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

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Eew oT us will quiTe TorgeT our second year, if only Trom The sTandpoinT oT a TooTball en- ThusiasT. Boys High's canny maesTro, Wally Muller, Tielded a decidedly reasonable Tac- simile oT a TirsT class eleven ThaT Tall, headed by The incomparable runner deluxe, Skippy Easke. They proceeded To brush aside six sTraighT opponenTs, and reached Their peak The aTTernoon They meT up wiTh The power- laden, undeTeaTed Tech gridders. All ThaT was aT srake was The myThical ciTy championship. The Mullermen, behind I3-6 wiTh scanT sec- onds remaining, scored a T.D. and added The exTra poinT in Typical Erank Merriwell Tashion To Tie The Engineers I3-I3 To gain a 501 hold on The P.S.A.L. crown. NOT To be ouTdone in The way oT aThleTic success, Doc ElsTein's winged TooTers also broughT home The bacon Thar year. The Track- sTers won The ouTdoor MeTropoliTan TiTle, de- TeaTing Their nearesT rival, New UTrechT, wiTh plenTy To spare. The denizens oT B.H.S. likewise, Tared well in academic achievemenT. The Columbia Press AssociaTion awarded a medalisT To The Red and Black, and a TirsT place raTing To The LiTerary Recorder. NoTeworThy, also, were The accomplishmenTs oT The Boys High musical organizaTions. The Melody Men broughT acclaim To Old Iron- sides lB.H.S.l, perTorming admirably in siv- eral concerTs over sTaTion W.N.Y.C., and aT Th, Brooklyn Museum, while The Band, under The agile baTon oT Max WeinsTein, commemoraTed iTs TwenTieTh anniversary. AnoTher memorable phase oT our soph year was The resumpTion oT The long-dead single session, and The inTroducTion oT an annex. Ap- proximaTely 800 Treshman lhall sTudenTs, ac- companied by a number oT our prominenT TaculTy, migraTed To The annex. Those oT us who remained in This age-old TixTure, ThaT is Boys High, viewed The innova- Tion oT The single session wiTh a mixTure oT skepTicism and inTense saTisTacTion. Many deemed The school day, lengThened by some Two hours, would inTerTere wiTh Their posT- EighT school iobs. However, The maioriTy refused TO conTesT The new procedure when They learned ThaT iT permiTTed almosT 30 more minuTes of JUNIORS We were now Juniors, Two years away Trom our desTinaTion-graduaTion. We were very proud individuals sTruTTing across The halls wiTh Senior buTTons clipped on To our Boys High sweaTers. We easily passed as seniors, aT leasT we ThoughT we did. We had Two years oT ex- perience in Boys High School, and we knew iusT where we were going and whaT we were doing. Each oT us knew exacTly whaT Teachers handed ouT cuTTing cards, and whaT Teachers didn'T. The TirsT halT oT The Third year was an im- porTanT one To us, poliTically, since we Tinally had a voice in The school governmenT Through our TiTTh Term represenTaTive. Bob RosenThal, sleep. Hal Johnson, and Harry TeiTelbaum were The A.A.'s president vice-presidenT, and secreTary, respecTively, aT This Time. Our TooTball Team was quiTe unsuccessTul, and we were all much disappoinTed. BuT, The Mul- lermen, headed by Herbie HorowiTz and Andy lppoliTo, cerTainly gave us a big boosT when They Trimmed Erasmus, Boys Highs TradiTional Toe. AT The end oT The Tall Term we ToughT The big snow, 25.6 inches To be exacT, To geT To school. The cold February winds saw Mickey Eish- er's BaskeTball Team in The Garden playoTTs, wiTh all oT us in The sTands cheering. AlThough we losT To a Tavored Lincoln Team, we were very proud oT our baskeTeers, a colorTul bunch oT ballplayers wiTh a loT oT spiriT. IT will be hard To TorgeT how They Trounced Brooklyn Tech, 47-37, To geT inTo The playoTTs. IT was during This same Term ThaT Doc ElsTein's Track sTars capTured all The Track hon- ors in sighT. They won The NaTional High School Track and Field Championship aT Madi- son Sguare Garden, and The P.S.A.L. lndoor MeTropoliTan Championship. The winged TooT-

