Bronx High School of Science - Observatory Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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S wt-3 look hack at our stay at Sl'il'Ill'4' manv ol' us will recall the limes when eager candidates llooded the gym wailing lor a tryout lor the lvusclvall team. or Lltt equally ardent group ol' students llockcd to the pool Xllttllttl to lrreak ZW! or tl tlis- gruntled Nl r. Nleisel waited lor someone over In leet 5 to volunteer lor the liuskctliull team. Those were the duvs lteliore lllt'l'Xll'k1-l'lIl'- riculur stoppage when .91'i1'l1r'f' fielded learns in lvaseltall. tennis. soccer. lnasketlrall. hand' lvall. truck and tit-ld and swimming. 'lihose were also the davs when our teams were iust lieginning to prove that our school is not onlv an intellectual storehouse. lint could also take care ot' itsell' on the athletic lield. Uni' term produced many ol' the athletes t who tried to prove the old saving. Healthy l minds make healthy hodiesfi lfxerv team on the school was well represented with class- inates ol' ours. and as we review four years of sports. it might he well to review some ol' the accomplishments ol' our classmates on those teams. Prolialtlv one of the hrst to hecome an active varsity memher it as Teddy Solomon. who vt as second string first lvaseman on thc liaseliall team as early as third term. Teddy. who plays semi-professional hall over the summers. attained the singular distinction of hreaking up two noehitlers in one season. one in the last inning. The feat was accom- plished lirst in an exhilvition game withf.'11rdi1111ll1rm'ex and later in a PSU. encounter against Cllilllllll. i As time went on, 'lieddy hecame the spark ofthe team. halting .I-iltt in PSAI. competi- tion. and .llll against all other teams. He also ltlasted Sf'lAl'lIf'1'iS hrst and only homer of the season. a solid round tripper which helped in eking out a 5-I win over Com- rzzerce. Teddy. tall and slim. holds the ad- ditional distinction of never striking out in high school competition. The whole liackstop department ol' the team was composed ol' lioys lirom our term. Nlark Levin. Carlos Sepulveda. l,eonard tPunc-hyt Nlorris and llav Pike sharing' the Catching duties. Dick Pertes. a tricky left- -V7

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L .fn hander. and Howie lfpstein rounded out our term's active lwaselrall participants. Another early starter w as Aaron Preiser. a xarsity track man since fourth term. The first time that Aaron ex er ran a Competitive N mile was in the Boys High llleet on llandalls Island and heliexe it or not the lleet looted naval art-liiteet placed second in his heat with a eommendalile 5.ll2 timing. Aaron l also did t'ross-eountry vhores. and his sue- Cess in that field can lie shown hy a l5.05 race he ran in the llronx lihamps. ln the field of shot putting. Don lirody ' 'W has exeelled. Don, strong and solidly liuilt. heaved the weight -14' lltl 1 while only in fifth term. This remarkalile ret-ord plaeed him fifth in the City in the Brooklyn College Nleet. His skill in this department has won for him a full tuition seholarship to Okla- homa .-X. 8 Xl. ' John Cato. affectionately dulilied The 1 llilying Parson. Mike Dinoll. who runs the ' hundred. liill .-Xngelos. Hike liashgarian and Chester Hiehman also were ac-tire track- men. Xoel Frank and Howard Epstein were stars of a rather starless liasketliall team. during a skein of games when a xirtory w as rare and liar liietween. Noel. howexer. with an arerage of oier ll points per game. personally' helped make many ol' the games as Close as they were. His eighteen points against George Washington helped to ae- Count for one of the team xietories. Howard lfpstein. who was elected captain. is also rememliered lor one Iiiali storing elliort. when he sank 20 points through the hoop during St'I'l'Ill'4't.X tif-tory ox er llialit. fill-59. Jordan Daxis. a more than adequate hoopster and manager ol' the team. also ranked high with lioaf-h Nleisells men. With the tennis team were liarl Sesar. who is almost as good a tennis player as a yodeler. llonrad Giles. Herman Lerner. lloli Feigenson and Stan l,uhman. the man- ager. While the stoppage prevented him from engaging in PSM. competition. lion- rad practieed on his own and reached the third round in the lfastern Indoor Tennis Tournament. Perhaps the greater numher of students HTC OH lhf' SOCCCIA lealtl. lTOI'E'TTl0Sl HIIIOIIQ then the relrining school boy 33