Abraham Lincoln High School - Landmark Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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A LINCOLN Affer The cusfomary procedure of reading The Bible. salufing The flag and singing of The Alma Mafer song, The program was ready To begin. AND NOW: A good Time was had by alll!!! MorTon Beer, senior class presidenf, infroduced Joan Geller as chairlady of The Class Day Commiffee. Our liTTle misfress of ceremonials came Through wiTh a rever- berafing ll mean if! program. Wifh The lighfs of 37 as afmosphere, a poem, wriTTen and delivered by Chesfer Kallman, was The inifial acT of The program. Class day lyrics were wriTTen by Sfanley Cohen and Miriam lfkind, To fiT The Tunes of popular songs. AT This Class Day To The Tune of LeT Yourself Go. and f'Parlez-vous were sung by Pearl MaliTz in her inimifable sTyle of Torch-singing. Norman Perman crooned his way Through wiTh FaculTy Parade, Tune of Organ Grinder's Swing. CharloTTe Samef of Mikado fame, sang Lincoln's Big Parade To The Tune of Alexander's Rag Time Band. Praises To Laura Woll aT The piano for accompanying all our vocalisfs. The songs were firsT infroduced by The above menfioned and Then slaughfered by The conglomerafion of aTTenTive seniors la good way To prove- in unify There is sTrengTh. l For The finale, Hazel Shoobs gave her rendifion of Mary of ScoTland, and received a Tremendous ovafion for her efforfs. Mr. Hirschberg, in his brief commenfary aT The end of The program. compli- menfed The Class Day CommiTTee for iTs splendid efforfs, in geTTing Togefher a pro- gram so varied in TalenT. lT'S HERE AGAIN: A good Time was had by all!!!! Thus our day of daze was pracfically ended, leaving us To look forward To Class Nighf, The Prom. and Commencemenf. SO-OOOH: A good Time was had by alll!!! SO-MY PROUD BEAUTY- If you had Two dollars and fifTy cenTs of your senior dues paid up by December I5Th, you needn'T read This, because you know whaT iT's all abouT. If you didn'T, you needn'T read This anyway because you will find ouf whaT you have missed and re- gref iT Till your dying day. Therefore, The only one who should really read This, and who has read iT. is The prinfer, because if The prinfer doesn'T read This There is no one To prinf The sfory Thaf you shouldn'T read. Those who came earliesf goT choice seafs, and immediafely commenced The droning and buzzing which was picked up by The Tardier ones who sfraggled in a few minufes lafer because so and so's boy friend worked laTe on Safurday nighf, efcefera. The lasT few squeaks of The fiddles Tuning up, a few Taps on The sfand wiTh The bafon, and The overfure had sTarTed, which meanf The buzzing in The audience had To sfop. The prologue broughf us Morfon Beer and Nafhan Kravefz as son and faTher respecfively, who infroducedus by way of Tense drama, To The Class Nighf of l893. Here one caughf an eyeful . . . as a maTTer of facT seven eyesful of Lincoln's prize beaufies in The roles of Floradora Girls. lPeggy Schnall, Laura Woll, Miriam LANDMARK

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LINCOLN 17 HTHRCDUGI-I TI-IE LOOKING-GLASS AND AFTER ELECTION I PROMISE- Because oT all The holidays wiTh which we were presenTed This Term, There was a shorTage oT senior assemblies. As a resulT oT The shorTage OT assemblies, we were noT subiecTed To any candidaToraToriaI speeches. InsTead. The candidaTes did class To class canvassing ITor voTes, of course . . . whaT did you Think . . . vacuum cleanersl? Dark horse MorTon Beer was eIecTed PresidenT, leaving behind him Roslyn Hand- ler and Helene STernberg. Napoleon was small: so is Joan Geller, buT noT so her voTes, Tor she beaT Peggy Schnall and Gail Sklar, in The baTTIe Tor vice-presidency oT Senior Class. Barbara Reice was The cIass's choice over Ann Krasner Tor secreTary: and Tor Treasurer, Lucille Isaacs won over ArThur Eckhaus. TEA FOR TWOl Our Teas are now memories oT song and IaughTer. gaieTy and briIIian+ conversa- Tion. We were aTTending The senior Tea given in honor oT The celebriTies oT The class oT January, '37, IT mighT have been ThaT The I'IosTess Club ThoughT Tea Too sTrong Tor our seniors, Tor They were served punch, ice cream and cake, insTead. IP.S .... our G. O. money.I The enTerTainmenT made The Tea complefe. A song by a special chorus and a solo by Ann LeviTT were used To balance The program. made Top-heavy by MiI+on Weinberg's reciTaTion Trom HamIeT. To puT The program on The musical side, a Tap rouTine was done by . . . you guessed iT . . . Rhoda Edelman. Thank you boys and girls Tor helping To make This Tea a success. Now To Those who wish The inside dope on Teas, here is whaT we learned . . . ThaT Tea in any oTher Torm is s+iII called 'Tea'. y DAY OF DAZE IT came . . . we ToughT . . . we conquered. WhaT? Oh, red IeTTer day, oT course. Bedecked wiTh red sweaTers and dresses . . . The senioreTTas . . . adorned wiTh red Ties, bows, ribbons and IoIIipops . . . The seniores. Gone wiTh The wind were Their everyday ,poise and digniTy IoT course, iT's only a Tamous Tallacy ThaT The seniors have These quaIiTiesI. REFRAIN: A good Time was had by alll!!! Teachers as per usual were Torced To abdicaTe Their rule To The zealous seniors benT on Tollowing The TradiTion seT by Tormer seniors. DITTO: A good Time was had by alll!!! As we enTered The audiTorium, we encounTered The numerals 37 in eIecTric IighTs, respIendenTIy shining down upon us Trom The Trapeze in TronT of The curTains. A precedenT had been seT and we all knew iT . . . 'cause Mr. Hirschberg Told us so. LANDIVIARK

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