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

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CLASS PROPHECY By IDA MARGOLES The pitter patter of the rain and the warmth of the room as I sat in my Morris chair gradually con- trived to make me drowsy and I fell asleep. With a start I awoke. The cuckoo clock informed me it was eight o'clock. I realized it was too late for my Authors’ and Editors’ meeting. Instinctively, it seemed, my eyes rested on the graduation picture of my class, that of February, 1923. It was now twenty years after that eventful commencement night. What changes had taken place! І had been keeping what I call a Pandora box all these years, because in it I had put all the interesting things which I later on used in my plots. Opening the trunk the first thing I saw was my old diary. І had stopped writing in it some ten years before. I opened it with some curiosity and came across the following: May 2, 1933. The events of yesterday can best be accounted for by the extract from the newspaper which I have pasted here. Mayor GOLDMAN GIVES Picnic (So He Can Have Enough to Eat) Many notables attended the mayor's picnic. Bar- ney Koplin, coach of Penn State University, who has earned an international reputation, was seated in the grand stand. Herman Levenson, official seller of kosher hot dogs was very distinguished-looking. Mrs. Levenson, nee Dorothy Silverman, arrived with her small family of six. She was awarded a Roosevelt medal. Allen Ross was given as first prize a package of chewing gum, manufactured by William Kasen, for winning the greased pig race. The regular oration was delivered by Max Berk, instructor at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. Jeanette Satz recalled to us the days of Camelia Sabie by winning the turtle race. Some excitement was caused when Julia Cohen fell into the pink lemonade, but Michael D Andres happening along, the finest policeman that ever graced the ranks, rescued the fair damzel in distress. Alfred Tokar, the well-known street cleaner, cleaned the place up—by collecting money. Several of the doughnut sellers were Elmer Hamhardt, Willis Tice, and Leon Gorka. АП those who partook of the refreshments regarded the picnic as a success. June 24, 1933. My, but I am tired after yesterday. Wow! 5о- ciety day certainly takes heavy toll! Mrs. Herman Shapiro gave a wonderful ball. 1 can't somewhow reconcile Elizabeth Jay as married, she was so successful as the dean of Wellesly Col- lege, but she and Herman are happy. 1 don't blame Elizabeth for she and Florence Green always were inseparables. I remember their double wedding so well. Florence is Mrs. Richard Abeles now. Eliza- beth always has secured the best, so 1 didn't wonder she had Mr. William Mendel's orchestra of interna- tional fame to play her dance music. I met Max Landis the manufacturer of baby ribbon, there. Bill Miller was there with his little wife, the former Lavinia Von Knobloch. There were so many others that I guess if I put them all down, this will look more like a directory than a diary. But somehow I couldn't remember the ball without remembering Bessie Berson, the French shoe string seller, Beatrice Rogensof, mother of three of the nicest little girls; Michael D'Andrea, manufac- turer of green pills; David Needel, who by the way married Lillian Sussman and who is conducting a ma- trimonial agency, assisted by Louis Pischittel, and Frank Cereto. Frank certainly did not have to apply to a matrimonial agency, for ever since his school days Mathilda Padula was his sweetheart and it was but natural she should be his lovely bride. Late in the evening Elizabeth entertained us with a motion picture program. As we sat there I re- ceived a shock for laughing as in the days of yore, with her many dimples and beauty marks, was Sadie Rosen as the Juvenile lead in “Broken Hearts.” It wasn't so shocking after all for even in the old days she was famous as a beauty. Among others in the cast were Mildred Engleman, Daisy Eskowitz, Flor- ence Freeman, Harry Friedlander, Joseph Bornstein, Abraham Cohen and Philip Colt. Dorothy Elins was the costume designer and Marion Israel, her assistant. The director was Louis De Benedette. There fol- lowed a slow motion picture of athletic news showing Caffrey winning the Olympic two-cent race. Іп the News of the Day was Franklin Wintsch registering his famous grin. He is as boyish as ever, even though he is Treasurer of the United States. Side by side we saw Dina Gerber. prize beauty, and John Denver, the famous Irish politican. With pleasant goodbyes and promises to show up soon again we left our delightful hostess to seek our beauty sleep.