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ers also seT new records in, and won, The SeTon l-lall Relays and The Penn Relays. The sun was shining very brighT now, and we were all a liTTle lax Toward doing our home- work assignmenTs, buT, we neverTheless managed To sTruggle along. Then came The day we leTT our books, our brains, and Boys High's doors behind us To be- gin our much needed summer vacaTion and To assume The digniTy oT a SENIOR. SENIORS Well TorTiTied by a summer oT resT, we marched belligerenTly Through The porTals oT B.l-l.S. in The Tall. l.eT everyone geT ouT oT our paTh! We were seniors. True, we were only uncivilized seniors and were merely To receive our Training Tor seniorhoocl during This Termp buT, Technically, we could be called seniors. The TiTle meanT a loT To us. As sevenfh Termers we had plenTy To shouT abouT in The Tield oT B.l-l.S. sporTs. The TooT- ball Team climaxed a surprising season by ouTclassing Madison 40-I4. lT was during This campaign ThaT The TirsT annual award in mem- ory oT Colonel Mickey Marcus was presenTed To Joe Maglio. Then, oT course, There was Doc ElsTein's ieT-heeled Track Team To brighTen our days. Again, sparked by Jim Conaway, George Shaw, and Roger MonTgomery, all members oT The June '49 class, They crumpled all opposi- Tion beTore Them. During This Term we were represenTed in The sTudenT governmenT by Frank Marchese, who Triumphed over Irwin GorensTein oT ThaT semesT- er's senior body in The A.A. vice presidenTial race. The maTh Team, capTained by Don SoliTar, also one oT us, enjoyed anoTher greaT season in The l.M.L. l-lowever, The members oT The Red and Black and LiTerary Recorder, manned largely by sevenTh Termers, wenT sTorm- ing abouT The building, indig-nanT aT noT being menTionecl in The Columbia Press awards, which lThey ThoughTl They richly deserved. Leonard Eli Reisman was The winner oT The Three year cup over a selecT Tield oT his classmaTes. Ten WiTh all This To occupy our minds We sTill Tound Time Tor sTudy, alThough ThaT phase oT acTiviTy didn'T boTher us anymore. We now had ThaT poise and conTidence ThaT was lacking beTore and seemed To be acquiring more moxy as The day Tlew by Towards our eighTh Term. l-lere, agiTaTion Tor a new building reached iTs peak wiTh The Tounding oT a new P.T.A.. al- Though iT was cerTain ThaT The class oT June '49 never was To Tread The halls oT such an ediTice. Well, anyway, we loaTed Through The ChrisT- mas holidays, crammed like mad Through Janu- ary, plunged Through The regenTs, and emerged in February as bona-Tide seniors. Gone was all apprehension as we donned our huge new sTreamlined senior buTTons and wenT sTalking ThroughouT The building in search oT anyone who had ThaT Treshman look. Our senior Term was gone beTore we knew iT, however. IT passed in a swirl oT college appli- caTions and amidsT Tervid preparaTion Tor col- lege TesTs. We quickly dropped our sense oT superioriTy and goT down To work, as all The main oTTices were conTrolled by seniors. A new deal was ThreaTened in ArisTa wiTh The elecTion oT Frank Marchese and Ben Cappadora as leaders. lncidenTally, Cappaclora, our besT all around man, also was PresidenT oT The A.A. and capTained Mickey Fisher's hoopsTers Through a somewhaT mediocre schedule, highlighTed by The loss oT several hearTbreakers To Jefferson and our arch rival, Brooklyn Tech. BoTh porTs were represenTed in The senior governmenT as George Shaw, ace high iumper and Track Team capTain, was elevaTed To The posiTion oT senior class presidenT, and Big John Wizbicki, The rebound and jump shoT arTisT Tor The baskeTeers, was elecTed vice presidenT. And so, we, who have spenT The besT years oT our lives TogeTher are separaTing and here we sTand on The Threshold oT our careers. Some will aTTend college, oThers will go direcTly To The business world, buT wherever we go, and whaTever we do, we will have one Thing in common -our sincere pride in being Boys l-ligh graduaTes.