Central High School - Cog N Pen Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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On Skipping By Rose BASKIN Skipping is a word sometimes applied to what little girls with patent leather belts do on sunny spring mornings, or to escaping some predestined fate. Very often the word is applied to the innocent habit of cer- tain readers of reading a few pages and cruelly ignor- Many are the pages which I know ing the following. Chap- feel neglected and hurt after such treatment. ters of description in partic ular come in for a goodly dose of skipping. Skipping has its advantages. started a poor book, we were forced by some law adding to the miseries of mankind to stick it out to the end, how much more suffering would be added to the swelling list! Also, if we could not repo rt on books unless we had to read them through entirely, how much straighter would father’s mustache look when we showed him our monthly report card! To be able to skip properly is an accomplishment. Some persons skip irregularly, according to their own fancy Suppose, if we or time, reading only the part where the heroine is carried away by the hero’s speech (and Ford) ; others (and these are the ones I envy) skip systematically, reading enough of each paragraph to give them a general idea of the whole book. Then there are people who read the first and last pages, and then talk about the book. Introduction, prefaces, explanations and notes are ordinarily skipped except by professors, spe- cialists and other people with tortoise-shell glasses. When authors realize this, much paper and ink and many eyes will be conserved, and we shall have a lower per cent. of illiteracy. There are certain rows of books in the library skipped entirely, the reader passing on to O. Henry, after looking at “The Archaeological History of the Ancient Egyptians.” Liberty Loan ads are just naturally skipped by the man supporting a wife, five children, and an epicurean cat on $15 per. Class Bibi [First and second places are given. ] Most Popular Girl 13. Best All-Around Boy Wittiest Person Alice Gibbs Helen Lilien Most Popular Boy Norman Collier Gerald Hauser Most School Spirit Leon Kranztohr Gerald Hauser Best Looking Girl Laura Lewandorf Alice Gibbs Best Looking Boy Norman Collier Charles Graham Best Boy Athlete Theodore Augenstein Gerald Hauser Best Girl Athlete Helen Lilien Ethel Pearl Best Boy Orator Gerald Hauser | eon Kranztohr Best Girl Orator Rose Schaffer Laura Lewandorf Best Dresser H. Norman Collier Charles Graham Best Girl Dresser Alice Gibbs Fannie Katz Best All-Around Girl Rose Schaffer Ethel Pearl Gerald Hauser H. Norman Collier 14. Class Pest 19. 20. 2 Philip Mintz Walter Prosch Best Mixer Gertrude Steinhart Leon Kranztohr Most Studious Boy Theodore Augenstein Leon Kranztohr Most Studious Girl Mae Levey Minna Strauch Best Girl. Dancer Sophie Horrowitz Helen Lilien Best Boy Dancer Walter Prosch H. Norman Collier Quietest Girl Claire Howard Ethel Hamburger l. Quietest Boy Stephen Nowinski Theodore Augenstein 22. Biggest Bluffer Leon Zeckhausen (Unanimous) 23. Best Singer Ruth Benz Eleanor Beckleman 24. Class Baby Harold Merz Philip Mintz 13 32. 33. Pearl Okin Leon Kranztohr Class Politician Samuel Grubin Walter Prosch Liveliest Boy Gerald Hauser Walter Prosch Liveliest Girl Alice Gibbs Rose Schaffer Most Conceited Laura Lewandorf Leon Zeckhausen Hardest Worker Leon Kranztohr Morris Rubin Most Obliging Person Loretta Schwartz Walter Prosch Biggest Braggart Ethel Pearl Leon Kranztohr Most Boyish Girl Helen Lilien Laura Lewandorf 34. Most Girlish Boy 35. Left out by special request. Laziest Person Abraham Goldblatt Harold Merz Tied.

