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

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iiSENIOR OFFICERSi l i l Twelve Our Senior PresidenT is probably The mosT popular fellow in The class. WiTTy, always ready wiTh a warm, friendly laugh, Len Schneider- man cerTainly deserves his posiTion. l-le leaves B. l-l. S. wiTh a Summa Cum Laude average and more Than a dozen services. In addiTion To being Vice-PresidenT, John Abdalian has acTed as Presidenf of The ScholasTic Council, EdiTor of The Forum LaTinum and PubliciTy DirecTor of ArisTa. The Senior SecreTaryship is ably filled by Phil De Marco. l-le can wriTe so well he's been called The besT forger in The business. Seriously, he's been secreTary of so many groups, we know he can Phil The bill. Speaking for The class is versaTile John Webber. Red is PresidenT of The A. A., a member of ArisTa, The Band, The OrchesTra, The Base- ball Team, The War AcTiviTies CommiTTee ,... buT why go on? We have consigned The Senior funds To Eugene Pearlman and Ed Trush. BoTh are Arisfa, lvlaTh Team, and Program CommiTTee boys, excellenT escape arTisTs, and have worked on Grade Advisers Service. SelecTed as ValedicTorian, Wolfgang T-lallo holds a 98.57, average. This disTincTion compleTes a school career sTudded wiTh such honors as Co-Leader of ArisTa, and The Three Year Cup. To aid The Treasurer in fixing The books, l-larry von Dolen was chosen as Financial SecreTary. Harry served on The Recorder, The Red and Black, and The Program CommiTTee. Lorenzo Maglio was elecTed SergeanT-aT-Arms from a hosT of can- didaTes, aTTesTing To his populariTy. T-le was Business Manager, and a consTanT conTribuTor To La Voz, and CapTain of The Spanish service. The 8Th Term's Rep. To The ExecuTive Council is NaThan Pelner. NaT has seen acTion on The Program CommiTTee. The LiTerary Recorder, and The VicTory Corps while amassing a 9IC7o average. The picTures in This book, were noT prinTed Through The courTesy' of Bob Ripley, buT Through The cooperaTion of The PicTure CommiTTee. Edward Ereiberg, Allan Beckerman, Melvin Greenberg, Morris Knubo- wiTz, and ZenniTh PasTernack formed The CommiTTee. PuTTing The seal on This lisT are Mr. Charles Edgecomb and Mr. Maurice KaplowiTz. We exTend our mosT sincere graTiTude To These genTlemen who were ever presenT wiTh The friendly advice we so ofTen needed.

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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

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