squad and Eetty Marks on the swimming team. In 1932, we were already one-quarter of the way through high school— we were sophomores. The class organization of that year elected Gordon Rothstein President, Palmer Farrington Vice-President, Caroline Chaiken Secretary, and Joseph Bernstein Treasurer. Mr. Dodd gave counsel, Howard Basch, George Shaskan, Carl Zaum, Irving Schwartz, and Gordon Rothstein were our contribution of the year to the Honor Society. The Chess Club, Math Club, and Buskins absorbed many of our class that year. Members of the class composed about fifty percent of the Buskins Club, and Joseph DeRose, Jerry Adler, Molly Pastor, Betty Marks, Ellen Haber, George Shaskan, Ben Hepburn, Joe Gabriel, and Harry Buxbaum were members of the Varsity Club, and George Kirk was President. William Burns, Frank Canavan, and Howard Basch, moved strategically in Chess Club circles. The class saw its second Broadway show and was by now thoroughly imbued with the theatre-going habit. That section of the gradually shifting class that joined the Junior Club elected Natalie Cohen President, Donald Searles Vice-President, John Beves Treasurer, and chose Miss Leavitt to be Faculty Adviser. Lea Silver, Pearl Goldman, Betty Marks, Annette Newman, Barbara Fishel, Ellen Haber, Joyce Titelman, Bettina Aaronson, and Natalie Cohen were Buskineers in good standing. A large part of the Mental Pabulum Staff was composed of “thirty-fivers.” And finally we reached that happy condition known as “being a Senior”. As such we wisely chose George Shaskan Chief Medicine Man, Frank Canavan Vice-President, Allen Hanlon Secretary, and Joseph Cropsey Bulldog of the Treasury. Miss Tefft was again elected Senior Class Adviser. The Club competed successfully against the Senior Class of Woodmere High School in a contest in selling subscriptions to the Nassau Herald. An Amateur Contest was conducted which resulted satisfactorily enough to have been professional, and the traditional Senior Play, Booth Tarkington’s “Seventeen” this year, was excellently performed and with profit. The Annual has been published (obviously) and the Senior Prom will be given at the end of June. Thus ends the chronicle of our doings during these enjoyable four years. And so, we depart.............. Page twenty-eight

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THE LAWRENCIAN PROPHECY A take off on that famous aeroplane. “The Prophecy”, piloted by Lawrence Hyschool Sr., renowned fortune-teller. Whiz-z-z, off to a flying start. First stop—England, where Sir George Shank-ail is speaking on “Why Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”! At the same time the season’s prettiest debutantes, Ruth Slifka, Shirley Hirschkorn. and Lucille Weisenberg are to be presented at court. Ah-h-h onward to France—France—there the “Modes of Gladvs” establishment has employed such lovely models as Ruth Roth, Harriette Blefeld, and the languorous Rita Cohen. This establishment is patronized by such notables as the wealthy heiress, Elaine Kantrowitz, that keen woman politician, Annette Newman and many others. Mademoiselle Cantor has employed that well-built, swaggering, Harry Buxbaum as chief “bouncer” for undesirable bargain-hunters. Time out for lunch. At one of those breezy open-air restaurants “Lion with the Ladies” Moldauer is trying to wile away the chic and petite Marion Jennings, and seeing that his talents are being wasted (as this little lady isn’t the type) he trys his charms on that pretty cigarette-girl Jacqueline Birkhahn, who also resents his attentions. Downhearted at these results “Lion” picks up a newspaper and becomes interested in the following headlines—Josephine Tanous, “Torch-Singer” rises to great fame. On another page he sees the column “Talk of the Town” by Bettina Aaronson which includes the following: suave and debonair Harry Jaffa acclaimed best-dressed man in town, Shirley Ray and Helyn Cohen radio artists are on a program entitled the “Speedy Sunbeams”. In another column there is this message: “Dear Pop, Am lost in the fog in England”—Your son, Herbert Glucksman. “La Cucaracha”-“La Cucaracha”—Spain—“Toreador” Farrington has thrown the bull successfully while singing “Abie’s Irish Rose”. In another section “Ambling” Wesley Grant and that notorious desperado John Davidson are seen tussling, while Senorita Frances (of short Hite) serenades them. Now to the wilds of Africa. Irwin Eisen, Victor Librizzi, John Op-penheimer, Foster Rosenthal and James McKiernan, missionaries are trying to persuade the wild women of Borneo to wear hair-nets!!! Far-off, dancing to the weird music of the tom-toms are the graceful Mary Cordner, Rita Weingold, Irmise Denis, Antenesca Gentile and Viola Boccia. A knitting school has been started by Barbara Fisliel to quiet the nerves of the cannibals which have been shot thru bridge playing, taught them by Harriette Alper, Myra Heilman, Margery Slater, Simone Israel, and Shirley Brotman wandering bridgists. Now Lawrence Hyschool Sr. thinks it time for bed, but how sad; he has insomnia, so he picks up a magazine and glances thru it, spotting the handsome face of Albert Post who models for collar ads. Off to visit the Arabs in Arabia. That sleek sheik David Kraushaar has in his harem the following lovely ladies: Edythe Gromet, Jennie Vairo, Lois Parks, Teresa Candreva, Rose Ronis, Egeria MingoUa and Rose Gray whose brother, Louis, a neighboring sheik, carefully watches over his precious sister’s welfare. In the desert away from all, lives that lonely gentleman Burton Rubenstein, “The man nobody knows”. Page thirty