City College of New York - Microcosm Yearbook (New York, NY)

Text from Pages 1 - 274 of the 1933 volume:

■ V J A £ ST. NICHOLAS TERRACE I |LD Nick (Jot tired of shoveling coal, so he made up as a saint, Ic grew a white beard and an aureole and he covered his hoofs with paint. He hid his tail in the scat of his pants, and he went to work with his hands. And he built a heap of solid rock, where the City College stands. II [HEN he made the College Buildings, and he stuck them on his hill; - Stm And he bred old sheep for the faculty. - Z and he’s breeding of 'em still; And whenever he hears em bleating there, he listens to their noise. For he's glad his sheep are chewing gum. but he's sorry for the boys. Ill |ND from Hell he brought stcen subjects —and golly! weren’t they bum ! And he littered them over the Register, and made a curriculum ; There was twaddle of this and twaddle of that, and worst of it all: exams He knew it was blasted tommyrot. but he didn't give a damn. IV. |UT we love our musty faculty, and we love our College, too; The love with which we stick to it is ninety per cent pure glue. And when the tarnal pyramids have sunk in Egypt's sands. May the City College smoke-stack still on St. Nicholas Terrace stand. Chorus (rHEN a cheer, and a cheer, and a cheer, and a cheer, and a cheer for St. Nicholas! And a cheer, and a cheer, and a cheer, and a cheer, and a cheer for St. Nicholas ! He built the College hill, he did. he built the great terrace. And the neighbors down in the village below, they called it St. Nicholas. f I 1 - ' f. uisGiciimjisiaK TH E COLLEGE THE o jji PU BLIJHED-BX-TH E EN IBHHEMi ravvv-vvnv-uu 01= ieST£ft H KQHS T Z.UlVA Ha 9M1 V11 FOREWORD ITH the present volume, the Microcosm completes seventy-five years devoted to the annual recording of the achievements of the College and its students. We commemorate these years of service in a special section dedi- cated to the first history of the Microcosm ever to appear in the yearbook. In this, as in every preceding edition, it has been the earnest desire of the staff to capture a small part of the spirit that is City College, the spirit that has been our College for four years. And it is extremely diffi- cult to give voice to this spirit through the medium of cold type. We have endeavored to avoid ex- cessive ornamentation,—to make this a volume not merely to be glanced at, admired and put aside, but one to be read over and over again, one whose contents will throb with new life at each reading, whose story will be revivified each time in terms of the reader s own experiences during the four years spent at school. If we have suc- ceeded in only a small part of the task, we feel that our aim has been achieved. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS T ▼ ▼ The Microcosm staff gratefully acknowledges its indebtedness to the following friends, without whose kind assistance the obstacles encountered in the preparation of the volume could never have been overcome: Professor Joseph A. Babor, who, in his position as Faculty Ad- viser, gave many invaluable suggestions in the preparation of contracts. Professor George W. Eggers, who gave freely of his time and experience in aiding in the designing of the book. Mr. Donald A. Roberts, who willingly proffered the use of the photography hies of the Alumni ofhce. Mrs. Kamholtz, whose many valuable suggestions helped to bol- ster up the advertisement section to its present robust size. Mr. Gustav Reuss, of the Scientific Engraving Company, who was a friend and adviser in every detail of the layout and design of the book. Mr. Leonard Friedman and Mr. William Dick, as well as nu- merous other members of the staff of the Arthur Studio, whose personal interest in the photographic problems of the book made possible its early appearance. Mr. Benjamin Gladstein and his numerous family at the Eastern Printing Company, including Jules Bramowitz, Jack Wert- heim, Herbert Essen, Roy Casale, Charlie Huszar, Vernard Williams, Joseph St. Pierre, and A1 Daniels all of whom interested themselves sincerely in turning out the best typographical product possible. 10 CONTENTS HISTORY................13 VIEWS..................21 FACULTY ...............33 SENIORS MAINCENTER...........65 COMMERCE CENTER . .159 ORGANIZATIONS.........187 FRATERNITIES . . . .215 ATHLETICS.............233 ADVERTISEMENTS . . . .257 “Old Nick got tired of shoveling coal. 1STOR Y npHE HISTORY of the Microcosm is the history of the College. Had there been no Microcosm, the records of the College history would have been sadly incomplete. The accession of academic presidents and deans, the enact- ment of higher educational ordinances by the legislature, the passing of honored professors and instructors,—such events are only the shell of the past life of the College of the City of New York. Presidents have come and gone, the name of the institution has been varied, and even the location has been changed; but running through- out all of the long story there has been one constant thread, one theme, representing the college itself—the student. Whether the name be Free Academy, or College of the City of New York, whether the president be Webb or Webster, the life of the college has continued. Classes have been held, clubs and teams have been organized, debates have been arranged, discussions have been held, and work has continued on all of the thousand and one details which go into the pattern of the life of the college student. It is this story, the story of student activity, that has been preserved in the pages of the Microcosms. And so it is that in the annals of the Microcosm since its incep- tion in 1858 we find the history, the true history, of the College of the City of New York. The annual was first conceived by five ambitious sophomores, of whom our benefactor alumnus, Henry E. Tremaine, was one, and ap- peared in January, 1858, as the Free Academy Microcosm. It was a four page sheet, the size of the Campus of today, pub- lished by the sophomore class, and the aim of the editors was to make the Microcosm a complete record of all organized soci- eties. A survey of the contents of the first “Mike” reveals an editorial on the organization of the student-aid fund by the alumni, a fund which the editors commended for its nobility of purpose. Another feature of the issue was the —I 5 publication of the commencement exercises of tbe first class of the institution, held on Tuesday, July 26, 1853. In other columns of the paper the members of Phrcnocosmia and Clionia were listed, the granting of the Ward medals was announced, and a calendar of the academic year was printed for the con- venience of the reader. The second issue appeared in February, 1859, but was no longer published under the auspices of the sophomore class. Due to the respon- sibility it entailed, the class of 1861 feared to undertake the task, and so the secret fraternities continued the editing of the four page sheet. The frats brought to their work a vitality and renewed vigor that boded well for the future of the publication whose cause they had undertaken. They considered the “Mike” a noble and meritorious work, with the practical purpose of showing our collegiate brethren that, in our institution at 23rd Street and Lexington Avenue, there is a world within a world, a little cosmos of undisturbed serenity.” An insight into the life of the college of that time is afforded by the census of the people connected with the institution, indicat- ing the relatively small number of students and faculty mem- bers. There were twenty-eight instructors, and three hundred and forty-five students, of whom thirty were in the senior class, fifty-three in the junior, and the rest were sophomores and freshmen. The opportunities for closer contact between students and professors, and for a really live and active social life among the students were, of course, infinitely greater than in our over-grown and over-crowded institution of today. The same volume of the Microcosm carried the proud boast that “our institution was rapidly increasing in prosperity and importance”, and the editors very optimistically “hoped to hail the day as not far distant when our institution shall attain a position excelled by none of our sister colleges.” But in spite of all these profound observations on the trend of con- temporary education and these fervent prayers for the future of the Free Academy, the students in the building at Twenty-third Street and Lexington Avenue continued to attend to the more important business of enjoying them- selves. The Microcosm of 1861 carried the following piece of doggerel: Four years to take your ease, sir. Recent when you have done. College is the {tlace sir. For jollity and fun; I 6 In November of the previous year, Lincoln had been elected; in Decem- ber, South Carolina had dissolved all ties between itself and the United States; in April, 1861, Fort Sumter fell before the shells of the Southern troops. Through the halls of the Free Academy sounded the strains of “Hang Jeff Davis on a Sour Apple Tree . Within a short time, a number of the older students found themselves plodding through muddy fields, to be mowed down by Southern rifle fire at Vicksburg or to take a few feverish shots at fleeing grey figures at Gettysburg. But life at the school appears to have run along very largely in the normal channels, as the bit of verse quoted above would seem to indicate. Microcosm No. 7, appearing in June, 1866, reflected a change in the status of the institution. The Free Academy Microcosm existed no longer, and in its stead there rose the Microcosm of C. C. N. Y. The change of name to the College of the City of New York was the most significant event, to the institution, of those troublous post-war days. When the eighth issue was published, the next December, the Microcosm was a real annual college paper. We were ac- cepted by our sister colleges as a full-fledged member of their group, and it was not long before a challenge to a literary contest with Colum- bia came along, before the “Senate , a prototype of our modern Student Coun- cil, reappeared. The Microcosm called the Senate a desirable adjunct to the college. “Its purpose should be to foster the esprit de corfts of the institution, and to take care that the strong bonds of pleasant student associations and enjoyments should unite all into an aggregate which shall have the internal cohesive powers to keep every individual strongly attached to the college. President Webster suppressed the Senate the same year. For several years silence reigned in the “Mike office, al- though it was during those years, in 1869, that the change of presidency from Webster to Webb, hero of the Civil War, took place. The 1870's brought new loves, new lives, new hopes. The fraternities still published the annual, but now the Microcosm became more wordy and prosaic in its editorials. The debating clashes of Phrenocosmia and Clionia were intensely bit- ter, for the Joneses and the Tompkinses argued and fought, praised and enunciated the merits of their respective societies. The Astarte Boat Club was organized in 1870, a football club in 1872, and an interesting innovation was made with the intro- duction of class histones in the Microcosm. The class historians told their stories with a dash and a whoop and a loud hurrah for the class of umpty-ump. __ i[ I 7 ■■■■■■I New fraternities appeared: Chi Pi, Phi Gamma Delta, and the mysterious Fiji Ghoul Society, with its skellvbone insignia and its inscriptions: Leigh, you pugnacious ghoul. Boh, the M (e) c chanical ghoul. Charles, ye co (ugh) (in) g ghoul. George, ye Preponderating ghoul. Jack, ye base ivarbling ghoul. The Microcosm left its adolescent stage to become an adult in 1878, for it emerged from its pamphlet form of the early seventies to resemble its more recent issues. It pointed with pride to its use of a cut for a frontispiece, in which it advertised itself as a harmless balloon of gas for the niggardly sum of twenty-five cents. Stiff, heavy board covers in 1887 and 1889 enclosed over two hundred pages of material, consisting, in very large part, of lists of the rosters of the innumerable organizations. There were fraternities and bicycle clubs, outing clubs and lawn tennis associations, glee clubs and literary so- cieties, football clubs and gymnasium clubs. The 1889 book contained a half- dozen photographs, the subject of one of which was the cast of the presenta- tion of the Dramatic Club, “Engaged”. The role of “Cheviot Hill (a young man of property)” was played by James K. Hackett, 91. “Belinda Treherne”, whom we see in the photograph as a beauteous maiden with curly locks and a flowing white gown, reposing in the manly arms of “Mr. Hill”, was undoubtedly very competently portrayed by Livingston Burrill Morse, 89; while the part of “Maggie (a low- land lassie)” was entrusted to the interpretation of Charles F. Horne, '89. It is also in the Microcosms of these years that we find reference to the Pea Nut Club, the Owl and Scroll, the Tomb and Altar, and that very, very secret society of the “Knights of the Order of HMNSUFSRUQD.” The stiff-collared gentlemen who edited the book of 1900 with black bow tics and hair parted in the middle, installed class pictures into the pages of the Microcosm, put poems and monologues therein, printed on yellow, ragged edge paper, and, in general, managed to produce a compact, neat and sumptuous looking annual, much more comparable than any of its predecessors with the type of book that has been turned out in recent years. The books were bound on the short edge, opening in the manner of a pad held sideways. At that time, the inadequacy of the Twenty-third Street quarters in the face of an increasing student body brought about a need for new buildings, the fight for which was carried by President Webb personally onto the floor of the Legislature at ( 18 Albany. And so. In 1908 tbe College moved to its present site, under the guidance of President Finley, whose inauguration in 1903 marked tbe end of the older, sterner rule, and the begin- ning of a liberal regime. The change was followed by a num- ber of innovations, including a broadened curriculum and the chartering of the Student Council, the first organization of its kind since the suppression of the Senate in 1866. In 1914, when President Mczes succeeded Dr. Finley, Professor Stephen P. Duggan, of our Education Department, said of the retiring president in the Microcosm, “Few college presidents have served shorter tenure of office, few have yielded finer character of service. War clouds gathered in Europe, but the college on the terrace continued «ts growth unhindered and unheeding. The evening session had been estab- lished in 1909. The Microcosm of 1915 registered the grant of the Lcwisohn Stadium, and dedicated itself to the famous philanthropist. The storm broke, and the war engulfed the college as no intellectual movement ever had or ever will. The tread of marching feet resounded through the cor- ridors, men in uniform slept in barracks set up in Lincoln Cor- ridor (recently re-christened the Hall of Patriots when there was no other place to put a statue of Washington presented to the College), and in the Great Hall. The Microcosm fell in with the spirit of the times by failing to appear for several years. The war passed, leaving behind an R. O. T. C. unit strongly intrenched at the College. A large part of the story of the student at the College in the post-war days is taken up with the rising storm of protest against militarism in the college. The movement reached a climax in 1926 when the Campus, under Felix Cohen, took up the fight. The struggle is reflected in the pages of the 1926 Microcosm, edited by Cohen. In the spring of 1926, Frederick Bertrand Robinson became Acting President, and was formally inaugurated in May, 1928, succeeding President Mezes. In his inaugural address, quoted in the Micro- cosm of 1928, President Robinson pledged himself to endeavor “to enrich the community with able scholars; with skilled workers who will cherish the scholar's love for truth; with citizens who will be both loyal and liberal; with thoughtful students who will, with each widening of their horizon of knowle dge catch more in- spiring glimpses of eternal truths that cannot be confined in the formulae of the mortal mind. ( 19 —p “He made the college buildings and he stuck them on his hill . . THE COLLEGE 23 LEWISOHN STADIUM 26 o 30) —p 31 COMMERCE CENTER And he bred old sheejt for the fac ulty, and he's breeding of 'em still. FACULTY FREDERICK BERTRAND ROBINSON, A.B., M.A., Ph.D., LL.D. President of the College of the City of New York Daniel W. Redmond Ph.B., PH.D. Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and ■IB Science, 1927-1933 __36 9 Frederick Skene B.S., C.E. Dean of the School of Engineering Justin H. Moore A.B., M.A., Ph.D., J.D. LL.M. Dean of the School of Business and Civic Administration Franas L. D. Goodrich George M. Brett A.B. Curator Meyer Bloomfield A.B. Associate Professor of Vocational Guidance i37 Arthur F. Payne B.S., Ph.B., M.A.; Ed.D. Personnel Officer Paul H. Linchan A.B., Ph.D. Director of the Evening Session DEPARTMENT OF DRAFTING f' V 'HE DRAFTING DEPARTMENT . . . formerly asso- ciated with the art department . . . engineering students studying under landscape painters . . . trying to discover how to draw a straight line with a ruler . . . Professor Haskell was one of the profs . . . and we drew lines and marked off angles and connected points . . . and got some of the craziest looking contraptions imaginable . . . one fellow in each class knew what it was all about . . . while the rest copied whatever lines he drew . . . those who sat nearest him got the highest marks . . . and other grades varied with the distance from his seat . . . but it was loads of fun, since you never knew what the result would be . . . and then the draftsmen moved over to the new Tech building, and became a department all by them- selves . . . under Professor Ncus, himself an architect . . . who designed the cupola of the Borough Hall in Brooklyn . . . always ready to discuss his own proclivi- ties ... a mental image forms . . . the worthy profes- ,sor looking over the tops of his glasses and launching into a long spiel . . . beginning with “Now when I . . And he is a friend of the President's ... if they forgot all about drafting, no student of his ever forgot that fact . . . but a competent architect, nevertheless . . . who had a good deal to do with the planning of buildings of the college . . . Professor Autenrieth, who takes care of the college technical and mechanical equipment . . . and very competently, too . . . gruff and genial . . . always bustling about with his pockets loaded to overflowing ... in class, extremely annoyed by interruptions . . . and always car- ried a red pencil for the sole purpose of slashing vigorously across material he didn't like . . . but every student liked and admired him as a conscientious worker . . . and among the others, plump Mr. Hochmeister . . . who continually attempted to frighten his students with threats . . . but always distributed a generous sprinkling of A’s and B's at the end ... a comfortably lazy fellow, who remembered his own student days . . . and short, truculent Mr. Appelbv . . . who let us use a note-book on the Anal . . . and who lit up at the begin- ning of the term, and continued smoking straight through to the end . . . and then started again. { 38 1 DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC J OOKING BACKWARD . . . Baldwin at the organ in frosh chapel . . . teaching the school songs . . . and leading the singing occasionally . . . with a voice that had a range of four notes . . . two of them off-key . . . but he could play the organ . . . and it was fun to watch him do a jig on those pedals . . . while his hands skipped nimbly about on the keyboards and over the seemingly innumer- able stops and gadgets scattered about . . . Music 1 . . . Music appreciation to the tune of that voice . . . but it was worth it when he played the organ . . . and it was a cinch to pass . . . you were sure of an A if you had a copy of the exam of the previous term . . . Baldwin left, to the genuine sorrow of everyone . . . Came Professor Heinroth ... he knew all of Professor Baldwin s tricks on the organ . . . but praised be Allah, he didn t try to sing . . . he persisted in reading his Music 1 lectures from his notes . . . while the students prepared history assign- ments or read newspapers . . . He very rarely played more than the first line of any selection . . . possibly never knew any more . . . Professor Ncidlinger . . . the popular, genial, wise-cracking leader of the orchestra . . . director of the glee club . . . and instructor in the Ed courses . . . besides teaching music ... a swell fellow . . . and a human pro- fessor . . . who was so unimpressed with his own import- ance that he could kibitz around with the audience, even at formal performances of his orchestra and singers . . . lots of fun, and he taught music at the same time . . . And those Ed 153 classes . . . do, mi, sol, me, do . . . six-foot bruisers gayly singing 3A songs . . . led by Ncidlinger . . . Mr. Wilson . . . who took over one of the Music 1 classes when the course was expanded in the last term ... and fell into the horrible and contagious habit of reading notes ... He took great pride in his orchestra at the Com- merce Center . . . used to become petulant and refuse to tell a joke when the class didn't behave . . . but was cajoled into yielding . . . and the students always concluded that it had not been worth the coaxing after hearing the joke . . . A1 Lebedinsky checking attendance . . . carrying the blackboard out amid the cheers of the class whenever Heinroth wanted to diagram the sonata- form. _39 wmmm DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN AN EXCELLENT department for lasy science men . . . tkc conviviality of the beer garden carried into the class room . . . echoes of German drinking songs on phono- graph records and in the lusty, if off-tune, voices of the students . . . “Die Lorelei , “Hcidcnrose , “Ach, Du Licbcr Augustine , “Trink, Trink, Bruderlein, Trink , and the rest . . . and undoubtedly the most eccentric collec- tion of profs of any department in the school . . . Profes- sor Roedder, a quiet unobtrusive figure . . . reminded us of a circus bird-man in appearance . . . but actually a widely respected scholar and a fine gentleman . . . lured away from his Western connections by the attractions of the Big City . . . and its College . . . Professor Waldman . . . one of the few who took his work seriously . . . and made the students do the same . . . startled the habitues of the German courses by actually expecting them to learn something . . . making them memorize German proverbs and poems . . . his logical system of development in class . . . which no student ever was able to follow . . . Profes- sor Kinkeldey ... of the famous six rules . . . although he never got beyond the first three in any one term . . . insisting that no German education was complete with- out a mastery of German script . . . giving the deriva- tions of obscene words . . . and telling off-color jokes . . . booming and ranting so that he could be heard down on Lincoln Corridor . . . lazy as only a professor can be . . . Dr. Liptzin, a prince of a fellow . . . liked and admired by every student who had him . . . thoroughly acquainted with Scandinavian literature . . . with his students in Unattached 1 incredible stories about Germany . who undoubtedly combed his hair every morning . . . but with a special, patented rotary motion . . . awarding his grades by vote of the class ... a big, friendly bear . . . showing his class pictures he took as an Austrian cap- tain during the war . . . Mr. Olli, who travelled about with Professor Roedder ... a master of philology . . . whose German classes consisted of a lecture on philology . . . interspersed with a few remarks about German. and a square-shooter and 2 ... a fount of . . Dr. Von Bradisch, __40 DEPARTMENT OF ART rJ'HE ART DEPARTMENT . . . coming into great prominence in the last few years with the new Art 5 • • . art appreciation through hazy slides . . . usually poorly focused and almost all black and white, shown to a room- ful of giggling, inattentive studes . . . half of whom were not in the room by the time the lights went on . . . Pro- fessor Eggcrs . . . his hand up to his cheek . . . enthusiastic about his subject . . . and really doing his best by the materials offered him ... a sympathetic critic in his elec- tive courses . . . Well, I like the way you go about it. It’s really perfectly ripping . . . Nevertheless a really fine fellow . . . who helped plan this Mike . . . and a competent critic . . . and a good teacher, respected by all who met him . . . The stooped figure of Professor Schul- man . . . begging his students to be more careful in their choice of clothing . . . always vigorous in his criticism . . . shouting to prospective painters, For Gott's sake, be vig- orous! Light is vibrating! . . . Detested the modern ar- tists . . . and knew them all by their first names . . . would call a student a “dope , a “fool , a “good-for-notting • . . and then pat him on the shoulder: “It's ull right. I didn't mean it. Can't you take a joke? ... An unfor- gettable personality . . . ardently loved by every student who took a course with him . . . the fount and inspiration of a large proportion of the art teachers now at work in the city high schools ... A man with a heart of gold • . . who would willingly give from his own pocket to help a student . . . and frequently did . . . Professor Haskell ... of the distinguished-looking chin and lip growth . . . and the equally distinguished-sounding British accent . . . who gave some of the Art 5 courses . . . and the drafting courses . . . and knew very little about either . . . the per- ennial student of Whistler . . . and Mr. Weinberg, now downtown ... a disciple of Haskell with regard to chin- growth . . . and a star in his own right as an authority on color . . . and let's not forget those Art 5 notebooks . . . we were supposed to collect pictures and notes . . . but it only cost a dollar to get one of last year's. 41 DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT rjpHE department of “Big Bill Guthrie . . . Big Bill, the orator . . . who made speeches to us from frosh chapel to preparations for graduation . . . The wise-crackers who went around offering challenges to race around Big Bill . . . and all the lazy wise-birds took his classes, of course . . . Big Bill who knew five jokes . . . and one of them was funny, too . . . Big Bill, with his cane in one hand . . . and an apple in the other . . . and a standing challenge to all comers in horse-shoe pitching . . . and, by the way. Big Bill lecturing to his classes . . . coming late . . . com- plaining of time-wasting . . . and then telling a thirty- minute story to illustrate his point . . . Professor Haley . . . the high-school teacher turned professor . . . who made his students stand when they recited . . . started his Gov- ernment 1 course by making the class memorize a defi- nition of the State . . . and required a daily outline brought in of the chapter in Ogg and Ray assigned for that hour . . . Secretary of the Faculty Committee on Student Affairs . . . and was thoroughly satisfied with every detail of the government as is . . . little Dr. Joseph . . . soft-spoken and long winded . . . polite to excess . . . bearing on his narrow shoulders the burden of the Sociology courses . . . always completely interested in any report . . . despite the fact that he has heard thousands ... all alike . . . and the little fashion-plate of the school, Mr. Buckvar. . .thorough- ly conceited and proud of it . . . doing his Ph.D. on Mu- nicipal Government . . . and assigning reports on the sub- ject to his government students ... to write his thesis for him . . . and, lest memories fade . . . genial Doc War- soff ... at Brooklyn College for several years . . . but before that, one of the most popular of the younger men here . . . thoroughly understood the students' point of view . . . his guiding hand would have been of great help in the Student Council's recent difficulties . . . and Sid Arm . . . the young reader of the department . . . formerly in the Eve Session office . . . and the other young prodigy, Mr. Barber . . . who would get a consensus of opinion on his questions. . .and then go on without answering them. 42 DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR OVERSTREET led us into the realm of Philo ... We suffered through his introductory course with a book called the “Poetic Way of Release ... a good book for a class in verse study . . . but not much of a philo text . . . But we understood when we learned that he had written the introduction . . . And after lectur- ing here, there, and everywhere on the art of self-release . . . Harry Houdini Overstreet extricated himself from the marital ties . . . and married the poetess whose book we studied ... A modern philosopher, who liked Mickey Mouse cartoons . . . but had a yen for green tics . . . called himself a “mystical agnostic . . . and a student asked if that meant that he believes implicitly that he doesn't know, or doesn't know that he believes implicitly. And so we come to the great Morris Raphael Cohen . . . revered by those who knew him . . . and fellows who weren't registered in his courses used to sit in on his reci- tations . . . just to hear him twist his students, individu- ally and cn masse, into knots ... a figure of many anec- dotes and often-false legends ... a keen-witted logician with a biting sense of humor and a twinkle in his eyes • . . who knew practically everything about almost anything . . . and the author of Reason and Nature . . . Among the lesser lights . . . Dr. Aronson of the oft-stroked moustache • . . and the far-away look in his eyes . . . who spoke like a Hebrew cantor . . . and was as easily knotted up as any of Cohen's pupils . . . and tall, lanky Mr. Strong . . . and Dr. Krikorian . . . who always pouted for at least thirty seconds before he spoke . . . The psike courses . . . those reports—fifty words of actual content elaborated into two thousand words of typed blah . . . the droning farmer- voice of little Professor Marsh . . . easy-going, likable Mr. Smith . . . and the long, heavy assignments of little red-headed Mr. Peatman . . . Smith always lectured from his notes . . . also used the Philo 5 classes to help him get his Ph.D. . . . and gave Abnormal Psike . . . those trips to Ward's Island . . . Mr. Peatman knew his psy- chology . . . even if he did make us work . . . and he knew of practically every book on the subject. '( 43 DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS pROFESSOR FOX . . . loudly suck- mg his tongue back into his mouth between sentences. . .Chinese water torture to students in the front rows . . . the speculations as to what would happen if his book should be torn up . . . but Si Sonkin saved the lectures . . . Professor Corcoran . . . maniac of the Science Survey lec- tures ... a gagster who could make a list of income tax figures sound funny . . . “It's not what he says, but the way he says it. . . . And strange to say, he put his material across . . . net result: a damn good lecturer . . . we could use more like him . . . Pro- fessor Marcus . . . short, quiet . . . absorbed in his sub- ject, and well-informed . . . thoroughly respected . . . Pro- fessor Zcmansky . . . quiet and unassuming . . . well-versed in mathematical physics ... a scholar to the marrow . . . so much so that he could plunge into the work the first day of the term ... go right on the first day of return from a Christmas vacation ... as if nothing had happened . . . and work right up to the end of the last hour of the term without so much as mentioning the final examination . . . and among the younger boys . . . our hat's off to Si Sonkin . . . one of the few who never forgot that he was once a student . . . genial, inspiring, and well-informed . . . and tall, hulking Mr. Williams . . . with the hair which could never decide on which side of the head the face was located . . . and Taylor, of the biting humor . . . who derived a perverted pleasure from making a student feel like two cents . . . even if the fellow was worth a nickel. . . . Dr. Leighton knew all the Anglo-Saxon mono-syl- labics . . . and used them . . . and could curse a blue streak besides . . . Mr. Press, who did his cursing in Jewish . . . always wore white socks . . . has been thrown out of more universities than any other instructor . . . and he thought Dr. Einstein was nothing more than a young poppycock. «__44 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SPEAKING nnHE PAST YEAR saw the return as department head of the erst- while Dean Redmond ... As dean, mild and amiable to all . . . even offenders . . . hard-as-nails at rare moments . . . “Papa Redmond at most times . . . always ready to fol- low the law to the last letter and punctuation mark ... in class, free of his dean's mantle . . . meek and cheerful . . . perpetrator of mild jokes . . . Professor Schulz, formerly act- ing head . . . well-informed on an astounding range of subjects . . . and particularly on psycho-analysis . . . mildly sarcastic but a fellow who gave a good measure of his time to the careful supervision of the Student-Aid funds . . . and an even more care- ful supervision of those of the Dram Soc. . . . Professor Mosher . . . quiet and reserved . . . with a sly sense of humor . . . and a beard which we never could reconcile to his face . . . Professor Hcaly . . . undoubtedly the world' : laziest man . . . never worked and thoroughly en- joyed it . . . and so did the students ... as well as that Irish sense of humor . . . and the horde of young 'uns . . . Damon ... of the musical talent and the voice-culture course . . . Bender . . . never seen without a broad smile . . . always sending out questionnaires for useless pur- poses . . . interviewing in the personnel bureau . . . Red- headed, moustachioed Finkel ... of the invincible logic and the double-check system of debate-briefs . . . also double-work . . . Kleinfeld ... of the speech-clinic and Hamlet . . . with a pug's face . . . but a heart of gold . . . Winter . . . whose primary interest in life was Wynn . . . and last, teaching public speaking . . . but he wore spats . . . Meyer, who looked like a gigolo . . . the Golden Voice of the Air . . . reading a newspaper while the stu- dents recited . . . the young Pennington, a handsome Apollo . . . who just managed to support his Ford in the style to which it was accustomed. 