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Verse By Rose Baskin THE RIGHT NOT TO LAUGH In the theatre, at the party, If your sense of humor’s hearty, You must laugh. Though you find the joke’s not fu nny, Even though you don’t feel sunny, You must laugh. If you don't laugh, they will tell you, From the club we will expel you. You must laugh. For to be a jolly fellow, You must find each wit quite mellow, You must laugh. If you do not they will brand you; “Grouch and killjoy, they will hand you, You must laugh. Watch your neighbor, if he’s grinning, That's your cue, that's your beginning, Y ou must laugh. All these smiles that are expected Make me weary and dejected, Must we laugh? CORRIDOR GOSSIP While walking in the hall one day, I chanced on maidens fair and gay, All of them merrily chaffing away, Ten reps a minute they could slay. What this one wore, What that one said, What dress, what hat, Who smoked, who swore. All of this gossip, then some more, Spoke these maidens, near a score, Branding one or another a bore, What do you talk to that girl for?” Who went with him, Who took her out, Where did they go, Do you like Tim? Small wonder that those damsels fair, As shown in class, have heads of air, For Latin grammar they don't care, Math never gave them one gray hair. What kind of lace, A velvet sash ( She uses rouge Upon her face!’’) “You need a touch Of powder, dear.” ( She gads about With boys too much.” ) A gentle stab, Of malice, too. To shorten my tale: A girls’ confab. THE ANTILLES The sun beamed down on the sea, With a brilliant blessing, Parting the waves with light, Creating jewels on the water. Calm was the sea and quiet ; No burly wind interrupted The courtship of sun and wave. The sight moved even the rude clouds Hurrying from sterner regions, Staying their course, abashed and softened. Into this field of peace Rushed the Antilles, loudly proclaiming By shrieking whistle and engine, That she was the great, the wonderful transport. Hurrying ever onward, This body of iron and wood, With heart as indifferent, Emblem of Man’s hateful warfare, Watchful for the unscheduled death That lay beneath the innocent water. It came, sudden, though expected, As invisible and stealthy, As though ancient gods had clothed it With a magical cloak of darkness. Reaching its begrimed hand From the deep, and dragging the ship down, Sending our sons to wet darkness, Boys not yet shocked into manhood, With eyes open and unafraid, And alight with valor and romance. Rapidly was this enacted, Planned and directed by Science, The traitor son of Mankind. Soon were the signs of battle Impatiently brushed aside By disturbed Madame Nature, And the sun beamed down on the sea With a brilliant blessing.

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CENTRAL SERVICE CLUB The Central Service Club is closing a most success- ful term with the sale of the Red Cross stamps. The undertaken many large projects, among which is numbered the school’s campaign for the sec- ond Liberty Loan drive, conducted by the Central Service Club and attended with greater success than the first campaign. The club has placed a committee in the locker rooms between periods to safeguard stu- dents’ property. Previous to this there had been va- rious thefts committed by outsiders, due to the lack of proper locks on the outside doors of the school. A committee has been appointed to promote school spirit in athletics and school cleanliness. In accordance with its usual custom, the club recently awarded scholar- ship prizes to those students deserving them for last term. At the last meeting, in December, of the club the officers for next semester were elected, as follows: President—William Erlich. Vice-President—Raymond Davies. Secretary— William Hawkins. G. O. Delegate—Alden Schooley. club has GIRLS’ SERVICE CLUB The Girls’ Service Club will lose by graduation Rose Schaffer, Ethel Hamberger, Laura Lewandorf, Loretta Schwartz, Ellen Beckelman and Iva Sleep. The club is a power for good in the school. It has been working to enforce the rules of the school and to institute new reforms. The following are some of the things recently accomplished by the Girls’ Service Club: A student council was elected to help the girls. A mass meeting was held for uniform dress, as the girls are trying to do their bit by conserving clothes. Blue and white streamers were sold at the games. Copies of the school songs were made and distributed. A clean-up campaign was arranged. A rest room was opened for the general welfare of the girls. A committee operated in conjunction with the Central Service Club to visit different schools to see how the student organizations are run. ‘The girls made a soccer banner and took charge of the selling The club put up a bulletin board on the third floor to help the pupils who do not report to assembly. The members did everything in their power to help the school and the pupils. The officers are: Edith Timer, president; Florence Born- stein, vice-president; Genevieve Noonan, secretary, and Gladys Van Dolson, G: O. delegate. of Christmas stamps. WITH OUR BOYS Benjamin Lipson is now stationed somewhere in France with the U. S. Engineering Corps. Herman Lermer IS helping our army guard Niagara Falls. Milton Jacobs, another of our graduates, is sta- tioned at Camp Dix. Harry Salzman is in the Quartermaster’s Corps at Yaphank, Long Island. Morris Goldstein is with the cavalry in North Carolina. Samuel Richman is in the field artillery, stationed at Camp McClellan, Anniston, Ala. David Panama. Bernheim is with the army down in 14