Christopher Columbus High School - Anchor Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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MAX DUNN School Librarian GERALD HILTON Adviser, G. O. KATHERINE V. HELFER Liferary Adviser, The Anchor ARTHUR HALPER Purchasing Agen'r EDWIN WHALEN Adviser, Alumni Associafion ALAN NATHANS AduI'I' Educafion Insiifufe Qdviszrs MURRAY GOLDBERG Adviser, School Publicafions EMILY LANE Adviser, Jr. Red Cross ESTHER BALDWIN Ari' Adviser, The Anchor WALTER NAUGHTON Adviser, Parenfs Associa+ion JESSE WALLACE Adviser, Bank DAVID SIEGEL Business Adviser, Publicaiions 9

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C hairmen HARRISON FRERICHS Chairman, Fine and Applied Aris JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON Chairman, Science WALTER J. DEGNAN Chairman, Heallh Educafion, Boys OSCAR DOMBROW Chairman, Hisfory and Economics NATHAN SILBERSTEIN Chairman, MaI'hema'I'ics HELEN McCONNELL Chairman, Secrefarial Sfudies MARY G. ASCHER Chairman, Accouniing JOSEPH J. SEXTON Chairman, English BERTHA B. ROWAN Ihairman, Healih Educafion Girls EM MA M ENNA Chairman, Languages DONALD K. PHILLIPS Chairman, Music LILLIAN BADESCH Direc+or, Placemenl'

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Bavarianlradeclq When I was a child, Fraulein Lieber, nexf fo my mofher and fafher, was fhe mosf imporfanf and well-loved person in my small world. Fraulein Lieber had faken care of me since before my memory began. She was shrewd and good nafured. She under- sfood when a small girl musf be dealf wifh firmly, and when a liffle indulgence would do no harm. If I am nof a model girl, and I fear I am nof, if is nof Fraulein Lieber's faulf. Her influence was immense. She faughf me jolly German songs and played fhe piano for me. She peopled my nursery wifh fhe mischievous gnomes of fhe Grimm brofhers. She redressed my old dolls in colorful peasanf cosfumes of her own Bavaria and fhe Tyrol. Occasionally, as a greaf freaf, I was allowed fo look fhrough Fraulein's scrap book where she kepf phofographs of her family, quainf Chrisfmas cards, and snapshofs of places where she had hiked as a young girl. Buf her word-picfures were fhe besf. When she falked fo me abouf her childhood, I saw a new world, quife differenf from fhaf I knew in New York, a world filled wifh pine frees, lighf-hearfed dancing people, and fhe delicious smell of roasf goose, apple sfrudel, and coffee. Fraulein Lieber was from Munich ishe pronounced if Minchen l, and as I grew older, I was confinually making imaginary frips fo fhaf delighfful cify where I knew I would feel so af home. HoIdsfafion, fhe conducfor would cry ouf as fhe rumbling of fhe heavy frain ceased. I would gaze ouf of fhe dusf-smirched windows, filled wifh wonder and ecsfasy of having arrived. As I sfepped fo fhe plafform wifh my new suifcase, I would see people moving fo and fro busily, buf nof anxiously as people in New York move. lOf course, I was foo inexperienced a fraveller fo consider such defails as porfers, faxicabs, and fickefs.I These friendly people would nof be foo busy fo spare a glance af fhe small girl wifh fhe new suifcase who sfood round-eyed in 'rheir midsf. Their looks would seem fo say, Welcome fo Munich, Fraulein. Buf I would nof sfay long in fhe sfafion. Armed wifh direcfions from Fraulein Lieber, I would board fhe frolley car she had fold me fo fake, and like one refurning fo his nafive ci+y, se++le myself for my long ride. My companions would be blonde and blue- eyed, like Fraulein Lieber, wifh rosy cheeks like hers and moufhs always ready fo break info a smile. I would lisfen fo fheir conversafions. Perhaps fhere would be a commenf on fhe small foreign iungfrau fravelling alone. From fhe windows, as we passed fhrough fhe newer parf of 'lhe cify, I would admire fhe broad boulevards and sfreefs, lined wifh frim houses, all giving an impression of immaculafe neafness. As we came info fhe old secfion, I would enfer anofher cenfury. The Middle Ages would emerge from fhe hisfory books, and I would see myself fhe old Rafhaus and ofher medieval buildings, houses wherein fhe Mayor of Hamlin mighf have inferviewed fhe famous piper or Hans Sachs have sung. The Gofhic builders had leff nere fhe realizafion of fheir fairy fale imaginafions in imperishable sfone. I