45 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION HPHE ED DEPARTMENT . . . they taught us how to teach . . . hut never guaranteed to get us jobs . . . Dean Klapper, big wig of the department . . . but one of the most democratic big wigs we've ever seen ...that Roman nose. ..and crinkled smile ... an interesting and interested lecturer . . . who could dramatize every aspect of his talk . . . quite a rascal himself in the old days at 23rd Street . . . amused himself in chem by heating pennies over a Bunsen burner . . . and then tossing them out of the win- dow for passers-by to try to pick up . . . some joke, eh boss? ... a swell fellow though somewhat given to plati- tudes . . . Professor Heckman, who ran the clinic . . . much more famous outside the college than m it ... a conservative dresser . . . with a repertoire of amusing stories about children he has met . . . Professor Bell, a pedagogue teaching pedagogy . . . with a Phi Bete key hanging outside his coat . . . although he is said to have removed it when two members of his class were elected . . . setting his future teachers an exam pie . . . by mak- ing them memorize the chapter-headings and foot-notes of the text . . . Professor Mankicwicz, who handled the Ed 61 classes . . . his heavy German voice and accent . . . formerly head of the French department at Monroe High School . . . was called “Ole Bill by the kids there . . . after the character in the movie “The Better '01e“ . . . agreeing, with his Aaahhb-solutcly!“ ... a good sense of humor . . . and he could always get a laugh by strutting about with that stomach out, enacting class-room incidents . . . Professor Hansen, of the sleepy look . . . but he knew all there was to know about Indians and Japanese ... it seems he was once a cow-boy himself . . . and also quite an expert on sex-practices in girls' schools . . . he never told us where he got his information . . . Professor Falion, another Ed 61 man ... a quiet and __46 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION pleasant fellow though he could harden up on occasion . . . director of Townsend Harris Hall . . . Profes- sor Turner, several times elected by senior classes as biggest grind in the faculty . . . always reading something, even if only the Saturday Evening Post ... an influential fellow: he was chairman of the committee which awarded the Masters' degrees . . . Professor Mosher, the paternal . . . who was previously on the faculty of an out-of-town college . . . and, pleasantly enough, carried the technique over into the col- lege . . . never made his classes work too hard . . . em- phasis on the three processes: mind fixing, pondering, meditating . . . Dr. Melvin, the China man . . . who spoke Chinese to his classes and gave them some of the elements of Chinese writing . . . spoke with an English accent . . . even came to school in the morning on a “tram'' . . . Mr. Jones, of the radical ideas on class-room procedure . . . and his emphasis on informal discussion in class . . . spoke with a Southern accent, and a neat dresser . . . and he did hate alarm clocks . . . Mr. Mallon, the polite . . . would apologize for anything and everything . . . and disagree in the most abject manner . . . but he had one of the fun- niest lines we've heard among the faculty ... a full-hour monologue that kept the class laughing . . . was formerly swim coach at Morris High School . . . and cute little Dr. Rivl in . . . who could draw a perfect circle on the board without the aid of a compass . . . also knew his Ed . . . and his classes were entertaining from start to finish . . . Dr. Abclson ... of the black moustache and rather handsome face . . . who helped out in the work of the Student Aid • . . and has already done a good deal of writing in his field ... a young but competent authority on educational research . . . Mr. Epstein . . . and that dull monotone, with its soporific effect . . . and the always agreeable and polite Mr. Weaver. 47 __ DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY JJISTORY, the department of the voracious readers . . . hours spent in the History Library trying to follow those History 1 and 2 syl- labi . . . until we learned better . . . Those term essays in the electives . . . maniacs turning in thirty thou- sand words . . . twenty thousand copied . . . ten thousand in footnotes and citations ... all of which were probably never read by Reader Hcr- son and later, Hirsch . . . Professor Mead . . . the human history machine . . . bark tng out lecture notes at the rate of six closely written pages per hour . . . finishing promptly with the bell and walking out . . . leaving an exhausted class be- hind him . . . author of the American History text . . . Professor Thompson . . . who could go to sleep on his feet . . . and continue lecturing on the value of good man- ners . . . while plumbing the depths of his nasal cavities with an exploring finger . . . but he knew the name of every history book ever written . . . and the author's back- ground. . .an authority on social history. . .and he spent so much time discussing its value. . .that he never got around to teaching it. . .Professor Schapiro. . .who sweated blood turning out his European history text. . .so well-written that it was used in public speaking classes ... or so he said . . . tho he never said anything about history classes . . . but he thought it was good, and he was probably right . . . would settle any argument with his class ... by pull- ing out his own text . . . but he did give two of the most inspiring and fascinating courses at the college . . . in- tellectual history of the eighteenth and nineteenth cen- turies . . . J. Salwyn, the modern Voltaire . . . delighted in starting his lectures with a paradoxical, well-turned epigram ... he was all right . . . little Professor Moore . . . was once voted the cutest professor in the faculty . . . that little round body and face . . . and rather Irish accent . . . squinting over his half-spectacles . . . taking them off [ 48 —9 DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY at the beginning of every sentence, I and replacing them at the end . . . turned a fair number of potential Hi -Tv V lawyers out of his Constitutional History course . . . Dear Professor WL Morse . . . the sweetest professor in the college . . . who nevertheless was V able to make History 1 interesting HF M . . . even to unappreciative frosh . . . y.B and he did have excellent defini- tion of modern poetry . . . Professor Brandt ... of medieval and renais- sance ... of the expansive forehead and restricted moustache . . . quiet . . . but very enthusi- astic about his material. . .which he knew thoroughly . . . and finally young Professor Morris, regarded as the brilliant young man of the department . . . nervous and quick of speech. . .thoroughly versed and immersed in his field. . .and full of nervous enthusiasm over it . . . Among the young uns . . . let's start with the greatest . . . Mr. Janowsky • . . who knew the facts of recent world history . . . and delighted in confounding the radicals with their own weapons ... a real man . . . who knew his field but was able to remain bigger than his subject . . . universally liked and respected . . . and justly so . . . Eddie Rosen • . . the demon of registration ... an enthusiastic lecturer and an interesting one . . who could dramatize the burial of King Tut . . . and make you think he had been there . . . one of the few men who could keep his class awake the entire hour . . . and Mr. Wisan . . . coach of the ten- nis team . . . also a history instructor . . .whose greatest difficulty lay in trying to explain to his classes the value of Thompson's lectures . . . but his own recitation usually saved the courses . . . and downtown, Professor Green . . . director of the Evening Session at Twenty-third Street ... a quiet fellow . . . who always came to class with a bookkeeper's eyeshade on his forehead . . . and he knew everything there was to know about every statue in New York City. 49 — DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH r I ■'HOSE LITTLE cubbyholes of offi- ces . . . where we went for con- ferences . . . the attempts to imitate the fine Van Dykes of Professors Mott and Horne . . . and Mr. Cop- stein succeeded in raising a flourish- ing growth . . . which somehow had no relation to his face . . . but Mr. Roberts could never get beyond a vague, scrawly tangle of sea-weed on his ample cheeks . . . there was just too much area for the hair to cover . . . Professor Mott, the venerable leader . . . senior professor . . . meti- culous enunciation and even, well- modulated voice . . . reading poetry in class . . . indicating great emotion by raising a trembling hand, and deepening his voice . . . his brother- in-law is a president of Czecho-Slo- vakia . . . Professor Horne ... of the beautiful goatee and hair ... a swell fellow . . . famous as the author of many books . . . one of which is, of course, “The Technique of the Novel . . . Professor Palmer, pacing up and down . . . speaking Hebrew . . . explaining that it is good Spanish . . . drawing pictures on the blackboard with a board- eraser ... so that nobody in the class could see them . . . telling about poetic intoxication . . . Lewis Mumford picked him as a man who lived poetry . . . reading long lists of words and giving their derivations . . . Professor Crowne, who looked for all the world like a character right out of Dickens . . . Professor Krowl, an almost per- fect dead-pan comedian . . . Professor Goodman, tyrant of English 12 . . . who could destroy a composition in thirty seconds . . . and prove that it should never have been written . . . the only man in the department who could teach writing . . . and it was worth the disappoint- «__50 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH mcnts of the other composition courses just to get to English 12 . . . Professor Tynan of the drama courses . . . and that horrible thumbs- down look . . . with a smile behind it . . . quizzing late-comers, and offer- ing to excuse them if they had a good alibi . . . giving exams on the foot- notes in the appendix . . . but always enjoying himself ... as did his class . . . Professor Otis, and his spicy lec- tures . . . beneath his wise-cracking, a profound philosophy . . . happy, carefree, above all conventions . . . dismissing his classes whenever he liked ... a swell fellow, deservedly popular . . . Professor Stair, of the criticism course ... an urbane gentle- man, with a dry, keen voice . . . and careful enunciation with the excep- tion of a whistling “s . . . Professor Dickson of the bashful smile . . . and the annoying habit of closing the door on late-comers . . . teaching the equally annoying Anglo-Saxon course . . . Professor Keiley, who lectured from his notes con- tinually . . . when not lecturing from a book . . . trying to frighten those who were flunking by threatening to give them C's . . . and his afternoon classes never had to come around during the baseball season . . . Professor Compton and the fellows tossing coins to decide whether to stay when seven minutes were up . . . those pills he took at regular intervals throughout the period . . . his little alarm-clock-pocket-watch which rang every fifteen minutes . . . Mr. Roberts, always sniffling . . . and look- ing as if he were about to fall asleep any minute while lecturing . . . but a very nice chap, always ready to give the Mike staff any possible aid in putting out the book . . . and editor of the Alumnus. __51 J,. DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES rjPHE department which suffered an irreparable loss with the death of Professor Downer . . . although he had a competent successor in Pro- fessor Weill . . . who has been acting- departmcnt-head ever since . . . but his acting hasn't come to a head yet . . . a kindly gentleman . . . who will surely start a riot if he ever forgets to wear his Legion d'Honncur ribbon in his lapel . . . Professor Clark, au- thor of innumerable works ... a seri- ous and capable scholar . . . who needs a few of Dean Klappcr's courses to teach him how to put his lore across ... he has probably spent more time travelling about than any two Pullman porters . . . and as far as we can make out, every fa- mous literary light is among the friends of Clark ... is convinced that “C. C. N. Y. students are ungentle- manly sages . . . Professor Muller, reading old French ... it may be his interest in Rabelais and Mon- taigne that prompts him to warn future teachers not to marry ... he never explained what they were to do in their spare time . . . his limp is a souvenir of a faculty- student baseball game at Gettysburg . . . once told a class that a $5 book would be required the following term and only five students registered . . .he was abso- lutely convinced that the radicals at the college were thankless creatures . . . Professor Vaillant . . . who al- ways impressed us as a domesticated roue . . . wears a marriage ring . . . probably to show his female following that he has passed from extra-curricular activities . . . . . . giving the phonetics course, French 36, with the aid of a phonograph . . . and then imitating the phonograph . . . with the intonation that only a Frenchman can master V— i( 52 ? DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES ... a typical polite Frenchman . . . who always wore white spats and a flaming red, white, and blue blazer . . . Sphinx-like Professor Bergeron ... a cultured Frenchman, and a square-shooter . . . with a military demeanor, piercing eyes, and a stern chin ... in class, a strict military routine . . . calling students Bctc!'' “Animal! when they asked silly questions . . . Professor Panaroni, who arranged his seats so as to be able to promenade up and down the aisles during the hour . . . played lacrosse in his younger days . . . let’s stress ping-pong . . . undoubtedly the biggest cigarette grubber on the fac- ulty . . . The slide-rule system of marking of Professor Knickerbocker . . . and his chagrin when he once gave a student 1-8 of a point too much . . . and it might not be a bad idea for him to conduct his classes in Spanish . . . after all, that's what he's supposed to be teaching . . . and we can't forget Professor Elias . . . unfortunately . . . probably thinks Hitler is the new Messiah . . . the apotheo- sis of neatness in dress, and of comfort in class . . . and Professor Iacuzzi . . . formerly of Harris, now in charge at 23rd Street . . . trotting around on tip-toe . . . smiling and polite, even while flunking a senior in his reading exam . . . and among the young 'uns . . . Waltman of the Grecian profile . . . and the Semitic accent in English, though he spoke perfect French . . . genial, likable Mr. Levy . . . who knew five languages and used them all in any lecture . . . tough little Luciani . . . who stammered his French . . . yet flunked more than he passed . . . Sass, the tornado of registration . . . ranting and ye Hing in Room 306 as he distributed the cards. __53 DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS pROFESSOR EDWARDS . . . lord of the financial field . . . and his puppets . . . without strings, but bad enough by themselves ... he once saved the '33 fellows from jail with a $300 loan . . . and was he happy at class night! . . . the mora- torium had just been cancelled . . . Professor Snider, whose classes are still awaiting his return ... he left school for a few days after the crash . . . vowing to return only when he had found the cause . . . Professor Steiner . . . whose theme song in class was Rock-a-bye . . . Profes- sor Love, who capitalized on his foot- ball experience in his executive course . . . that round circle gather- ing is probably a throwback to the bone drill . . . Professor Mayers, of the law courses . . . who wrote a book on contracts used by law students . . . Professor Sigsbec . . . once Personnel Manager of the Federal Reserve Board . . . has earned the friendship of the Eco 4 boys . . . they don't know the meaning of the word “work . . . Professor Albrecht, the food distributing expert . . . who has grown prematurely gray worrying about it . . . White-haired Professor Sakolski . . . we swear he once absent-mindedly spoke for three minutes at a stretch without looking at the insurance building clock . . . and, of course. Professor Hastings ... of Unattached 5 and Science Survey ... “I giff you now de hgorrs . . . figures on anything from Hottentot aprons to Sumatra rainfall . . . and the distribution of the Semitic nose . . . “I show you now de mop . . . maps on anything from the location of Aryan and Negroid bananas to the distri- bution of the descendants of Shem and Ham . . . every “mop hand-made, too . . . Mr. Byers, and his building and loan associations . . . Dr. Ostrolcnk, with a national reputation in the field of railroads. __54 DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING HPHE TECH BUILDINGS, new and A old . . . whirring wheels and gadgets in the basement, respectable class-rooms upstairs . . . except for the lack of drinking facilities . . . Dean Skene, of the ruddy complexion which extended far above his fore- head . . . and the fringe of white hair around his head . . . put No Smoking signs all over the building and then walked around with his pipe in his mouth all day . . . in class, methodi- cal and precise . . . reading line for line from his own books . . . Profes- sor Goodwin , . . who nearly created a riot by allowing himself to be seen one day with a jacket on . . . called everyone by the first name . . . and realized that the social benefits of the school were more important than the engineering expe- rience . . . Professor Bruckner, who stands out in our mind for his habit of calling students lobsters . . . Professor McLoughlin . . . secretary of Phi Bctc . . . who spent his youth chasing “contour weasels . . . creatures which live on the side of a hill, and therefore have longer legs on one side of the body . . . and the hunter chases them in one direction and then turns to head them off at the other side of the hill . . . the creatures reverse their direction and, of course, topple over . . . and the hunter need merely walk over and make the kill . . . Professor Walter, quiet and unassuming ... an ardent believer in traditions . . . and thoroughly pro-administration in all matters . . . and Professor Rathbun . . . who always talked about his models . . . not the artist's kind . . . and his daughter in high school . . . who was going to become an engineeress • . . even if no engineering school would take her . . . and Professor Baum . . . the stocky little E. E. . . . of the none too nordic features . . . and a swell fellow per- sonally. — ( 55 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY rjpHE CKem Building . . . vapors of HoS in the corridors . . . Dore- mus Hall, where all of us suffered through lectures and final examina- tions . . . the scats were so nicely ar- ranged that we could easily sec the paper of the fellow below us . . . Professor Moody, the industrial chemist . . . always smothering the boards with formulae . . . and then dictating notes at the rate of one hundred words per minute . . . very well known outside the college . . . always gallivanting around the coun- try making speeches at scientific meetings and colleges . . . Professor Babor in his first lecture . . . “Don't get Woolworth locks—you can bite them open! . . . cautioning us to be careful in the lab . . . with a story about the lad who was dissolved away in a chcm closet . . . Professor Alex Lehrman . . . the rest of the team of Babor and Lehrman . . . authors of the famous lab manual . . . you just filled in the answers . . . while the fool next to you did the work . . . Professor Stevenson . . . something of a wit . . . he had a very mild and harmless sense of humor, but at least he made us laugh . . . his lecture was exciting once . . . when he donned a pair of goggles and demon- strated the workings of the electric furnace at several hundred degrees Centigrade . . . Professor Estabrookc, the cheery . . . full of vigor and bubbling over with good humor . . . always ready to talk and always talking . . . his recommendation was an admission to med school . . . delighted the frosh by telling off-color jokes . . . Professor Curtman, who tried hardest to be funny ... by telling of the crazy tricks the fellows pull in the qualitative lab . . . like tasting arsenic to confirm its presence . . . we always managed to discover elements our instructors 56 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY swore they had never put in . . . and how often we dumped a filtrate into the sink . . . forgetting we needed it for further tests . . . and then had to toss a coin to decide if a certain metal had been in it . . . But Quan- titative! . . . What a course! . . . where every crystal was a matter of life or death . . . Professor Curtis . . . speaking of “wolumcs . . . and that “w” isn't a misprint either . . . he did very well when he managed to get a full word out in less than thirty seconds . . . the subject of that famous story about the leaking stop- cock . . . Professor Prager, who spoke so rapidly it was impossible to get down every fact . . . carbon chains and ring compounds . . . Grignard and Malonic ester syntheses . . . and the rest . . . Prager calling Apfelbaum . . . with a loud “Poicy! . . . Apfelbaum himself was a nice chap . . . but oh, his marks! . . . for a fellow named Percy he was pretty tough . . . And Pro- fessor Meltsner ... a nice sort and very well liked . . . but neither he nor Prager could ever have passed an Ed. 41 oral exam . . . Memories of Professor Harrow remain freshest . . . that incongruous Oxonian accent . . . giving advice on diet . . . which he admitted he had never fol- lowed . . . shooing wandering freshmen away from the door of his lecture room . . . never spoke of children • • . they were all brats . . . Leo Lehrman, brother of Alex . . . an expert analytical chemist in his own right • . . and a nice fellow . . . Little bespectacled Charles Mar- lies ... of the stringy black hair . . . full of energy and enthusiasm . . a storehouse of chemical information . . . knew his stuff backwards and forwards ... a coming youngster . . . known and respected in other schools, de- spite his youth . . . and heavy, easy-going Mr. Pearlman • . . he learned his Chcm after teaching a few courses. '( 57 DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS HTHE REALM of Einstein, curved space, integrals, and infinites- imals . . . taught by the All-Ameri- can department . . . Professor Saurel ... a very highly respected scholar outside the college as well as inside . . . and authority on some of the most unexpected topics . . . includ- ing the French Revolution . . . able to impart real enjoyment to the study of mathematics . . . thoroughly im- personal at all times . . . and second to him. Professor Reynolds, secre- tary of the faculty . . . who always reminded us of a shorter edition of Dean Skene of Engineering . . . with that little fringe of white hair, bor- dering a broad, glistening expanse ... a pretty snappy dresser . . . and a strict marker . . . who could waste four hours going over one lesson . . . Professor Linehan, the verbose . . . direc- tor of the evening session . . . and hero of those Johnson riots . . . vainly trying to break up those card games in the alcove .... and passing them up if they weren't for money . . . and we remember the time he came running frantically up to the Merc office ... to force the removal of the advertisement of free medical exams for women on the windows . . . and in class, he could talk to a stu- dent as though he thought him worth a fellowship . . . and then give him a D . . . Professor Turner . . . who always looked as though he were ready to fall asleep on his feet . . . but thoroughly wide-awake . . . always giving prob- lems connected with his hobby, astronomy . . . and a fair and unbiased marker . . . Professor Allen . . . who was head of the Faculty Co-op Store Committee . . . delighted in showing up the ignorance of his students in the light of his own knowledge . . . extremely finicky about inconsequential details . . . deducting from a grade be- cause the “equals” signs in a series of equations were — ( 58 DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS not in a perpendicular line . . . and if everything was perfect, the grade was “C . . . Professor Brewster, for- merly of Columbia . . . the possessor of a dry sense of humor . . . one who valued a correct answer above an un- derstanding of method and reason- ing . . . Professor Gill . . . the most popular man in the department . . . with a tremendous knowledge of math . . . and that famous card sys- tem of check-up on home-work . . . highly emotional at times . . . over- whelmed by the awe-inspiring beauty of numbers . . . completely in love with his subject . . . could even refer to a problem as “delicious ... Pro- fessor Pedersen . . . very carefully announcing the monthly grades . . . 'hich meant absolutely nothing . . . reminiscing and philosophizing in class . . . although we suspect that the loss of that problem book would leave him in a serious predicament . . . And last, but far from least. Professor Whitford . . . whose spirited movements belie his white bair . . . patient and lively in his teaching . . . has never been known to utter a cross word . . . never annoys his classes with examinations during the term . . . and the champion chalk-eater of the faculty . . . licking his fingers after having sucked a stick of chalk . . . Mr. Updyke, of the slick hair and the Southern drawl . . . speaking of propo'tions in class . . . and nobody but he could under- stand that notation system . . . Mr. Goodale, no longer connected with the school . . . his chief claim to distinc- tion was his lack of knowledge of math . . . and the Ala- bama Senator, Mr. Holmes . . . drawing diagrams in the air . . . rather than get off his chair to go to the board. • • . telling sloppy jokes in class ... at which he laughed, if no one else did . . . and young Mr. Ferkins . . . who looked like a cowboy. —59 ? DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICAL LANGUAGES pROFESSOR BROWNSON ... of the walrus moustache . . . former Dean, Registrar, and Acting-Presi- dent . . . highly respected . . . Pro- fessor Ball . . . who looked like Cas- per Milquetoast of the comics ... he was always stressing the distinction between “should”, “would , “shall , and will”. . .with that famous story about the drowning man in Central Park . . . Professor Halliday, for- merly of Townsend Harris. . .pleasant and amiable . . . comes inevitably Professor Burke . . . who could bel- low like an enraged bull . . . and al- ways did ... an advocate of strict en- forcement of all rules . . . his stories of the treatment of lateness in the old 23rd Street days . . . his claim that a graduate without Latin was no graduate . . . Professor Brown, of the Greek courses . . . who carried of? about three pages of honors when he left Harvard . . . and who was hon- ored several years ago . . . when he went to Athens as visiting professor at the school there . . . Professor Newton, who was predestined to his profession by the first name Homer . . . the pleasant guardian of the Student Aid funds . . . formerly very active in the library . . . Professor Quackenbos . . . former di- rector of the Summer Session . . . mild and unassuming . . . a conscientious worker . . . and he distributed his grades with a slide rule and a table of logarithms . . . Mr. Bridge, of the stocky figure and the brown moustache . . . and that watch that ticked like an alarm clock . . . and finally, Konrad Gries ... of the military bearing . . . and the summa cum laude average when he graduated in '31 . . . the only one in the past five years. _ [ 60 DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY JDIOLOGY . . . delightful odor of decaying fish, frogs, rats, and little pigs . . . throaty tune of mating frogs in the springtime . . . the curi- ous gallery of interested studes who watch the sex-starved activities of the warty animals . . . Professor Me- lander, whom most of us met during the Science Survey lectures on Bi- ology . . . and who drove most of us nearly crazy with his wheezy “Ahem!” after every phrase . . altho it became bearable later . . . Axel col- lected insects—was bugs about ant- omology . . . Professor Dawson and his “precizely . . . constantly threat- ening to eject whispering students . . . and never doing it . . . Professor “Laxative” Browne . . . so-called be- cause of his frequent discussions on constipation and health . . . and we knew his family tree by heart . . . Dr. Sayles . . . stiff cats and smelly dog- fishes . . . those practicals on the veins and muscles . . . Ooy! . . . and if questioned, he'd probe inside the cat and say, “You'll find it in here somewhercs. . . . The long drawn- °ut Aw Horsefeathcrs of Mr. Chaikclis . . . and his lengthy quizzes . . . Professor Goldforb ... an inspiring teacher . . , his Socratic questioning ... a quiet figure «n the lab . . . Professor Scott, the genial ... of Scott's • . . those slide practicals . . . what perfect slides in our boxes . . . and what unrecognizable messes we got m the practicals . . . Professor Johnson . . . his smoothly delivered lectures . . . his wax-modelling . . . Professor Ruckcs . . . class adviser to the seniors downtown . . . always ready to give advice on sex problems . . . and he had a swell stock of jokes. 6 I ROSEN APflLfcAUM MARUES MELVIN 1CIEINFEID WILSON ADAMS LEWIS IUCIANI 62 —? JCNCa LEVY sjOTTSCHAIL HOff AAN HOLTON WINTER ■ ■H UPT2IN BENDER. 