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writing. After six months all the boys were experts, and I can still only typewrite with two fingers, one at a time. I also taught for some time at the Hubert Street Annex which is on the west side near the Hudson River. At the corner there was a large coffee roasting establishment and we used to get the fragrant aroma of coffee all day long. In fact, the teachers would bring along cream and sugar to inhale with the coffee. For one term during my teaching career, I was in another school. I was sent to an academic high school, but after six months I received my pardon and came back. YVI-len the school moved to this building, I moved with it. I saw its name changed to the Central School of Business and Arts, and from that to its present name, the Central Commercial High School. I watchediit change from a continuation school to be a Vocational High School. After about ten years of trying to get me to do some work in a class- room, Mr. Massell felt it was a hopeless task. So he put me under his direct supervision in the ofiice where he thought he could make sure that I would do some work. He was right. He just walked into my classroom one day, woke me up, and said, Take over all the afternoon sessions and the adult evening classes. Ever since he woke me up that day, I never have been able to sleep well again. During the war years, it was our privilege to help organize the registra- tion of draftees, rationing, fund raising activities and air-raid protection. Of late, I have been made chairman of the Program Committee, a job which usually results in getting everyone confused and getting the chairman himself very much disliked. In this I have been unusually successful. I have also during the past few years introduced a new course for boys: Multigraph Operation. This is a combination of a trade and a commercial occupation. YVe have been able to train many boys as skilled operators, and to supply not only the school, but also many outside agencies with multi- graphed forms and letters. To be eligible for the multigraphing course, a boy must be: 1. Unfit for anything else. 2. Barely able to read and write. 3. Know his right hand from his left. 4. Eat six sandwiches for lunch. The same qualifications are required of the teacher. Oh, yes, I have written the last five or six Senior Red-Letter Day musicals. These, I modestly admit, have been very clever and riotous. They were immensely enjoyed by everyone, despite the fact that they were pro- duced and directed by my friend, Mr. Rosenzweig, who did his best to ruin my efforts. I was sure that Hollywood would have called me by now, but they undoubtedly realize that, after 25 years, Central is my spot. Norman Wolfe 7
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.4K Q 1 AX f s f -xx I ' 1.x X .':' ll 5 . ' I 4 .. ' X N- f fm' Ik ww Hear! Hear! The Ab orm! Twenty-five years! It seems like a quarter of a century. How well I remember that day in September, 1925, when Mr. Scheinbach, whom I had known while I was a substitute at Haaren High School, called me on the telephone and asked me il' I would be interested in a permanent substitute job at a new school. Since I was very young and inexperienced, I was over- joyed that he had offered me the position. Had I known then what I know now, I would of stood in bed. I went down to 725 Broadway and spent practically all morning looking around for a school. The only building I could find there was an old oHice building. I made inquiries as to where the school was and was told to take the freight elevator up to the third floor. I got off the elevator and saw nothing. I asked a man where the school was, and he said, I am he. I asked where the student body was, and he said, There he is standing near the typewriter. That was my first day as a substitute at the Central Commercial Continuation School with Mr. Massell. Under Mr. Massell's guidance and despite my efforts, the school has grown over the years in both size and importance. Today, we have over two thousand pupils instead of one, and more than one thousand pieces of equipment as well. I, too, have grown in size and weightg have a wife, two grown-up chil- dren, gray hair, and an uncertain disposition. In the old days, Central Commercial Continuation School had many annexes. Mr. Massell sent me to teach in one that was conducted in a Western Union office. I went there one day and the man questioned me angrily, YVhere's your uniform? You know that all messengers must wear uniforms. I told him I was a teacher, and he asked me what subject I taught. I told him I taught accounting. Go into the back room and teach the boys type- 6
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1925 1927 1928 1929 1932 1935 1939 1941 1945 1946 1948 1949 1950 ' Central's Sorrowful Story Darrow Sc Scopes evolution trial. Is man descended from the apes? Lindberg flies solo New York to Paris in Spirit of St. Louis. Kellogg Peace Pact signed. N. Y. Stock Market collapses. Depression plagued business. Mussolini 8: Hitler want more power. W'orld's Fair opens. World W' ar II starts. Pearl Harbor bombed. Roosevelt dies and l'Vorld 'War II ends. League of Nations goes out of existence. Britain nationalizes railroads. Russia has Atom Bomb. Yankees win XVorld Series. N. Y. is faced with water shortage. U. S. plans H-Bomb. ,ji 15,14 ,- 19,1 a ll ' A Nl f' 1 if ll f ill iliil X If 5 an lui-1 13 nlgy 1-ref-eq,,J Q If a n f ig ' 'iX y e 'Z f Aa, y 9-p 'IV li l y- 'Al Q- More monkey business-C. DC. first opens its doors. Spirit of Central get flightier and fliglitier. Mr. YVolfe and Mrs. Rosenzweig weren't affected. Senior treasurer collapses-all dues are paid. Present crop of seniors born-Depressing? Centralites want more boys. . YVor1d's fairest girls come to Central. Central becomes a girl's school. YV hat hit Central? There is sorrow in the hearts of Central, while rejoicing over the winning of the war. Did we ever have a league in Central? Qbaseball, football, basketballj Mfliy couldn't it happen to 3rd Ave. El? YVe finally became seniors of Central. YVe have all the drips you need. Central has SILVER JUBILEE. Zllary Sotelo
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