Benjamin School for Girls - Tusitala Yearbook (New York, NY)

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TUSITALA FOR 1928 UHOW TIME PASSES -CLASS PLAY '27 S ALUMNAE EDITORIAL BY DOROTHY SKIRBOLL A year after graduation one feels entirely differently about school than one did in undergraduate days. During school years most students yearn to be free-free of the every day drudgery of school life. When one leaves school, she comes to the realiza- tion that there is no freedom. There are always routines, duties, and responsibilities. The school girl has less responsibility than any other individual of society. She is cared for and guarded in every Way. It is not until she leaves school that she is really forced to think and act for herself. Things are expected of her. She must take her place as an adult citizen of the world. . One of the greatest lessons learned after graduation from school is that no one human being is indispensable. We think while we are under-graduates that we are an entire unit in ourselves, the whole wheel as it Were, a person of individual im- portance. When We return to the Alma Mater after Commencement, we find that some- one else has successfully filled our place. We are only a cog in the wheel, just a small part of the great unit of Society. When we first realize this fact, we lose our feeling of self-importance. After this we are prepared for lifeg we are socialized members of Society. i H Page Fiffy

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TUSITAIQA FOR 1928 A H A Editorial . FRANCIS LEVINE So many people ask me what the object and purpose of our honor societies are that I feel an explanation is timely. Perhaps the girls in school, who do not belong, wonder, too. Each society tries to select those girls for members who are outstanding in the school. In order to be eligible a girl must pass all of her work, she must exhibit some genuine school spirit, she must be affable and kindg and she must stand for the right things-honesty, integrity, and probity. The purpose of the H A organization is to help the newgirls by making them our friends. The old girlsn try to make the path to glory easier for the Unew girls by holding their hands and advising them concerning the ideals of Benjamin, The spirit of friendly rivalry which exists between the two societies at Benjamin helps the girls in the expression of the best they have, we do not sponsor petty feelings or smugness. Each year we try to grow a little better by increasing our energies. H A Banquet On Tuesday evening, May 9, the H A Girls, accompanied by Miss Hurst, held their annual banquet at the Hotel Roosevelt. Frances Levine was toastrnistress, and a good number of alumnae attended. After dinner the girls visited the broadcasting studio of Station WRNY, which is situated at the Roosevelt. vlzzge F01'f3INi1ze

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TUSITALA FOR 1928 School is indeed a great preparation for life. We learn to take defeats we do not deserve, to be unselfish, and to be tolerant. Now we look back upon incidents that seemed tragedies at the time of their occurrence. We are glad that such things happened, for they have taught us how to accept the disappointments that will come to us in life. We who are the alumnae would not trade for anything in the world the memories of experiences we had at Benjamin, the friendships and associations we formed, and the practical lessons we learned. Our school life is a closed book which we can open from time to time to live again its pages. To you who are graduating, we of the alumnae extend our felicitations and our deep admiration. To you, the undergraduates, we bid you Make the most of what you yet may spend. E11 ga gemems NETTIE BROWN, '27 to Mr. Arthur M. Densen of Hackensack, N. 1. ZELMA CRESHKOFF, '27 to Mr. Kalman Eisenbud of New York. JULIA WEISS, '27 to Mr. Isadore Klein of Louisville, Ky. BLANCHE ZIMMERMAN, ,25 to Mr. Abraham Singer of New York. Ma1'1'iage5 FLORA BART, ,2O to Mr. Herbert Brody of Knoxville, Tenn., February 12, 1928. CLARISSE BERNARD, '26 to Mr. Lawrence Cowen of New York, March 8, 1928. MARY BOIARSKY, l22 to Mr. joseph Ralph Cohn of Charleston, West Virginia, September 15, 1927. BLANCHE M. BROWN, '23 to Mr. A. Alan Lane of New York, April 24, 1928. ELEANOR CORNEZ, ,27 to Mr. Willy Nordwind, january 24, 1928. LILLIAN FRIESLER, '27 to Mr. Murray M. Green of New York, November 27, 1927. SELMA JAFFE, '26 to Mr. Arthur Brandwein of New York, june 2, 1927. ELIZABETH KESTNER, '24 to Mr. Harry L. Jacobs of Kansas City, Mo., July 12, 1927. DOROTHY LANDESMAN, l21 to Mr. Lasalle Felheim of Cleveland, Ohio, May 18, 1927. SADYE Sl-IAPIRO, '26 to Mr. William Kassel of Cincinnati, Ohio, April 3, 1928. FRANc1skA STERN, '25 to Mr. Louis Cohen of New York, April 19, 1928. MARIE WALDMAN, '26 to Mr. Walter Levenson of New York, January 20, 1928. Page Fiffy-One