50NKIN WINBERG ARONSON 63 9 BUTLER. . . but he's for the boys . sorry 99 64 'YJ ’E stood on long lines, five hundred of us,—long lines of naked bodies, some well-developed, most puny, almost all frightened. We had to file past doctor after doctor, the eye examination downstairs, upstairs to the gym for the blood-pressure, heart, and general physical exams. And we coughed, and bowed, and congratulated ourselves that we were coming to a college that was so soli- citous about our health. It was our first touch of City College, and we learned better soon afterward. Then came that first registration. The Harris boys knew the ropes, and had been allowed to register several days before. But the rest of us came Wednesday morning to stare wide-eyed at that board-full of closed classes. The fellow at the desk in Room 306 started to give the instructions. They sounded fairly easy once we got onto them—just pick your classes, lay out a program so as to avoid conflicts, and bring it up to the man in the little room at the right. Then we started to work. Some of us were lucky and went through in a few hours. Oth- ers sweated through the whole day. Clooossse English 1 double C! “Clooossse Science Survey IE! “No, I'm sorry, Mr. Ginsberg, that class is closed. You just stand over there and decide if you want to drop it. Sure, thirteen credits is plenty. O.K. Those readers would waste fifteen minutes telling each other i 67 i dirty stories and fhen take one student, read his card, nonchalantly make him drop a few credits and go back to thcirstories. “AllScience Survey 1 open!” and a cheer and a thousand sighs of relief, and then our Eco class would close. Finally most of us staggered into Room 308, minus a credit or two or three, and regis- tered in a Physics or Government course wo never wanted. And we kept the fellow at the desk near the door busy explaining to us why we would have to pay a dollar just to change from Eco 1 AA to Eco 1 E because AA came at the same time as our Hygiene, and it was all the fault of the fellow inside for letting us through with that class, or he had deliberately changed it in order to torture us, and could we speak to Dr. Gottschall about it, because we were sure he would see that it wasn't our fault, and so on and so on. But we paid, and staggered home. It became easier with each successive term, until we were able to walk right through in our senior year. But the first time was hell. So we started to attend classes. That was the first year that the new Library Building was open, although those who had entered in February still remembered the old reading room, in Room 100, the present site of the Recorder's office. It was also the year of the opening of the Twenty-Third Street Building, so that some went down there that term, and others dropped out of the School of Liberal Arts and Science in later terms to become initiates into the mysteries of the world of the financiers and economists. That accounts for all those familiar faces in the Twenty-Third Street section of this book. That won't be true of future Mikes. We were forced to go out of the building for our lunch every day, because the Campus had carried on a successful campaign 'during the previous term for the removal of the old lunch-room concessionnaire, Hammond, because of the sloppy eating conditions. But no provision had been made for a substitute. It was not until the spring term that President Robinson ordered that famous orange phosphate which officially opened the present lunch counter. Paddy All Classes Closed ! _68 We went to classes. And in Hygiene we met for the first time, the old raconteur. Professor Woll, and His stock of stories. He told us tficn, for the first time, the truth about the first five percent, and the next ten percent, and what happens to the rest. And he enjoined us to use that slate slab on the side of the pool. Woll spoke to us at succes- sive intervals during that term, and the next, and every term thereafter. And we soon knew the symp- toms and treatment for the woman in monthly stress, and that famous story about the burning hotel and the six foot leap from the six inch ledge, and the others about the terrors of Death Valley and the courageous rescues and ex- ploits of that old dare-devil Woll. It was fun listening, even if we didn't believe them, and besides, they served as a relief from the strain of calisthenics. It was soon after that that we took our first written exam in Hygiene, and discovered what an awful mis- take we had made in buying a copy of Storey. We never did it again, and never got as low a mark again. Twelve Days Later We went to chapel—and heard Professor Baldwin sing. And we sang after him—“Lavender”. “Old St. Nick , “On the Hills of Old Manhattan”, “We're All Goin' Down to Sec the Show”, “The Trombone Song”, “Stand Up and Cheer”—and with the possible exception of the first and the last, we for- Cold got them all within a year. It was in frosh chapel that our class activities got under way. Hy Gold was elected president of the Feb class, for his first of many terms in that office. The vice-president was Eddie Halprin. During the course of that spring term of 1929, we had only the upper half of our class in college, and so lost practically every one of the frosh-soph events. The following term, the class of '33 reached its full strength and blossomed forth. Charlie Barasch, now with the downtown class, was president of the Fcbmen, and big-chested, little Nat Benson led the lower half of the class. The Frosh Feed was held at Garfcin's, at Avenue A and Second Street, with Jerry Kirschbaum and Bill Zahm as chairmen. There were gold keys for the chair- { 69 men, and the usual kind for the rest of us. The menu was swell—but it seems the chef had or- ders to read every other line, so that the actual meal was only half as long. The sophs failed to show up, so there was no excitement. Some en- tertainment was provid- ed by the two '32 big shots, Abe Tauchncr and Ike Bloom, who were stripped and put through the usual paces, although Abe came pretty close to talking the boys out of everything they wanted to do. But if the sophs failed to show up at our Feed, the '33 class didn't disap- point them at their smoker. Armed with stink-bombs and tomatoes, a flying squadron climbed the fire-escape and opened the window. Abe Baum started the fire-works by dumping a big bottle of H2S into the room, and the tables started crashing as the sophs scattered. Vic Fein- gold jumped in through the window to turn over the few tables that were left standing. And just as the last of us were leaving the place, a cop came dashing in. A night in a cell seemed all prepared for some poor freshmen, when sud- denly one of the sophs came dashing up with a pail of water in his hand and revenge in his eye. He let us have it, but in the confusion, the cop got into the line of fire, and so the long arm of the law reached into the sophomore class «nd allowed us to get away in peace. Dave Goldstein was caught outside and taken to court, followed by half of the frosh pres- ent. The rest of us snake-danced down Fifth Avenue, paralleling the sophs who were doing the same down Broadway, and '33 met '32 at Bryant Park. We almost lost the fight that followed, but the part of the class that had gone to save Dave Goldstein came dashing to the rescue, and picked sophs were amus- ing the 33 class with forced speeches before the night was over. It was during that freshman year, too, that Ike Bloom was captured after the flag rush, stripped, and turned loose at 181st Street and Broadway. He was then made to follow a cab down Broadway, recovering his clothing, which was thrown to him at the rate of one piece every block. Some fun, eh boss? Pete The Phi Betc Frat House 70 — Passed one term, and half of us became sopbs, and tbe rest strutted about under tbe lordly title of “social sophs . That was just about the time the talkie-movies were beginning to estab- lish themselves, and we see Mercury putting out an “All-Squawkic Num- ber , and regarding the new-fangled thing as something to be laughed at. It was during that year, too, that Townsend Harris Hall High School moved downtown to Twenty-Third Street, leaving Town- send Harris Hall behind it for the frosh of City College. Thus, we were the last freshman class to attend classes entirely in the Main Building. Thirty-three be- gan to move into school-wide circles. Gene Cotton joined the staffs of the Mer- cury and Microcosm, Bob Russin began drawing for Merc, Vic Feingold and Jerry Kirschbaum began their long-run terms as '33 reps on the Student Council, and Eddie Halprm tripped the light fan- tastic in the chorus of “Ship Ahoy , the second all-college musical comedy. The depression had officially started back in October, 1929, but the repercussions began to make themselves felt only with the passage of time. And so it was that about this time, the College began to seethe with unrest. The Campus got itself into its first of a scries of scraps with the adminis- tration. Raskin's editorials were unusually vigorous, and, un- like those of his predecessors, began to venture into fields outside mere student activities. Came some trouble with Dean Edwards of 23rd Street, and threats of expulsion of the Campus from that center, a move which had long been desired by the ambitious members of the Campus staff there. The Campus Association stepped in with paternal aid, Ras- kin objected, and, after a scries of squabbles, resigned, followed by a small number of his cohorts, notably Lash, Nelson, Abraham, Feucr. They formed the Left Wing of student politics, and set out to sweep the class elections. Ras- kin was carried into the Senior Class presidency, followed by three of his group in the minor offices. The Social Problems Club began to step into prominence. The fight over the Cotton Playing Pool 7 I publication of Frontiers started—illegal publica- tion — suspensions — charges, counter-charges —the College was begin- ning to go up in the air. If the Social Problems Club had only asked for permission (as they lat- er did, and were allow- ed to circulate), every- thing would have been all right. But the Stu- dent Forum asked for a charter for its paper soon and down to the time of present writing has not received it. It was in the midst of the fracas that that famous insubordination letter was sent to the President, stating that if Max Gordon (suspended for protesting against the previous suspension) were guilty of insubordination, so were those whose names were appended. As indeed they might have been, had not the name at the head of the list been that of George Bullwinkle. And the difficulties of the year mounted to a feverish pitch as two calamities befell the College in quick succession. The bust of Mercury disappeared from the office of the pub- lication; and within a few days, the sword of General Webb was rudely wrenched from his hand and spirited away. The Little God of Quip and Jest was later discovered in the Cam- pus office, but the lost sword was never found, and to this day the General stands, martial in attire and demeanor, but absolutely unarmed. In the class, two new names appear in the presidential brackets, those of Eddie Halprin, who had held practically every other class office, and Eli Horowitz, the long-run president of the lower half of the class. And when the '34 class held its feed, '33 didn't disappoint. About thirty five strong we came down to the fight, only to find a squadron of cops guarding the door. But the spirit of 33 marched on, over fences, along alleys, up fire escapes, down shafts. And finally, with a grand flourish, into the room marched the thirty-five sophs—to face an assemblage of three hun- dred and fifty freshmen! The fight lasted about thirty-five seconds, one for each soph. Off came Charlie Bloomstein's pants, and Joe Gottfried stood outside in an overcoat, and nothing more. Finally, in a spirit of self-sacrifice. ( 72 Checker Bored Eddie Halprin, Jerry Kirschbaum, and Char- lie Bio omstein gave themselves up as hosta- ges for the return of Joe's clothing. Small ‘Coke’ But the sophomore year means the Soph Smoker, and the Famous Forty-Seven. The affair was held somewhere on Eighth Street, with tick- ets at a dollar and a half a throw, for which we got only sandwiches and corn cob pipes. Then came the march to 14th Street and right into the subway station, while a very angry station agent looked on. On the ride to Grand Central, at least one car was thoroughly dismantled, bulbs, signs, everything. Off at Grand Central, snake-dance to Broadway, breaking the subway bulbs on the way, and then up to 49th Street. At the Rivoli the picture was The Royal Family of Broadway '. The line tramped unhesitatingly up to the door; the first man jerked his thumb over his shoulder to indicate that his ticket was coming, and marched in. When the doorman finally realized something was wrong, he was . W gently lifted off his feet, carried to one side and held there while the entire line marched in. It was a good show — until the cops came. Almost everybody was roped in—it was a neat trick on the part of the ushers. Eddie Halprin had his young nephew along and so was able to get away by pos- ing as a sedate old gentleman, possibly even a college pro- fessor, taking his young child to see the picture. Ben Kean had seen the picture before, and told the cops the plot to convince them that he was not a member of this rowdy group of hoodlums. And then, just as Ben was preparing to saunter away, one of the boys called out, “Hey, Kean, you in Dutch, too? Ben joined the boys behind the ropes. Horowitz And so they marched them all off to the 4 th Street station. Mush Weiner gave a little display of his football nerve by going into the station house with his little red Smoker souvenir booklet held as a pad and posing as a reporter from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle trying to get information as to what was to be done with the forty-seven. But the Sergeant recognized the little book, and Mush reached the street faster than Hal Kramer can swim the length ___73 mmmm wmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmm ammmm Cannon Fodder — At Ease After that came, strangely enough, our Junior year. We started that minus the services of Austin Bonis, who had taken the Naum- berg Scholarship, and so was over in Paris—studying mathematics. That was the year we returned to College at the end of the summer shocked and sur- prised to find that the '31 Mike hadn't appeared yet, and that the Tech Build- ing was open and functioning—the Tech Building, which ever since the war had been nothing but a network of metal and concrete below the street level, a foundation on which nobody ever expected anything to rest. But here it was, and it was all right, except that the architects had forgotten to provide drinking fountains for thirsty young engineers. Hygiene 5 and 6 classes were immediately transferred to the new gym. and discovered that a gym was a large room with lots of windows in which you sat fully clothed and listened to lec- tures. The equipment wasn't installed un- til that term was over. And at about the same time, the '31 Mike appeared. The Little God of Quip and Jest Another surprise awaited us when we returned to school. On the publications counter in the alcoves, on the desks in the libraries, lay a funny little paper, folded in half to form a four-page publication, with a title on the front page, “Fac- ulty Bulletin''. And it contained a good deal of peculiar mate- rial, lists of rooms, articles entitled “Meat , written in Eng- lish that would have been poor for a freshman in one of the English 1 classes. It announced proudly that it was to be distributed gratis to the students and faculty, although it didn't explain why. The editors were the four deans of the various schools, and in a later issue, presumably as the result of hard work and promise of Russin of the College pool. After a night in a cell and a suspension from College, the boys were brought before Magis- trate Anthony Burke, who imposed a fine of $25 on each of them. And so ended a perfect Sophomore year. ( 74 future performance. Dr. Gottschall was added to the staff. In later con- troversies with the Cam- pus, however, it de- veloped that none of these editors knew what went into the paper be- fore it was printed, nor did they know who wrote it. The Camftus, under M.S. Liben, pro- tested against the issu- ance of the Bulletin. That term the Camftus 'yas not given exclusive rights to the publication of the exam schedule as usual. The schedule was re- leased at the College's expense on a separate sheet of paper which was dis- tributed with the Bulletin. Cannon Fodder — At Attention In the class, Hy Gold held the presidency of the upper half for both terms, while Ben Kean, who left for the West soon after, alternated with Moc Fricdlandcr in the leader- ship of the lower half. Frosh-soph fights were over, so that there was not the usual excitement. Most of the boys were busy in the major activities, publications, sports. Student Council politics. Hy Gold ran for the secretaryship, vice- presidency, presidency of the Student Council, and was de- feated each time by Manny Warshauer of the '32 class. The Junior Prom was called off for lack of fin- ancial support. We finally did hold a boat- house dance, at 161st Street and Harlem River, which achieved a fair modicum of success. And so we prepared to enter the senior class and take over the lead- ership of everything in the school. Eddie Halprin was elected President of the Student Council; Ingram Bander was a can- didate for the editorship of the Camftus along with H. A. Weinstein, but the Camftus Association squabble broke things up very thoroughly; Gene Cotton took a husky job on his shoulders by becoming Editor of both the Microcosm and the Mercury; and Les Kohs came along to help him out with the Mike by doing all the art work. Hy Gold succeeded Dave Edclstcin as president of the upper half of the class, and the Feb. men finished their t—- ( 75 college career, as they had begun it, under Hy's leadership. Hy also became business manager of the Microcosm, to everyone's complete satisfaction. The senior year was comparatively uneventful. The lower class presidents were Eli Horowitz and Manny Reich- man, who came in off the track (which was just as well for the track team) to carry off a surprise victory in the elec- tions. In the term of Horowitz and Gold, the Senior Prom was run off — a formal, at the Paramount Grill, with Beth Challis singing and making cracks at the College boys, and with Chaz Chase wandering around eating matches, hats, coats, underwear, taking his famous bath, and generally having a good time. The dance in the spring term wa« called off for lack of support. In the College, during the year, came all the events re- corded more fully in the headlines. Oakley Johnson was removed from the evening session staff, and started a riot— more suspensions, demonstrations, and the rest. The Cam- pus had its troubles, and the Student appeared to compete with the alumni publication. The Student Council spent six weeks trying to decide who was president. It took the '33 class to revive the custom of all-college musical comedies, which had died with Ship Ahoy back in 1930. And so “Here Comes the Bribe , with book, music, and lyrics by students of the Col- lege was put on before sold-out houses at Twenty-Third Street. On the Concourse, when we first arrived here, ping-pong was beginning its reign, and the steady click-clack of ball meeting racquet resounded from all corners. On Thursdays of course, the routine was broken by frosh-soph fights, and the tune became “Who Owns New York , or “She Married a Man, etc. As the terms passed, ping- pong held its own, but yielded a little to bridge. The bridge wasn't played for money, of course, — that was against Col- lege rules. At odd times in the course of the years, other games developed. Domino had its day; there were football games up and down the Concourse, __ :( 76 with a bag of paper instead of a pig-skin. But that was too strenuous, so we moved up onto the table and played football there, shoving a little ball of paper back and forth. It was a swell game, involving sig- nals, quick shifts, and everything. There was one very mysterious game, in which a coffee cup was slid back and forth over the table, and another one was played with the ice-cream spoons used by the lunch counter. And let's not forget the other crowd, on the fourth floor, in the Campus, Merc, and Mike offices. Between bridge games there were issues to be put out, and days and nights were spent by the Campus fellows at the printer. The boys were lucky when they got home before four o'clock the night before an issue was due. And there was that night when Mike Liben decided late in the afternoon to put out an issue the next day, and the staff worked right through the night. In the Merc office every- thing was different. It didn't matter if the issue came out a week late. And the editors used to set deadline after deadline, extending it each time they discovered that they didn't have enough copy. And after rejecting everything that came in, they'd take the whole basket down to Spinner Press on W. 58th Street, and put the issue together. Marks THE STUDENT But it’s all over now. Commencement approaches,—for most of us, any- way. The only thing left for us to do is to go down to A1 Rose s office and get our name on his list. We know nothing will ever come of it, but at least it gives us a chance to loaf for the next few years, while waiting for a chance to take that License Num- ber One exam, and pass that oral. T The Moving Finger ivrites, and having writ, Moves on . . .” Finis '—77 3 HEADLINES OF THE YEAR • SEPTEMBER 26: Campus Staff Resigns in Protest as Association Asks Them to Play Ball With Administration. Administration Says It Didn't Want to Play Anyway. Boys Play Too Rough. o o o SEPTEMBER 30: Student Appears in Opposition to Campus, Sells for Two Cents. Campus Reduces Price to One Cent. Faculty Bulletin Distributed Gratis. Students Buy Faculty Bulletin, o o o OCTOBER 1: Eleven Loses Close Tussle to Catholic U., 47-0. Parker Says Team Is Better Than Last Year's.—“Halprin Not Senior,” Says Student Council. “Am So! Says Halprin. “Are Not,” Says Weinstein, “Aw Ncrts,” Says Everyone.—Kadanc Good Actor, Chosen Acting Head, o o o OCTOBER 5: Oakley Johnson Removed from Evening Session Faculty in Economy Drive. New English Instructor Added to Evening Session Faculty in Same Drive. - o o o OCTOBER 8: Footballers Shcllack Lowell Tech, but Engineers Win Game Anyway, 7-0.—“Who Is Oakley Johnson?” asks Robinson. O 0 O OCTOBER 11: Gold Unanimously Elected Senior President, as Four Seniors Cast Ballots.—Robinson Invites Students to Criticize Administration. Everybody Happy, o o o OCTOBER 14: Parker Resigns as Football Coach, Leaving Team in Lurch. What Team? Asks Student Body.—Mercury Appears in Patriotic Guise. Editor Hides in Dean's Office as Dean Goes Hunting, o o o OCTOBER 15: Gridmcn Crush R. P. I., 13-0. Everybody Surprised. “Mush” Weiner Apologizes.—First Payment on Mike Falls Due. Senior Alcove Deserted. :( 78 OCTOBER 18: Halprin Declared President of Student Council for Fourth Time. Expects to Try Again, o o o OCTOBER 21: Ho Hum. Another Editor of Campus Resigns. Candidates Mob Office. Schatteles Wins With New Uniform, o o o OCTOBER 22: Eleven Practically Beats Drexel, 0-20. o o O OCTOBER 28: Students Beat Cops Brutally in Protest Against Dismissal of Oakley Johnson. Cops Arrest Four Students. Students Arrest No Cops. o o o OCTOBER 29: Footballers Lapse Again, Beat Brooklyn 18 7.—School Chooses Thomas as Next President by Overwhelming Vote. 0 0 0 NOVEMBER 7: Roosevelt Elected. o o o NOVEMBER 16: Mercury Blasts Payne in Psychology Number. Editor Comes Out of Retirement as Issue Is Declared Clean. Payne Goes Into Retirement.—First Payment on Mike Still Due, Gold Announces. O O o NOVEMBER 26: Basketeers Play Rings Around St. Francis, 37-17.—Phi Bete Honors 42 Men With Bills for Membership Dues. o o o DECEMBER 2: Robinson Defines Liberal Attitude. Schrank Suspended From College.—Chisellers Get to Work as Tickets for Officers' Ball Arc Printed, o o o DECEMBER 5: Lavender Quintet Trounces Tomcats in Fast Game.—Kraus Also in Fast Game. Camfius to Broadcast Paunch by Paunch Description of Gyrations of God's Hungry Man. o o o DECEMBER 7: Robinson Appoints Dryfoos to Supervise Student Affairs. Dryfoos Never Heard From Again. Had Never Been Heard From Before. O O O DECEMBER 9: Robinson Walks Out While Liberal Club Boos. o o o DECEMBER 13: Cagemen Give Dickinson Basketball Lesson, 45 17. Fouls Screamingly Funny. Double Up Dickinson Players.—Gold Announces First Payment on Mike Due. o o o DECEMBER 15: Student Council Threatens Campus. Will Publish Letters in Next Issue.—Kraus Still Very Hungry. __ 79 DECEMBER 19: Council Bars Marks. Will Accept U. S. Currency Only.— Green Wave From Hanover Merc Ripple as Five Smothers Dartmouth. —Kramer Shatters Swimming Records. Story Very Fishy. o O o JANUARY 4: Chess Team Defeats All Rivals in College Meet. Other Teams Rooked. Fine Stays Out So That Opponents Can Come Within Five Games of the College. Fine Sportsmanship! 0 o O JANUARY 9: Dramatic Society Claims Hamlet Sellout. Audience Completely Sold Out.—Columbia Swimmers All Wet as College Team Wins. O O o JANUARY 15: First Payment on Mike Now Due, Says Gold. o o o JANUARY 17: Quintet Beats Manhattan, 35-17. Cohalan's Team Turns Green With Envy as Lavender Smothers Them, o o o FEBRUARY 15: First Payment on Mike Falls Due, Gold Announces. o o o FEBRUARY 24: Elect Officers Mid Groans of Defeated Candidates. Reich- man Wins Race for First Time in Life. Everybody Surprised, Including Reichman. o o o MARCH 7: A. A. Members to Be Admitted Free to Home Games. Members Strike for Carcfare and Free Lunch at Games. 0 o o MARCH 10: Dram. Soc. to Produce “Here Comes the Bribe”, a Tragedy After the Ancient Greek Mode, for the Benefit of the Student Aid Fund. Fund Says It Doesn't Want to Sec the Show. O o o MARCH 20: Solomon Accused of Mishandling Funds. Solomon Denies Ille- gitimate Use of Money. Says He Saw Only Legitimate Shows With It. o o o MARCH 24: Co-Assistant Basketball Managers Elected Three Times in Manipulation, Campus Reveals. It Never Rains, But It Pours. o 0 0 MARCH 28: Discipline Committee Suspends Solomon From Activities. Suspense Terrific, Says Solomon. 0 o o MARCH 31: Baseball Season Opens Uniquely—Without Game. Columbia Game Washout. Criticism Pours In. 80 APRIL 7: “Here Comes the Bribe Due to Open Tonight. Swell Show, Says Reviewer, as He Prepares to See It. Authors Decide to Write the Second Act. Actors Start Rehearsing First Act. Kadanc Reads Riot Act. o o o APRIL 10: “Here Comes the Bribe Rated Huge Success as It Completes Season Run of Two Days.—“Medical Number” of Mercury Appears. Is Panned With Campus Formula No. 94857. o o o APRIL 15: First Payment on Mike Due, Says Gold. O O O APRIL 21: R. O. T. C. Review Not to Be Staged Charter Day. Soldiers Want An Audience.—“Boy Who Stood on Burning Deck a Moron, Says Overstreet. “Overstreet a Moron, Says Boy. Cohen Takes No Stand, o o o APRIL 26: Barbanell Calls Reichman and Pals “Inane Alcove Politicians . All Agree Reichman Is Not Politician. o o o APRIL 28: Campus Proposes Student Teachers for Summer School. Mercury Proposes Teacher Students. No Attention Paid to Either Proposal. O O O MAY 3: Board of Estimate Postpones Summer Session Ruling Again. Agrees to Decide the Question in October, o o o MAY 8: Summer Session Post Card Barrage Begun by Camfius Smothers O'Brien. He Says Nothing Foolish for Three Days. Tammany Starts Post Card Barrage to Smother Campus. It Prints Nothing Foolish for Three Days, o o o MAY 10: No News. Reporter Can't Even Find College. Finally Discovered Under Three Layers of Election Posters, o o o MAY 12: Charter Day Ceremonies Held Without Military Display. Robinson Talks, Mott Talks, Other People Talk, Bullwinkle Runs. o o o MAY 15: First Payment on Mike Now Due, Says Gold. 81 mm LOUIS CHARLES ABELSON, B.S. 2119 Regent Place, Brooklyn Honors: Soph Skull, Lock and Key. Water Polo; Capt., Swimming Team; Varsity Track. As a swimmer, Lou ivas superb. But ask Hal Kramer ivhat his handicap was. EDWARD ABRAMS, B.S. 1419 Stebbins Avenue, Bronx Biology; Geology Societies. Phone your orders, small or large. We deliver, free of charge. Says Eddie, the budding gynecologist. LOUIS AIN, B.A. 455 Fort Washington Avenue Lou had to grotv a moustache so that he tvould not confuse himself with his 3A fufils. WILLIAM M. ALTON, B.A. 467 Central Park West Bill intends to study law so that he can read the rafte cases. VINSON C. ARONSON, B.A. 41 West 72nd Street Honors: Pbi Beta Kappa, Second Year Honors. Vinson sfient his sfiare time at college trying to build uf a system of logic based on detective stories. i 82 EMANUEL M. AUGUST, B.A. 3405 Putnam Place, Bronx Manny's a fine marksman — always shooting his face off. SIDNEY AXELRAD, B.S.S. 540 Rosedale Avenue, Bronx Honors: Tremaine Scholarship. Camfius; Chairman, I. C. C.; Curriculum Committee. Pomfioso, verboso, msoJento, meow! PAUL BACHRACH, B.S.S. 706 Trinity Avenue, Bronx Freshman Basketball; Ccrcle Jusserand. A certain young matron in France Has this young boy in a trance. He writes her and writes her. But never invites her. He's scared she might see his short fiants. GEORGE B. BALAMUT, B.S.S. 211 Fort Washington Avenue We never knciv whether George fiurfiosely sfioke that way or had cut his lifi on a bottle. But he's going to Harvard anyway. MORRIS S. BALGLEY, B.S. 2261 Creston Avenue, Bronx. “At this time of fiarting, wish me good luck. The sky is flushed with the daivn and my fiath lies beautiful. Ask me ivhat I have to take with me. I start on my journey with exficctant heart and emfity hands.''—Balgley. { 83 INGRAM BANDER, B.S.S. 317 East 187th Street, Bronx. Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Tremaine Scholarship, Torch and Scroll, Alumni Prize. Pres. Hist. Soc.; Assoc. Ed,. News Ed., Campus; Assoc. Ed. Lavender: Handbook; Discipline, Cur- riculum Committees; Co-Founder, Assoc. Ed., Ed.-in-Chief Main Events As you can sec Ingram worked day and night. The girls preferred the night work. HAROLD BARNETT, B.S.S. 30 Clarke Place, Bronx. Honors: Mercury Gold Key. Business Manager, Advertising Manager, Circu- lation Staff, Mercury; Business Staff, Lavender. Edna will tell you that Hal's the most foftular and efficient business manager the Merc ever had. And, strange as it may seem, she's right. HYMAN BARTIMER, B.S. 2 Suffolk Street Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Cum Laude. Recognizing the brilliance that made Hy a Phi Bete, Dr. Gottschall f ut him to work distributing locker cards at registration. MAX IRVING BASNER, B.S.S. 75 Orchard Street Ass't. Mgr., Intra-murals; Boxing Squad; Band. Mac calls himself a scholar and a gentleman. We'll admit he {'lulled a large number of A's. ABRAHAM BAUM, B.A. 729 Adce Avenue, Bronx. Honors: Numerals. Treasurer, Vicc-Pres., Class; Frosh Track; Junior Adviser. Abe's hobby is chasing fussies—for laboratory fturftoses. 84 EMANUEL BECKER, B.A. 946 East 181st Street, Bronx. Manny actually knows something. When he told us that, toe became jealous and called him conceited. NATHAN BECKHARDT, B.S. 3411 Giles Place, Bronx. Captain, Varsity Chess Team; Historian, A.S.C.E. Don't j lay chess with Nat. The last guy was rooked so badly that he had to ftaivn his f ants. KIVA BERKOWITZ, B.S. 216 Stockton Street, Brooklyn. After bending the boys' ears about Chem 59 for three and a half years, Kiva never took the course. Harrow showed no ill effects. JOSEPH BERLINER, B.S. 393 East 8th Street. Math. Club. Joe sfient four years at college chasing variables and dancing to that red hot, low-doivn logarithm. MICHAEL BERNFELD, B.S. 166 Second Avenue. Education Soc.; Boxing Squad. Mike was interested in education, so he took uf boxing, loaded his gun, and is all set for a school in Hell's Kitchen. I (85 86 SEYMOUR J. BERNHARD, B.A. 921 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn. says that the theater lacks something. Mod- esty forbids his mentioning what it is. BENJAMIN BERNSTEIN, B.S. 138 Ludlow Street. News board. Campus; Menorah; Chmn., Key Committee; Microcosm, Associate Board, Bus- iness Staff. Benny, the modest and sincere aesthete and philosopher, exPects to contemplate the wonders of the universe amid the cackles of his hungry chickens. MAX A. BERSHAD, B.S. 1415 Stebbins Avenue, Bronx. Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Second Year Honors. Jayvee Basketball. When a time-waster can play Ping-Pong in the alcoves five hours a day for three years and then make Phi Bete, he's not wasting his time. HARRY BIERMAN, B.S. 310 West 106th Street Fencing, Radio clubs; Tennis Squad. This boy has concocted a Perfect contract bridge system, Provided his opponents follow his rules. ISRAEL BINDER, B.S. 1328 - 80th Street, Brooklyn Honors: Major, Minor letters. Numerals. Treas., class; Jayvee, Varsity Lacrosse; Ass't Treas., Treas., A. A. Benefits of a college education: it changed his name to Cholly . SIDNEY BINDER, B.A. 355 East 72nd Street a { oor filayer, that struts and frets his hour ufion the stage.” VINCENT F. BIONDO, B.S. 2432 — 25th Street, Astoria Mercury staff; C. D. A.; Y. M. C. A. Sleefi, eat, kibitz, sleefi, eat, kibitz, sleefi, eat ....Gad, its driving me crazy! Cant they let a guy rest once in a while9 ABRAHAM BITTER, B.A. 789 Ninth Avenue Abe's hobby ivas sleeping and resting, so he majored m Sociology. JOSEPH DAVID BLANK, B.S.S. 277 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. I EII Four years at college? It’s all a complete blank to me. BERTRAM H. BLOCH, B.A. 160 West 95th Street. 4 KA Mgr., frosh swimming; Ass't. Mgr., Varsity Swimming; Sec., Class; Vicc-Chmn., Senior Prom; Mgr., Jayvec debating team; Business staff Microcosm; Politics Club; Cercle Jusser- and; Intra-Mural Board. Berts a nice fellow, but he’s a fial of Manny Reichman—‘Nuf said! «__ { 87 NATHAN FRANKLIN BLOOM, B.S.S. 690 Allerton Avenue, Bronx. Radio, Politics Clubs; Swimming; Pres, class (eve.) ; Baseball (eve.) ; Associate Editor, Main Events. Nat thinks that Professors Otis and Guthrie have had the greatest effect on him. We're sure he means Guthrie. HOWARD KENNETH BLOOMFIELD, B.S. 280—85th Street, Brooklyn. French Club (Bklyn); Geology, Biology clubs. He ivants to make his first million within thirty years. Women or dollars, Howie? CHARLES L. BLOOMSTEIN, B.S. 2216 Lyon Avenue, Bronx. Chmn., Soph Carnival; Senior Editor, Micro- cosm; Mercury; Class Night; Soph Smoker; Frosh Feed; Dance. Crash! Bang! Slam! Whooftee, Yip, yif ! Ouch!” It's all right, it's only Charlie carrying on a conversation. ELI BLUME, B.A. 565 West 171st Street. TAG Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Cum Laudc. Cerclc Jusscrand. Semfer modestus fuit, neque umquam dixit. Requiescat in f.'tace. CHARLES LEWIS BLUMSTEIN, B.S. 602 West 157th Street. [ EIT Varsity Baseball. Charley's hobby is experimental biology. He flays with a jellyfish and makes no bones about it. 88 MORRIS BOGASH, B.S.S. 2734 Claflin Avenue. Pres., class; Editor, 33 Bulletin; Mgr., Boxing Team; Intra-mural Board; '31 Microcosm; Al- cove Committee; Class committees. Morris helped found the boxing club, and by the law of Founders Keepers” he's been man- aging it ever since. AUSTIN J. BONIS, B.S. 255 West 90th Street. Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Pell Medal, Belden Medal, Naumberg Scholarship, Second Year Honors. News Board, Associate Board, Executive Board, Campus; President Cadet club; Lavender Cadet staff. We'll bet he took a book with him to the Folies Bergcrc while he ivas in Paris. IRVING BOREK, B.S. 1209 Westchester Avenue, Bronx. Baskcrvillc Soc. Studied chemistry so as to be able to make his own acid. (Borek, get it? Sorry, Irv, we couldn't resist it.) ABRAHAM BORNICK, B.S.S. 918 East 163rd Street, Bronx. Dramatic Soc.; Orchestra. Teaching history in the high schools is Abe's intention. The road to the bread-line is fiaved with such intentions. HILFRED NORMAN BOSSAK, B.S. 500 West End Avenue. Business Staff, Microcosm. Fred started out to be an engineer, got twelve D's, and decided to be a doctor, got four rejec- tions, and decided to be a dentist. Since there are too many teachers, however, he’s seriously contemplating law. ( 89 SOLOMON BOSSIN, B.S. 1002 Home Street, Bronx. Soccer Team; Class Soccer; Croquis Sketch Club. The man with the educated feet. So) says he could {taint better with his feet than with his hands. We don't doubt it. LEONARD B. BOUDIN, B.S.S. 8418 -- 114th Street, Richmond Hill. Mgr., Chess team; Clionia; Lavender. Lenny looks like one of Botticelli's cherubs, and lives on the strength of his uncle's intelligence and his friends' cynicism. ABRAHAM J. BRILLER, B.A. 208 East 94th Street, Brooklyn. Circulo Fucntes. Abe once looked in a mirror, and says that since then he'll never be able to love another girl. OSCAR BROTMAN, B.S. 2146 Honeywell Avenue, Bronx. Somebody once saw him attend a class, but Oscar insists it was only because someone else ivas using the {n'ng-{tong table. PHILIP BRUNO, B.A. 142-14 Lincoln Street, Flushing. Circulo Fuentes. Phil expects to go to Sfiain. All we can do is {iray that no bull ever sees that carrot tof of his. 90 LEON H. BRYAN, B.S. 486 Convent Avenue. Campus staff; Director, Vice-Pres., Douglass Society. Leon was vice-president of the Douglass Society for three terms in a row. One good term de- serves another. ARTHUR BUCK, B.S.S. 34-05 — 28th Avenue, Long Island City. Depression, hah! Artie ivill always have a buck to his name. SIDNEY CABIN, B.S. 204 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn. Sid's math course taught him that a line ivas the shortest distance between two Points. But not his line. LEONARD CAMMER, B.S. 1701 Nelson Avenue, Bronx. Lenny is the third Gammer to graduate from City College. Just gluttons for punishment. JOSHUA CANTER, B.A. 847 Kelly Street, Bronx. A true disciple of education, Josh has remained faithful to his ideal. JOSEPH CANTOR, B.A. 1574 Dahill Road, Brooklyn. Joe teas bounced out of many a movie palace because his loud and hearty laugh would ivake uft the salesmen who sfrent the day there. JOSEPH CAPLAN, B.S. 1901—84th Street, Brooklyn. Joe's greatest achievement in his experiments in physiology: he discovered he has no blind spot in his eye. BERNARD CAROL, B.A. 166 Scholes Street, Brooklyn. Orchestra. Ah, Carol, la personnalite est un grand tresor, n est-cc Pas? JOSEPH R. CATALDO, B.S. 2428 Fuller Street, Bronx. A.I.Ch.E. Joe sPent four years taking a chemical engin- eering course so that he could learn to make stink-bombs. SANFORD CHALFIN, B.S. 12 Harrison Avenue, Brooklyn. Track Team; Pep Shows, (Brooklyn). Plunk-a-plunk, plunk-PUNK! Coivboy Sanford, of the Wild West and the Brooklyn PeP Shoivs. 92 GEORGE CHAST, B.A. 169 East 109th Street. Honors: Phi Beta Kappa; Second Year Honors; Cum Laude; Tremaine Scholarship. Vice-President, Class; Vice-President, Classical Soc.; Cercle Jusserand. I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honors more. GEORGE CHERR, B.S. 1294 Grant Avenue. A favorite hobby of Georgte's is vulcanizing. He loves to test tubes. MICHAEL JOSEPH CICALESE, B.S. 3454 - 70th Street, Jackson Heights. Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Second Year Honors. Orchestra; Circulation Staff, Campus, Mercury, Lavender; Circulation Manager, Business Staff, Microcosm; Handbook. Mercury! Microcosm! Campus! Lavender! Hot dogs! Candy!” Mike sold everything in the col- lege, and still managed to make Phi Bete. LEONARD CIRKER, B.S. 522 W. 211 Street. TA«I Speech is silver, silence is gold. Haven't you, heard, Lenny? We're off the gold standard. ABRAHAM SOLOMON CLAYMAN, B.S.S. 2331 Grand Concourse, Bronx. I AII Assistant, Associate Editor, Business Bulletin; B. A. S. Abe expects to achieve the impossible—become a lawyer and still retain his ideals. ( 93 IRVING S. COHEN, B.S.S. 21 East 87th Street. Lost and Found Department. Irv would fight to the last ditch to further the cause of pacifism. MILTON HAROLD COHEN, B.S. 916 Southern Boulevard, Bronx. Menorah; Inter. Activities. Milt hurries home after school to his little ivife Muni. He supports her on love and the Ency- clopedia Britannica. PHILIP S. COHEN, B.S.S. 63 Lake Street, Brooklyn. Freshman Swimming; Social Research Bureau. Phil majored in Bio and does his Practical work in the field of Social Research. SIDNEY COHEN, B.A. 15 Sickles Street. Ccrcle Jusserand; Camfius. Sid majored in French, but he still doesn’t know hoiv frogs reproduce. MORRIS COHN, B.S. 1687 Bathgate Avenue, Bronx. Honors: Goethe Contest Medal. Morris asked us to say something good and grand. Grand Canyon! O.K. Moish? { 94 ROBERT COLVER, B.S.S. 545 Edgecombe Avenue. Y. M. C. A. Me and Gilhuly are great ftals. I love every bone in his body—broken. WILLIAM P. COMERFORD, B.S., C.E. 54 Hamilton Place. A HE Honors: Major Letter; Numerals. Manager, Fencing; Pres., A. S. C. E.; I. F. C.; Engineering Societies Council; Publicity Bureau. Handsome, jocular, energetic, what more could any ivoman ask for? DAVID N. COOPER, B.S. 1679 - 66tb Street, Brooklyn. Dave came to City College from N. Y. U. to escape feminine distraction in the bio labs. We hoftc he wasn't disaffomted. EUGENE COTTON, B.S.S. 1201 Elder Avenue, Bronx. Honors: Phi Beta Kappa; Second Year honors; Magna Cum Laude; Major Student Council In- signia; Mercury Gold Key; Lock and Key. Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor, Editorial Board Microcosm; Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor, Editorial Board, Mercury; Discipline Commit- tee; Contributing Board, Camftus; Ass t Editor Handbook; Author, Here Comes the Bribe ; Chmn., Class Night. King Cotton”. BEN DASHEFSKY, B.S. 715 Fox Street, Bronx. SAII President, Circulo Fuentes. Ben Dashefsky, the gay caballero of Fox Street, who learned his Spanish from the dark senori- tas of Cuba. —95 p MORRIS DAVICH, B.S. 1463 Boston Road, Bronx. Honors: Numerals. Freshman Basketball, Track; Biology Soc. Morris likes soccer, but since the college has no team, he got his running on the track and the ball on the basketball court, and got a kick out of it. EDWARD M. DAVID, B.S.S. 209 West 97th Street. Dramatic Soc.; Microcosm Business Board. Eddie must be the best dresser in the class— he always tvears {tressed {tants. SAMUEL DAVIDSON, B.S. 1233 Manor Avenue, Bronx. Orchestra; Mcnorah; Physics, Education Clubs; Microcosm; Mercury. Sammy’s a swell fellow, but he’s a friend of the editor, {toor guy. ISIDOR DAVIS, B.S. 91 Jewell Street, Brooklyn. Honors: Major Letter; Numerals. Manager, Wrestling Team. C'tnon boy, toss that fibula around his basioc- ciftital, and wraft that humerus around his isch- ium! It’s a cinch when you know hoiv.' FELIX DE GIOVANNI, B.S. in En. 2082 Hughes Avenue, Bronx. C. D. A.; Officer's Club. An engineer, and an officer. He'll be all set for the engineering corftse when and if he graduates. mm 96 CLEMENT DELITSKY, B.S. 224 Utica Avenue, Brooklyn. Clement has spent his life trying to find out whether Shakespeare wrote Bacon's essays, or Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays, or are we all crazy? ALBERT V. DE MEO, B.S.S. 123 Sandford Street, Brooklyn. C. D. A.; Cercle Jusserand; Pioneer; Fencing Club, (Brooklyn). A1 goes to City College and works for St. Law- rence University, the ingrate. JOSHUA REYNOLDS DEROW, B.S. 17 West 9th Street. Baskcrvillc Soc. As he goes, so did he come. . -hy subway. LOUIS DETZ, B.S. 481 Livonia Avenue, Brooklyn. Varsity Lacrosse; Captain, Hockey Team. When a man plays both lacrosse and ice-hock- ey, he is cast for the role of hero—a plaster cast. MILTON DICKMAN, B.A. 122 East 103rd Street. Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, Second Year Honors, Claflin Medal in Latin, Weinberg Memorial Prize, Tremaine Scholar- ship, Leon Pin in English. Lavender; Classical Soc. Hence! vain, deluding joys! Milt is going to Pursue the Muse in a lonely Penthouse on the Drive. _ (97 — HERBERT DOUNAY, B.S. 2474 Grand Avenue, Bronx. Biology Soc.; Intramural Sports. Mr. Smi th of the Psych Department has very little trouble hypnotizing Herb, ivho is three quarters gone before the Process starts. BERNARD S. DURHAM, B.S. 1384 Prospect Avenue, Bronx. 4 nx Treasurer, Class. Bull is the handsomest fellow in the class, but unfortunately he wasn’t on the Mike staff. DAVID SIMEON EDELSTEIN, B.A. 4350 Furman Avenue, Bronx. Chairman, Alcove Committee; Sec'y and Presi- dent, Class; Politics Club; Menorah Soc. Dave doesn’t regret having gone to college. He tried to raise the intellectual standard of the Class Council; but the Augean stables couldn't be cleaned. IRVING PAUL EISENBERG, B.S. 1480 Hoe Avenue, Bronx. Military Band; Menorah Soc. Noise—noise—vocal noise, musical noise. Only Miriam can subdue him. EDWIN F. ENGLAND, Jr., B.A. 1261 Stadium Avenue, Bronx. Rifle Team; Sec., Officers' Club; Campus Staff; Y. M. C. A.; Mercury. Eddie was a big shot on the rifle team. His modesty, however, didn't affect his popularity in the least. __ { 98 EDWARD H. EPSTEIN, B.S. 1512 E. 172 Street, Bronx. Sec'y- Treas., Geology Club; Freshman Swim- ming Team. The only thing we held against Eddie was that he didn't smoke. Hoiv can you grub cigarettes from a guy like that? HARRY ERTEL, B.S. 2380 -- 35th Street, Long Island City. Baskervillc Soc.; Circulo Fuentes. Harry's work in destructive distillation was not what it ivas cracked uf to be. HYMAN FAINE, B.A. 816 East 169th Street, Bronx. Camfius; Social Problems Club; Menorah Soc.; Frosh Tennis. This ardent member of the Social Problems Club even filed out his questionnaire in red fencil. JOSEPH FEIBUSCH, B.S. 794 East 160th Street, Bronx. Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Cum Laude, Tremaine Scholarship. Photography Editor, Microcosm; Curriculum, Cap and Gown, Commencement Committees. The thing ivc admired most in Yussel was the fact that he could use the ivord fhumfh as a noun, verb, adjective, or summary of Roosevelt's inaugural address. VICTOR FEINGOLD, B.A. 1865 University Avenue, Bronx. Honors: Major Student Council Insignia, Soph Skull, Lock and Key, Minor Letter, Numerals. Treas., Student Council; Junior Adviser; Fresh- man Baseball; Chmn., Class Dance; Faculty Student Discipline Committee; Microcosm. Vic the mighty, Vic the athlete, Vic the lover. Your announcer is Victor Feingold. __ { 99 SAMUEL FEINSTEIN, B.S. 2229 Crcston Avenue, Bronx. Sam's enjoyment of life increases in inverse firofiortion to the amount of ducats he spends. IRVING H. FIGLIN, B.A. 11 Stone Street, Yonkers. When the Lusitania went down, Irv was a fresh- man; it took the crash of the Akron to get him out of school. REUBEN FINE, B.S.S. 1569 Vyse Avenue, Bronx. Chess Team. The college's greatest contribution to the world of chess, but try to get Reuben to admit it. SIDNEY FINKELSTEIN, B.S. 726 Coster Street, Bronx. R. O. T. C. Band. What this country needs is a good five-cent doctor. Med school, here I come. ALEXANDER FIX, B.S. 2141 Holland Avenue, Bronx. Commencement Committee. Alex, of the land of the mandarins, still finds City College worse than a Chinese fiuzzle after having sfient twelve years within its ivalls. _I 00 JOSEPH H. FLACKS, B.S.S. 353 Vernon Avenue, Brooklyn. Honors: Minor Student Council Insignia, Mer- cury Gold Key. News Ed. Publicity Bureau; Managing Ed., Ed.- in-Chief, Mercury; Co-author, Here Comes the Bribe”; Social Research Lab; Managing Ed., Microcosm; Editor, Class Night Program. Bad-gag” Flacks, they used to call him. Punc- tilious, Punderous, pungent, Puny j.mns. Egad! Throckmorton! The punishment is terrific. SAMUEL WILLIAM FOGEL, B.S.S. 141 Alabama Avenue, Brooklyn. Sammy admits that his hobby is collecting books; we find from his record that he worked in the Circulating Library and the Chem Library at the college. Nuff sed. An optimist? LEON FORMAN, B.S. 1758 Bathgate Avenue, Bronx. Impossible — I’m gonna be a teacher. ERNEST FREIBERGER, B.S. 826 Fox Street. Gov t 5 got him hot under the collar. He took it in the summer. HARRY SOLOMON FRIEDLANDER, B.S. 2500 University Avenue, Bronx. Menorah. Harry boasts that he reads a woman like a book; we'll bet he uses the Braille system. 101 ■■■■■■ MOSES FRIEDLANDER, B.S. in En. 2995 Botanical Square, Bronx. Honors: Numerals. Pres., Treas., Athletic Mgr. Class; Chairman, Sr. Dance Committee; Boxing' Team; Frosh Cross- country; Microcosm Business Staff. Everybody admires this Popular, versatile chap. But we never will be able to understand how so naive a fellow gets rings under his eyes. BARNEY M. FRIEDMAN, B.S. 249 Eldridgc Street. Faculty Editor, Microcosm; Mercury; Campus. After conducting Gargoyles for a year, Barney set out to get a job writing a Broadway gossif column for the N. Y. Times. mi EMIL FRIEDMAN, B.S. 5324 — 12th Avenue, Brooklyn. He might have been Rooshian, Or even a Prooshian, But despite all temptations to join other nations He remains a Galitzianer. LOUIS FRIEDMAN, B.S.S. 2055 Harrison Avenue, Bronx. All through his college career, Lou had a seat reserved for him in the History Library. MARTIN J. FRIEDMAN, B.S.S. 9117 Patterson Avenue, Jackson Heights. AT‘I Chairman Key Committee; Chairman Class Pub- licity Committee (Four Years); Soph Smoker; I. F. C. Publicity. The ballyhooer of the class. ( 102 SEYMOUR S. FRIEDMAN, B.S.S. 937 East 181st Street, Bronx. TA12 Honors: Gold Football, Major Letter. Varsity Football, Frosb Track; Varsity, Officers, Cadet Clubs; Varsity Show ; Dramatic Soc; I.F.C. He could go on the air, he could go into Holly- wood, but now that Rockne is dead, he will probably teach 6B2, if the Board of Ed will give him a job. JACK FUTTERMAN, B.S. 2100 Bronx Park East, Bronx. Slew the women left and right itnth his good looks—in his 5B1 class. JACK GARBER, B.A. 639 Jefferson Place, Bronx. Jake liked football, so he majored in French in order to understand the Notre Dame signals. ROBERT GARDNER, B.A. 205 West 88tb Street. Honors: Major, Minor Letters; Numerals. Manager, Varsity Cross-country, Track, Athletic Manager, Sec., Class; Advertising Staff, Micro- cosm; Deutscher Verein ; Varsity, Officers' Clubs. Lank Bob's track activities kefit him running around in circles. HENRY GASKIN, B.S.S. 284 East 171st Street, Bronx. With Plato, Sfiinoza, and Berkeley, Hank is cer- tain that the righteous will ahvays emerge tri- umphant. ( 103 —p J. ANTHONY GELBER, B.S. 614 West 177th Street. He comes from a long line of French swimmers, so Tony always docs the frog kick. EDWARD GENDEL, B.S. 41 West 82nd Street. Cercle Jusserand. Eddy's love-life revolved about one girl—the girl of his dreams. VINCENT GERARDI, B.S. 186 Lincoln Avenue, Bronx. Wrestling squad; Intramural Boxing', Wrestling, Baseball, Football; Soph Smoker Comm. He {flayed cards in the alcoves till six each night. Just an alcove joker. SIDNEY GERMAN, B.S. 1937 Davidson Avenue, Bronx. Alcove Committee. Sid was sufifiosed to break uf card-games in the alcoves; instead he broke u{ the women s hearts. HARRY GERSHENSON, B.A. 136 Moore Street, Brooklyn. Honors: Kelly Prize in P. S., Washington Bi- centennial Medal. Jayvee Debating; Capt., Varsity Debating; Pres., Debate Council; Math Club. His urbane verbosity fiasscd him through many courses in which he had never done a stitch of work. —104 p GEORGE S. GETNICK, B.A. 551 Chester Street, Brooklyn. International Relations Society; Politics; B.A.S. At last we've found the man who takes notes in Guthrie's courses, and was Big Bill surprised! SAMUEL GEVIRTZ, B.S. 289 Oakland Street, Brooklyn. Sam had the makings of a very nice boy, but he majored in Bio and Chem, which is the same as though we never knew him. HYMAN GILLARY, B.S. 1529 Bryant Avenue, Bronx. As a Bio major, Hy had lots of fun dissecting traffic arteries. SIDNEY GLADSTONE, B.S.S. 1730 Harrison Avenue, Bronx. Honors: Varsity Letters, Numerals. Varsity Baseball; Intramural Teams; Varsity Club. Lefty wants to be a lawyer. After four years on the baseball team he has become a trifle batty. ABRAHAM GLATTERMAN, B.A. 1944 Andrews Avenue, Bronx. Dcutschcr Verein; Biology Soc. Good old Abe flays the fiano by ear; it's an aw- ful strain on the neck after a ivhilc. I 05 ABRAHAM JOSEPH GOLD, B.A. 475 Alabama Avenue, Brooklyn. Abe persisted m rehearsing his nocturnal sere- nades in class. His wind-music astounded the Profs. HENRY MEYER GOLD, B.S. 1930 Harrison Avenue, Bronx. TAfi Honors: Band Insignia. College Orchestra; Band; Frosh, Jayvee, Base- ball. Hank organized a girls' band—twenty-five pieces. HYMAN E. GOLD, B.A., M.S. 586 Union Avenue, Bronx. Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Cum Laudc, Second Year Honors, Tremaine Scholarship, Major Stu- dent Council Insignia, Soph Skull, Lock and Key, Numerals. Bus. Mgr., Microcosm; Pres., (four times), Vice- Prcs., Sec'y., S. C. Rep., Class; Circ. Mgr., Hand- book; Chmn., Soph Smoker, Carnival, Jr. Dance, Committees; Assoc. Ed., La Chronique ; Ccrclc Jusserand; Sec. Discipline Comm. . . . and his records are often to inspection! MEYER L. GOLDBERG, B.S. 1011 Hcgcman Avenue, Brooklyn. Frosh Basketball. There's no dandruff on this Bio major's scalpel. HAROLD DORIAN GOLDBERG, B.S. 935 St. Nicholas Avenue. See the picture of Dorian Goldberg. And was Oscar Wilde? i SEYMOUR GOLDBERG, B.A. 667 West 161st Street. Varsity Swimming; Bio Soc.; Varsity Baseball; Cbcss and Checker Club. He swims, he golfs, he baseballs, he chesses and checks; athletes' foot—the bills. SOLOMON GOLDBERG, B.S. 1819 — 81st Street, Brooklyn. Not a single ripple marred the placid surface of his college career. HARRY LAWRENCE GOLDBLATT, B.A. 611 Argyle Road, Brooklyn. Honors: Numerals, Major Letter. Varsity Baseball; Jayvec Baseball. Macy's suPer-sal esman, who worked in the lin- gerie department and sold his Personality to the girls. DAVID E. GOLDSTEIN, B.S.S. 648 West 160th Street. He filed out the questionnaire while waiting on line in front of A1 Rose's office. WALTER GOLDSTEIN, B.S. 2780 Grand Concourse, Bronx. TAG Bio Soc.; Frosh Swimming; Fencing; Band. Wally was duelist Par excellence, and ahvays used a tin foil. -- ( 107 LOUIS GONZALEZ, B.A. 8 East 110th Street. ZATl Director, El Boletin; President, Circulo Fuentes. The sweet-voiced gaucho of the Spanish Club meetings. JACK GOODMAN, B.S. 3572 De Kalb Avenue, Bronx. Biology Soc. Jack has been experimenting for three years try- ing to cross matjes herring with tropical fish in order to produce gefiltc. SAMUEL GOODMAN, B.S. 3256 Ampere Avenue, Bronx. Honors: Cum Laude. History, Math Clubs. After wandering aimlessly through the entire register, and taking electives in eight different departments, Sam wound uP with a diploma in one hand, a ping-pong racquet in the other, and a dazed expression on his face. QUENTIN ARTHUR GORGAN, B.S. 3999 Dickinson Avenue, Bronx. Social Problems Club. If Artie is ever brought before the bar as a Communist, he'll at least be able to do a giant swing on it. ISIDORE GORIN, B.S.S. 983 Jennings Street, Bronx. Menorah. The most significant change in Izzy in the last thirteen years was the fact that he grew a moustache. 108 MORRIS GORKIN, B.S. 1728 Crotona Park East, Bronx. Dissecting the cat's spinal cord was a nerve- wracking job for Morris. PEDRO GOTAY-LOPEZ, B.S.S. 346 East 13th Street. Honors: Medal in Spanish. President, Circulo Fuentes; Associate Editor, El Bolctin. Pedro intends to start a revolution to end all revolutions in South America. DAVID GRAND, B.S. 2251 Holland Avenue, Bronx. Honors: Numerals. Sports Editor, Microcosm; Managing Editor, Handbook; Associate Board, Camfsus; Assistant Manager, Baseball Team. Indefatigable Dave, they used to call him. He wrote the complete sftorts section of the Mike, without having seen a single game. ASTON BARRINGTON GREAVES, B.S. 849 St. Nicholas Avenue. Frosh, Varsity Track and Cross-Country teams. He admits that he's mother's smartest child. He's the only one. GEORGE GREENBERG, B.S.S. 3142 Coney Island Avenue, Brooklyn. George invented a toufiee ivith a bald sfiot in it so that it would look like real hair. tmmm I 09 A. I. GREENSTEIN, B.S. 7109 — 21st Avenue, Brooklyn. Math, Chemistry, Radio, Camera Clubs. A. I. is a radio expert. He says he'd he haPPy to dial laughing. SIDNEY GROSS, B.A. 2146 — 72nd Street, Brooklyn. Chess Club; Deutscher Vcrcin; Wrestling Squad. If ivomcn are the root of all evil, says Sid, I'm starting to dig right now. LOUIS ERNEST GUTHEIL, B.S. 966 Trinity Avenue, Bronx. AZ I Y. M. C. A. Lou expects to be a doctor, and is at present practising on medicine halls. MORRIS HALIO, B.S. 81 South Ninth Street, Brooklyn. Camera Club; Deutscher Verein. He says he can take Pictures ivith his eyes shut. Having seen some of them, ive are sure he does. EDWARD J. HALPRIN, B.S.S. 820 East 175th Street, Bronx. Honors: Major Student Council Insignia, Major Letter, Lock and Key, Script and Peg. Pres., Vice-Pres., Sec., S.C.; Pres., Vice-Prcs., Class; Junior Adviser; Bus. Mgr., Handbook; Chmn. Class Dances; Mgr., J. V. Lacrosse; Campus; Mercury; Varsity Show; Chmn. Com- mencement, Class Night. Boorch will never he able to look a piece of celery in the face again. ( I 10 JOHN W. HARTL, B.A. 519 West 151st Street. Business Staff Mercury; Deutschcr Verein. Johnny is a pretty good German student, but he needs a little Prussian-up in his subject. ELIAS HARTMAN, B.S. 317 East 4th Street. Life for Elias was just a series of strange inter- ludes between periods of slecfi. SAMUEL HELLER, B.A. 744 Coster Street, Bronx. Honors: Numerals. Glee Club; Class Council; Alcove and Dance Committees. Sammy's life-ambition was to be a roue, but he never got beyond dreaming about it. SAMUEL STEINER HERSHFIELD, B.A. 2767 Morris Avenue, Bronx. Politics Club. Sam, the traveling salesman. He traveled down to Macy’s every Saturday morning. ARNOLD HERZOG, B.S. 926 Bronx Park South, Bronx. Now sufifiose we bisect the vertical axis of a semi-circular parallelogram,—let's take the local all the way uj , Mac.'' (( I I I JAMES S. HILLER, B. S. in En. 545 West llltk Street. Water Polo; Swimming; Lacrosse; Junior Asst. Manager Track; A.I.E.E. Jimmy had a perfect build for water-folo. He had to wear his collar around his chin. AARON HIMMELSTEIN, B.S. 10 E. 95th Street. Class Swimming; Sec., B.A.S. Going to med school, Aaron? Why don't you leave us something to dismember you by? ARNOLD HIRTENSTEIN, B.A. 555 West 151st Street. Frosh baseball; Intramural basketball. By his own admission, Amy was a connoiscur of wine and song. What a gaf he left in his life! FRED HOCHMAN, B.S.S. 4711 — 12th Avenue, Brooklyn. Honors: Mercury Key. Associate Editor, Mercury, Social Research Lab.; Microcosm; Class Night; Varsity Show. The gloomiest-looking comedian Mercury ever had. Also the funniest. SEYMOUR HOLLANDER, B.S. 227 Audubon Avenue. Baskerville Soc. Seymour s the fellow with the chemical flair. Qualitatively amfhotcric, quantitatively hot air. ---- ( I I 2 I DAVID MEYER HORN, B.S.S. 164 Henry Street. R.O.T.C. Band. Dave's future is in the theater. He started at the bottom, with the check-room, and hofies to ivorh his way ufi to the candy-stand in the balcony. ELI A. HOROWITZ, B.A. 864 Stcbbins Avenue, Bronx. «MIX Honors: Minor Student Council Insignia. Politics Club; Pres., (twice), Vice-Pres., (three times) Class; Microcosm. I lived as I thought. Solemnly and earnestly I carried on the fight for the good and the just. ANTON HUFFERT, B.A. 15-11 — 125th Street, College Point. Y. M. C. A.; Swimming Team. Anton crawled his way through college — the Australian crawl. JOSEPH HYMOWITZ, B.S. 573 Elton Street, Brooklyn. Chemistry Club, (Brooklyn) ; Education Club. We know Joe likes trofiical fish but we're not so sure he cares for temfierate too men. NICHOLAS A. IMBELLI, B.S.S. 436 West Broadway. A I A Officers' Club. Nick and Big Bill” Guthrie still think our gov- ernment's of the fieofile, by the fieofile, and for the fieofile. Got money in the bank, eh Nick? __ [ I I 3 • wra .. LEONARD WILLIAM ISRAEL, B.S.S. 911 Tiffany Street, Bronx. Mercury, Camftus, Business Staffs; Biology So- ciety, Education Club; Frosb Feed Committee. This roue would like to be in the same class as Byron, Don Juan and Casanova, but as yet he's only half dead. MORRIS S. JACOBS, B.S. 1821 Mohegan Avenue, Bronx. Deutscher Vcrcin. Co-of� store Jake, ivith the Pittsboigh accent, and a line crazier and funnier than anything Ed Wynn ever had. PAUL HAROLD JACOBSON, B.S. 1735 Walton Avenue, Bronx. Frosb Tennis. Paul could slam a mean ace, whether on the tennis court or the bridge table. IRVING JAFFE, B.S. 897 Eighth Avenue. Honors: Minor Student Council Insignia. Sec., Vice-Pres., Treas., Class; Associate Editor, Microcosm; Editor-in-Chicf, Lavender Cadet; Alcove and Elections Committees. Gentlemen prefer blondes. One thousand seniors can't be wrong! SIMON JAFFE, B.S. 926 Southern Boulevard, Bronx. Simple Simon did his outside reading for his- tory on a f ark bench. __I 14 — NORMAN EUGENE JARVIK, B.S. 1768 Monroe Avenue, Bronx. Treasurer, Vicc-Pres.; Biology; Officers' Club. A sword in one hand and a scalpel in the other; and the scalpel is far more dangerous than the sword. SOLOMON JOSEPH, B.A. 1542 East 172nd Street, Bronx. Circulation Staff, Camftus. The lady holding the lucky number will note stef uf and kiss him. DAVID KURZMAN KADANE, B.S.S. 215 West 92nd Street. Honors: Major Student Council Insignia, Script and Peg, Lock and Key, Soph Skull. Pres., Production Mgr., Vicc-Pres., Stage Mgr., Dram. Soc.; Capt., Debating Team; Pres., De- bate Council; Microcosm; Assoc. Board, Cam- f us; Vice-Pres., Student Council; Managing Board, Student. Thus they jog on. .And murd'ring f lays, which still they call reviving”—Dryden. ABRAHAM KAHN, B.S.S. 110 West 96tb Street. 2 AM When Abe makes uf the final accounting of his life, he will use red ink for his four years at college. HAROLD X. KAPLAN, B.A. 729 Kelly Street, Bronx. AIM� I 9 f y°u some figawrs.” (Business is business, Harold). __I 15 SIDNEY KAPLAN, B.S. 1455 Bryant Avenue, Bronx. Frosh Track; Bio Soc.; Social Research Lab. Sid is so much the womans man that we are beginning to wonder whether it isn't vice-versa. MAX KASHDAN, B.S. 3015 Roberts Avenue, Bronx. Intramural Swimming; Football. A pariah, an outcast, a thing to be shunned by sooety. Introducing Mac, the saxophone flayer. HARRY KATZ, B.A. 64 Blake Avenue, Brooklyn. Education, History Clubs. Harry was a shoe-salesman in the Army-Navy store. His specialty was fitting heels. HARRY’W. KATZ, B.S. 2164 Prospect Avenue, Bronx. Honors: Numerals. Frosh and Jayvee Baseball; Handbook Circula- tion Staff; Microcosm Business Staff. Harry likes baseball and fioctry. . . . he thinks 'Casey at the Bat is better than anything Shel- ley ever wrote. CHARLES KELLAR, B.S., M.S. 1364 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. n n Cercle Jusserand; Politics Club, Pres. Douglass Soc.; Interclub Council. Chari ie is tireless and ambitious, and all he asks is a fair chance. —I 16 IVAN KEMPNER, B.S. 1609 Union Street, Brooklyn. Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Second Year Honors. Ivan knew ivhich side his Phi Bete key ivas but- tered on. In classroom debates he was always ready to team u{ with the Professor. BEN KIRSCHENBAUM, B.S. 1190 Tinton Avenue, Bronx. Secretary, Vice-Pres., Menorah; Deutseher Vcrein. The guiding spirit of a bigger, more efficient, and more actively functioning Menorah. BENJAMIN KLARREICH, B.S. 1498 Nelson Avenue, Bron . Bennie had a one-track mind, but it teas de- railed. ABRAHAM KLEIN, B.S. 446 East 78th Street. Band. Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, Per- fection is our dream, and our dream is Heaven. GEORGE KLONSKY, B.S.S. 1907 Douglass Street, Brooklyn. Honors: Major Letters, S.C. Insignia (Bklyn). Football, Track (Bklyn); Pres., A. A. (Bklyn); Pioneer Staff; Discipline Committee (Bklyn); Social Research Lab. Good things come in small Packages; look ivhat Brooklyn sent us. —I I 7 ALEXANDER KNOTT, B.S. 1522 Bryant Avenue, Bronx. K ■ fad 1 .says (Aa£ A ? likes movies better than women. ivhich is like saying that he would rather watch feofle eat than eat himself. . LESTER H. KOHS, B.S. 860 Macy Place, Bronx. K Art Editor, Microcosm; Band; Orchestra. x-x gj Les lost ten years of his life and five months of sleef turning out the art work of the Mike, and .yH he's not the only one who thinks it was worth it. aA _4trK ISADORE IRWIN KOLMAN, B.S. r k® 310 West 85th Street. ' £h« jn Class Committees. '■•4 • g A sentimental gentleman from Georgia. - a 1 l (!tf W J JflH A LOUIS KONOWITZ, B.A. 1394 Clay Avenue, Bronx. Honors: Numerals. W. News Board, Associate Board, Camfus. Lou ascribes his handball success to his early AvJ training as a cheer leader. JACOB KOTLUS, B.A. Ill Vernon Avenue, Brooklyn. Jake is so used to sufporting college activities that he'd even buy a ticket to a Class Council meeting. ..' . J flr I :T i j |[ I 18 HYMAN KRAINOWITZ, B.S.S. 551 East 178th Street, Bronx. Honors: Major Letter, Gold Basketball. Varsity Basketball. Hy is a rare specimen. An athlete who took his studies so seriously that he even took notes in Unattached 5. HAROLD KRAMER, B.S. 1059 45th Street, Brooklyn. Honors: Belden Medal in Math, Soph Skull, Lock and Key, McCormick Swim. Award. Captain, Swimming Team. In everything he did Hal was all wet. Hoiv did he ever get that Belden medal? HAROLD LEONARD KRAMER, B.S. 184 Clymer Street, Brooklyn. Orchestra. Harry took Bio 23 to get strings for his violin, but the cat didn't have the guts to go through with it. BERNARD H. KRAUTHAMER, B.S.S. 825 West End Avenue. SAM Acting Editor, Business Mgr., Associate, Music Editor, Adv. Mgr., Campus: Swimming; Curri- culum, Elections Committees. Horatio Alger Krauthamer, they called him. From Neivs Board to Editor-in-chief in one easy election. LAWRENCE J. KRESKY, B.S.S. 545 West 164th Street. Larry s shot proves that the photographer earned a little money by making pictures on the side. 9H I I 9 mma nsna PHILIP R. KUCHINSKY, B.S. 313 East 94th Street, Brooklyn. Math Club. He is a musical mathematician who flays the violin as well as Einstein did. . . .before the Pro- fessor took lessons. EDMUND P. KURZ, B.A. 467 West 143rd Street. A A Eddie went around biting dogs to practice his future vocation. He's going to be a journalist. BERNARD KUSHNER, B.S. 660 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn. SAM Honors: Minor Letter. Captain, Lacrosse Team; Ice-Hockey Team. To the day of his demise Bernie will carry a silver wire in his shoulder to remind him of la- crosse and a soft sfot in his heart to remind him of Louise. ISIDORE KUSMINSKY, B.A. 5219 — 9th Avenue, Brooklyn. Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Cum Laudc. Classical Soc. He had to use a {tony to keef uf ivith his Hor- ace. (get it?) PASQUALE P. LACOVARA, B.A. 347 Sixth Avenue. 0K$ Varsity Wrestling'; Intra-mural Basketball; C. D. A.; Newman Clvxb; Pasquale doesn't want any funs on his name. We offer a bottle of 3.2 ice-water to anybody xvho can suggest a good one. 120 ____� MORRIS LANG, B.S. 215 East Fourth Street. Baskerville Soc. The Hound of the BaskerviJJes.” MORRIS LAPIN, B.S. 13-15 E. 107th Street. To he or not to he, that is the question. He isn't. There's no question. ARTHUR LAZARUS, B.S. 170 West 89th Street. Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Cum Laude. Lazarus Laughed ... .no wonder...Look at those honors. SAMUEL LEHMAN, B.S. in En. 5015 -- 15th Avenue, Brooklyn. A.S.M.E.; Dram. Soc. (Bklyn); Track Team (Bklyn). Sam is a designer of women s underwear. He has designs on thousands of women thruout the country. GEORGE J. LEIBOWITZ, B.S., M.S. 1278 Union Avenue, Bronx. X2T Honors: Cum Laudc. Cerclc Jusserand; Education Club. George J. Liehowitz, Life's Haftfty Warrior”— hut he can't afford a hrown derhy. __121 ALFRED WILLIAM LEICHTMAN, B.S. 647 East 138th Street, Bronx. Honors: Major, minor letters. Track and Field Society, Numerals. Freshman, Varsity Track. Al's mind ran in a single trad. JACK D. LERNER, B.S. 1810 Longfellow Avenue, Bronx. Baskerville, Biology Societies. A chemist ivho turned biologist after he cut him• self on a sharfi retort. LOUIS W. LESKIN, B.S. 2525 Mermaid Avenue, Brooklyn. Deutscher Verein. Louis says comparative silence stamps people as ivise men. In that case the Mike editors are in- deed dumb. ALEXANDER LEVENTHAL, B.S.S. 504 West 110th Street. 2AM Frosh tennis: Mgr., Varsity Tennis. Alex discovered that tennis playing was a bad racket, 'cause it didn't net him any money, so he turned manager. MILTON LEVIN, B.S.S. 305 Albany Avenue, Brooklyn. Education, History Clubs. Milt could give an intelligence test, but he couldn't take it. 122 ROBERT LEVINE, B.S. 108 Division Avenue, Brooklyn. Clionia. Professor Otis's Fozzy HENRY LEVITSKY, B.S. 50 East 118th Street. A quiet unobtrusive fellow, who got all his cul- ture from bacteria. MELVILLE F. LEVY, B.S.S. 305 West 98th Street. Varsity baseball; Intramurals. Mel is the best dam’ ball-ftlayer in New York City. Ash Dad—he hnoivs! ARNOLD HERBERT LEWIN, B.S. 251 West 92nd Street. Frosh fencing; Mcnorah. The Chem major who took Greek and probably didn't know the difference. . . . SIDNEY M. LIBEN, B.S. 600 West 161st Street. Honors: Major letter. After taking four courses with the Great Cohen, Sid ivent home and flayed marbles ivith his brother Mike. ___ ( I 2 3 JOSEPH J. LIGARI, B.S. 1621 East 32nd Street, Brooklyn. J AS Honors: Major Insignia (Bklyn). Mgr. Baseball; Pioneer; Mgr. Debating(Bklyn) ; Newman Club; Ed Club; C.D.A. But, officer, I go to City College and I can t afford to ftay a fne. Besides, I ivasn’t speeding anyway.” HERMAN LAWRENCE LIEB, B.S. 220 Neptune Avenue, Brooklyn. Wrestling squad. Hymie became muscle-bound trying to get a full-Nelson on himself. SIDNEY M. LIFSCHITZ, B.S. in Cbcm. Eng. 1424 Bryant Avenue, Bronx. A.I.Cb.E. This comical engineer used to work behind Macy’s drug counter. SAMUEL LINDENBERG, B.S. in En. 828 Faile Street, Bronx. Class Committees. Sammy was quite normal for his first tivo years, and then he ivent into technological oblivion. MEYER LIPCHITZ, B.S.S. 10 Park View Terrace, Bronx. SAIT Honors: Cum Laudc. Circulo Puentes; Social Problems Club; Edu- cation Club; Dramatic Soc. Good ole Mike worked like a dog in Govt 14, and Sfiike yawned right ivith him. i124 J JOHN B. LO GIUDICE, B.S.S. 219 Fifth Street C.D.A.; Dram. Soc.; Cap and Gown, Commence- ment, Senior Dance Committees. Haffy-go-lucky John, the Punchinello of the C.D.A. alcove. MORRIS LOSCH, B.A. 1749 Lockwood Avenue, Far Rockaway. Morris was a French Major. In another year he would have been a sergeant m the R. O. T. C. ABRAHAM ALAN LUTZ, B.S. 143 Rutledge Street, Brooklyn Geology Club. Is a future geologist, Abe is sure to go on the rocks. MOSES MACH, B.S. 2022 Benedict Avenue, Bronx Class Comm. If he were only fifty feet taller, what a King Kong he'd make. But he couldn't even break through his cell when he was one of the famous forty-seven. JEROME SAMUEL MACHLIN, B.S.S. 1440 Undercliff Avenue, Bronx Honors: Soph Skull, Lock and Key, Minor Stu- dent Council Insignia. Chmn. Soph. Carnival; Alcove, Vigilance, Junior Prom, Cap and Gown Comm.; Varsity Show. Able statesman, energetic scholar, and lecherous lover, Jerry deserves a niche from the college— a niche that no scratching will ever remove. 12 5 LEONARD MILFORD MANDEL, B.S. 600 W. 164th Street. I EII Capt. Varsity Cheerleaders; Frosh Swimming; Chmn. Alcove Committee. Lenny leads the {trancing lunatics who wave spasmodically at the em{ty stands during the football season. BARTHOLOMEW MANGANARO, B.S. 140 West Fourth Street. Pres., Vice-Pres., Sec'y C.D.A. Don't you think there's something Italian about that name? No wonder he's president of the C.D.A. VINCENT EDWARD MARAZITA, B.A. 3015 Roberts Avenue, Bronx. Cercle Jusserand. Vin says he enjoys college life; he doesn't ex- plain how he found out ichat it's like. ALVIN J. MARCUS, B.S. in En. 1240 College Avenue, Bronx. A. I. E. E. Abe's hobbies are radio and music. We can't understand how he reconciles the two. HYMAN MARCUS, B.S. 2175 Walton Avenue, Bronx. Vice-Pres. Officers' Club; Chmn. Frosh Chapel; Intramural Board; Boxing Team. Hy was a Popular fellow twice a year. He d.s- tributed tickets to the Officers' Club Dance. 126 Jf ; � -- ARTHUR SAMUEL MARGULIS,B.S. 1314 Seneca Avenue, Bronx. SAM Varsity Debating Team; Vicc-Prcs. Dcutscber- Verein; Glee Club; Sec y, B.A.S.; Ass't Mgr. Track Team; Lavender. He thinks he's a cross between Keynes and W ebster; we'd say Mr. and Mrs. Marguhs. SIDNEY M. MARKS, B.S. in En., C.E. 80—71st Street, Brooklyn. Honors: Fellow in Engineering, Minor Student Council Insignia. A.S.C.E.; Founder, Editor� in-Cbief, Tech Hews; Pres. Student Council. Sid ts the first member of the faculty to become President of the Student Council. Professor Baldwin is returning to succeed him. MILTON MASSOW, B.S. 819 E. 173rd Street, Bronx. Honors: Band insignia. College Band; Treas. Education Club. Milt convinced Morris Jacobs that monsoons arc fiurfile vegetables with f imfiles. MARTIN S. MAZEL, B.S. 475 Brook Avenue, Bronx. Jayvee baseball. Don't clifi that beard, Marty. What if you do become an English instructor? JOHN FRANCIS McFEELY, B.S. 836 Jefferson Avenue, Brooklyn 0K4� Football (B'klyn) ; Pres. Newman Club (B'klyn). He never annoyed his fellow-sleefiers in Eng- lish lectures by snoring. ( I 2 7 ? JAMES EDWARD McMAHON, B.A. 184 W. 82nd Street. 0K 1 Newman Club. Cardinal Red they called him—and he joined the Newman Club. PASCAL MECCHELLA, B.S. 651 Linden Boulevard, Brooklyn. Circulo Fuentes; Varsity Baseball; C.D.A. A Spanish baseball flayer ivho often goes out on a bat. JACK MELKIN, B.S. 1159 Boston Road, Bronx. 