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June 30, 1933. I visited a Broadway musical comedy yesterday, written by Jean Seco. I remember she was our class poetess and the jolliest girl! George Gilman, of course wrote the music. How happy he must be to achieve his heart’s desire. I admit that there were some outsiders in that show but when I saw Evelyn Miller as leading lady, assisted so meritoriously by Anna Fink, Sophie” Newtes, Marie Potter, Ethel Goldstein, Gertrude Schnarr and Irene Luchs, it was hard to believe. The leading man was Irving Rosen- berg, leader now as in days gone by. Í don't wonder, Irving always was a diplomat. It's too bad now `1 recall it, that Valerie Lew- kowicz married. Yes, Gordon Simmonds by the way. I was just thinking how wonderful she was in the part of Lady Macbeth. But thus is life. August 13, 1933. I went to the insane asylum yesterday. No, it wasn't the heat, it was merely to investigate certain atrocious charges. I heard that the poor prisoners were fed only on the moon and green cheese. I found that the head keeper was Frances Delaney, assisted by Mathilde Beller. There was one particular sad case. A young woman pessimist got so that she thought she was the color blue. In one other case a woman buyer for a house which dealt with Paris and New York thought that she had become a dress and so the poor thing had to be confined here. I was informed that a group of progressive teachers were also investigating the charges. How delighted was I to see Helen Tresch, Mathilda Scotch, Lillian Schnatz, Genieve Rizzolo, Marie O'Conner, Selma Mink, Frances Wollman, Elizabeth Hoffman, Thelma Moskowitz and Miriam Gorlin. Why we had а regular crying party because we were so glad io see each other (and not because we were in the insane asylum). 'Scotchie informed me that David Kampf Where Do You Eat? If you are dissatisfied with the food you are getting, come and see из. “Clean, Wholesome and Homelike is our motto. Prices right—food good. JOS. POSNER High and New Sts, Newark, N. J. had opened an old Batchelors’ Shop, his assistants be- ing Joseph. Issaccson, Herman Harris, Henry Harris, Arthur Heller and Stephon Hoffman. Sept. 10, 1933. Well, I did accomplish two things yesterday. I did some shopping and attended my Authors’ meet- ing. While shopping, guess whom I met? Well, it was Gertrude Wiss, married of course. I saw Wil- liam Kelly, who is a minister now; Edward Kreps, the famous saloon keeper (in the movies only), and Harry Krieger, editor of Lovelorn Kolumn” or the “Sigh.” Dora Bruder was buying baby clothes I noticed and Rosella Fishbein proved to be the owner of the de- partment store, having married the previous owner. It seemed wherever I went yesterday, I met somebody I knew. In the florist shop, I met Mathew Galansky buying roses, he blushingly told me for his grand- mother, but I stopped at court house to inquire about a deed and whom should I see but Josephine D'Troia doing the same thing as I. She had been willed a large estate and was looking to see if the title was clear. Ав we stood gossiping, in walks Lena Friedman with her brief case. It seems she has be- come a lawyer, following in her brother's footsteps. Well, this has been an eventful day. I may as well call it Remembrance Day, since Гуе met so many of my old classmates. I was so intent upon reading my diary that my heart missed a beat when I felt two strong hands cover my face, but it only proved to be my hubbie. “Say, how long has this been going оп?” he queried on beholding my diary. I answered his question and then I told him how I had had the honor and pleasure of graduating with the best class—that of February, 1923, and from the finest school in the country, the Central High School of Newark, N. J. SHAKESPEARE SAYS: Good name in man or woman dear is the immediate jewel of their souls. A Diamond or any Jewel bought at Bertl's reflect the name of high quality, refined taste and reasonableness. Serving Three Generations of Satisfied Customers. NORBERT BERTL Diamond Expert 44-46 Springfield Avenue