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

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T lx ,. bowling aTTer Two division championships in The lasT Three years, The lincoln pin- men keggled along To an 8-2, second place Tinish This year. lasT season, The squad was depleTed by graduaTion, buT dan orans, ioel walTer simon debbah, and ioel abolaTia more Than made up Tor The loss. when The pasT season rolled around, coach maxwell gelender was Taced wiTh The idenTical siTuaTion. The enTire Toursome were losT To graduaTion. Thus, a Tedious rebuilding iob was in sTore. The bowlers, led b y capTain bob Teldman, rallied and ended up sTrong second in Their division sweepsTakes. bob cohen guaiTied Tor The ciTy indi- vidual championship by bowling a l5O average. The blue and gray, by Tinishing wi+h an 8-2 slaTe, deTeaTed all league compeTiTion, excepT spoiler TorT hamilTon, who Triumphed Twice. SOCCGF Soccer Team mac ball's soccerman, dumuzio, lipezansky, The perelmuTTers, sache- leri, and schilT, led by co-capTains ioseph giamboi and george panaga- kos Tinished Third in Their very highly compeTiTive division. The T956 Team, sparked by an all- ciTy selecTion, capTain ioe abramo- wiTz, raced Through Their divisions TiTle and The Tinals oT The psal cham- pionship playoTT. in T955 They compiled The admir- able record oT 5-2-2, being deTeaTed only by laTayeTTe. capTain sTeve Tlam- haTT was chosen To be a member oT ? ,g ,gy The Team ThaT represenTed new york M' T' T A in an inTer-ciTy ba++le againsT phila- delphia. Tencing Yi bowling Team in I956, The lincoln Tencing Team led The ciTy. graduaTion losses Took almosT all The veTerans making The Tollowing year a year Tor seasoning. l957 became a year To learn. under The guidance oT mr. s. shapiro, The I957-8 Tencing Team has aTTained The coveTed Top berTh in The ciTy, despiTe The oppressive compreTi- Tion oT arch-rival sTuyvesanT. capT. herb cohen has won over one-hundred bouTs in his p.s.a.l. career, seTTing a lincoln record. iune will Tind The Team, devoid oT cohen, co-capTain hal krebs, phil rappaporT, sol needle, and neil diamond, leTT wiTh a slim chance oT repeaTing This year's success. Tencing Team 29

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Fllle Team lincoln can well be proud oT This year's riTle Team. because, excepT Tor one painTul deTeaT aT The ciTy championships, The Team was undeTeaTed. To quoTe The record, The Team deTeaTed The Tollowing opponenTs: manual Training, midwood, laTayeTTe, madison, and hamilTon. iusT To a liTTle deTail, mosT oT The margins oT vicTory were Trom eighTy To one-hundred poinTs. coach hazel shapiro did a Tine job coaching The boys, whose vanguard consisTed oT capTail mel pincus, co-capTain ieTT benson, ioe nimoy, barry hornsTein, and paul Terowslcy. swimming Team swimming The lincoln swimming Team will be especially hard hiT by graduaTion come This iune. a dozen seniors, including Team capTain ben vogel, will dry Themselves oT lincoln waTer Tor The very lasT Time. The Team has noT had a specTacular season by which They can remember Their lincoln days in TuTure years. Their record Tor The season is 7-3. neverThe- less, The boys, one and all, expressed greaT saTisTacTion in The years spenT on This Team. under The able guidance oT mr. goldberg They have developed boTh Tine discipline oT body which comes Trom swimming and The warm spiriT oT comradeship which, TradiTionally, is an inTegral parT oT all lincoln Teams. in addiTion To capTain ben vogel oTher graduaTing members OT The Team who will aTTend various colleges are: lowell cooper, danny Tarber, roger Tox, irwin greenberg, peTe greensTein, arThur hanig, sam paclcer, sTan shapiro, richard sher, richie sulTzer, and howie wexler.

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