2 I II Co-chmn. class dance; Alcove Committee. Jack tvas the boy who kefit a thousand cigarette grubbers aivay from cigar stores. A swell guy! MAXIMILIAN MELTZER, B.S.S. 18 E. 108tb Street. Maxie likes to be irregular even in irregulari- ties. He always cuts uf the individual pieces in jig-saw fjuzzles. MILTON VICTOR MILICH, B.A. 601 W. 136th Street. Honors: Major Letter. Mgr. Jayvee Football, Athletic Mgr. Class; Mgr. Jayvec Lacrosse. Milt has all the dirt about college football flay- ers at his finger-tifis. 128 —? ROBERT MILLER, B.S.S. 2047 Holland Avenue, Bronx. Glee Club; Dramatic Soc. Horatio at the bridge table. JULIUS C. MIRELOWITZ, B.A. 763 Fox Street, Bronx. K Vice-Pres. Mcnorah; Organizations Editor, Mi- crocosm. A conscientious scholar of the Talmud and an all-round good feller to boot. Sholom! MAURICE MOLHO, B.S. 15-19 West 110th Street. Menorah; Cercie Jusserand; Circulo Fuentcs. Murray's always trying to make a mountain out of a Molho. ALBERT JOHN MORTOLA, B.S. 2886 Bailey Avenue, Bronx. Newman Club; Vice-Pres. C. D. A. A1 is a Math Major. He's got a cosine in Mil- waukee. GABRIEL MOSNER, B.S.S. 1683 University Avenue, Bronx. AIIE Frosh Wrestling; Swimming; Treas. class; Spanish, Politics Clubs. The originator of the bear-hug—ask Jack Mel- kin, he knoios. __129 ROBERT MUNCH WEILER, B.S. in En.; M.E. 535 W. 110th Street. Golf; Officers' Club; Cercle Jusscrand. Bob's hobby is collecting and smoking all tyftes of Cigarettes—if his friends buy them. MILTON KARL MUNITZ, B.A. 325 Glcnmore Avenue, Brooklyn. Spinoza Club. Vivere est cogitare. MARTIN NADEL, B.S.S. 3451 Giles Place, Bronx. The Bridge of Sighs—The Bridge of San Luis Rey—The contract bridge of Marty Model. MAX NASS, B.A. 460 E. 139th Street, Bronx. Latin, French Clubs; Intra-Murals. The shorter the f ast, the longer the future, says Max? What future? LOUIS NASTACHEFSKY, B.S. 1072 Teller Avenue, Bronx. Alcove, Elections Committees. What hath God wrought? Lou wants to know. A nadir . . . ( 130 IMMANUEL NEUMARK, B.S. 66 W. Gun Hill Road, Bronx. Honors: Cum Laudc. Deutscher Verein frlanny got Ed. 61. He passed the English oral by sneaking German with an English accent. ABRAHAM NEWMAN, B.S. 1056 Sheridan Avenue, Bronx. Class Treasurer. Looks in a mirror ivith eyes closed to sec how he looks in one of Melander s lectures. NOAH N. NORMAN, B.S. 1058 Southern Boulevard, Bronx. Biology Soc. Noah is a microbiologist and a fihotomicogra- fiher. He says it's the little things in life that count. ELLIOT NORWALK, B.S. 817 West End Avenue. SAM Honors: Numerals. Mgr., Jayvee Lacrosse; Trcas., Officers' Club. He'll be accountin' of his money when it comes. ALFONSO OGLIO, B.S.S. 4030 Third Avenue, Bronx. Honors: Major letter. Varsity Baseball. Sfachime, ivhose hat still fits his head even after he became the star of the Lavender nine. (i3i EDWARD OGLIO, B.S. 4030 Third Avenue, Bronx. Sfachime's brother, whose hat still fits his head after his brother became the star of the Laven- der nine. EMANUEL ORANGE, B.S. 1841 Marmion Avenue, Bronx. AM Frosh Basketball. Manny will probably reafi the fruits of life to a nfie old aye. ALBERT ORENSTEIN, B.S. 83 LaSalle Street. I could have made Phi Bete, only I worked after school. CHARLES LEONARD OZER, B.A. 530 Brook Avenue, Bronx. Mcnorah; Dcutschcr Vercin. Charley sfteaks Hebrew fluently with an Armen- ian accent, majors in German, and ivould like to have more time to begin a study of philology. DAVID PARIFSKY, B.S. 1754 Washington Avenue, Bronx. The nearest Dave ever got to sex iuas in the urine-analysis lab where he ivorked. [ I 32 STANLEY S. PEARLMAN, B.S. 321 W. 78th Street. Camfius; Ass't Mgr., Varsity Track. Stan qualified for the Camfius staff with “D” in English I. If he had gotten an F” he would have been editor. PRUDENCIO BENEDICT PEREDA, B.A. 10347—106th Street, Ozone Park. Vice-Prcs., Circulo Fuentes; Debating Team. His favorite fiastime is watching the Pcreda the toreadors before a bullfight. Quite a jugglei PERCY PERLETZ, B.S. 951 E. 179th Street, Bronx. Vice-Pres., Baskerville Soc. -you should sec him balance equations. ANTHONY G. POLICASTRO, B.S. 5742 Xenia St., Corona, L. I. C.D.A.; Y.M.C.A.; Education, Newman Clubs; Senior Dance, Commencement Committees. Tony is going to teach Math even if he has to use his old solution-book to get the answer ahead of his kids. MELVIN POLLACK, B.S. 1521 First Avenue. Chess Team; Clionia. Mel is anxious to live the life of Reason. Why not live your oivn life? I 3 3 ABRAHAM POLSKY, B.A. 225 Hart Street, Brooklyn. Vice-pres.; Menorah, Avukah. Haw, bejazzis! If it ain't me auld j al Abe from County Cork, begorra! ABRAHAM PONEMON, B.A. 1475 Shakespeare Avenue, Bronx. El Boletin ; Circulo Fuentes; I. C. C.: Frosh Swimming; Camftus. Chuck” is brimming over with the enthusiasm of youth and ivould like to tell all his fials about it. SOL HAROLD PORTNER, B.S.S. 1419 Stebbins Avenue, Bronx. Vicc-Prcs., History Club. A far-sighted boy is Solly. He says he can see the end of the waiting list in History. ISADORE RADOW, B.S. 2124 Mapes Avenue, Bronx. Deutsche Octet, Deutscher Verein. Deutschland uber alles, and to hell with the Bio. and Chcm. ED V. RAKERS, B.S. 9016 Herrick Avenue, Forest Hills, L. I. A2 I Newman, Social Problems, Education, Math Clubs; Y. M. C. A.; Dram. Soc. If Eddy were only a members of the Menorah, he'd be just an all-American guy. { 134 GEORGE SAVVA RASKIN, B.S.S. 2135 Grand Avenue, Bronx. “ giff you noiv some figurrs, Savva smiles condescendingly and gets some more when the f� rof runs short. JOSEPH K. REICHBART, B.S.S. 220 W. 98th Street. TA I Honors: Numerals. Frosh track. Tennis teams; Officers' Club. Joe got set on the track squad, but did he get sets flaying tennis? . . . MANUEL D. REICHMAN, B.S. 2008 Daly Avenue, Bronx. I KA Honors: Numerals, Minor and Major letters; Lock and Key; Track and Field Soc. Frosh, Varsity track; Capt. Varsity cross-country; Pres. A. A.; Pres., Class. He found it much easier to run for office than to run for his college in trunks .... and with considerably more success. MORRIS REISER, B.S. 2065 Belmont Avenue, Bronx Boxing Club; Scoutmaster's league; Menorah. We susfect that 74orris took uf boxing to de- fend himself against the kids in his troof. MARCUS RIBAK, B.S. 1420 Stebbins Avenue, Bronx. Radio club. He had a code in the nose, so he went uf to the tower to broadcast it over the club's trans- ini tier. I 35 —9 RALPH EDMUND RICCIARDI, B.S. 1207 Boynton Avenue, Bronx. A £A C.D.A.; Advertising Staff, Mercury; Intramural Board; Sketch Club; Officers' Club. 1$ a {winter who was also a model, Ra1{ h found self-portraiture easy—it ivas all done with mir- rors. MORRIS ROBBINS, B.A. 454 Ft. Washington Avenue. J. V., Varsity Debating; Dram. Soc.; Frosh Fen- cing. Morris joined the fencing squad to train for his dramatic activities. He wants to Play D' Artagnan. IRVING ROBERTS, B.S. 850 E. 161 Street, Bronx. He took tivo pictures at the studio to save his brother the trouble of going down. NORMAN J. ROBERTS, B.S. 850 E. 161st Street, Bronx. This is the Roberts who didn't go doiun to the studio to take pictures because his brother Irv- ing took two pictures at the studio to save his brother the trouble of taking pictures. JAMES J. M. ROBINS, B.A. 686 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. Social Research Lab. He conducted an investigation into childrens hallucinations. We hope his method wasn't introspective. —136 HARRY H. ROFFMAN, B.S.S. 68 Eldridge Street. Pres. Politics Club; Menorah. Honesty is the best politics. SAM ROSEN, B.S. 314 S. 3rd Street, Brooklyn. Sammy says he exercises a lot—the one between Penn Street and the bridge on South 3rd Street. SEYMOUR ROSENBERG, B.A. 808 E. 175th Street, Bronx. Varsity Wrestling; Campus Circulation Staff; Menorah; Liberal Club As member of the Liberal Club, Sy's wrestling experience must have come in very handy in the Oakley Johnson fracas. DAVID ROSENBLOOM, B.A. 1135 St. John's Place, Brooklyn. Deutschcr Verein; Social Research Lab. Dave is intensely absorbed in criminological re- search. He has just renewed his subscriptions to Shadow and Dime Detective iveeklies. HARRY ROSENFIELD, B.S.S. 1253 College Avenue, Bronx. Gym Club. Harry's chief claim to fame is a double Giant Swing on the horizontal bar. I 37 IRVING ROSENTHAL, B.S.S. 272 Reap Street, Brooklyn. Associate Editor, Mercury; News Board, Asso- ciate Board Camfius; Publicity Bureau; Politics Club; Senior Prom. Comm.; Ed. Club. Faculty Bulletin writer am I . . . and much of my toriting is tweedle-dee-dee . . . (“Here Comes the Bribe ). SAUL ROSENTHAL, B.S. 321 E. 178th Street, Bronx. We remember him all right. All summer long he sang the bass fiart of St. James' Infirmary while we were hacking at the bio lab lobsters. IIII LOUIS ROSSETTO, B.S. 168-70 W. Fourth Street. A«I A Officers' Club; Cadet Club; C.D.A.; A.S.M.E. Lou is ftrefiaring for the next war. His engineer- ing skill will fit him to dig ditches with precision and finesse. OSCAR A. ROTH, B.A. 1464 Brook Avenue, Bronx. Intra-mural athletics. He took all his fiublic sficaking electives in Macy's basement and got Ed. 61 as a result. MILTON ROTHMAN, B.S. 2896 Eighth Avenue. Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Second Year Honors, Magna Cum Laudc. Dcutscher Vcrcin; Pres., Vicc-Prcs., Treas. Bas- kerville Soc. Milt hitched his wagon to three stars—on his Phi Bete key. 138 LEO K. ROTHSTEIN, B.S. 3742 E. Tremont Avenue, Bronx. Baskervillc Soc. Leo participated in the handball tournament. Just a tivo-sPort man, handball and Baskcrvtlle. Ul MILTON A. ROTHSTEIN, B.S. 465 W. 152 Street. 4 AM Honors: Numerals. Circulation Mgr., Handbook: '32 Microcosm; Baseball; Class Ath. Mgr.; Cbmn. Commence- ment, Elections Committees. A man in Milt s Position becomes the most popu- lar fellow in the class for the two weeks Pre- ceding commencement. He gives out the tickets. LEON R. RUBIN, B.S. 53 E. llOtb Street. Cltonia. This young aesthete will take a Post-graduate course in some forsaken haunt in Greenwich Village. ISADORE JACK RUDOLPH, B.A. 889 Rogers Place, Bronx. Honors: Phi Beta Kappa. His height gives him a distinct advantage 'cause- no ordinary man can look down on his Phi Bete key. MARTIN RUSOFSKY, B.S. 1209 Vyse Avenue, Bronx. Marty is playing safe. He's taking Ed course in addition to his Bio and Chem so that he can always have something to fall back on—the Post office. (( I 39 ROBERT ISAIAH RUSSIN, B.A. 234 E. 178th Street, Bronx. Honors: Lock and Key, Major Student Council Insignia, Mercury Gold Key, Script and Peg. Capt., J. V. Debating; Mercury Art Editor; Mi- crocosm Art Staff; Dram. Soc.; Varsity Show; Chmn. Class Dance; Discipline Comm.; Frosh fencing; Sketch Club; Stage director French Show. Bob, the ivcasel of the easel. CHARLES H. RUTKOFF, B.A. 2524 E. 23rd Street, Brooklyn. 4 EI I Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit. HARRY RUTKOFF, B. A. 1000 E. 173rd Street, Bronx. It ivas in Ed 11 that Harry first really learned about Phallic symbols. FRANK S. SACHS, B.S.S. 437 W. 124th Street. Honors: Cum Laude. Alcove Committee Chairman; Educ., History Clubs; Menorah; Social Research Lab. If singleness of fiurfiosc is at all rewarded in this world, Frank ivill get his Phi Bete key. LEO MORRIS SALTZ, B.S. 1905 Bergen Street, Brooklyn. And the schoolboy . . . with bright and shining morning face, creeping with the Broadway-Sev- enth Avenue local unwillingly to school. f) «._140 MYRON SALZSTEIN, B.S. 850 Intervale Avenue, Bronx. He goes to his grandmother for his haircut be- cause she's his “bobha SIDNEY J. SAMUELSON, B.A. 787 Crotona Park North, Bronx. Sid studied government under Professor Guthrie and he never got wet in a rainstorm. I. LOUIS SAVETSKY, B.S. 591 E. 165th Street, Bronx. I. Louis Savetsky . . . Why do you taunt us so, Izzy? RAYMOND SAYERS, B.A. 467 W. 143 Street. A A Ray can’t understand Italian music. He ivants all their symphonies written in English. CHARLES J. SCALA, B.S. 918 Leggett Avenue, Bronx. C.D.A. A Scala and a gentleman. ■■■■■■I H, 141 BERNARD SCHEIN, B.S. 1802 W. 13th Street, Brooklyn. Orchestra. “Music is the universal language of mankind'' Bernie flays the sax. The foor fellow is in- articulate. HERMAN SCHERR, B.S. 1056 Boston Road, Bronx. A. S. M. E. “If dirt ivas trumfs, what hands you tvould hold. NATHAN M. SCHLACHTER, B.A. 1215 Wheeler Avenue, Bronx. TAfl Dram. Soc.; Glee Club; Circulo Fuentes. Earnestness and enthusiasm fersonified, a Span- ish steam-engine in trousers. GEORGE SCHNEIDER, B.S.S. 9010 - 103rd Avenue, Ozone Park. When George teas m jatl with the famous forty- seven, he made a futile attemft to escafe. But only his face broke out. LOUIS A. SCHNEIDER, B.S. 15 West 107th Street. Baskcrville Society. “Casey Lou Schneider at the throttle of No. 99 (eight-inch locomotive) cornin' 'round the moun- tain seven inches south of the table-leg. 0 ALVIN SCHNEIDERMAN, B.S. 55-59 West 180th Street, Bronx. Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Second Year Honors. Secy., Officers' Club. Alvin was a shoe-repairer who gave up h:s aivl for a Phi Betc key. ARTHUR SCHOLDER, B.A. 548 West 164th Street. on a Honors: Numerals. Pres., Vice-Pres., Sec'y-� I F. C.; Chmn. Frosh Chapel; Business Mgr., Dram. Soc.; Cast, “Out- ward Bound, “Hamlet , one-act plays; Class Committees. The Rotarian in embryo. HARRY SCHOR, B.S. 2879 West 25th Street, Brooklyn. Honors: Phi Beta Kappa. We once sat next to Harry at a Phi Bete dinner: differentiation ivith the entree, rectangular co- ordinates with the chicken, and integration with the desert. MILTON SCHREIBER, B.S. 1337 Grant Avenue, Bronx. Milt wrote his term thesis for Psych in non- sense syllables. MORRIS SCHREIBER, B.A. 1756 Park Place, Brooklyn. Honors: Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa. Pioneer staff (Brooklyn). Ever since Morris made Phi Bete, he hasn't been seen without a vest. Did we ever tell you about the time we met him in the pool......? { 143 MAX J. SCHREIBMAN, B.S. Ill East 7th Street. Max smoked but never had a cigarette grubbed from him. Cigarette trick, Mac. Howja do it? A JEROME SCHROFF, B.S. 835 West 176th Street. He majored in Chem and earned his living as a musician. He probably did his best flaying on a test-tuba. 0 ■ MORRIS SCHULTZ, B.S.S. 1134 Manor Avenue, Bronx. I� KA Honors: Major Letter. Mgr., J. V., Assistant Mgr., Varsity Basketball. And for all his ivork Moe received nothing but complimentary tickets to basketball games. IRVING SCHWARTZ, B.S.S. 1237 Franklin Avenue, Bronx. Honors: Minor Student Council Insignia. Associate Editor Mercury ; Associate Editor, Publicity Mgr., Microcosm ; Co-author, “Here Comes the Bribe ’; Camera Club; Student For- um; Dram. Soc.; Intra-mural, Class night. Com- mencement Committees. Spike Merc'd his way through. He liked d jk si H women free and easy, like his English courses. T _ jJrJ; MELVIN C. SCHWARTZ, B.S.S. 1623 Dahill Road, Brooklyn. Education, History Clubs; Frosh Feed. Mel is interested in dramatics and majored in history. He intends to dramatize the decline of Western civilization. __144 I ALFRED SCHWARTZENFELD, B.S.S. 223 East 82nd Street. Honors: Major letter. Numerals. Lacrosse; B.A.S. His hobby is coin-collecting. He wants to be- come a trolley conductor. EUGENE V. SEIDLER, B.S. 4328 — 47th Street, L. I. C. Circulation staffs. Mercury, Campus. Gene was the tyfae of fellow who had to have his sex reflex conditioned. PHILIP SHAPIRO, B.S. 966 East 178th Street, Bronx. MX Officers' Club; Class Committees; Scc'y Class; Microcosm. It’s safe enough to smoke a Pipe when Phil s around. He’s never been known to grub a Pipe. NATHAN M. SHECKMAN, B.S. 1189 Sheridan Avenue, Bronx. Pres., Officers' Club; Ass't Chmn., I.C.C. Can you imagine a red heading the Officers’ Club? LEONARD S. SHERIFF, B.S.S. 920 Riverside Drive. TM Honors: Major letter. Manager Varsity Baseball. We never could understand how Lenny got the managership of the baseball team without be- longing to the right frat. { 145 p SIDNEY MILTON SHNITTKE, B.S. 63 Hamilton Terrace. '29 Microcosm; Officers' Club; Campus; Frosh Cross-country; Soccer. He collects pictures of Prize-fighters to keefi in his scrap-book. MICHAEL SIBILIO, B.A. 1411 Longfellow Avenue, Bronx. Mike took Sfnnoza with his ham sandivichcs, Schopenhauer with his waffles, and washed it all doivn with Meyerbeer. EUGENE S. SIGEL, B.S. 911 Walton Avenue, Bronx. Frosh, Varsity Swimming; Camera Club. 01’ man Sigel, He just keeps trudgeon along. SIDNEY SILVERMAN, B.S. 541 Commonwealth Avenue, Bronx. Every time Sid starts stroking his moustache, Esther begs him to put his hands where they belong. SIMON SILVERMAN, B.S. 2907 Kingsbridge Terrace, Bronx. s i n Class Athletic Manager; Social Problems Club. There's only one thing Schnozzle Durante has that Sy hasn't—a job. i 146 —p I HENRY SOLOMON SILVERSTEIN, B.A. 1985 Crcston Avenue, Bronx. K Kappa Class Committee; Circulo Fucntes; Sketch Club. Hank enjoyed sketching the wily aborigines in their native haunts—the west Bronx. DAVID SIMON, B.S. 1350 Crocs Avenue, Bronx. Dave intends to be a phyla clerk in a Bio labor- atory. SOL HARVEY SKLAR, B.S. 200 West 95th Street. Orchestra; Drum Major R.O.T.C. Band; '32 Mi- crocosm; Business Board '33 Microcosm. An exponent of cymbahsm in its most practical form; he gets in to see football games free. IRVING IRWIN SLONIM, B.S.S. 175 Riverside Drive. Honors: Major Letter, Numerals. Vice-Pres. A. A.; Campus; Menorah; Officers', Cadet Clubs; Mailroom. He wasted tivo years in college politics, and then quit to study law so that he could enter politics. IRVING L. SLUTZKIN, B.A. 616 Belmont Avenue, Brooklyn. Circulo Fuentes; C. D. A.; Cercle Jusserand. Incomprehensible in four languages. i 147 ? ROLAND R. SMALL, C.E. 2475 Tiebout Avenue, Bronx. Varsity Wrestling; Officers' Club; A. S. C. E.; Class Treas. The Crisco kid—always chewing the fat. SAUL M. SMALL, B.S. 1501 First Avenue. Honors: Pbi Beta Kappa. Pres., Sec'y., Baskerville Soc. Another president of the Baskerville Society, but this one’s different—he got into Cornell med school. PHILIP SMITH, B.S.S. 1116 Kelly Street, Bronx. He sfient half his leaking hours in the History Library and the other two hours sleeping in the Mott lectures. MORRIS B. SOKOLOFF, B.S.S. 2700 Bronx Park East. I FK Circulation Mgr. Mercury, Campus; Circulation Staff Lavender. This makes the fourth time Moe's picture has afifieared in the Microcosm. Here's homing he { ays for this one. JACK M. SOLOMON, B.S.S. 312 East 8th Street. 1 KA Treas. A.A.; Mgr. Student Mail Room. They done him wrong. ( 148 i I JACOB SOLOMON, B.A. 191 2 Pitt Street. News Board, Campus; Dram. Soc.; Mcnorah; Politics Club; Managing Board Mcnorah Journal All the ivorld's a stage, and Jack's the guy who itulls the routes. JACOB SOSHUK, B.A. 666 Dumont Avenue, Brooklyn. Publicity Bureau; Mcnorah; Avukah; Educ. Club Jake writes Hebrew poetry to non-existent girl friends. MILTON S. SPEISER, B.A. 414 East 204th Street, Bronx. Honors: Major letter. Frosh, Varsity Track; Cross-Country; Social Problems Club. Vox, et firaeteria nihil. . . . RAPHAEL SPENCER, B.S.S. 877 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn. Wrestling Team (Bklyn). Wrestling while drunk is Rafe’s hobby. He's won five hiccufis doing it. GUSTAVE H. SPERBER, B.S.S. 2114 Caton Avenue, Brooklyn. 1 KA Honors: Soph Skull, Major Letter. Mgr. Varsity Swimming and Water Polo; Ass t Treas. A. A.; Mail room. Honest as the day is long, but Lord, you made the night too long. i 149 - MEYER SPIEGELMAN, B.S.S. 126 Albany Avenue, Brooklyn. Basketball (Bklyn). He majored in French so that he could read French postcards. SAM SPINNER, B.S. 399 Rockaway Parkway, Brooklyn. Physics Club. Poor Sam! He couldn't shave because of the dirt under his beard and he couldn't wash because of the beard over the dirt. ISRAEL J. SPIRO, B.S. 2147 Washington Avenue, Bronx. Pres., Menorah. Izzy will grow uf to be a fast rabbi—quixotic. BERNARD STARK, B.S. 1547 West 10th Street, Brooklyn. Honors: Minor Letter. Varsity, Jayvee, Lacrosse. Abe Baum's business assistant. .. .See Abe's knock. WILLIAM STARK, B.A. 9 East 116th Street. Honors: Phi Beta Kappa; Cum Laude; Tremaine Scholarship; Claflin Medal in Greek; Ward Medal in French. Vicc-prcs., Classical Soc.; Cercle Jusserand; Al- cove Comm. Bill says the alphabet contains only two letters— A and B. He'll show you his report cards to firove it. — n( 150 9 SOLOMON STEIN, B.S. 1811 Waterloo Place, Bronx. Orchestra. What a musician Solly d make if he'd only sto{ fiddlin' around. HARRY STERNBACH, B.A. 1160 Thieriot Avenue, Bronx. Honors: Numerals. Frosh. Baseball; Intramural Teams. He might have been a big-leaguer if he hadn't met Parker. SAMUEL THOMPSON STEWART, Jr., B.S.S. 2074 Ryer Avenue, Bronx. AA Honors: Major, Minor Letters. Pres., Vice-pres., Captain Varsity Fencing; Var- sity Show; Varsity Club; I. F. C. One of the nicest fellows ivho ever slashed a man's throat with a sabre. HYMAN STYLER, B.S.S. 601 West 174th Street. Camfius News Board; Education Club, Bulletin; Jayvcc Debating. After four years of college, Hy finally learned how to write a news story in the afifiroved high school manner. LEONARD SUMMER, B.S. 1421 — 53rd Street, Brooklyn. Lenny wants to be a radical because they're so highly resfiected, feared, and don't wash. ___I 5 I HAROLD SUSSERMAN, B.S. 3230 Steuben Avenue, Bronx. Honors: Major Letter. Football Team; Baskerville, Bio. Societies. Suss” ivent around smoking a Hawkshaw fiifie, even during football games, when he sat on the bench. WILLIAM M. SUSSMAN, B.S. in C.E. 1113 Ocean View Avenue, Brighton Beach. SKN A.S.C.E.; Boxing; Wrestling. Bill ivould like to do what Dr. Frank M. Payne does. We don't mind loafing ourselves once in a xuhilc. EMANUEL TARGUM, B.S. 108-10 West 95th Street. Honors: Major Letter, Numerals. Mgr., Asst. Mgr. Intramural Board; Officer's Club; Mercury: Cheer Leader. Manny was the boy tvhose job it tvas to organize the class struggle. JOSEPH TEICHER, B.S. 1301 Fulton Avenue, Bronx. Joe's hobby is collecting rare editions of fioetry; his firize is the first draft of Ode to the West Windr IRA J. TRESS, B.S. 525 Hegeman Avenue, Brooklyn. Camera, Spanish Clubs, Microcosm. Ira cats lots of starches and sugars to make him fat, but they all go to his head. I 52 ? SOLOMON H. TURKEL, B.S. 689 Alabama Avenue, Brooklyn. I A2 Physics Club. Brother, can you sfare a dyne? JACOB UNGER, B.S. 249A Schenectady Avenue, Brooklyn. What if his mind does work in circles. He's al- ways off on a tangent anyivay. THEODOR H. UNTERMAN, B.S. 1571 — 42nd Street, Brooklyn. After that blind date with that female pachy- derm, Teddy is studying the fourth dimension. RAYMOND VERNON, B.A. 1014 Faile Street, Bronx. Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Belden Medal, Minor Letter, Varsity Wrestling. A kindly Providence blessed Ray ivith a strength of muscle tissue exceeded only by the strength of brain tissues. ROBERT VON DOENHOFF, B.S. 251 West 102nd Street. Orchestra. The Count of no-account. I 53 NATHAN WANDER, B.S. 9 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn. Varsity, Frosh, Fencing; Frosh Swimming. Nat is one of the college's gay blades but no- body's foil. MARTIN WANG, B.S. 154 Highland Place, Brooklyn. French Club (Brooklyn). He's a fioker sharfi but flushes if you mention it. MORRIS WEINBERGER, B.S. 657 Cleveland Street, Brooklyn. Post-office is a baby’s game, but Moisha gets { aid for f laying it. MORRIS WEINER, B.A. 2823 East Sixth Street, Brooklyn. Honors: Chancellor Soph Skull, Lock and Key, Major Letter, Numerals, Gold Football, Parker Cup, 3 times. Captain Varsity Football; Chmn. Senior Prom; Chmn. Football Dance; Capt. Frosh. Football; S.C. Rep.; Class Athletic Mgr.; Varsity Club. The finest football center City ever turned out. But he ivanted a nickel for sitting in our lecture seat. LEON WEISS, B.S. 2730 Sedgwick Avenue, Bronx. Pres. Biology Soc.; Alcove Comm. He loves to trail the elusive gamete to its na- tive lair. «__I 54 ■MMMM SIMON A. WEISSMAN, B.S. 344 Pulaski Street, Brooklyn. Deutscher Verein; Educ. Club. Wir sind der meinung, itch libhe ditch, gesell- schaft, du dumkoPf, and how's Jakey's bubba? MYRON MAXWELL WEPNER, B.S.S. 237 East 102nd Street. «MIX Honors: Numerals. Class Vice-Pres.; Athletic Mgr.; Class Comm. A philosophic Pantagruel of this “terra lecher. Why do you taunt me thus, Whistl ebritches? HERBERT WHYMAN, B.A. 3647 Broadway. I EII Frosh Debating; CamPus. Herbie had a smooth line, and Probably would have gone far if the Ed office hadn't swallowed him uP. WALTER EATON WILCOX, B.A. 37-11 — 28th Avenue, L. I. C. Wally had lots of fun ivatching the Sikorsky amphibian signal to its mate. LOUIS WISHNEVITZ, B.S.S. 1090 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. Honors: Gold Basketball, Major Letter, Minor Letter, Lock and Key. Varsity Basketball; Frosh Basketball, Baseball; Vice-pres. A.A.; Vice-pres. Class. The court jester of the varsity who ran rings around all his towering opponents. | 55 HARRY WOHL, B.A. 175 Stanton Street. Since he wants to travel all his life, why doesn't Harry get the Titties Square shuttle job? STANLEY WOLDER, B.S. 2385 Creston Avenue, Bronx. International Relations, Educ. Clubs; Stan had an uncle in France, a cousin in Sfiain, a nefthew in Ukraine—so he joined the Interna- tional Relations Society. MORRIS M. WOLLAND, B.A. 20 Seaman Avenue. What a ftity to waste a personality like that on a cold logarithm table. MILTON WOLSKY, B.A. 926 Bronx Park South, Bronx. Honors: Second Year Honors. Has anybody got a job for a man who wants to forget that he made second year honors? JOSEPH FRANCIS WOODS, B.A. 34-16 — 30th Avenue, L. I. C. Phi Sigma Kappa. Circulo Fucntcs, '32 Club. Joe showed his independence in everything he did. He majored in History, but joined the Spanish club, and then graduated with the ’33 class, but joined the ’32 club. I 56 WILLIAM NATHAN ZAHM, B.S. 609 West 151st Street. I EIl Business Manager Campus; Pres., Sec'y. I.F.C. Bill got his early training for the medical pro- fession building up the circulation of the Campus MAURICE ZAKEN, B.S. 883 Fairmont Place, Bronx. Officers' Club; J. V. Football; Lacrosse; Mcnor- ah. Cannon-fodder—his children will be sons-of- guns. MILTON ZARCHIN, B.S. in Ch. En. 1804 Belmont Avenue, Bronx. Officers’ Club. The leaning tower of Belmont Avenue; the man higher up. HARRY ZELINSKY, B.S. 1034 De Kalb Avenue, Brooklyn. Harry is going to take uP medicine in a real way very shortly. Just now he's taking it up to the neighbors for the druggist. GARY ZUCKER, B.S. 1635 Popbam Avenue, Bronx. 20A Honors: Pbi Beta Kappa; Cum Laudc. Bio. Soc.; Class Treas. and Sec'y. Socrates said, Know thyself. And Gary took the abnormal Psych course. __ N( 157 COMMERCE CENTER SENIORS wmir ibilIm ll?v Amdswu MD lilBIW Gtarct (GrCOlUILID sieymw cmimn f' IEIDIDIIIC HOBOWIITZ S IE IN II (0 R CIE ILEMTII IE S. w,„. 161 Senior History T7IRST OF THE entering and graduating classes from the School of Business, the '33 class has seen times and conditions change to a great extent since its entrance into the College. Four years ago we rode on a crest of prosperity and today we battle the vicissitudes of the depressed and practically moribund world. Four years ago we entered an unfinished and embryo sixteen-story build- ing, unpainted, unfurnished, and today we prepare to leave the finest-equipped business institution in the country. And yet, before we begin chronicling the historic events in which our class participated, let us pay our respects to Dr. Richter, a teacher and a man. Spurred on by his efforts, the '33 class has laid the traditions of the School of Business. The freshman class, under the leadership of Milt Blum, talked about the school. . .laid hands on the cow- ering and outnumbered Sophs. . .the first rush. . .an indi- cation of what to expect from '33. . .Steamboat Bill, who was muchly surprised when we walked into his class in deshabille. . .Joe Brandt going to his last class before hygiene in his gym suit so as to be on time. ( I 62 ? The late Professor Richter The profs knew where to find the boys if they wanted to give exams, that first term. Pinochle in Room 4S from nine to five (business hours). The hygiene classes in the locker rooms, with H anscn practicing the forensic art — exhorting us to back the various teams. Were we ath- letic supporters? Ask Doc, or Sam Rubin. The first class affair . . . the annihilation of those two Sophs ... an artis- tic job . . . the memorable snake dance through the trains down to 42nd Street • . . the station paymaster and that cop. Intramurals soon usurped our attention . . . the famous basketball team of Nau, Saslow, Buckwald, Adler and Stoller efficiently mowed down all oppo- sition. With Post and Glaubing'er fencing their way through all opponents, the first awarded banner in the school was ours. The notorious Carteret affair . . . Levenson and Blum captured and painted • . . Post at the phone and Grudin at headquarters, (the pool room). Sy had al- ready started his political career by letting his beard grow. Soon the $5 infor- mation trickled through. Led by howling, Herculean Abe Reiter and playful Is Fink, the shrieking mob spied Professor Hayes outside the hotel. The result was apparent—$1500 damages—settled for $375 . . . our business acumen was already noticeable. Professor Hayes must have been building castles in the air when he promised us that running track on the tenth floor. Even the sedate librarian shared our enthusiasm . . . Ed Horowitz will never forget the delightful walk from the News Buildings in his undies . . . what color were the tissues, Ed—pastel? And was fiery Irv Handshu burned up when Saxton stopped him in his B. V. D.'s? It's all a matter of practice. You should see him blush now. The creation of a co-ed institution displayed the drawing powers of Jess Gordon, lady-killer extraordinary, and George Prisamt, (just a gigolo). Inci- dentally, George's battles in the ring are famous, especially the historic one with a certain Irv . . . The second year passed quickly, with dances, the Soph Smoker with its beer, (not 3.2), and the able leadership of Blum, Handshu, Post, Grudin. The exhibitions and displays of the boys ceased. As juniors they were ( I 63 —? hindered by inhibitions and school politics. Blum was soon to become an instructor—Stollcr took over the reins of the '33 class. Rubin and Handshu were elevated to Student Council posts, while Grudin, Fink and Gould were elected to class councils. The council swayed for many terms under the bombastic Grudin— even Dean Edwards felt his wrath. Soph Alpha had already become a tradition after much planning by our adviser. Dr. Richter. The Junior year saw his departure and the succession of Dr. Ruckes . . . The Junior Prom . . . tucked away in an obscure roadhouse ... a tremendous success . . . the transfor- mation worked by the “tuxes . . . Abe, the Tarzan— only members of the Milo Club can appreciate the arduous hours required to accomplish that physique . . . Sam Rcss and his two “bigger brothers . . . the bus ride home—a fitting climax . . . ask the Brooklynites. The triumvirate—Kaufman, Rubin and Stoller—in Beyer's accounting class. It was only a question of which one had the choice of tantalizing him . . . Sherritt's human side . . . re- vealed when a dozing stude was prompted by another after being jarred out of his reverie by a question on goodwill theory . . . debit F. F. and credit cash . . . Dr. Ncuncr, who will never forget those discussions on cost accounting slips in the 211 class. The myriad of colors employed in these forms led to a confusion of sheets and finally to a mixing of words. He ultimately lived it down . . . Humorist Rubin and his satellite (stooge) Seidman . . . the latter was the source of most of Sam's humour. The approaching summertime always brings memories of that glorious boatridc. Handled by Stoller, the undertaking met with a huge success, both fianancially and socially. The trip to Bear Mountain was quite uneventful, except when one of the boys learned, to his dismay, the value of flowers—$3 fine. The homeward ride, under a blue sky and full moon was marred only by the horrible discords of that quartet. A tip to the captain of the boat appeased him after several of the boys took to the lifeboats . . . No '33 men were left behind. Our history would be far from complete without mention of the class pets—the girl graduates. Charming Bea was made to suffer in those first few terms when she was forced to teach many of the boys the tcrpsichorcan art. Mollie Lehrman plugged along with us in that thesis course, while Ruth Michlin lent her aid in the selling of tickets for our various affairs as well as to the I 64 costuming of the Varsity Show. Sylvia Karpf gave un- stintingly of her time and efforts while Toby and Tillie pitched in. Sid Rubin capped his brilliant career by writing the “Demon Dean —was Danny Brown, our class actor, a sketch! His ad libs nearly tore down the house, which Horowitz, Gould and Stoller had so carefully con- structed. George is still worrying where all the tickets went to. That gleam in his eyes is never more appar- ent than when he is collecting money. George Prisamt was always being pinned with something or other. As our button distributor, he al- Lexington Avenue ways managed to nab everyone. Witenko was later Entrance burdened with that task, which he assumed good-naturedly. From that spit- fire youngster of soph days, he became father of the Freshman class along with Gordon and Grudin. Does Jess like to talk—and as for Wit —he's too busy with his theses—as is also Fink, whom you had to sit on to settle. Iz's work on the Student Council is the answer to his verbosity. It is interesting to note the method used to choose the name of the publication, the Ticker. Closeted in the panelled room sat the writers of history, the teachers, the '32 men, and Rubin and Stoller of '33. Many names were suggested from Courier to Messenger Boy. The last straw was the Ticker —so the tape had it. Under the guiding hand of that fine writer (ask him if you don't think so) Irv Linn, the paper blossomed out. Bill Kimmcl is still wondering what became of that dollar ticket at class mtc—and what an affair it was . . . the leger- demain of Des Gray and the chemicals of Baker brought the last social gathering to a close. Was George smiling or was it his teeth chattering when he brought the girl from the Grill. The Senior Prom, which was run by Irv Handshu was held in the Paramount Grill in the height of style . . . we're still looking for that pie-eyed one . . . Those famous musketeers, Oberfest, Stark, Schultz, and Newman—all handsome devils. If someone would only tell the instructors that each of them only did a quarter of the homework . . . Gandhi trying to break into the ranks . . . Will it be steins, or will there be real beer in them? . . . Methinks