Boston Latin School - Liber Actorum Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Front Row: White, Moshenberg (Co-Chairman, Cantor (Chairman), Shannon, Warshaw. Roar Row: Tobin, Miller, Bullock, Slivkin, Stone. THE YEARBOOK COMMITTEE Arthur Cantor, Chd’iniiaii The Yearbook Committee, as other committees in other years, found the assembling of the Yearbook a mountainous task. The correcting of the name sheets, the gigantic quotation-giving job, the final exertion in getting everything ready for a tolerant printer, all made up a sizable strain upon the energies and abilities of an unusually efficient com- mittee. Besides the gentlemen whose smiling faces are viewed above, there were several otlier members of Class I who generously contributed of their time and talents to the success of the present Yearbook. To these nameless ones, a sincere vote of thanks is necessary. Of course, the job could never have been acconaplished with any measure of success without the supervision of tliese three tireless members of the faculty: Messrs. Dunn, Wenners, and Marson. Mr. Dunn, notwithstanding his previous long labors for the graduating class, co-operated with the committee at all times, and gave priceless help to the members. To Mr. Wenners, Class I must acknowledge a sincere expression of grati- tude, for without him there could have been no Yearbook. The tremendous task of hand- ling the variegated financial matters of the Register and the Yearbook bear witness to his remarkable efficiency. Mr. Marson was always near in time of need; tolerant, smiling, and judicious, he adjusted the tight spots in our work and advised the proper course. Now that it is all over, w e can safely say that the Yearbook has been completed, and, we honestly believe, successfully. rinis coronal opus!

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r A r i i ) i i 7 announced a death in liis lamily took tlie new captain ol Company B out ot sciiool. Here was tlie finder of fate. Stiffeninr ' a none too firm upper lip, 1 soiiglit the drearl c|uarters of the Judge. I pointed out that only an imbecile woidtl knowingly have calleil for cheers for the man who had forbidden them. Inattention I admitteil, but not disobetlience. lilo- cjuent in my desperation, I told the Head that while a military office lookeil small to him, it meant much to a boy; to lo.se it was intolerable humiliation. I think I detected a twinkle in the august eye before my pa.ssionate plea was ended; an hour later my appoint- ment was posted. I truly believe that ever since that experience 1 have been a little readier to see the boy’s point of view. And the notice in this morning’s paper It told the death of that friend of mine who was captain of Company B for just one tlay. Here let us leave random recollections of days over a half-century gone and address ourselves to the sterner business of closing this my latest, and my last, contribution to the Register. Let us turn to the mem.ories that 1 shall carry away from the school where most of my life has been spent. I’ortunate imleed is the man who leaves his work with happier impressions than mine. It is the teacher’s lot to grow fond each year of a group in his own room only to bid them farewell in the early summer. La.st September I wondered, as I nur.sed a damaged arm, what fortune would deal me for roommates in my final year. Let me a.ssLire the boys of Room 303 that I was not unmindful of the little willing a tentions that my partial helples.sncss of the early fall made welcome. Those little kindnesses will stay with me, though those who showed them to me have forgot cn them already. They will carry away with them, those boys of the strong lungs and the friendly faces, my very ood wishes. It pleased me to be mentioned in the will of TM6. I prize my membership in that class. I must make appreciative mention, too, of the many other boys who have passed or entered my door; their smiles and greetings have added to my year. I pause to leave, as a sort of legacy, my recurrent congratulation to him who .shall, each year forever, win the medal for excellence in French. Here belongs the expression of my affection, long grown deep and la.sting, for the class that some of us have come to regard as peculiarly our own, the Cla.ss of 1904. They presented the medal to the school; it was their suggestion, not mine, that it should bear my name. Of all the groups with which I meet, it is with iyo4 that 1 feel most restfully at home. Five Headmasters have reigned in m.y time; each has been my friend; each has made for me clays of pleasantnccss and a path of peace. To the pre.sent Head I owe many courte.sies, and, notably on the occasion of one of my major errors, a fine forbearance. To the secretaries in the office, my grateful recognition of their constant willingness to help. And be it here recorded that though I have not seldom caused them unnecessary trouble I have never been reproached with word or look — I cannot forget that. In my own department I have been surrounded for twenty-nine years with a personal loyalty that has been my wonder and my joy. My colleagues 1 count my friends. Their thought- fulness has lightened the heavier hours of my nights of illne.ss. By them my mistakes have been lightly passed over; my days have been brightened with genial fellowship. I shall miss them. In the library I have always found willing help, entertainingly afforded. I have run on too long. One merited tribute I mii.st yet pay, to the editor of the Register, master speller and gentleman. He has waited on mv delays with a fine courtesy. I hope he will not regret it. I close in the speech that gave our school its name; uhitnms vos saluto. WM. F. HLNDLltSr)N, ’H4.

