Boys High School - Red and Black Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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THESE The U. S. had iusT been Thrown inTo The greaTesT and mosT disasTrous world conflicT known To man, when in February, l942, a 'Few hundred boys enTered Waverly annex, Thereby obTaining The disTinciTion of becoming The TirsT class To enTer Boys High School during The war. Paradoxically enough, iT was also To become The TirsT peace Time graduaTion group. Boys High had consTiTuTed a major parT of our lives since Those dark days iusT afTer Pearl Harbor, unTil January I946, when glorious peace reigned aT lasT, Throughouf a baTTered and Tired planeT. Four years have elapsed since The enTrance of This class: four of The mosT evenTful ever recorded, which saw The democ- racies rise up Trom Their deep canyons of despair, To The awakening of a new and brighTer world. For us, iT was a period oT evoluTion from elemenTary To advanced algebra, from bliThe spiriTs To The reservedness of maTuriTy, and from puppy love To knowing beTTer. BuT in reTrospecT, Ier us endeavor To recapTure The highlighTs of our life aT B. H. S. SPRING i942 Timidly we enTered upon our high school career. Mr. Tausk bade us welcome, inTro- duced us To Boys High and iTs TradiTions, and wished us success in all our underTakings. We were filled wiTh pride over our new Alma MaTer and looked forward To a mosT pleasanT, Though Temporary, sTay aT Waverly, under The guidance of Mr. Charles E. Hughes. inTo a smooThly running, efhcienf school war mobilizaTion we were ThursT, and parTicipaTed in salvage campaigns, book collecTions for serv- icemen, war bond and sTamp sales, and an ambulance fund. Even a commando course was added To The curriculum. ln The iniTial A. A. elecfions of our career, we saw Ben Skor elecTed presidenT, by The greaTesT margin of voTes in The hisTory of The school. The Red and Black celebrafed iTs TwenTieTh year of publicafion. DespiTe our inTensive war work, sporTs con- Ten Tinued as before, wiTh The baseball Team drop- ping only Three oT Their fourTeen games. BoTh The Tennis and Handball Teams garnered cham- pionships, while, for The firsT Time in Three years, The ElsTeinmen failed To win The Brook- lyn Track Championship. FALL I94-2 Hardly had we become used To educaTion in The annex Than, we were Transferred To The main building wiTh The closing of Waverly. Our second Term saw us become veTerans of The high school mode of life. No longer did we buy swimming pool TickeTs-we now FOUR In coniuncTion wiTh The war eTforT, The firsT Blood Donor Drive was underTaken. Dixie Walker spoke on blood pledges in The A. M. session rally, while we P.M.ers were addressed by Red Barber. Twenfy Tons of scrap meTal were gladly carried To school by The sTudenTs, wiTh The privilege of leaving Their TexT books aT home. In addiTion, iT was announced ThaT nine war courses were To be added To The curriculum, besides The already offered' pre- flighT subiecTs. sold Them! The Glee Club performed Twice in Carne- gie Hall before sell-ouT audiences, and re- ceived The New York criTics' applause. The MaTh Team, in an off Term, Took second place. HighIighTing a foofball season, in which we dropped only Two games, Manual was Thoroughly beaTen 58-O. ln soccer, we were runner up for The ciTy TiTle, while we Tied for firsT place in our baskeTball division. SPRING T943 AT long lasTl We were no longer lowly freshmen. We now were lowly sophomores! Many iunior high sTudenTs were added To The class's ranks. The B. H. S. Radio Quiz Team broughT home The CurrenT EvenTs Championship-sTill anoTher cup To our overflowing Trophy room.