there was a reason for the stag . . . Just one more beer and you can take me home, Sam. —I 65 9 Council meetings and more council meetings . . . Stoller bawling at Witenko . . . George forgetting to censure bimselt . . . Billy being flustered . . . Fink throwing chalk . . . Rubin telling his inimitablcs, Rcss chiming in, Gould telling of his trouble, Prisamt fixing' his knot and Obcrfcst trying to reason it out. Just a great big family. That charter day affair . . . Irv's two-minute change after he had come to school in his sweater . . . How Sam Schultz pulled down four .Vs with Saxton is a puzzle . . . cither a good man or else he takes his baseball seriously . . . which is it, Sam? . . . speaking of Sam brings one to the humorist and ultimately to our own Dr. Ruckcs . . . always threatening with a prize collection ... go ahead, fellows, ask him anything . . . just around the corner in that private cubby-hole for the intimates. The call for the theses draws near . . . original works that sound a lot like previously manufactured products of commer- cial presses . . . should we mention names? . . . Al Roffman, who is to blame for all the artistic posters around the school ... if any psycho-analyzed victims arc found wandering around, it is the work of Milt. Myriads of faces . . . fellows . . . flash before the eye . . . Moses, our little package of T. N. T. . . . What do you say we take in a burlesque, kid ... or Maxie Littman, the artful boxer whose appearance belies his ability . . . That strained look of late . . . docs it come from overwork. Max? And then there's our Frank Merriwell, Lou Adler . . . call your game and he'll beat you at it. Or smiling Al Miscnoff who terrorizes the trains ... or used to . . . nevertheless, beware girls . . . Abe Koppleman whose appearance indicated how much he was earning . . . too often in those old days was he stirred from deep sleep . . . And our own Student Council well handled at first by Sid and then Irv . . . The firm establishment of the paper under Sid and the successful handling of the council youngsters by the exuberant Irv . . . His big jump sort of left the council in the lurch. Well every man must some day . . . And our own class council run by Moe and Bill . . . the Proms . . . Boat Ride . . . dance . . . clear night . . . stag ... all indicate their ability and the close friendship of the boys . . . The realization of the feeling of Dr. Edwards at class night, the humanness of Ackley at the stag and the fraternal spirit of Ruckcs whenever you needed him. Commencement approaches . . . and who is managing this last affair? . . . guess again . . . it's Stoller . . . quasi-seniors bemoan the passing of the '33 class . . . soon the work of Horowitz and Stoller will cease ... all will be peaceful—as it should be . . . Forsan ct haec olim meminisse juvabit. mm 166 •( 167 ? N MAJOR. STUDENT COUNCIL INSIGNIA MINOR. GANDOLFO R. AGUANNO, B.B.A. 93 Bay 44th Street, Brooklyn. Newman, Italian Clubs. A dashing cahallero, immaculate from his ivavy black hair to the tips of his well-polished shoes. ALBERT ALPERT, B.B.A. 432 Suydam Street, Brooklyn. YAS Honors: Major Letter, A.A. Key, Numerals. Mgr. Camftus, Ticker; SecV--Trcas. Class; Chmn. Soph. Carnival. Intramural A1, who shaded the destiny of inter- class activit.es for four years. The results show Al's sportsmanlike character. CHARLES BARASCH, M.B.A. 1299 Grand Concourse, Bronx. Honors: Numerals, Minor Letter. Pres. Class; Chmn. Frosh Assembly; Elections Comm.; Asst. Mgr. of Football. Charlie, the gay Lothario, ivhose ingratiating smile has cracked many a Freshman girl's heart. SOL BELKIN, B.B.A. 1836 Belmont Avenue, Bronx. Menorah: Sun Staff. A shock of black hair, a warm smile, and bounti- ful generosity has endeared Sol to his many friends. SIDNEY W. BLITZ, B.B.A. 2270 East 24th Street, Brooklyn. B. A. S.; Sun Staff. Perpetually trying, and for what? n —168 MILTON L. BLUM, B.B.A. 1634 Popham Avenue, Bronx. XAP Honors: Sigma Alpha; Major Insignia; Numer- als. Pres. Class., four terms; Chmn. Frosh Soph, Feed, Junior Hop Comm.; Adv. Mgr. Ticker. As a leader, Milt laid a firm foundation for the class's fine refutation. RALPH BORODISKY, B.B.A. 1711 Montgomery Place, Bronx. Pres., Vice-Pres. Accounting Soc.; Exec. Coun- cil, B.A.S.; French Club. Conscientious and hardworking, Ralfih has earn- ed the resfect and admiration of his class. SIDNEY M. BRAUDY, B.B.A. 6109 — 39th Avenue, Woodside. Honors: Intramural Medal. Intramural Boxing. Austere, sincere, refined, handsome. Oh, Sid, if you could only cook! A. BENJAMIN COHEN, B.B.A. 145 Beach 82nd Street, Rockaway Beach. Accounting, German Clubs. He finally attended the Senior Prom and showed us his social side. LEONARD H. COHEN, B.B.A. 563 West 191st Street. A TO Soph Smoker Comm. ;-Class Paper. Every mountain ivas originally a mole-hill. —I 69 ai SAM DANISHEFSKY, B.B.A. 1547 — 57th Street, Brooklyn. Pres., Sec'y Accounting Society. Desfnte being a real student, Sammy can tell a joke ivitli the best of them. MORRIS DUBROW, B.B.A. 157 Beach 86th Street, Queens. Accounting Society; Business Bulletin; B.A.S.; Frosh Feed Committee. Here's a fellow with generous firofiortions—big in body and mind. ISIDOR EPSTEIN, B.B.A. 74 Rutgers Slip. Accounting, Spanish Clubs. Efstein, xvith his infectious smile and quiet man- nerisms, has always been a tvelcome friend. PHILIP M. ERENSTEIN, B.B.A. 2966 West 28th Street, Brooklyn. Honors: Numerals. Frosh Chess; Class Boxing; Capt. Gym Team. Phil never enjoys himself more than when he’s flying from one bar to another. WILLIAM ETKIN, B.B.A. 1316 — 42nd Street, Brooklyn. Honors: Numerals. Intramural Track; Accounting Soc.; Soph Smok- er Comm. Forman had to have a stooge, so Willie's it. ■ I 70 II ISIDOR FINK, B.B.A. 2088 MoHegan Avenue, Bronx. Honors: Minor Insignia. Chmn. Elections Comm.; Student Council Rep. Under Izs superficial hilarity, there is a depth that is surprising. NATHAN FISCHER, B.B.A. 656 East 160th Street. The dreamy-eyed hoy icho is always seen with his affinity. LOUIS FORMAN, B.B.A. 1641 42nd Street, Brooklyn. Accounting, Menorah Societies. Tall and dark, but his head is full of sforts. What do you know of Olyrnfics? SOL FRANK, B.B.A. 219 Montauk Avenue, Brooklyn. Accounting Society. Another of our strong, silent men. Possessed of a keen intellect, and toiUing to share it. ARTHUR FURST, B.B.A. 301 W. 22nd Street. TA«1 Boxing; Asst. Mgr. Fencing; Elections Comm. The class Valentino. When more class affairs are held, he will he there. (171 ARNOLD M. GALLUB, B.S.S. 45 W. 110th Street. Honors: Minor Letter, Numerals, Silver Medal. Wrestling, Frosh Track Teams; Capt. Checker Team. In every class there must be one. When What's trumP? is heard, everyone knows that Arnic is around. MARTIN T. GLAUBINGER, B.B.A. 1136 Sherman Avenue, Bronx. Honors: Numerals. Fencing Team. Marty has the gambling virus in his veins. He has a peculiar penchant for games of chance, business and cigarettes. Touchec Marty? IRVING H. GOLDER, B.B.A. 14 W. 65th Street. Pres., Vice-Pres., B.A.S.; Glee, Accounting Clubs; Business Bulletin. One of the really modest fellows in the class; his deeds are his recommendations. ARTHUR D. GORDON, B.B.A. 1060 Gerard Avenue, Bronx. Accounting, Menorah, French Club. His quiet, unassuming manner has gained for him the friendship and respect of his classmates. JESSE GORDON, B.B.A. 344 Vernon Avenue, Brooklyn. YA Honors: Numerals, Major Award, A.A. Award. Pres., Vice-Pres., Sec., A.A.; Senior Adviser. '36 Class; Mgr. Wrestling. Despite his sincere, energetic efforts in athletic events, Jesse still had time to discharge his so- cial duties. We hear that the girls are just cu-razy about him. __I 72 GEORGE J. GOULD, B.B.A. Liberty, New York. Honors: Major Insignia, Numerals. Pres., Treas., B.A.S.; Circ. Mgr. Business Bulle- tin; Co-Business Mgr. Varsity Show; Chmn. Elections, Auditing Committees. His slogan is worry! Worry! Worry! AARON GROBSTEIN, B.S.S. 1611 St. Marks Avenue, Brooklyn. Honors: Phi Beta Kappa. Accounting, Menorah, Societies; B.A.S. A fine brain enclosed in a handsome head with a trick moustache. Ask this Phi Bete for a summing ufi of any question, and he will comply. SEYMOUR GRUDIN, B.B.A. 311 E. 242nd Street, Bronx. XAP Honors Sigma Alpha, Major Insignia. Business Mgr. Ticker; Senior Adviser '36 Class; Chmn. “U Book, S. C. Dance; Junior Prom, Frosh Hop, Frosh Feed; Student Council. A man of Political ability and Power; only the strong could face him. IRVING HANDSHU, B.B.A. 702 Garden Street, Bronx. Honors: Major Insignia, Sigma Alpha. Pres., Vice-Pres., Sec., Student Council; Pres. '33 Class; Co-Business Mgr., Ticker; Chmn. Senior Prom, Sports Editor, Ticker, lrv has a fiery disposition which augurs well for friend and ill for enemy. ABRAHAM HANTMAN, B.B.A. 1412 Bristow Street, Bronx. Honors: Numerals. Fencing Team; Menorah, Accounting Societies. His volubility and forcibility submerge one un- der a landslide. —173 EDWIN HOROWITZ, B.B.A. 2805 Creston Avenue, Bronx. Honors; Major Insignia. Bus. Mgr., Business Bulletin; 23rd St. Bus. Mgr., Microcosm, Ticker, Handbook; Chmn. Spring Frolic; Bus. Mgr. Varsity Show. The screen has its Adolphe Menjou, but we have our Ed. From beneath a cocked eye he makes business decisions which always result in financial successes. DAVID S. JACOBS, B.B.A. 217 Van Buren Street, Brooklyn. B.A.S.; Accounting Soc.; Glee Club. A firactical gift to our school. Ask him about the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. REUBEN JACOBSON, B.B.A. 1671 E. 172nd Street, Bronx. Accounting Soc. Time has melloived Rube. Not so long ago he was a rifi-snorter, noiv he's sedate and calm. AARON JASSPE, B.B.A. 897 Bryant Avenue, Bronx. Honors: Minor Letter. Exec. Council, B.A.S.; German Club; Composer Varsity Show; Pres. Glee Club. He wrote the music of the Varsity Show. Noiv he's slated for Tin Pan Alley. SYLVIA KARPF, B.B.A. 102-12 Northern Boulevard, Corona. Orchestra; Concert Bureau Manager; Girls Club; Music Critic, Ticker. Generous to a fault, Sylvia never tired of aid- ing her classmates. Too soon must we fiart ivith such charming comfiany. ( I 74 DAVID I. KATZENELSON, B.B.A. 591 East 140th Street, Bronx. We acknowledge our class infant and prodigy, whose young face has often caused him to be taken for a freshman. SAMUEL KAUFMAN, B.B.A. 1277 Morris Avenue, Bronx. Menorah, Accounting Societies. A freckle-faced boy who is ready at all times to discuss politics, economics, or munch food m Room 206. HYMAN KETCHEL, B.B.A. 110 Forsyth Street. Accounting Society. Hy can tickle the ivories to the Queen's taste. But he's a regular fellow with a genuine smile and a logical head. WILLIAM KIMMEL, B.B.A. 262 Pulaski Street, Brooklyn. Honors: Sigma Alpha, Minor Insignia. Class Pres., Sec.; Vice-Pres., A.A.; Wrestling; Senior Night, U” Book Comm. Always active in extra-curricular activities, Bill is notable for his radiant good-nature and leadership. IRVING KLEIN, B.B.A. 1997 Daly Avenue, Bronx. Menorah Society, French Club. A case of a philosopher bumPing into social life and discarding his Previous ideas. { 175 ■■■ THEODORE S. KLISTO, B.B.A. 1767 E. 29th Street, Brooklyn. Honors: Major Letter. Track Team; Glee Club. Our track star—fast in feet and tongue. ABRAHAM KOPPLEMAN, B.B.A. 1434 Bryant Avenue, Bronx. Chmn. Elections, Auditing, Dance Committees. Behind his rimmed glasses is a humorous twin- kle which accompanies his wit and wisdom. LOUIS KRAMER, B.B.A. 1018 Hoe Avenue, Bronx. Behind that hard exterior lurks a kinder self- JOSEPH LANGE, B.B.A. 753 Union Avenue, Bronx. Orchestra, Glee Club. Just a haPpy-go-lucky fellow that meets each new obstacle with a broad grin that is disarmina. BEATRICE LEBERMAN, B.B.A. 228 Audubon Avenue. Pres. Girls Club; Frosh-SopH Committee; Wom- en's Editor, Handbook: Varsity Show. Possessed of a charming Personality and a ready wit, it is no wonder that Bea is the school's most poPular girl. I 76 MOLLIE LEHRMAN, B.B.A. 3922—9th Avenue, Brooklyn. Accounting Society; Dcutscher Vcrcin. yiollie has the distinction of being the first woman to complete a four-year course at our in- stitution. Our only regret is that we didn't know her longer. SAMUEL LEIBOWITZ, B.B.A. 1355 Roscdalc Avenue, Bronx. Menorah, Accounting Societies; B.A.S. A stellar personality of scintillating humor. Every day should be Sunday, eh, Sammy? IRVING LINN, B.B.A. 109 Throop Avenue, Brooklyn. Editor-in-Chief, Ticker; Pres. Debating Soc.; 23rd St. Editor Chroniquc Du Cercle Jusserand; Exec. Board, C.D.A. After three years of tvork done in an unobtrusive manner, he rose to the editorship of the Ticker . MAXWELL LITTMAN, M.B.A. 583 Midwood Street, Brooklyn. Honors: Minor Letter. Boxing Team; Accounting Society. The blond intellectual boxer who talks philos- ophy since he took a course with Overstreet. FRANK LITWIN, B.B.A. 485 Jerome Street, Brooklyn. Accountancy Soc.; Class Wrestling, Boxing. Occasionally he emerges from his shell long enough to display his resourcefulness. (177 — FRANKLYN LOWENSTEIN, B.B.A. 451 Kingston Avenue, Brooklyn. TA I Honors: Numerals. News Staff Campus. His conduct and scholarship have won for him the friendship of both faculty and class. TOBY MAYER, B.B.A. 379 Irving Avenue, Brooklyn. Sec'y Girls Club; Business Bulletin; Account- ting Club. We kneiv her ivhen . .. and she still possesses th e same charm and sweetness that have en- deared her to her classmates. RUTH MICHLIN, B.B.A. 1770 Walton Avenue, Bronx. Ticker News Board; B.A.S.; Business Bulletin; Dram. Soc. She accomplished a man-sized job ivithout los- ing that charming femininity that has always been hers. HERMAN MILLER, B.B.A. 1855—62nd Street, Brooklyn. Accounting Society. A reserved chap, who can well control his pent- uP emotions. AL MISENOFF, B.B.A. 1521 Charlotte Street, Bronx. Auditing Comm.; Elections Comm.; Orchestra; Mgr. Intra-Mural. This genial fellow makes friends with a facility that is really remarkable. { 178 MORTON MORRISON, B.B.A. 1114—56th Street, Brooklyn. Glee, French Clubs; Campus Circulation Staff. Morning, noon, and night, he studies to show he's bright. TILLIE NATELSON, B.B.A. 840 Lafayette Street, Brooklyn. Business Bulletin; Vice-Pres., French Club; Sec'y Accountancy Soc. Tillie has impressed her classmates ivith her fine ability. FRED NEUMAN, B.B.A. 1318 Stebbins Avenue, Bronx. A handsome boy, a fine dresser, and what a dancer. What say Athos? HARRY B. NEWMAN, B.B.A. 2 E. 181st Street, Bronx. Orchestra; B.A.S.; German Club. Harry takes his music and his studies seriously, but always finds time to smile. ABRAHAM OBERFEST, B.B.A. 717 E. 5th Street. Honors: Numerals. Vice-Pres. Class; Class Basketball; Boat-ride Committee. Suffice it to say that he is a discifile of com- mon sense. What say, D'Artagnan9 '( 179 SAMUEL ORTNER, B.S. 1481 E. 8th Street, Brooklyn. B.A.S.; Law, Glee Clubs. If anything goes wrong, ask Ortner how to cure it. He'll tell you. HARRY PIKE, B.B.A. 207 Rodney Street, Brooklyn. Honors: Numerals. Class Basketball Team. His sfieed of thought is equally evident, both in basketball and in his studies GEORGE PRISAMT, B.B.A. 2047 Holland Avenue, Bronx. Honors: Numerals. Class Treas.; Frosh Feed, Soph Strut, Junior, Senior Prom Committees; Co-Chmn. Class Nite; Class Basketball, Boxing’. Every class has its Beau Brummel, and toe have ours in Georgie. DAVID REIFER, B.B.A. 2215—86th Street, Brooklyn. Accounting Society; Glee, French Clubs. Natv, I won t cofiy it, I'll only check the answer. SAMUEL RESS, B.B.A. 1721 Bussing Avenue, Bronx. Honors: Numerals. Vice-Pres. Class; Boxing Team; French Club; Menorah; Prom Committee. Just a rough boy with a smile who believes in elboiuing his ivay through life. 180 ALFRED ROFFMAN, B.B.A. 14 E. 108th Street. Honors: Numerals. Staff Artist Microcosm, Ticker, Sun; Historian Intramural Boxing. Our otvn Rembrandt. A1 does things quietly, but with a peculiar effectiveness. HERBERT F. ROSENBLATT, B.A. 2138 Wallace Avenue, Bronx. AIM� Class Paper; Class Publicity Committee. He’s clever and ivitty and let s everyone knoiu it. SAMUEL M. RUBIN, B.B.A. 242 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn. Vicc-Pres. Class; Boat Ride, Frosh-Soph Com- mittees; Vice-Pres. French Club. Sam’s facile tongue was a source of unending amusement to the whole croivd. SIDNEY RUBIN, M.B.A. 1905 Marmion Avenue, Bronx. Honors: Major Insignia. Pres., Vice-Pres., Secy. Student Council; Vicc- Pres., Class; Managing Editor, Handbook; Edi- tor, Sun; Publication Board; Author, Varsity Show, “Demon Dean.” He didn't seek the limelight; the limelight sought him. HAROLD SCHECHTER, B.B.A. 1313 Fulton Avenue, Bronx. Dcutschcr Vcrein, Engineering Society. A good mind in a strong body. ( 181 :r JACK SCHORR, B.B.A. 501 W. 183 Street. Director Statistical Staff Business Bulletin; B. A. S. His library ivork has clothed him in a mask of serious mien. His close friends appreciate his warm, whole-hearted smile. SAM D. SCHULTZ, B.B.A. 1530 E. 172nd Street, Bronx. Honors: Numerals. Accounting, Wrestling Clubs. If Sam ivere only dark-complexioned, he’d be the Perfect man. What say, Aramis. JOSEPH SCHWARTZ, B.B.A. 1220A—55th Street, Brooklyn. Honors: Varsity Letter, Numerals. Ass't Mgr. Boxing; Frosh, Varsity Track. Seldom heard around the school, Joe conserves his energy for the track team. HOWARD L. SEIDMAN, B.B.A. 1561 Carroll Street, Brooklyn. Honors: Sigma Alpha, Numerals. Capt. Fencing Team; Soph Smoker Committee; Dram. Soc.; French Club. The handsome, bespectacled mite tvho teas al- ivays mistaken for a freshie until he grew that lovely moustache. MOSES SEIGEL, M.B.A. 595 Pine Street, Brooklyn. Honors: Numerals. Wrestling Team; Accounting Society. Our high-pressure salesman. ( 182 LOEB B. SHEIFER, B.B.A. 221 W. 82nd Street. French Club. May you win your chevrons in a blaze of glory. Generalissimo, may we salute your valorous deeds. MORRIS SIEGEL, B.B.A. 1724 Washington Avenue, Bronx. Honors: Varsity Letter; Sigma Alpha. Boxing Team; Vice-Pres. Dram. Soc.; Athletic Mgr., Class; Microcosm; Auditing Committee. Let it never be said of Moe that he shirked ivork. JOSEPH H. SILBERMAN, B.B.A. 1075 Grand Concourse, Bronx. Honors: Minor Insignia; Numerals; A.A. Insig- nia; German Insignia. Sec'y A. A.; Pres. Deutscher Verein; Pres. Ten- nis Club; Menorah; Treas. Class. Studious Joe pursued extra-curricular work with the same determination that made him a schol- astic success. RALPH SINGER, B.B.A. 1219 Nelson Avenue, Bronx. Honors: Major Letters; All-American Lacrosse. Captain Lacrosse Team. His experiences stamp Ralph a sophisticate. HARRY SKLAROFF, B.B.A. 650 E. 170th Street, Bronx. Boxing Squad. The good-natured chaP who is the Damon to Fischer's Pythias. —I 8 3 JULIUS SLOMINSKY, B.B.A. 651 Warwick Street, Brooklyn. Honors: Numerals. Circulation Staff, Campus, Ticker; Wrestling; Sun Staff. A quiet fellow from the wilds of Brownsvtlle, who comes early to school to sell tickets and Rafters. Not fat — just pleasingly plump. CHARLES SOM IN, B.B.A. 853 Beck Street, Bronx. Honors: Numerals. Wrestling Team; Scc’y Checker Club. Within that small body is contained much man- hood. JOSEPH STARK, B.B.A. 1360 Boston Road, Bronx. Class Basketball Team; Tennis Club; Wrestling. A flash at shorts, with flashy ivomcn, and a flashy head. What say, Porthos? MORRIS STOLLER, B.B.A. 1930 Grand Concourse, Bronx. Honors: Minor Insignia, Numerals. Pres., Class; 23rd Street Editor Microcosm; Editor, Handbook; Business Mgr., Boat Ride, Varsity Show, Lavender; Discipline Committee; Publication Board. The class was not long in searching out Moe, Possessor of impregnable logic, and distinctive Personality, and establishing him as its leader. ELLIOT TENOFSKY, B.B.A. 800 E. 173rd Street, Bronx. He came to college to dream but the opiate courses Put him to sleep. --- { I 84 AARON L. TRAISTER, B.B.A. 2676 Morris Avenue, Bronx. French, Accounting Club. He speaks when it's necessary. It's seldom necessary. ISAAC WECKSLER, B.B.A. 1218 Wheeler Avenue, Bronx. Accounting Society. If Izzy icon t helf you, nobody else will. A case of an inflated heart. MAX WEISENFREUND, B.B.A. 1976 La Fontaine Avenue, Bronx. B.A.S.; Business Bulletin; Chess Club; Director Management Staff. There's a boy who’s as smart as a whift. Ash him and he’ll tell you so himself. GEORGE T. WITENKO, B.B.A. 169 East 4th Street. Frosh Swimming; Frosh Feed; Soph Smoker; Senior Adviser; Sec'y Class. George should make a good father, judging from the way he’s handled the freshmen at school. MAXWELL ZAHLER, B.B.A. 2109 Daly Avenue, Bronx. Track Squad; Ass't Mgr., Swimming Team; Camfus, Mercury Business Staff; Deutscher Verein. Did you ever see him blush? -I 85 There was twaddle of this and twaddle of that . . ORGANIZATIONS COTTON GOLD FtlNGOlD max . HALPRIN RUSSIN KADANL max STUDENT COUNCIL INSIGNIA AAACHLIN FLACKS SCHWARTZ mm MARKS mnk KIRSCHBAUAA nwc 189 Student Council Y HILE the year 1933 saw a new high in many fields at the College, notably dramatics and basketball, it is generally conceded that the Student Council, in the fall term, hit a new low level, even for Student Councils. More than half of the semester was spent in disposing of internal differences, and the remainder in combating opposition from other groups at the College, both faculty and student. At the first meeting, in Sep- tember, a problem arose which was to vex the Council for many months to come. Edward J. Halprin, President-elect, had been permitted to run for office the previous term on the basis of a mathematical possibility that he might become a senior, which would make him eligible for the position. In order to realize this possibility, however, it would have been necessary for Halprin to attend summer school, which he never did. Hence when he assumed office in the fall, he was not registered as a senior, although he defended his right to the position on the ground that he was, and always had been, affiliated with the then Senior class. A tense debate at the first meeting resulted in a 5-4 vote confirming his right to preside. The opposi- tion, under “Little Napoleon H. A. Weinstein, continued to press the ease. Babor Adviser ---- ( I 90 —9 and continued to call for a vote each Fri- day. In each case, the deciding' vote was that • cast by the 33 representative, “Mush” Weiner, and in at least one in- stance, it was necessary to send a spec- ial messenger to draff “Mush” out of Lcwisohn Stadium, football togs and all, to cast his vote at the meeting. Finally, after six weeks of aimless drifting' and hair-splitting quiddity, Halprin voluntari- ly withdrew in an effort to put the Coun- cil in a position to accomplish something. A Hectic Council Meeting He was succeeded by the vice-president, David K. Kadane. Immediately, how- ever, it was discovered that Kadane was not registered as a lower senior, and hence had not been eligible for the vice-presidency. Kadane withdrew, and for the ffrst time in its existence the Student Council functioned (or rather, met) with neither president nor vice-president. The remaining' eight members ran into trouble in other di- rections. Several organizations refused to pay the Council s activities fee, and the Campus appealed to the Faculty Commit- tee on Student Affairs when it was ordered off College grounds (tho it never stopped selling) for non-payment of Council dues. The Faculty Committee restrained the Council—and never de- cided the case. Toward the close of the term, the Campus, in an effort to rehabilitate the Council, supported the candidacy of Sidney Marks for the Presidency. The Council ordered Marks's name removed from the ballots because the Campus editorial was construed as a viola- tion of the no electioneering rule, but the former Dean Red- mond revoked the order, as well as a later Council order calling for a by-election for the presidency. Sidney Marks was elected under these stormy conditions, and there was some talk of challenging his right to hold office. However he assumed the chair unopposed, protest having been wi thhcld in most cases out of desire to prevent a repetition of the squabbles of the previous term. The Council as a whole was more conservative and serious-minded than the previous group, and so the semester was rather uneventful. Early in March, a number of irregularities were discovered in the management of the Student Mail Room and Lost and Found Office, and the case was ironed out before the Discipline Committee. A resolution was also adopted asking per- mission of the Board of Higher Education to impose a nominal fee on all stu- dents for the integration of extra-curricular activities under the Student Council. Marks Spring Halprin Pall ___191 Microcosm Executive Board Eugene Cotton................Editor-in-Chief Hyman E. Gold............Business Manager Lester H. Kohs...................Art Editor Managing Board Joseph H. Flacks, Managing Editor Irving Schwartz, Associate Editor Joseph Feibusch, Photography Editor Charles Bloomstein, Senior Editor Irving Jaffe, Associate Editor Michael Cicalese, Circulation Mgr. Twenty-third Street Staff Morris Stoller, Editor Morris Siegel, Iss’t Business Mgr. Edwin Horowitz, Business Manager Albert Roffman, Art Editor Associate Board Edward J. Halprin, Iss’t Bus. Mgr. J. Mirelowitz, Organizations Editor Robert I. Russin, Associate Art Editor David Grand, Shorts Editor Benjamin Bernstein, Historical Editor H. A. Weinstein, Technical Editor David K. Kadane, Technical Editor Barney Friedman, Faculty Editor B. Schwartzberg, Iss’t Technical Ed. Oscar Grossman, Advertising Mgr. Eli Horowitz Victor Feingold Ira Tress Max Siegel Staff Members Dunbar Roman Samuel Davidson Fred Hochman Irving Rosenthal Moe Friedlander Abraham Newman Abraham Baum Sol Sklar Harry W. Katz Arthur Scholder Joseph H. Teperman Herman Redisch 192 TT HAS BEEN the custom among past Microcosm A editors to use this page as a medium for a tearful enumeration of the trials and tribulations which go into the creation of the book. In the case of the '33 Mike, the troubles have been present as usual, questionnaires have been handed in late, or not at all, seniors have withheld payment despite tearful pleas that numerous expenses in connection with the work on the book had to be met. But, in general, we have no complaint. It was hard work, but the result is sufficient reward for the effort. As to the merits of the volume, the decision must lie with the reader. The layout is, in most cases, very severely simple. It may prove disappointing to those who had expected the usual gaudy, profusely illus- trated annual. The intention has been to make the Mike look more like a book and less like a picture catalogue. If the flashy ornamentation has been removed, every effort has been made to perfect the necessary components of the book. Every section, every page, was carefully nursed to its final state. An excellent example is the picture of the Great Hall window in the views section. Four photographs were taken before a final negative was chosen. From this negative exactly forty-eight prints were made, of varying intensity and, with variations in the amount of emphasis given to various sections. The final result was not completely satisfactory, but was accepted only because the be- draggled photographer pleaded that he had a wife and child awaiting him, and insisted he could not stay after eight o'clock (he was supposed to have stopped work at six). In conclusion, the editor wishes to record a debt of gratitude to two men, without whose cooperation the job would have been considerably more nerve-wracking and burdensome than it was. The first is the business manager, who, in the midst of his fin- ancial worries, somehow found time to shoulder a large part of the editorial burden. The second is the art editor, who worked day and night for months drawing, planning, supervising photo- graphs, and to whom the largest part of the credit for layout, cover-design, and art-work is undoubtedly due. Cotton Editor It must be noted here that a new feature has been added in the form of a seperate section for the Commerce Center. The entire sec- tion is the work of the 23rd Street editor and business manager, and we thank them for their assistance. ■■■■■■ wmm { I93 wm Mercury Executive Board Barnett Bus. At r. Eugene Cotton.....................Editor-in-Chicf Joseph H. Flacks..................Editor-in-Chief Harold Barnett.................Business Manager Managing Board Morton S. Goldstein, Managing Editor Robert I. Russin, Art Ed. Dunbar Roman, Art Ed. Fred Hochman, Assoc. Ed. Irving Schwartz, Woe. Ed. Leonard Schiff, Woe. Ed. Irving Rosenthal, Woe. Ed. Douglas Siegel, Woe. Ed. Milton Kaletsky, Exch. Ed. Morris Rosenberg Oscar Krauss Lester Pcddv Editorial H. A. Weinstein Richard Greenblatt Roger Hclprin Israel. Staff Jess Stern Theodore Tolces Sol Littman ,evy Sam Du Browin Theresa Matt Arthur Newman Business Board Morris Spielberg, Main Circulation Manager Milton Taub, W’f Circulation Mgr. Louis Greller, Commerce Circu. Mgr. Irving Klubok, Advertising Manager Isaac Duchin, Night Circulation Mgr. _I 94 P T iEPRESSION — gold standard — Hitler — impending war — ignor- ancc and folly have brought the hu- man race into an awful mess. In the midst of a stoop-shouldered world the philosophy of laughter still has innu- merable adherents. And Merc contin- ued to appear. Eugene Cotton led the College wits and half-wits during the Fall. His first venture, the Patriotic Number, lampooned Communism and patriotism, capitalism and its counterparts, cannibalism, but with no apparent effect on any of these movements. It was in the now famous Psychology Number, however, that Gene hit his stride. The issue embodied one gigantic laugh at the brain experts, and elicited congratulations from the psike departments of Brown and Western Reserve Universities, and Hunter College. It was a complete sell-out. Business Man- ager Barnett smiled, and paid all expense accounts. The next issue was the Olde Englisshe Numberrc, the cover of which, done by Art Editor Bob Russin, was selected by College Humor as the best college comic cover for that month. In this issue as in every succeeding one, a playlet by Fred Hochman was the outstanding feature. The final Merc of the term, the Legal Num- ber, contained an unmerciful expose of lawyers, police, judges, and the rest of the crooks. And so the reign of King Cotton ended. He was succeeded by the Managing Editor of the fall term, Joe Flacks. Joe set out to out-do his predecessor by turning out a Broadway Number with a cover by Dun Roman which was an issue by itself. The cover was applauded by Louis Sobol in the Journal, the issue was applauded by letters all the way from California, and every copy was sold. Not a word of protest came from Harold Barnett. Joe followed up his success with a Medical Number replete with jibes at the expense of doctors, internes, nurses, and their ilk. A series of intimate and revealing pictures were gathered together to illus- trate the care of the baby, and the rudiments of first aid. The regime of Flacks carried on with a Naughty Nineties Number which told of the days when Mae West was young and the dollar was worth ninety-five cents. In his zeal to serve his public, Joe even managed to get an interview with Mae West for this issue. The last issue was a parody of Silver Screen, a movie magazine, and all the members of the staff joined zealously in attempting to make this issue the best in Mercury's history. Cotton Fall Flacks Spring _ ( I 95 Campus L.. .� .