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SENIORS HOWARD JUUAN ABRAMSON “Howie” . . . Harvard “Let me have audience for a word or tivo.” Entered from William Lloyd Gar- rison School in 1930. Dramatic Club, 1934-35; Tercentenary Pageant, 1935 ; Stamp Club, 1934-35 ; Photo- graphic Society, 1935-36 ; Literary Club, 1935-36 ; First Prize Reading, 1936. SAMUEL ABRAHAM ADLER “Asa” . . . Tufts “Great oaks from little acorns f row. Entered from Phillips Brooks School in 1932. Fidelity Prize, 1933- 34 ; French Club, 1933-34-35-36 ; Chess and Checker Club, 1933-34-35- 36; Literary Club, 1933-34-35; 2nd Lieut., 2nd Co., 1st Reg. BERN. RD HERBERT ADELMAN “Bernie” . . . Annapolis “Then will hr talk — i ood God! how he will talk!’’ Entered from Emerson School in 1930. Classical Prize, 1934-35 ; Sec- letary of French Club. 1935-36; De- bating Club. 1932-33-34-35-36 ; Treasurer of Debating Club, 1934- 3. ; I.iterary Club, 1933-34-35-36 ; Chess and Checker Club, 1933-34- 35-36 ; Glee Club, 1933-34-35-36 ; Latin Club, 1933-34-35; Cheer I.eader, 1935 ; Lst Lieut., lllh Co., 2nd Reg. PAUL LUDWIG EMIL ALBERTI “Paul” . . . M. I. T. “There’s somrthinn about a soldier.” Entered from Mary E. Curley School in 1932. Cla.ssical Prize. 1932-33; Fidelity Prize. 1933-34 ; Radio Club. 1934-35 ; Mathematics Club. 1934- 35-36 ; Dramatic Club. 1934-35-36 ; Rifle Team, 1932-33-34-35-36 ; Sec- retary, Rifle Club. 1934-35 ; Physics Club. 1935-36 ; Dance Committee, 1936 ; 2nd Lieut., 2nd Co., 2nd Reg. LAWRENCE ALEXANDER “Alex” . . . Harvard “Thy modesty’s a candle to thy ■merit.” Entered from Charles Logue School in 1930. Fidelity Prize, 1930-31 ; Mathematics Club, 1934-35 ; Le Cercle Francais, 1933-34-35 ; Physics Club, 1935-36 ; Literary Club. 1935- 36 ; Photo,graphic Society, 1935-36 ; Register Staff, 1935-36 ; Track, 1934-35. .JACOB LOUIS ALBERT Boston University “The Sony is over, but the malady lingers on.” Entered from Oliver Wendell Holmes School in 1933. Glee Club, 1933- 34-35-36 ; Math Club, 1934-35 ; Latin Club. 1934-35 ; Literary Club, 1934- 35 ; French Club, 1934-35. ALFRED WOLFE ALTMAN “Al” “Alty” . . . Harvard “What a spendthrift is he of his tongue.” Entered from William Lloyd Gar- rison School in 1930 ; French Club, 1935-36 ; Class Committee, 1935-36 ; Class Day Committee, 1936 ; Library Service Club, 1934-35 ; Cheer I.eader, 1935 ; Captain, 7th Co., 3rd Regiment ; Physics Club, 1935-36. WILLIAM HERBERT ANGOFF “Willie”, “Angie” . . . Harvard “Thou art a man now!” Entered from Theodore Roosevelt School in 1932 ; Classical Prize, 1933-34 ; Literary Club, 1934-35 ; De- bating Club, 1934-35 ; Art Club. 1935 ; 1st Lieut., 5th Co., 3rd Reg.