Brooklyn Technical High School - Blueprint Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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ING student practices carbon arc-welding JULY I, I9-12: Brifish Eigh+h Army sfops Rommel aT EI Alemain Tech Keeps Pace As America Arms l-TE CLASS oT January '46 was The TirsT Tresh- man class To be admiTTed during The war, and There were many sTrains ThaT disTinc- Tion bore wiTh iT. There were Those awTul days in The gym when Mr. Laub would Tell us, There's a war on! and had us do TorTy pushups, a Tew dozen knee-bends and Then, Tor relaxaTion, TorTy- eighT Toe Touches. T-low abouT The Time when lvlr. Peclc Told us To scale The wall or clear The elephanT Tor The TirsT Time? We ran, jumped, made a dull Thud and remained somehow on The same side. Remember when Mr. Milde yelled, Fall in! and some Tellow was caughT underneaTh The low parallel bars which had been converTed inTo a one-TooT high Tunnel? The bell rang and we ran To Civics. Gee, iT's easy To geT a good mark! we exclaimed ThaT day aTTer Mr. Case gave us his TirsT pep Tallc. All we had To do was bring pop's keys To school Tor The lcey drive or borrow sisTer's new l-larry James record and donaTe iT To some serviceman's organizaTion. Oh well, moTher didn'T wanT ThaT Two-way-sTreTch girdle any- way. Loolc aT all The salvageable rubber iT con- Tainedl There's The bell again! Shop I3Ial Mr. Chairman Told us ThaT day ThaT our Term proiecT was To build model planes Tor The Navy. When we drilled The TirsT Tuse- lage wiTh The auTomaTic drill press, we almosT

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JUNE 5-7, l942: Ba++le of Midway, an Allied viciory Tech Clubs Cover Everything BGSTTTOVGWS Sevenfh- The band wiTh American Pa- From Slide-Rules to Symphonies Troll' and The Dance Band wiTh BeaT Me Daddy . Amid our numerous Technical inTeresTs There are some blobs oT cul- Ture, To be Tound in such clubs as The Music AppreciaTion and Jazz Clubs. Now Tor eleganT words, we can Turn To The Public Spealcing SocieTy, The DramaTic SocieTy, or lvlr. DeWiTT. For addiTional lip service, even Though in a Toreign language, The French Club and The DuTch Dozen are aT our disposal. No, liTeraTure and arT are noT lacking, Tor The BlueprinT, Survey, l-lorizons, Science BulleTin, lv1aTh STudenT, TransiT, Mr. Driscoll ldeTenTion slipsl, Allied ArTs and STage Squad oTTer These. There is Tood Tor The soul here also. The l-li-Y Club is aT your service, along wiTh The Menorah SocieTy and Newman Club. BuT cleanliness is nexT To godliness and in view oT ThaT be assured ThaT There is a DeTergency Sguad and hence . . soap in The shops! Tech will have many whiTe collar workers, Too. l.oolc aT Those clerlcs worlc-we can Tind such laborers in every oTTice in The school. BuT Tor us, iT's science, TirsT, lasT, and always. And here They are: The Chem SocieTy, Advanced Chem SocieTy lmalres l-l:S smell more advancedl, Physics Club. l-lydrophonics SocieTy - WaiTl STop all The TraTTic on The George WashingTon Bridge! - The Civil Engineering Club has iusT Tound a Tlawl WITH SCISSORS and glue, The Survey is born lbelow, upper lefti. Orchestra performance lboffomj .... The Squad Leaders' Show lrightj. i 1

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JULY 2, l942: SevasTopol falls To The Germans. bored Through The Tloor inTo Mr. Syerdloves Erench class. The Terms progressed. Can'T TorgeT ThaT day when The class presidenT hiT us Tor halT a dollar a piece Tor The Red Cross. BuT we gave and gladly Too, because we recalled The sacri- Tices ThaT Meyer Levin and oTher TechniTes had made in This war. ThaT was The Term when Freddie EiTzsim- mons came To Tech and Told us abouT The urgenT need Tor blood plasma. We even Talked grandpa inTo going down To The Red Cross To f 4 4 4 2 l N l l I 4 5 l 5 7 E 9 2 N T X see ET he coulo sTand The loss oT a pinT oT blood. T The air raid gongs rang oTTen in Those days, lT was greaT To miss Those physics TesTs s in croer To haye a TesT eyacuaTion oT The build- ing. r T aio classes iT was Tun Tying up The cfner ,lu J f' 'R - R'7 ages, CJ- ' ., T76 o r Tl' , f vain -v i e- onl We passed Ordnance orgeTTing To undo The knoTs. om head To TooT wiTh band- I lnspecfc o and were gualiTied To be iunior insoecTo's a far pianT. E iffe a s more noffll We were wel- I comeo oacf To surrender, iffe il, - ,,, dollar war siaf 3 WC- ff' .J ol mfh The news oT Japan's I bfaTed by buying ThaT exTra 5 ThaT ,fag The l,O20,000Th T dohar in sTarros and bonds boughT in The schod since December 7, I94l. lThey are needed more Th 96 GO wr-vi A-D - efer, nowy To cornbaT inTla- Tion.l The Tinal bell has rung. TNe bid Tarewell and ioin Those beTore ' Q ' us. The 5,475 below will increase as we s s ioin The Armed Eorces. lndustry's open-hearth steel is poured A NUMBER ON A FLAG IS MUTE SYMBOL OE SACRIEICES BEYOND OUR MEASURE