� Executive Board Woodrow Arthur Schattclcs......Editor-in-Chief Gilbert E. Goodkind.........Editor-in-Chief Bernard H. Krauthamer......Business Manager Krauthamer Bus. Mgr. Managing Board Benjamin Drcyer, Managing Editor Louis R. Guylay, Shorts Editor Mortimer H. Cohen, News Editor Harold A. Axel, Neivs Editor Lester H. Feinstein, Cofiy Editor Associate Board Sidney Paris Aaron N. Slotkin Harold Spielman Jerome B. Cohen Howard Frisch Leon A. Michaelis Lawrence R. Knobel Seymour Sheriff Business Board Nathaniel Fcnsterstock, Assistant Business Manager Harold D. Friedman, Circulation Mgr. Murray Bcrgtraum, Faculty Circu. Mgr. Michael Cisalese, Ass’t Circu. Mgr. Raoul Mientzen, Exchange Manager News Board J. Solomon Z. Lebolt M. Weil C. Saphirstein J. Abrahams A. J. Merin N. Schneider J. Lavitt J. Tricb G. G. Cutler I 96 — JPHE CAMPUS started its sec- ond quarter-century with a series of squabbles. In June, 1932, tbe Campus Association refused to select either of the nominees of tbe staff, and in September appointed Bernard Krauthamcr Business Manager and Acting Editor. Tbe rise of Krauthamcr was nothing short of phenomenal, since his name had first appeared in the mast-head a few weeks before the close of the pre- ceding term. The entire editorial staff, with the exception of a few members, resigned in protest, charging that the President of the Campus Association had admitted that the reason for the rejection of the staff nominees was the desire of the Association for an editor who would “play ball with the administration. The resigned staff founded its own publication, the Stu- dent. On October 7, Benjamin Drcyer was appointed Editor of the Campus. It was soon revealed, however, that Drcyer, as a lower classman, was ineligible for the position. He resigned on October 21, “because of the press of outside activities . He was succeeded by Cadet-Lieutenant Woodrow Arthur Schat- telcs, who remained as Editor for the remainder of the semes- ter. During his term of office, the Campus attracted wide attention among its readers through its interesting editorials. One of these, entitled “Lost: A College , bewailed the fact that the College was “a combina- tion of Union Square, the New York Public Library, and Pro- fessor Morris Raphael Cohen . Another urged greater emphasis on athletics, and subsidization of athletes as a means of rehabili- tating the College. Toward the close of the term, the Campus supported Sidney Marks for the Presidency of the Student Council, and succeeded in bringing about his election. Schattelcs was rc-clcctcd to the editorship for the Spring term, but his untimely death prevented his taking office. He was succeeded by Gilbert E. Goodkind, under whom the Cam- pus passed a fairly uneventful existence. The Student had died of financial heart-failure, so that the old tri-weekly had the field to itself. It regained a measure of its old vigor, conducted an expose of A. A. politics, planned a war poll, but dropped it at the request of Dean Gottschall. The student body continued to read the Faculty Bulletin, and everybody was happy. The late Schattelcs «i________I 97 Handbook Executive Board H. A. Weinstein.........Editor-in-Chief Edward J. Halp rin.............Business Manager Herman S. Redisch......Business Manager Weinstein Editor Editorial Staft David Grand, Managing Editor Irving Novick, Managing Editor Louis R. Guylay, Sfiorts Editor Bernard Schwartzberg, Shorts Editor Harold Lavine Samuel Davidson Leonard Kahn Ingram Bander Albert Kaplan Sidney Silverman Business Board N. Fensterstock, Ass't Business Mgr. Harry N. Nachmias, Circulation Mgr. Jack P. Blume, ds.s’t Business Mgr. Emil Birnbaum, Advertising Manager Hyman E. Gold, Circulation Manager Joseph Camhi, Ass't Circulation Mgr. Michael Cicalese Samuel Moskowitz Robert Levitt Morris Spielberg Irving Schwartz Charles Bloomstein { 198 4 RECORD of some sort was completely and absolutely shattered by the Handbook staff during the past year. It has been the usual practice of the Student Council to put out an edition of the “freshman bible every two years. And despite the soph rule which requires every freshman to purchase a copy, each printing has usually lasted for the full two years. However, the impossible was accomplished during' the past year. The usual edition of eight hundred and fifty was put out under the editorship of H. A. Wein- stein. The booklet was enlarged to a total of one hundred and thirty pages, and included within its pages much material never before published in the Handbook. In addition to the usual accounts of the activities of the clubs, teams, pub- lications and other extra-curricular groups of the college, the issue carried a de- tailed outline of the procedure to be followed at registration. More important, however, was the fact that, for the first time in its history, the Handbook carried a full roster of the College songs. So complete was the booklet in this respect that Pro- fessor Hcinroth found it possible to dispense with the trouble- some distribution in frosh chapel of leaflets containing the sengs and to rely on the Handbooks which the freshmen were sup- posed to have purchased. Aided by the increased intrinsic value of the book, as well as by the action of Professor Hcinroth, Edward J. Halprin, business manager, was able, by Herculean efforts, including the corraling of the newcomers at the time of their medical exam, and the persistent campaigning of an efficient staff, to sell out the entire edition during one term, the first time this feat has ever been accomplished. The edition thus made necessary for the Spring term was again edited by Weinstein, and embodied all the improvements of its predecessor. The new business manager, Herman S. Redisch, profited by the experience of his predecessor and pre- pared a much larger printing, so that, despite a continuance of the active sale of the fall term, a sufficient reserve was laid aside to prepare for the fall semester of 1933. This semester represents the first time in history that the Handbook has been anything but a financial thorn in the side of the Student Council, and credit is due both business man- agers for their work. Not only has the Council realized a substantial profit, but there are enough copies on reserve to provide a source of income for next term. Halprin Bus. Mgr. � 'V V V Frosh Bible 199 Dramatic Society npHE season of 1932 was one of the most active the Dramatic Society has had in its long history, which goes back to the days of James K. Hackett in the eighties. In the record for the year, we find not merely one varsity show, nor even one each semester. Under President David K. Kadane, who held office for both terms, the group kept its members in constant action. No sooner was one production a matter of past history than another was under way. In fact, there were times when two productions were in rehearsal at once. During the Fall term the activities of the Society centered about the pro- duction of Hamlet. The play was put on by the Dram Soc in cooperation with Script and Peg, honorary dramatic society composed of undergraduates and alumni. It was staged in a dynamic manner under the direction of Mr. Victor Klcmfeld of the Public Speaking Department. Only one performance was giv- en, on a Sunday evening, and the production was regarded as something of an experiment to determine the feasibility of the future use of this type of vehicle for the Society s talent. The success of the play, both financially and as a piece of dramatic art, assures the College of continued efforts along the same line. In the spring semester, the Society became alive with activity. At the very 200 beginning of the term Kadane began to make preparations for the production of a musical comedy. Book and music for the show were written by students of tbc College, work was begun on “Here Comes the Bribe”, the first musical com- edy produced by the Society since “Ship Ahoy”, in 1930. The cast was recruited from every center of the College, an en- ergetic publicity staff overwhelmed the student body with posters, salesmen and salesgirls. The result was that the house Here Comes the Bribe was a complete sell-out for both performances, which were given on the Friday and Saturday before the Easter vacation. The proceeds from the show were turned over to the Student Aid Fund. But one show at a time was not enough to keep the Society busy. In order not to lose contact with more pure forms of the theatre while working on “Here Comes the Bribe”, the group presented plays over radio station WEVD every two weeks during the course of the term. “The Boor”, by Anton Chcck- hov, was the first of this scries. Spurred on by the success of this famous farce, the Society chose three scenes from Rostand's “Cyrano de Bergerac” as its second presentation, a more ambi- tious attempt. This was followed by several scenes from Lewis Carroll's “Alice in Wonderland , and, on April 23rd, Shakes- peare s birthday, a scene from “The Taming of the Shrew”. In May, the So- ciety presented “The Golden Farmer”, an 1847 melodrama. As we go to press an Elizabethan comedy is being chosen. The most ambitious attempt of the Dramatic Society in any previous year has been one major production each term; but as the Micro- cosm goes to press we learn that the Society is planning to present another full-length play this term. The vehicle selected is Sophocles' “Oedipus Rex,” and it is to be presented in the Great Hall, approximating as closely as possible the highly con- ventionalized theatre of the Greeks. Under the leadership of Professor Eggers, faculty adviser to the Society, much attention was paid to the possibility of the formation of a complete Little Theatre group. Development in this direction is limited by the lack of a stage (due to the high rentals of the Pauline Edwards Auditorium), but the Society at- tempted to become more self-sufficient by training undergraduate directors for its radio presentations. ( 201 Officers Clut rpWICE a year, despite all contrary indications in both the elements and the financial situation, the Officers' Club holds its semi-annual Formal. Tickets for this gala occasion arc as scarce as the proverbial gold banknote, and thousands of newspapers spring into being as nebulous correspondents clamor for press complimcntarics. In spite of the fact that the affair is supposedly a restricted one, the ballroom is usually crowded with members of all the organizations in the college, as well as a huge coterie of distinguished guests from military, educational, and civil fields. Varied styles and colorful gowns brighten up the dance floor, and the smart uniforms of the officers add to the eclat of the occasion, while the more 6ombre civilian dress of the non-militarists contrasts sharply with the more striking dress of the former. Gayety and good-feeling predominates in this, the most important function of the Club, unpublicized but always over-attended. Tickets arc not sold, but boom prices are quoted for the surplus admissions which arc procured by high-class sales talks. Features of the Formal include a reception at which the cadet officers __202 and their lady friends arc presented to the distinguished guests, and a grand march in which the alumni and honored guests, followed by the officers and their escorts march through a glittering arch of sabres. Following the precedent set by last year's group, the Fall dance was held outside the College, at the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Edison, while the spring function returned to the College gymnasium. The purpose set forth in its constitu- tion, of fostering good-fellowship among those taking the advanced courses in Military Science and Tactics, is carried out in the Officers' Club through the medium of social affairs. Besides the all important Formal, the Club each term tenders in its at- tractively decorated quarters in the Armory a series of well- attended informal dances, and the above-mentioned quarters are a social center for the officers, and the clubroom is always well filled by the latter, who seem to have a maximum of spare time in which to play bridge or listen to the radio. The year opens for the members with the initiation of new entrants, followed by their formal induction into the Club. Then in rapid succession follow the various informals, the two semi-annual Formals, and each Spring the Farewell Banquet, tendered to those who are unlucky enough to be graduating. The banquet marks the closing event of the year for the Club. As an organized unit, the cadet officers have appeared m the past as repre- sentatives of the College R. O. T. C. in such affairs as the Army Day and Washington's Birthday parades. Quite often, m addition, the officers have been invited guests to many func- tions, such as the Victory Ball, at the Waldorf-Astoria, the First Division Formal, also at the Waldorf, and the Ball of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, at the Hotel St. George. The Club was presided over during the entire year by Nathan M. Shcck man, while Herman Marcus was Vice-Presi- dent and Alvin Schneiderman, Corresponding Secretary. In the Fall term Elliot Norwalk was Treasurer, while the post ■as held in the Spring Semester by Albert J. Altman. The Marshal in both terms was Edward Hartman. On the Board of Governors are found Stanley Gottschalk, Norman Jarvik, Ralph I. Jacobs, Sidney Landau, Meyer J. Plishner, George Anagnostis, Irving F.lume, Seymour Friedman, John Giambolini and Frank Di Giacomo. Marcus 203 P i Menorah TT is ironic and curious that the chief difficulty of the Mcnorah lies in the fact that approximately ninety-five percent of the student body is Jewish. Find- ing himself a member of a largely homogeneous group, with no very marked distinction from any other faction in the college, the average Jewish student cannot be made acutely conscious of his racial and religious heritage. Hence, for many years the Menorah has been in the position of a speaker with a huge, but uninterested audience. In order to overcome this apathy, Mcnorah began to revitalize its program at the beginning of the school year. They invited speakers from the “Poale Zion”, an organization that offers a liberal program for intellectual Jewry in an effort to attract the more liberal of the Jewish students. Those who had inclined to scoff at the “backward looking” Mcnorah were agreeably surprised. Speakers such as Goldie Meyerson and Jacob Katzman offered a hitherto hidden world to the City College student . Dr. May Bcre, another speaker of the “Poale Zion” group, supplemented the offerings of the previous two with a new point of view on the life of Jews in the Diaspora. But Mcnorah did not restrict its speakers to one topic, nor to one organization. Professor Waldman, of the Ger- man Department appeared before the club to discuss “The Biblical Leit-Motif (204 Spiro Pall in Goethe”, while Professor Hansen, of the Education Depart- ment, addressed the members, giving the attitude of a non-Jew toward the race, and explaining his interest in Judaism and Jews, although not a member of the group. But even the patriarchs of old Palestine and the prophets of the Biblical age took time off for play (and the Menorites can refer you to some very choice passages in the Bible to prove it). And so the Society offered, in addition to its more serious activi- ties, a well-rounded social program. Three functions were held in conjunction with the girls of the Hunter College Menorah. The first of these was featured by an address by Rabbi Schcnck, T3, a former officer of the Menorah. Another was the Palestine Festival, held at the Ninety- Second Street “Y”. The festival included an exhibition of Pales- tinian dances and art work. Finally, in collaboration with the Menorah Societies of the Metropolitan area, the City College Menorah arranged an informal dance and social at the Bear Den of New York University, and a Chanukah Festival, which was widely attended. Serious problems, however, reclaimed the attention of the club, problems which were not merely petty local details or con- nected with college affairs, but problems which claimed the at- tention of Jewry throughout the world, as well as a large number of non-Jews. The first of these was connected with the atro- cities committed during the Polish pogroms wherein the Jewish students were driven from the universities and Jewish lives and property imperiled. The Menorah added its voice to the storm of protest which went up at the activities of the anti-Semitic groups in Poland. Some months later. Hitler rose to power to menace alike the peace of the world and the safety of all Jews unfortunate enough to be residing in Germany at a moment when that nation had seem- ingly lost its senses. The Menorah called a protest meeting in Dorcmus Hall, at which Dean Gottschall and Professor Cohen were two of the important speakers. Janowsky Adviser Kirschcnbaum Spring The Menorah also issued a magazine for Passover. “The Candelabrum”, as it was called, enjoyed a wide circulation and featured interviews with Professor Cohen, and Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward. Israel J. Spiro was President of the club during the fall term and was suc- ceeded by Ben Kirschcnbaum for the spring semester. Other officers included Julius Mirelowitz, Sidney Bogner, Julius Smelkin, William Seidenbcrg, Wil- liam Horowitz, and Zel Rosenficld. --- ( 205 Biology Society 11 TOST organisations at the college arc forced to embark upon extended publi- A city campaigns in order to attract members to their ranks. Gaudy posters in the alcoves advertising speakers, notices in the Campus, all arc necessary to the existence of these groups. In many cases, the purpose of the club is avowedly the spread of its philosophy, so that the ballyhoo and publicity-seeking consti- tute the very essence of its existence. In the case of the Biology Society, how- ever, we have a club which exists not for the public, but for its members. Hence, one does not merely walk in and join the group. An introduction is necessary, there is a formal interview, and the club-members are as willing to reject an unworthy applicant as to accept a worthy one. The result is that the group is a select one, composed entirely of those with a very serious interest in biology, usually as a preliminary to medical study. Building on this firm foundation, the Bio Society has no great difficulty in developing a program to hold the interest of its members. The speakers during the past year consisted almost entirely of members of the College faculty. Pro- ftissor Ruckes, head of the department at 23rd Street, delivered a lecture on “The Great Southwest”. Professor Melander entertained the group with a talk on his favorite topic, the delectable hobby of “Insect Collecting”. Dr. Melander is ___- n( 206 Weiss President widely acclaimed as an authority in the held of entomology. The topic chosen by Mr. Chaikelis for his address before the club was “Spinal Anaesthesia , while Professor Scott spoke on “The Life of Mendel . Professor Browne gave the members an in- teresting' account of his unique experiences while on a hcld-trip tour of Canada. But even future medicos can become tired of talk, and so the boys rewarded themselves with a novel treat. Professor Goldforb showed the club moving' pictures of experiments in micro-dissection which were borrowed from Professor Chambers of New York University. Outstanding' in the motion-picture feature was the depiction of the development of an egg'-ccll from the time a sperm is injected into it until the period of cleavage. As usual the club kept in mind the very prosaic and an- noying fact that one must attend med school before one may practice medicine. And one must be admitted to med school before one can attend med school. In an effort to answer some of the questions raised by the recent rulings of the State Medi- cal Department, the yearly medical school meeting was held. President Robinson addressed the group on this occasion, while the essential information for which the members had come to its meeting was supplied by Dean Gottschall and Professor Gold- forb, the two men in the college best acquainted with the con- ditions of medical school entry. An interesting bit of research is being carried on at present writing. As a summation of the past work of the club, the Secretary's Committee is working on a Historical chart, the purpose of which is to determine the percentage of graduates of the college who have entered the medical profession, and their relative positions in the held. The work is nearing completion, and it is quite probable that the results will be announced at the end of the current school year. During both Fall and Spring terms, Leon Weiss was the president and Nor- man Jarvik the vice-president under whom all this activity was carried on. The treasurer was Aaron Lichtman, and the secretaries were Paul Gctsoff and Irv- ing Klubok. Another feature which has attracted a large number of prospective mem- bers is the annual scholarship fund which enables worthy students to study at the Woods Hole summer school. A hfty-dollar award is made to two Bio majors, and their summer is spent in worthwhile research. In the privacy of its own company, the Society is as difficult to approach as one of our fraternities. Since 1911 it has been a valuable addition to the College's extra-curricular activities, and for twenty-two years it has functioned as one of our most active societies. Goldforb Adviser 207 Politics Club T ESPITE rumours to the contrary, the Politics Club does not breed that particular type of character which haunts Tammany Clubs, or solicits votes before election. Instead, they are a serious-minded group who try hard to un- derstand the workings of this grand and glorious democracy of ours. To achieve this end, the boys spend endless hours in discussion of the moot questions of the time, as well as a series of visits to various institutions. Under the leadership of Harry Roffman, the Club sponsored a complete program of lectures and visits which included talks by Professor Guthrie, Professor William B. Otis, and others, plus several visits and held trips. Last June, under the direction of the evcr popular Dr. Warsoff, and ac- companied by a large coterie of the fairer sex, the Club made a visit to Wash- ington, where they observed the workings of both houses. In the middle of the Spring term, a trip was taken to Randall's Island. It is expected that the members of the club will soon visit Sing Sing, where several of their former members are now spending a week-end or two. In line with the lecture section of the program, the students attempted an evaluation of the Scabury investigation, aided by a talk by Professor Guthrie. Later in the Spring semester, a lecture was given by Professor William B. Otis, and the meeting hall was filled. 208 Baskerville Society 1 ELVING into the realm of the new and the mysterious in the chemical held, the Baskerville Society continued to regale its members with a series of well-timed and well-delivered lectures on various subjects. Under the leadership of Milton Rothman in the Fall term, and Irving Sisman in the Spring semester, the Society presented its usual scries of features consisting of talks by students and professors, moving pictures and trips to industrial plants. Among the more important of the lectures were those by Dr. Harrow who spoke on “Detoxication and Detoxication Agents , and Professor Stevenson, on “Phases of Physical Chemistry . The student talks covered “Research Meth- ods in Chemistry , “The Immunological Action of Proteins” and “Physiological Chemistry in Medicine”, delivered by Irving Borck, Saul Small, and Irving Cohen respectively. The illustrated lectures included a film describing the commercial manufacture of dynamite, “The Farm That Jack Built , and a pic- turized treatment of “Cellulose and Its Uses . Both movies played to packed houses without the addition of a Mickey Mouse cartoon. The high spot of the year was a group visit to the well-known chemical plant of Eimcr and Amend, where the chemistry majors spent an edifying and instructive period, uninterrupted by the jangling clangor of a seven-minute gong. To complete the program, the Society has planned a Farewell Hike, to be held immediately following Examination Week. 209 R. O. T. C. Rifle Team nPHE ARMY has gone and done it again. For the fourth consecutive year A the City College .30 calibre, four-man team, won the Manhattan Chapter Reserve Officers' Association Metropolitan Trophy Championship with a score of 685 out of a possible 800. In addition to capturing the Reserve Officers' Trophy, the team placed third in the Second Corps Area R. O. T. C. Matches with a score of 7415 out of a possible 8000, and won seventh place in the National Intercollegiate William Randolph Hearst (Oh! Professor Otis!) Trophy Matches (Eastern Section) with a score of 910 out of a possible 1000. During the rest of the 1932-33 season the team fired in 48 matches, winning 36 and losing 12 for an average of 759f. Two of these were shoulder to shoulder; both were won by the Lavender. The team was led by Captain Ralph I. Jacobs, the well-known cadet officer and managed by Meyer J. Plishner. Outstanding among the rest of the team, all drawn from either the Basic or Advanced courses of the Military Science Department were; Albert J. Alt- man, Harold Austcrn, Nathan Bendersky, Abraham Lopyan, Chester Bozitsko, Daniel Connolly, Milton Gold, Charles O. Rates, Howard Mehrtens, Sidney H. Landau, Carmen Novissimo, John B. O'Farrell, David Rosenberg, Reginald Seildel, Milton Storck, and Anarig Timourian. «____2 I 0 Associate Alumni HTHE ASSOCIATE ALUMNI of the College of the City of New York was organised by the first class gradu- ated from what was then known as the Free Academy in 1853. This date has special significance in view of the fact that the oldest organized alumni association in the United States, that of Williams College, was founded in 1821. The unincorporated body created in 1853 was reorganized as a membership corporation in 1913. The influence of the Associate Alumni has been exerted largely in an effort to perpetuate and intensify a spirit of college loyalty, and to give moral support in all efforts for the betterment of the institution. On several notable occasions, however, the Alumni have shown their desire to have a part in the upbuilding of the material resources of the College. Particularly was this so in the days when Alma Mater had outgrown its first home on Twenty-third Street. Led by Edward Morse Shepard ”69, Alexander P. Ketchum '58, and Edward Lauterbach '64, the Alumni made upon the City of New York a suc- cessful demand for more adequate quarters. The buildings which now house the major portion of the student body were the result of their efforts. More recently the Alumni have made further achievement in this held through their large contribution to the building fund which made possible the erection of the new Library Building, the cornerstone of which was laid by Horace E. Dresser '59, at the 1927 Commencement. All the activities of the Alumni center in the Alumni Office in the new Library Building which is the home of the society. Here are preserved various records and files necessary to the maintenance of an effective alumni associa- tion, and here also arc issued the various numbers of the Alumni magazine and the several publications of the Association. This central office has been m operation for twelve years and during that time has served to coordinate the activities of individual alumni and of the several classes for the building up of a truer sense of alumni loyalty to the college and for the carrying on of projects looking toward the welfare of the institution. Membership in the Associate Alumni is open to all graduates of the several schools of the College and to former students who have completed one year of College credit. Annual dues for each of the first fifteen years after gradua- tion are three dollars, and for each year thereafter five dollars. Life member- ship is open to any alumnus on the payment, at one time, of one hundred dollars. The privileges of membership include a subscription to the City Col- lege Alumnus, the monthly publication of the Associate Alumni. ■■ Dr. Walter Timme 2 I I Associate Alumni OFFICERS '33 Walter Timme '93 .................................................... President Frederick Strauss '84 ....................................First Vice-President Stephen P. Duggan '90.....................................Second Vice-President Louis I. Dublin '01 ...................................... Third Vice-President Herbert M. Holton, '99 ............................................. Treasurer Donald A. Roberts '19.................................................Secretary Herbert Arkin '27.........................................Assistant Secretary Arthur Dickson '09................................................... Historian P. Max Apfelbaum '23...................................... i.s.soc at«? Historian BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO SERVE UNTIL 1933 Frederick Strauss '84 E. Edwin Goldwasscr '97 Louis Salant '08 Henry Neumann '00 Leon Cooper '10 Frederick Zorn '10 Jacob Schapiro '11 James W. Donoghuc '14 Donald A. Roberts '19 Sylvan Reis '22 Charles S. Epstein '24 Herbert Arkin '27, '28B TO SERVE UNTIL 1934 James M. Pedersen 84 Stephen P. Duggan '90 Samuel Levy '94 Clarence G. Galston '95 Sidney H. Herman '98 Herbert M. Holton '99 William A. Grady '97 David B. Steinman '06 Benjamin Antin '10 Edward F. Unger '11 Sidney M. Wittner '18 Arthur Taft '20 TO SERVE UNTIL 1935 Walter Timme '93 Jerome Alexander '96 George A. Merrill '01 Winifred M. Stern '07 Jesse S. Raphael '13 Milton Schattman '17 Arthur M. Moritz '19 Leo Klaubcr '23 Herman L. Weisman '24 Pineus Sober 26 Arthur J. Rosenbluth '27 Mortimer Karpp '30 E. Francis Hyde '61 R. R. Bowker '68 Charles P. Fagnani '73 Nelson S. Spencer '75 Lewis S. Burchard '77 LIFE DIRECTORS Alrick H. Man '77 Joseph L. Buttcnweiscr '83 Sigmund Pollitzer '79 Samuel Schulman '85 William M. K. Olcott '81 George H. Taylor '92 Thomas W. Churchill '82 Robert F. Wagner '98 James A. Foley '01 ___2 I 2 Tlie Alumnus 'T'HE City College Alumnus is a monthly magazine A issued by the Associate Alumni of the College of the City of New York under the direction of the Publication Committee. It serves as a news med- ium for the graduates of the College, and as a means of keeping them informed of happenings among the undergraduates and faculty. It is also the official organ for publication of the reports and documents of alumni, and the expression of their attitude toward the affairs of the College. The magazine appears every month, except July and August, and is printed on white glossed stock, with a heavy paper cover. It contains about five hundred pages of text and illustration in each volume. The Alumnus enlists the services of a large number of graduates of the College and of members of the teaching staff in the building up of its content. In addition to a large number of articles of general interest to its readers, the publication contains a number of regular departments devoted to fields in which the alumni maintain a constant interest and on which they would like to be regularly informed. These departments cover the topics of activities of the stu- dent body, personal doings of the Alumni, accomplishments and prospects of the various teams of the College, and publications by members of the Alumni and the faculty. Occasional special numbers arc published devoted to the activities and attainments of graduates and instructors of the College in various special fields of endeavor: music, art, science, the cinema, and others. The City College Alumnus first appeared under its present name in January, 1926. Prior to that date it had been published as a quarterly, entitled The City College Quarterly. This magazine was founded in 1904 by James Walter Sher- idan of the class of 1899, and Mr. Sheridan became its first editor. He was suc- ceeded in 1906 by Professor Lewis Freeman Mott 83, head of the Department of English, and, at present. Senior Professor of the College. Professor Mott continued the publication until his retirement from the editorship in 1924, when the Publication Committee appointed as his successor, Donald A. Roberts T9, of the Department of English. Mr. Roberts remained as Editor of the City College Quarterly until 1926 when the magazine was expanded and made a monthly publication under its present name. He became Editor of the new magazine, and has continued in that capacity down to the present time. Donald A. Roberts (213 FRATERNITIES 2 I 5 ? Phi Beta Kappa Gamma Chapter of New York OFFICERS 1932-1933 1933-1934 Frederick B. Robinson 04 . . '06 Stephen P. Duggan '90 . .1st Vice-President. . . David B. Steinman '06 . 2nd Vice-President . . '00 F. 0. X. McLoughlm '09. . . . . . . F. O. X. McLoughlin '09 Bennington P. Gill '17 ▲ INITIATES OF THE CLASS OF 1933 Vinson Aronson Milton Rothman Nathan Bakalar Joseph Feibusch Isidore Rudolph Ingram Bander Ralph Feigenbaum Alvin Schnciderman William A. Barnes Harry Frumcrman Sidney Schnitt William J. Barrett Hyman E. Gold Harry Schor Hyman Bartimer Aaron Grobstcin Morris Schrcibcr Max Bcrcsofsky Elvin A. Rabat Alfred Sheinwold Max Bershad Ivan Kempner Saul Small Eli Blume Isidor Kusminsky William Stark Austin J. Bonis David Lockett Isidore Tevlin George Chast Milton Musicus Raymond Vernon Michael Cicalese Nathan Pelcovits Robert F. Whitney Eugene Cotton R. Elliot Rippere Edward Willheim Milton Dickman Leroy Rodman Gary Zuckcr 217 ( 218 Soph Skull CLASS OF 1933 Louis C. Abclson Harold Kramer Victor Fcingold Jerome S. Machlin H yman E. Gold Irving Mondschein David K. Kadanc Gustave H. Sperber Jerome Kirschbaum Morris Weiner CLASS OF 1934 Philip Kleinberger Moe Spahn Mike Kupperberg Joseph H. Teperman Bernard Schwartsberg Nathan Volkell Nathan Snow H. A. Weinstein CLASS OF 1935 Irving Adler Albert Kaplan A1 Aronowitz Hyman Rosner Nathaniel Fenstcrstock Leonard Seidenman Leonard Kahn Irving Weber Lock and ICey Louis C. Abelson Eugene Cotton Victor Feingold Hyman E. Gold Edward J. Halprin David K. Kadane CLASS OF 1933 Harold Kramer Jerome S. Machlin Irving Mondschein Manuel D. Rcichman Robert I. Russin Morris Weiner Louis WisKnevits CLASS OF 1934 Benjamin Dreyer Jerome Rauscbkolb Jack Blumc Hyman Rcdisch Gilbert E. Goodkind Irving Spanier Philip Kleinbergcr H. A. Weinstein Philip Zlatchin ■■■ Delta Alpha Founded at the College of the City of New York in 1855 i_ ( 220 FRATRES IN FACULTATE Lewis Freeman Mott 83 Livingston Burrill Morse 89 Harry Cates Krowl '95 Donald Grant Whiteside '97 Edwin van Berghan Knickerbocker '00 Frederic Ernst '02 William Edwin Knickerbocker '04 Edward Walmslcy Stitt T3 Edmond Albert Meras T7 Walter Labdon Foster T7 Donald Alfred Roberts T9 George Henry Schmidt T9 Liba Harold Studlcy '21 Vance Wood '22 Harold Ellsworth Smith '22 Howard William Hints 25 George Bowen Dickson '28 John Kenneth Ackley '28 Ernest Campbell Mossncr '29 Howard Alf Knag '30 Chester Allen Barris Dudley Dean Fuller Edmund Paul Kurs FRATRES IN COLLEGIO CLASS OF 1933 c i tl c. . jamuel 1 nompson otcwart Norman Edward Lcdoux Carl Horn Utsinger Raymond Samuel Sayers Robert Fiskc Whitney Thomas Kenneth Eddins, Jr. CLASS OF 1934 Christian Hanburgcr William Albert von Klobus John Joseph Caulfield Stanley Ellsworth Anderson Howard William Dodge Wilbur John Eltcrich Jesse Terry Greeve CLASS OF 1935 Clayton Benjamin Glass Robert John Graham CLASS OF 1936 Philip Herbert Hug George Lincoln Gruber Arthur Ernest Hauser George Olaf Johnson Donald Lafayette Kent ( 221 Delta Kappa Epsilon Founded at Yale in 1844 Established at the College of the City of New York in 1856 v ROLL OF CHAPTERS Phi Yale Theta Bowdoin Xi Colby Sigma Amherst Gamma Vanderbilt Psi Alabama Chi Mississippi Ujisilon Brown Beta North Carolina Kajijia Miami Lambda Kenyon Eta Virginia Pi Dartmouth Iota Centre Aljiha Aljiha Middlebury Omicron Michigan Ejisilon Williams Rho Lafayette Tau Hamilton Mu Colgate Nu C. C. N. Y. Beta Phi Rochester Zeta Zeta Louisiana State U. Phi Chi Rutgers Psi Phi DePauw Gamma Phi Wesleyan Psi Omega R. P. I. Beta Chi Western Reserve Delta Chi Cornell Delta Delta Chicago Phi Gamma Syracuse Gamma Beta Columbia Theta Zeta California Aljiha Chi Trinity Phi Ejisilon Minnesota Sigma Tau M. I. T. Tau Lambda Tulane Aljiha Phi Toronto Delta Kajijia Pennsylvania Tau Aljiha McGill Sigma Rho Leland Stanford Delta Pi Illinois Rho Delta Wisconsin Kajijia Ejtsilon Washington Omega Chi Texas Aljiha Tau Manitoba 222 mmm m ’ ▼ T r IT t f � ., � 1.1 V ir i lr FRATRES IN FACULTATE Carleton Lewis Brownson Daniel Walter Redmond Lewis Sayre Burchard '77 Alfred Donald Compton '87 Frederick Mailing Pedersen James A. Curran '23 Ralph Wick Wardlaw '27 John Frederick Gregory Reynolds '91 Warren Gergembre Hubert '07 Ross Allen Baker Thomas Evans Carleton '15 '89 Cecil Ballard Dyer '12 John Lcs Foley James Michael O'Connor 27 A. Sullivan '30 Richard H. Bayer Sidney A. Houck, Jr. FRATRES IN COLLEGIO Graduate Members Otto E. Pietzuck George F. Rolfe George G. Smith William P. Comcford CLASS OF 1934 Vincent R. O'Dea Harry I. Saz CLASS OF 1933 John A. Stirton Abert R. Weldon Joseph E. Gcrson Emmet J. Oak Birger Hagerth ames F. Keating J. Homer Reed Richard R. Robinson CLASS OF 1935 Robert R. Kemm Herman E. Krimmel Staney F. Smith 223 Alan A. Sim Clifford Van P. Smothergill Carl L. Wille Robert W. Pederson Kappa Founded at the College of the City of New York, 1914 T ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alfrha—C. C. N. Y. Beta—Harvard Gamma—Columbia Delta—Yale Epsilon—New York University Arthur Taft '21 FRATRES IN FACULTATE Harold Roth '31 Louis Levy '32 Lester H. Kohs FRATRES IN COLLEGIO Class of 1933 Julius C. Mirclowitz Henry Silvcrstcin Ralph I. Jacobs Class of 1934 Walter Kessler Stanley R. Wachtell Class of 1935 Albert Aronowitz George Weisbcrg 225 Tau Alpha Omega Founded at the College of the City of New York in 1921 T ROLL OF CHAPTERS Aljtha—College of the City of New York Beta—Johns Hopkins University Gamma—University of Maryland Delta—New York University Eftstlon—George Washington University Zeta—Georgetown University Eta—St. John's University Jin iHmoriam pijtltp ICtelierman, ’23 June 21, 1908 — June 6, 1932 227 FRATRES IN FACULTATE Harry Rosenheld '32 Samuel Heistem '30 FRATRES IN COLLEGIO CLASS OF 1933 Eli Blume Seymour Friedman Meyer Gold Nathan Schlachter Walter Goldstein Harry Ome CLASS OF 1934 Theta Kappa Phi Established at the College of the City of New York in 1925 ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alfiha—Lehigh University Beta—Pennsylvania State College Gamma—Ohio State University Delta—University of Illinois Epsilon—New Hampshire State Univer- sity Zeta—Ohio Northern University Eta—College of the City of New York Iota—Temple University __230 FRATRES IN FACULTATE Albert A. Carrctta Frank Dunn Joseph A. Driscoll Thomas H. Readyoff FRATRES IN COLLEGIO CLASS OF 1933 Pasquale P. Lacovara John F. McFeely William L. Canning Allan W. Denike Alfred E. Bohnert Thomas J. Brady John G. Casey, Jr. William Flanagan Timothy J. Dunn Leonard F. Howard CLASS OF 1934 Herbert J. Mulquecn CLASS OF 1935 John A. Gonzales Alexander J. Gruber, Jr. Bernard A. P. Guerin Joseph V. Horan Thomas F. Kelly CLASS OF 1936 Thomas F. Kernan James J. Lee Joseph H. Durnan Alfred F. Kitz James E. Lawlor Joseph M. McAuliffe John P. McMahon Joseph A. Oakley William G. McNcary Albert C. Sanford 231 “Then a cheer and a cheer and a cheer and a cheer and a cheer for St. Nicholas. ' ATHLETICS VARSITY LETTER MEN L. Abelson N. Arenson M. Ashman J. Baum J. Bcrenson H. Berkowitz M. Bogash G. Clemens W. Comerfordl A. Cooper E. Davi I. Davis L. Detz J. Diamond F. DiGiacomo iedman S. Fri H. Schncer G. Schcinbcrg H. Schulhaftcr M. Schultz J. Schwartz P. Sidrer J. Siegel P. Smolian R. Gardner C. Maloney L. Uhran M. Gerenstein J. Meltzer H. Velkoff S. Gladstone M. Milich R. Vernon B. Goldbaum I. Mondschcin I. Weber M. Goldman J. Ratner M. Weiner G. Goldsmith M. Reichman B. Weinstein J. Gonzales L. Rettinger S. Winograd M. Gross H. Rosner L. Wishnevit: A. Huffert M. Rubin D. Yanella —235 Sports Highlights ■jyjEMORIES of four years of sports history . . . each year featured by those “ intimate Saturday evening's in the gym during the winter . . . watching the Holmen give basketball lessons to the out-of-town teams . . . while the visiting coaches looked on with amazed expressions . . . and of course the height of basketball came in the last two years . . . and the height of those two years came in the St. John's game of '32 . . . the gym packed from floor to roof with wildly cheering maniacs . . . the Redmen driving the College team and fans crazy with their slow, playful dribbling before moving to the attack . . . the score tied at 18-all at the end of the game . . . and then Spahn, Davidoff, Wishnevitz, White and Goldman cutting loose in five minutes of overtime . . . for a final score of 28-18 . . . what a game! . . . Football games in the Stadium in the fall ... all leading up to that Manhattan game . . . the one in 1930, with Manhattan leading 6-0 in the third quarter . . . the College moving slowly down the field . . . stopped for three downs within the twenty yard line . . . and “Moon Mondschem breaking loose on a triple pass, going around right end, tackled four inches over the goal . . . and the game ended at 6-6. And let s jump down to the Manhattan game of this past year ... an under dog College team holding the powerful Green scoreless for two quarters 236 Prof. Williamson then cracking up slightly to yield two goals in succes- sion . . . “Mush” Weiner, mud-covered and battered . . . and suffering from a previous injury . . . refusing a substitute, waving him off the held and turning to limp back to his place on the line . . . that last drive down the held to a touchdown . . . long runs by Sidrer . . . and the crowd yelling for another score, as the whistle blew. Other sports . . . George Bullwinklc winning the Indoor Inter-Collegiatcs . . . and coming in second or third in most meets after that . . . beating Dr. Martin on one occasion ... a really good runner, unfortunate enough to crop up in an era of Venzkcs, Cunninghams, and the rest . . . Joe Barmack, whose presence made the fencing team invincible . . . competing in three events against Columbia ... to take seven of his team's nine points . . . Jess Sobel, of water polo . . . setting high-scoring records . . . 