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

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aT a baseball: or a IeaTher covered miTTen againsT a Ii++Ie black ball on The handball courTs under The waTchTuI eyes oT Miss Clark. I938: Er. . . ah . . . you've been swinging me around so much you've made me a TriTIe dizzy. Do They have anyThing else besides swing? I937: Oh, They incorporaTe ThaT inTo everyThing. IT seems ThaT Mr. Wilson doesn'T permiT dusT To accumuIaTe in The cerebral crevices of The members of The Chess and Checker Club. BuT, while They TighT Their duels menTaIIy in The correcTive room, we Tind The boys oT The Fencing Club wiTh Mr. Walinsky earnesTly learning To slice each oTher up, as genTIemen should. Oh well, iT all goes under The heading oT exercise. Do you know ThaT There are more crack women Tencers Than men? And There's only a boy's Tencing Team in This school! SpecTaTors aT Their pracTice sessions now undersTand why Miss I-Ioag Tormed The FirsT Aid Club. buT her nurses and docTors are always dis- appoinTed. I938: I-Iow do They manage To hold These irrepressable LincolniTes in check? I937: Son, do you Think The Supreme CourT has a hard Time? WaiT Till you siT in on one oT Mr. Glassman's STudenT CourT Sessions. As a maTTer of TacT. The law conTIicTed wiTh The sTudenTs' will so much, ThaT The G. O. Council and associaTes revised The ConsTiTuTion To suiT The public. IT seems To be The vogue now. By The way. some oT The amaTeur lawyers of The STudenT CourT mighT visiT Mr. Horn's Law Club and learn whaT iT's all abouT. When iT comes To Taking abuse. The STudenT CourT has noThing on The CaTeTeria Squad. Those boys and girls can really Take iT. and Mr. TrosTen musT Teach Them The mob TacTics of policemen. I938: You know, when I was born New Year's Eve. I was TascinaTed by The mysTerious looking surgical insTrumenTs abouT me. I'd like To spend a IiTTle Time wiTh The Lincoln scienTisTs while l'm There. I937: Well, The TirsT ones I'd recommend you To visiT are The Alchem- isTs. under Mr. Offner. When I IeTT Them IasT. They were sIighTIy behind The Times, having iusT discovered ThaT somebody else had discovered waTer heavier Than waTer had been known To be before. Poor AIchemisTs! LINCOLN

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A STUDENT AT LARGE Scene l The elaboraTe oTTice oT Mr. New Year I938. l938. dressed in a reveal- ing diaper, is pacing The Tloor nervously and seems To be impaTienTly awaiTing someone's arrival. The door opens and a secreTary announces The arrival oT Mr. l937. I938: Show him inl Mr. I937 shuTTles wearily inTo The room. I938 springs To help him To a chair and oTTers him a cigar. When he is comTorTa'bly seaTed- l938: Gee, l'm sorry l had To kick you so hard in TronT oT The cameras, buT you know how These Toolish morTals expecT To see picTures oT The old year being kicked ouT. I937: llflubiouslyl Yeah! Would They geT The shock oT Their lives if They ever saw us Talking Things over so amiably. I938: Well, ThaT reminds me. Don'T you Think we should geT going on The year's evenTs so ThaT l'll know how To pick up where you leTT oTF aT? l937: Uh huh. l Think we should. Now. whaT do you wanT To know TirsT? I938: WhaT abouT The siTuaTion in China .... Scene ll Five hours laTer. ATTer having Tinally disposed oT slighTly more im- porTanT maTTers .... I938: Now ThaT we've decided Mr. WilberT's Forum Group can'T Talk The .laps ouT oT doing exacTly as They please, how abouT swinging inTo some oTher club acTiviTies oT Lincoln? I937: IT all depends upon whaT kind oT swinging you mean. You should have seen Those kids go To Town under The experT insTrucTion oT Mr. Ball in The Tap Dancing Club. And Miss Bergman's and Mr. STeingarT's Tennis groups can cerTainly wield rackeTs wiTh ThaT Tree Teeling. lncidenTal- ly, if you'll lookin Look you'll Tind ThaT Tennis is one oT The besT sporTs Tor women. BuT, don7TVoverdo iT. Also. if you ouT on The baseball diamond. you mighT be lucky enough To caTch aglimplse oT Mrs. Zuckerman's charges swinging a baT LANDMARK

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The Biology Club, wifh Mrs. Wolfe presiding, lends iTs services To The Biology DeparTmenT every now and Then by preparing microscopic maferial for The deparTmenT. Miss Goefschius and her Bird Club have been fliTTing in and ouT of foresT grounds so frequenfly They can almosT recognize our feafhered friends by Their calls . . . almosT. When They wanT aTmosphere They send Their order To The Visual Aid Squad. En pronTo a film is run Transforming The bare walls of The room inTo a wooded haven filled wiTh birds. The Visual Aid DeparTmenT, headed by Mr. SmiTh and Mr. Greenberg, is The proud possessor of film sufficienT To sTreTch from The office To Prospecf Park. - I938: Prospecf Park? ThaT's a Thoughf . . . hm . . . have resf periods. sTudy periods. resT periods some more, lunch peri . . . I937: Ahem . . . Anyhow, we recenfly had a movie period in The assembly. IT was produced by The Movie-Malcers and The Visual Aid Sfaff Togefher. Mr. Weinsfein became The adviser To The direcfor and club. and There were enough scripT wriTers and rewrifers. acTors and reTalces. To form a union, or sTarT a sfrilce. I938: Which group was among your favorifes? I937: l liked To visiT The mechanical clubs because I enjoyed seeing The fellows learn To creafe. Peeping info The Radio Club one day. l saw several fellows gesficulafing wildly and shoufing The respecfive merifs of aerials. coils, plugs, eTc. And in The presence of Mr. Marcus, Too. One rash boy even claimed ThaT he could guaranTee To eliminafe sTaTic and adverTising announcemenTs. Mr. Polalcoff's amaTeur piloTs and grease monkeys have To malce The besT of The assembly while flying Their planes in races as The G. O. funds can'T provide for privaTe hangars iusf yeT. You know, I938, I've always regarded The Girls' KniTTing Club, wiTh Mrs. Joffe, in The same lighT as The boys regard Their AviaTion Club. U937 pauses. as if in ThoughT.l I938: Are you forgeTTing To Tell me anyfhing? LANDMARK