Benjamin Franklin High School - Key Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Our artists take time out to smile Members of the staff report to the chief They ponder and paste,

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Editorial Board Art Staff, and Miss Statt. ORGANIZATION STAFF Archie Marasco Mildred Tausch SENIOR SECTION EDITORIAL BOARD Agatha Cupido) Lois Wronker o-Ed.tors Daniel Bonacci Seymour Scholnick Shirley London Helen Donatelli Edward Luczko Margaret Stallman CIRCULATION Clayton Block, Chairman Joan Berstein, Assistant Chairman Staff members consult on pictures. GROUP PHOTOGRAPHY Gerald Rose PUBLICITY Irene Nowak, Chairman Virginia Kaleta Mildred Gwirtzman INDIVIDUAL PHOTOGRAPHY Norma Rosenberg, Chairman Geraldine Grover Carol Schafer ART STAFF Virginia Bailey Doris Hofferbert Doris Zirkelbach Raymond Appiebaum Robert Kiesow Eugene Knitte! FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY Vincent Melone ADVERTISING Jeanette Makowski) Phyllis Randall } Co-Chairmen Rita Kirstein Charles Lestin 1943 26

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Hello Mr Ruby and classmates, My brother, who had been playing in Glenn Miller’s band asked Miller to see what he could do about having me transferred to Atlantic City and here I am. The life here is about the best. We all live in hotels (two or three to a room). As soon as I arrived, I was put in the 29th A. A, F. Band with my brother. The first thing we do in the morning (6:00) is fall out in the hall for roll call. Then we go to chow. We come back and dean up the hotel and then start on band re- hearsal. In the afternoon we have another rehearsal and then march to the drill field for dress parade. Tell the gang that this is jusr l ke a vacation except that you can't go home when you want to Pvt. George Escott Liebe Schreiberfn, I don't know if there will be any sense to this letter since the serious mood I was in was completely dispelled by a display of furniture moving by a short, fat, Welsh fellow with a delightful saltwater tang to his speech; and a tall fellow who just had all his teeth pulled. They were frying to maneuver a double decker through an ordinary sized door and the Welshman had a fit of doubling-up giggles that shook him all over. The tall man was a furni- ture mover in civilian life and I know now why the Army got him! It was probably in the interests of sacred property. After practically removing the door and threatening to dump it out of the window, the fat little man saved the day by commandeering the situation and almost landing on his well padded posterior extremities. The only words ex- changed in all this struggle were; I thought you were a furniture-mover, and Inis was only when enough breath was mustered between giggles. What simple pleasures we have! Only a few moments ago. I was knocked out of my aux chateau d Espagne ' when the First Sergeant came through and discovered a forbidden radio on my bunk. The result is yet to be seen since I am to report tomorrow to the orderly-room for a discussion and reprimand. It seems too bad since music is the only recreation I have and it is harmless and doesn't interfere with others' pleasures. It would make more sense if the habitual drunks and noise- makers were given the disciplining instead of someone who is only trying to get as much out of life as is possible under the circumstances. Well, I have trespassed and looked for chastisement rather than forgiveness and I am ready. As I promised you, there wouldn't be a great deal of sense to this letter but I just felt like writing to you since conversation is impossible. Believe me, when I get back, we certainly will have a great deal to discuss. I have often brought out your letters and read them through again and again. They are a constant reminder of your generosity, kindness, and thoughtfulness and no little pleasure is de- rived when I bring them out I have it in mind to make a booklet of them so they won't suffer from handling and thus be read as oFten as I like. They are the next best thing to being at home. Good-night, with love, Ed (Pfc. E. Knitter) Hello Miss Sheehan, How is school these days? I'm going to school again myself. It’s a radio school in Missouri, where many 9 dot and dash sounds throughout the day. Things are slightly different in this class from Franklin High and here is why. We attend classes for seven hours a day and are taught radio work all day long—that is, if we're awake. Yes, some of us get forty winks here too. Arnold Silver, you remember Lady Killer Silver, and I left home the same day and we arrived in Atlantic City together for our Basic Training. When it came to entertainment, Atlantic City was great. Dancing at the Steel Pier was quite all right ana you might tell your class that Rochester is really in the groove when it comes to .jiving, as nowhere else have I found a town where the dancers could jive half-way decent. Things are much different and wc get lonely quite often. The only things I have to look forward to is the evening mail and the hope that my pen pals write to me, Once in a while we have a little excitement here as when the Air Force boys got here, we found that the Signal Corps fellows did not like us and every once in a while delicious arguments get under way. Then there are arguments between New York and Chicago or perhaps once a week a Civil War is revived A southern boy said the last time, Six of those Yankees get together and talk as fast as (hey can and all the time. They hear every word that is said, and I can't even get a word in edgewise. The way I figure things I'll not get a furlough until next year but I sure hope I do get home for a little while. I've got to try receiving fifteen words now so I'll sign off, hoping that I can always remain Your friend, Eddie Selzvicn (Pvt. Eddie Selzvich) 3273441 Co, D 33rd. Sig, Inq. 6. N, Camp OowderCMo. Dear Mother, I hope you didn't worry because you haven't received any letters from me for a few days. Saturday night I was ut on the shipping list and from then on I couldn't write ou Have probably already guessed from the heading on my envelope that I have left Atlantic City already and at last, We were sent to Pennsylvania State College. It is a very, very beautiful school. I live in Barracks 14 which is a very beautiful and quite new fraternity house, There are four in my room; I have a closet of my own; I share a study hall and dresser with one other boy,- and I have a desk all my own to use. As a matter of fact, the commanding officer told us that this is the most expensive air cadet school that the army has yet contracted. I can believe what he says because this place is really beautiful. The length of my stay here will depend on what quintile I am put in (we're to be broken up into five groups accord- ing to our mental scores) and I doubt if I shall be in any quintile lower than the second. If I'm not in the first it will probably be because I didn't have Physics in college Personally, I should prefer to be in the last quintile because I would like to stay here as long as I can. It's very nice here so far. I hope that I'll get to see you all very soon. I know I'll get to see you if I ever get that little gold bar 50 I shall try to do my best not to disappoint you. Please send me the newspaper clippings about the air cadets who come to Rochester because I’m interested in knowing if any of my old buddies figure in the news. Also I want you to call Herrn Goldberg's home and find out his new address for me, please, Lots and lots of love Henry (Air Cadet Henry Shur) 28