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The faslr before us is nof an easy one. We musf overcome many obsfacles before we can affain success. However, as graduafes of Boys High School we face fhe fufure confidenfly. This con- fidence is born nof of youfhful folly, fbuf as fhe resulf of fhe excellenf fraining fhaf we have re- ceived during fhese lasf four years. We owe an immeasurable debf of grafifude fo our energefic faculfy and beloved principal for fheir unfiring efforfs in equipping us for fhe imporfanf iob fhaf lies ahead. We, fhe members of fhe Class of January I946, prepared fo fulfill our obligafions fo our counfry and posferify, go forward fo meef fhe responsi- bilifies which our new role offers. l H. S. G. E. W. Nine

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Our war program expanded fo include for- eign war relief. Three S200 checks were pre- senfed fo Russian, Chinese, and Brifish War Relief Agencies. The nexf monfh, we sfarfed a second blood donor drive and paid for an ambulance bearing fhe school's name. A Red Cross drive neffed S4I0 and a giganfic carni- val-bazaar produced SI,300 for Army and Navy Relief. Our war machine was now mov- ing af full speed! A Vicfory Corps was begun and our elecforal sysfem was revised fo permif officers fo be elecfed before fhey were fo serve, so as fo allow fhe school governmenf fo funcfion af fhe very oufsef of fhe Term. Though fhe baskefball feam experienced a mediocre season, fhe Fiffh Annual Track and Field Meef was hailed as a greaf success. FALL I943 Upon becoming upper sophomores, fhe day, so many of us had eagerly awaifed, had finally come. We were fo rise wifh fhe dawn, and SHORT ioyously wend our way fo school wifh fhe A. M. session. Hal Braunsfein, Burfon Monasch, and Frank Sperandeo were our chief execufives, elecfed fhe previous ferm under fhe newly organized sysfem. Ed Boofh, fhe firsf major wri're-in candidafe in fhe school's hisfory, placed second in fhe presidenfial race, alrnosf winning 'fhe excifing elecfion. Once again foofball was in fhe limelighf, and sfudenfs wenf ouf fo back fhe Mullermen eleven. Such sfars as John Fonfana, Angy Maglio, Herb Brandf and Harvey Denis made up a powerful aggregafion which losf only once, 7-6 fo Lincoln, fhough 'rying fhree. Fon+ana's sfellar performance fhroughouf fhe season earned for him fhe fifle All Cify Tackle A Red and Black feam, Murray Lerner, Julius Sherman and Eddie Marcus, monopo- lized fhe Kid Wizards Radio Show, reign- ing supreme for fen weeks. The hundredfh semi-annual Declamafion Classic provided a brillianf orafory program while fhe Mafhlefes won fhe lnferscholasfic Mafhemafics League championship for fhe second successive ferm. SPRING I944 The Spring rolled round and found fhe new juniors af fhe half-way mark in a semesfer desfined fo be one of fhe mosf evenfful. Jusf as Sperandeo. Brody and Zucker as- sumed fheir A. A. offices. fhe announcernenf was made fhaf fhe sfudenfs had fopped fheir SI5,000 Bond quofa by selling SI25,000 worfh, one sfudenf selling fhe amazing fofal of 553.000 The Red and Black fhen came ouf wifh fhe unique Girl Friend Confesf, wifh fhe sfudenfs selecfing Miss Janef Binder as fhe firsf Miss Boys High. There followed fhe Buoys Hi Noose , April Fool lssue of fhe Red and Black, which headlined 'rhe facf 'rhaf fhe Execu- five Council was fo be indicfed for embezzle- menf. A new swing band played af various Army and Navy Convalescenf Posfs while a cifafion from fhe Treasury Deparfmenf for fhe Fourfh War Loan was added fo our long lisf of awards for B. H. S. war cooperafion. The baskefball season saw us lose fhe cham- pionship fo Jefferson by fwo poinfs and All- Cify Don Forman sef an all-cify record for individual scoring on one game-49 poinfs againsf Manual. The Sixfh Annual B. H. S. Track Meef was successfully held af Randall's Island and fhe Bowling Team won fhe Cify Championship. FALL l944 We came back fo school in fhe fall fo find YEARS fhaf Alma Mafer had faken on a new cosfume. 550,000 was spenf on a complefe renovafion wifh a scienfific color scheme fo eliminafe fhe drab and eye-sfraining paffern of previous years. Affer a fierce campaign for fhe schools fop execufive posifions, Richard Zagrzecki, lConfinued on Page 47l Eleven