47 points against Yale ... all 31 of the College’s points against Columbia . . . Hal Kramer breaking record after record in the College pool . . . Kramer, Lou Abelson, and Gene Sigel going to Palestine for the Jewish Olympics last year . . . the Rifle team piling up championship after championship, unheralded and unballyhoocd. Back to basketball . . . Holman on the bench, impassive, calmly dictating notes to an assistant manager . . . that Pitt game in 1931, with the team behind 14-5 at the end of the half . . . Holman away because of sickness in the family . . . Nat walked in in the middle of the second half, with the score 16-11 against the College ... a foul, and then a field goal, and another and the score is tied . . . the ball goes to little Lou Wishnevitz . . . for once Holman isn’t calm . . . “Shoot,” he yells, and Wishy does . . . the College has won another game, 18-16 . . . the ’32 baskctcers beating Catholic U. 24-3 . . . allowing no field goals . . . that last St. John's game at the armory . . . and that last drive of the team which fell three points short of tying the score . . . another three minutes and we would have had an undefeated season . . . and the Temple game . . . sweet revenge for that dance-floor defeat of last year . . . Spring sports . . . the Lacrosse team losing to Army 13-1 in its first game . . . the baseball team going wild to beat Stevens 19-3 . . . St. John's going still wilder to win 14-10 . . . Irv Spanier weakening in the last inning of the N. Y. U. game to drop a heart- breaking 5-4 decision . . . and the Parkermen coming from behind twice to beat Temple 8-3 in one of the snappiest ball games at Lcwisohn Stadium in years . . . Archie Solomon in a squeeze play coming all the way home on his own bunt . . . Doc Parker coaching baseball and not football for the first time in years . . . mystery surrounding his resignation. � -- [ 237 Basketball T TNDISPUTED supremacy in Eastern collegiate basketball circles, usurped recently by St. John's, and regained in 1932 by the Lavender was success- fully defended this year by a high-geared, fast-step- ping St. Nick quintet, coached by that master wizard, Nat Holman. Despite the fact that they could not reach the heights as yet unsealed by a local five— an unblemished record—the College dribblers dis- played a form that wholly eclipsed that of any other collegiate team, and rolled up a record unequalled by any in this sector of the country. The Lavender was by no means the most pow- erful squad among current fives or past St. Nick quin- tets, from point of view of scoring. It gained its standing not so much from the number of times it was able to drop the ball through the hoop as from all-around skill and balance. The aggressive, fast- moving, smooth offense of the locals netted 523 tallies in fourteen contests, an average of somewhat over 37 points per game, while tight defensive play. 238 second to none except possibly the championship five of last year, held opponents to a total of 311 points— an average of 22 per game. St. John's replaced Temple this year as the nemesis of the Lavender. The St. Nicks showed up for the game on that memorable Saturday night, January 7, with a record of seven straight victories behind them. The Indians, too, came with a clean slate, but the decisive Lavender victories over Dart- mouth two weeks before, and over Colgate New Year's Eve made the Heights quintet a slight favorite in the eyes of most of the metropolitan sports writers. The game was a complete sell-out several days in advance, so that it may have been the huge crowd which packed the Armory from floor to roof that gave the College team so bad a case of stage-fright. At any rate they turned in a distinctly sub-par performance. Spahn In the early minutes of the game, the Lavender leaped into the lead, and seemed set for any easy run. The Brooklyn quintet began to click, however, and the St. Nick lead was slowly whittled away. Black-haired little Nat Lazar, the wily veteran of the St. John's five, proved particularly troublesome. The dark-faced lad had the spectators constantly on edge and the College players badly worried with his de- liberate, slow-moving, tantalizing tactics. He ac- counted for twelve of the St. John's tallies during the first half. At the end of the first half, the Indians were well in the lead. During the second half, Spahn was assigned to the task of guarding Lazar, and that completely ended the Brooklyn star's scor- ing activities for the evening. But the Lavender could not overcome the lead the Reds had piled up. A last minute rally brought the St. Nicks within three points of their opponents, but the whistle ended the game. The final score was 31-28. Despite Nat Holman's perennial boast that there are no stars at the College, that the team depends wholly upon team work and not upon individual brilliance, there have always been outstanding players. And with them, ranking among the greatest, must be classed Moe Spahn, captain of the 1932-1933 array. Spahn is one of those rare athletes who develop to fulfill all the extrava- gant predictions made for them during their freshmen year. He came to the Heights as an All-Scholastic high-school center, and performed admirably in 239 ___ Trophy ■■■ that position for the Jayvees. He stepped into fast company, and Frank Dc Phillips' boots at the same time, and immediately proved that he could more than hold his own. He stepped out of his center post two years ago to make room for Moe Goldman, and immediately made himself one of the mam cogs in the championship 1931-1932 quintet. The superla- tive play of Joe Davidoff kept Spahn more or less in the background, although many consider him to have been the steadying influence of that team. During the past campaign, however, Moe de- cisively demonstrated his real value. Always the best defensive man on the team—and probably in the East—more adept than any other collegian in the center play, on which so much of the College attack hinges, a floorman whose play defies description without superlative, Spahn added a new role to his repertoire this year and carried off the high-scoring honors of the team with a total of 127 points. He has finished his playing days for the College, but his position in the hearts and memories of Lavender court fans is indicated by the three minute ovation tendered him as he left the floor in the closing minutes of the Temple game, his last contest on that gym floor. A few moments after Spahn walked off the court at that Temple game, another figure trotted off. And again the stands rose to give a long round of applause to another player who had just finished his last game for the College on the home grounds. That was little Lou Wishnevitz, who, with Spahn, has finished his playing days at the Heights. Lou gained a place on the Lavender team despite a severe handi- cap in height. He overcame this difficulty by scintil- lating speed, fine shooting, and tight defensive play. Seldom opposing men less than three or four inches taller than himself, and not infrequently giving away a foot or more, Wishy made such successful use of his speed in sticking close to and flustering his oppon- ent on the defense, and in breaking loose and cutting for the basket, that for two years he was an integral part of the St. Nick lineup. Those ringers from mid-court and his under the-basket shots while going at full speed will not soon be forgotten by the College fans. Moe Goldman, lanky center, who was the third veteran of the champion- ship squad of last year, displayed an improvement in floorwork that made him the most polished tap-off man in the Metropolitan area, and in scoring abilities 240 — Goldman Wishncvitz second among the St. Nicks to Spahn. One Hundred and eight points was His contribution to the local offense. More important. However, was Goldman's actual team-work on the floor. Time and again, Moe displayed His ability to get the ball on the jump, even against men taller than Himself. In His Sophomore year. His style of play Had been somewhat lacka- daisical, or, at least, gave that impression to the stands. During the past season. However, He adopted a much more aggressive attitude on the court, which not only added color, from the point of view of the spectator, but also enhanced His importance to the team. There were still moments when Moe seemed to slow up, to fall asleep on the floor, notably in por- tions of the St. John’s game. But for the most part. His work ranks Him as an All-Metropolitan, if not All-Eastern, candidate of some merit. Winograd Four men divided the action at the other two posts, and not one was able to display enough of an edge over His rivals to take permanent possession of either of the two positions. Danny Trupin, a senior, visually started at one of the vacant berths. Danny put up a number of fine performances last year. His specialty being the feeding of shots to the other members of the team, rather than actually scoring himself. The high spot of his play was reached in the N. Y. U. game. The other three were all graduates of the Jayvec. Artie Kaufman, who contributed a slightly larger total of tallies for the season than the others—forty-five—had a slight edge over the rest by virtue of his ability in the center play. Kaufman is also a member of the Lacrosse team, and is particularly husky in build. Hence he was of especial value against heavy opponents, especially where the play was be- coming a bit rough. The remaining two regulars were Sam Winograd and Pete Berenson. Pete's play throughout was steady and aggressive. His de- termined, hard-fighting offensive and defensive tactics augur well for his future on the team. Winograd, a star on the diamond as well as on the court, was brilliant but very erratic. With a good deal of steadying, and with practice on his shooting, Sam will probably develop into another Holman court star of prominence. Others who saw action for the College are Goldbaum, Katz, Levine, Siegel, and Julie Trupin. The last two of these will be lost by graduation. The re- maining three are Sophomores. Berenson 241 For the third successive year, the College en- gaged in the basketball carnival for the aid of the unemployed, and won its second victory in these events. The St. Nicks had been hoping to get an- other crack at St. John's to avenge their only setback of the season. The match was considered by the committee arranging the affair, but was abandoned when St. John's refused to accept it. Nor was the College able to get as its opponent the Columbia team, a game for which Lavender fans have been pleading for some time. The program, as finally ar- ranged for Washington's birthday consisted of seven games, four in the afternoon and three in the eve- ning, with all of the Metropolitan colleges, and a number of out-of-town quintets taking part. The College game with George Washington was regarded as the piece-de-resistance of the evening, and was put on as the final contest of the evening. The Washington team tried to dazzle the St. Nicks by coming down in brilliant red, white, and blue uniforms worn especially for the occasion, but their ruse failed. The final score was 37-26 in the College's favor. The comedy of the evening was supplied by Lou Wishnevitz, who, in the closing minutes of the game, found himself play- ing against a Washington player well over six feet in height, and then proceeded to run rings around his towering, but clumsy, opponent. At the end of the program, a committee of eleven sports writers voted eight to three to award the Lavender the City of New York trophy for the best and most sportsman- like display of any of the fourteen teams competing. The remaining three votes were cast in favor of St. John's. In the opening game of the season, the St. Nicks ran rings around the perennial season-opener, St. Francis, by a score of 37-17. The results of the next two games were equally one-sided, the quintet taking over St. Thomas 42-19 and Dickinson 45-17, so that the team scarcely showed enough of its form to give any true indication of its real strength. The fourth game, however, with the always-powerful Dartmouth team, was eagerly awaited as the first real test. And a stiffly contested but nevertheless well-earned 29-21 victory over Dolly Stark's five convinced most of the doubters. During the Christmas vacation, the boys journeyed down to Maryland to visit with the Baltimore team, and they so far forgot their etiquette as to hand __242 the hosts a 45-29 drubbing. They then returned to the city to meet the Colgate quintet before a tuxedoed New Year’s Eve crowd in the gym. In this game the College put on one of its finest exhibitions of the season and walked away with a 42-18 decision. But one week later, against St. John's the St. Nicks slumped. If it had been possible for master-mind Holman to put on the floor against St. John's the same team that had handed Colgate a few lessons in basketball a week before, there would have been no doubt as to the outcome. However, the Lavender seemed to have gotten almost all the bad basketball out of its system in the St. John's game. A week later, Manhattan took an unmerciful shellacking, 35-17. Rutgers then staggered home, after a dull game, at the short end of a 35-21 count, and Fordham took a 37-23 trimming on its own court. A chance to avenge the only defeat of 1931-1932 season was offered when Temple dropped into the Exercising Hall. The Philadelphians had been pointing for the game for some time, and brought with them a fairly substantial section of very excited and determined rooters. The boys in red put up a very serious fight, and for a large part of the first half had the lead wavering back and forth. Just as the College fans were beginning to regard them as really dangerous, however, the Temple five cracked under the strain of the fast game played by the College, and the Lav- ender drew slowly but surely ahead. The final score was 35-24. This was the final game of the season on the home court. The basketball carnival then came, and with it George Washington, of the patriotic uniforms. This was the penultimate contest for the St. Nicks, for after beating the team from the capital, they made a flying visit to the armory to meet the N. Y. U. ag- gregation. The game was never very close, but waxed quite rough at several spots, two ncar-Ast- fights being averted only by the intervention of the referee and team-mates. And after administering a 38-23 drubbing to the team from the University Heights, the boys in the Lavender silk panties doffed their uniforms until next year, once defeated but now supreme. Almost every sports writer in the city expressed himself as willing to forget the St. John's fiasco in view of the unblemished record of the College, and the defeats later suffered by the Redmen. ——Ofc Tir. «i ii ■m - Goldbnum 243 Football OUTSTANDING IN THE 1932 grid season was not, strangely enough, any of the contests, though the St. Nicks turned in a number of brilliant per- formances; not an outstanding star, though several were developed; but rather the transfer of Dr. Harold J. Parker, head coach since 1924, to routine duties in the Hygiene Department, and the elevation of Bernie Bienstock, captain of the 1929 team, to that position, in fact if not in title. To Lavender sport fans, who considered Dr. Parker, also coach of the baseball squad, as a fixture on the Heights, nothing could be more astounding or more unexpected. Confronted with the chronic absence of good material, he developed a system unique in the metropolitan area. This was dependent not on power or attack, but deception, coordination, kicking and defense. The quick-kicking tactics of college elevens of recent years, and the occasional use of the eight-man line, have beome familiar to frequenters of the Stadium on Saturday afternoons in the fall, and have proved particularly effective in nulli- fying the efforts of admittedly stronger teams. Though he seldom turned out great teams, “Doc” always built smart ones, and his 1930 edition, which com- bined power and speed with deception, is generally regarded as the best ever to represent the Lavender. ____- ( 244 Jr � Bienstock was regular quarterback for three years while at college, and is generally considered the best held general in St. Nick grid history. Since his graduation, he had acted as backheld coach, and so was thoroughly versed in the Parker style of play. The 1932 football team, handicapped by injuries, ineligibilities, and the exigencies of an unfortunately arranged schedule, was unable to complete a cam- paign successful so far as a numerical count of games won and lost is considered. The College was victorious in but two of seven starts. For the second successive year the melee with Mush” Weiner the highly touted Manhattan eleven brought forth the St. Nicks best exhibi- tion of the year. Chick Meehan, the famous N. Y. U. coach, had transferred his activities to the Riverdalc institution, to help de-emphasise athletics there. Chick had brought with him his whole bag of tricks, including the holding of practice with Gcorgie Price, who ran the team through a set of secret signals —while the newspaper cameras clicked and the Movietone camera-men cranked. But Meehan laid a solid foundation under his ballyhoo, and if he turned his show into a three-ring circus by bringing a cannon to all games, to be fired whenever the Green scored, the fact remains that the cannon was given ample opportunity to bark. His team had held Holy Cross, one of the leaders in the East, to a scoreless tie before the City game, and later in the season surprised the football world by nosing out a first-rate Rutgers team 7 to 6. In addition, Manhattan boasted in Bill Pcndcrgast a half-back gener- ally regarded as the best in the Metropolitan area, and one who was accorded honorable mention in most All-American lists for the season. The game was played at the Polo Grounds, on Election Day, and was re- garded as sufficiently important to warrant its being broadcast by two metro- politan radio stations, one of which sent Ted Husing himself down to handle the description. Only three days previous, the Lavender squad had gone through a grueling contest with Providence. Worn down, and lacking suffi- cient reserves, the team went down fighting, by a 13-6 score, in a game de- cided by the breaks rather than the superiority of cither team. Most sports writers were inclined to regard the result as something in the nature of a moral victory for the College squad, which had been slated to lose by at least triple the actual score. The powerful attack of the Green was nullified in the first half by timely tightness of defense on the part of the St. Nicks. Time after time, Manhat- tan got off on long marches down the length of the held, only to be turned 1_- ( 245 back by a stiffening line whenever their threat became seri- ous. Harry Schncer s long punts were par- ticularly effective in sending the ball back out of the danger zone after the drive had been stopped. But it was the fail- ure to gam sufficient yardage on one boot that proved to be the turning point. A Man- Gerenstein Yanella Schnecr hattan kick was grounded on the one-yard line, and a long return of a short punt put the ball in a scoring position. Pcndergast broke through on the fourth down for the last yard. In its anxiety to score, the College turned to the air, and Manhattan got its second break just a few minutes later, when Giard picked a St. Nick pass out of the air and galloped twenty- five yards for the last Manhattan tally. The Lavender came out of its defensive shell in the final period and unleashed a dazzling offensive of straight plays, passes, and double and triple reverses that com- pletely bewildered the Jaspers. After a march down the entire length of the field, Sidrer plunged over for the score. The pass for the extra point was knocked down, and the receiver with it, but the claim of interference was not allowed. The College then started another drive down the field, but the whistle blew as the Green thirty- yard marker was reached. Bicnstock The St. Nick jinx became apparent in the first con- test, that against Catholic University. Not only did the game fall on the Jewish New Year, thus preventing more than half the squad from showing up, but Harry Schneer, Adolph Cooper, George Clemens, and Ben Smolian, all of whom had been slated for regular posts, were declared ineligible. A make- shift College team put up a stubborn defense in the early part of the contest, and though the play was confined to its territory, prevented any scoring. The second half, however, saw the powerful Washington team swamp the tired Lavender eleven. The final score was 47-0. Dave Lazarus played like a Tro- ■1 — [ 246 jan, bearing almost tbe entire brunt of the attack himself. Still below its real strength, the team travelled to New England the follow- ing week-end for an encounter with Low- ell Tech. A fine per- formance was nulli- fied by Savard, ace of the Engineers, who returned a Lavender punt thirty yards for the only touchdown. Mondschein Friedman Kuppcrbcrg A well-balanced attack featuring a skilfully executed lateral pass brought victory to the St. Nicks against Rcnssalaer Poly. Dolph Cooper's return rounded out a veteran string of ball-carriers that mixed its plays with an adeptness seldom seen in small-time college ball. The final score was 13-0. Lack of scoring punch was apparent against Drcxcl. Three times in the course of the first half, the Lavender carried the ball down the entire length of the field with seeming ease, only to lose the ball on downs within the one-yard line. In the final minutes of play, the Philadel- phians surprised the College team by opening up with a baffling passing attack, which clicked time after time, and resulted in three touchdowns in rapid succession, for a final score of 20-0. The worm turned when the Lavender outplayed Brooklyn, Miller 18-7, and turned right back again with the Providence game. Coach Bienstock was saving his regulars for Manhattan, and the second- stringers could not stem the powerful Friars. The final score was 47-0. The consistently fine play of Co-captain “Mush Weiner, veteran center, and Paul Sidrer, sophomore back, featured a rather mediocre season. Weiner, an All-Metropolitan high school star, was the team's mainstay, and unquestion- ably the finest center the college ever produced. His grit and spirit in refus- ing to accept a substitute sent in to relieve him in the Manhattan game induced Baseball TT'OR years the baseball team has been trying to break above the .500 mark. Last year their efforts were directed toward merely reaching it. But they have always been unsuccessful, and this year's team promises only slightly bet- ter. At the time of this writing they are jogging along at the perennial .500 pace with three wins out of six games. Even the weather seems to have joined the conspiracy. After the opener with Columbia was completely washed out, the game with Princeton had to be called after five innings, with the New Jerseyites leading 6-2, which may have been an act of kindness after all. In the Panzer game, however, the College developed that penchant, so apparent in the next few games, for rolling up football scores. When the game was called at the end of the eighth because a lacrosse game was to take place on the same held, the College had put itself on the long end of a 10-5 score. Two more victories followed in quick succession, over Spring- held and Stevens Tech, 7-5, and 19-3, respectively. But in the game the follow- ing week, when the Lavender tried to pile up a score that sounded like a foot- ball game, St. John's came right back with a basketball tally, and the hnal record stood at 14-10 in favor of the Redmen. Parker —■ [ 248 The last game played before the Microcosm went to press was the N. Y. U. game. The St. Nicks returned to normalcy in hitting and in the held, and so were able to set up a 5-2 lead for themselves by the end of the eighth inning. In the ninth, however, Irv Spanier lost his grip on himself, and blew up high, wide, and handsome. When the smoke cleared away, the Violet had scored four runs and the College went home with a 6-5 defeat. Maloney The team lines up, at present, minus the services of three men, all inheldcrs, of last year's team: Morty Goldman, a hnc hitter and a good holder, A1 Oglio, a valuable lead-off man and a hne second-baseman made ineligible by the three- year rule, and Hy Kaplowits, who had potentialities in both directions, none of which was completely realized. To hll the posts these three vacated. Captain Charley Maloney was called in from the outheld to hrst, Mel Levy was shifted from shortstop to second and his old position awarded to Sam Winograd, a Jayvee alumnus, and Chick” Michel took over the hot corner. Whether this quartet will click in the held is as yet uncertain, but it presents far greater batting strength than last year's combination. No fault can be found on any count with the outheld. The three men assigned to the job of patrolling the garden for stray hits arc Sid Gladstone, “Hawk” Friedman, and Phil Katzelnick. “Lefty” Gladstone is probably the outstanding man of the three, and if he continues on the same level of play as he did last year, will be acclaimed the best outfielder ever to appear on the Heights. As good a hitter as any of the leaders, he can cover more ground, get his hands on more would-be hits than any of his rivals. And on the base-paths he's a streak. Arthur Solomon is handling the catching problem. And if he measures up to his performance of last year, will handle it very well. All of which leads up to the pitching staff. Among the hurlers, two stand out, Irv Spanier and Jerry Rauschkolb. David and Weissman will also be available if necessary, but in- dications arc that they will not sec any very heavy action. Spanier will prob- ably do the iron-man job for the Parkermen, and, despite his blow-up in the N. Y. U. game, he can pitch and is one of the gamest, most hard-working play- ers on the squad. Gladstone Oglio ■jH ■H —249 ■■■ on Swimming HTHE ST. NICK swimmers were like fish out of the water when opposing I. S. A. rivals, and gained but one victory in five starts against league rivals. But water seemed to be their element in extra-league meets, all three of which they carried off by top-heavy scores. These, together with the one league win over Columbia, gave the Lavender undisputed supremacy in the metropolitan area. Fordham took a 48-22 shellacking, Columbia was nosed out 36-35, and N. Y. U. was trounced 55-16. Three league rivals, Rutgers, Yale, and Penn, carried off victories before the college 38-15 win over Manhattan. Navy out- thrashed the St. Nicks in the final meet. Lester Kaplan, a sophomore, was an important factor in the Lavender successes. He clipped ten seconds off the college 200-yard breast stroke rec- ord in the Fordham meet, and cut two seconds more, to bring it to 2:38.4 against Rutgers. Not only did he win seven out of the eight races he com- peted in in his specialty, but he also swam in the relay. George Sheinbcrg, another newcomer, was a consistent winner in the free- style events. He competed in the sprints, the 220 and 440, and anchored the relay team. Eli Kristal and Nat Snow, in the back-stroke and free-style, re- spectively, were also regular scorers. Jesse Ratner, free-style ace, captured the Murray Gartner trophy, given by the former St. Nick swimmer to the member of the team outstanding for ability and sportsmanship. 250 Water Polo rT 0 '33 MEN, the name of Jesse Sobel is inextricably linked with College water polo. His presence on the team assured at least a modicum of suc- cess. And in his absence—the past two years—mediocrity was the rule. So the '32-'33 water-polo team did not seem genuine to College fans. Yet, despite the lack of a Jesse Sobel, the St. Nicks were not to be found at the bottom of the heap. Two wins and a tic were some salve for the four defeats suffered during the campaign. An 11-11 deadlock with the Brooklyn Central “Y opened the season for the Lavender. Columbia eked out an 18-13 win, but the 23rd Street “Y was outsplashed to the tunc of 21-16. Rutgers proved to be entirely too strong, and triumphed by a 33-17 count, but the St. Nicks came back to upset the strong Yale team, 17-13. Penn and Navy, however, chalked up one-sided victories by 27-9 and 28-12 tallies, respectively. The sextet lined up with Fidler, Perlin, and Musiqua at the forward posts, Uhran and Hiller on the defense, and Sharkey at the goal. Abelson, Klobus, Huffcrt, Thayer, and Herbst saw duty on the attack, while the defense was bolstered up by Karch, Winick, Laufer and Manginello. i25 I 1' Track nnHE TRACK TEAM, which is just beginning to shape up as we go to press, A engages in a curtailed campaign. Only two dual meets, the Penn Relays and the two championships events, are slated for the Lavender. Dave Lazarus will once more do a Barney Berlinger by competing in most of the held events, the 440, possibly the sprints, and any others, depending entirely upon the way he feels. Captain Joe Schwartz will be seen in the sprints and the hurdles, and Ted Klisto will accompany him in the former. Morty Silverman will take his race at the 440, and Milt Speiser will com- pete in that and the half-mile. Nat Volkell and Jimmy Fisher will take care of the distance events and Lou Tanassv and Joe Weber will aid Lazarus in the held events. Among the new men are Gus Hevmann, Jewish Olympic Sprint Champ, “Slim” Juliber, the football player, who is showing some skill in the shot-put, and Wilfred Wilson, who indulges his fancy for jumping by entering the broad-jump, high-jump and hurdle events. The cross-country team showed no more skill than usual, losing all three meets in which it competed. Nat Volkell usually led the St. Nick Harriers across the finish line. ■■■■■■■■■■■■iI { 252 Lacrosse nPHE GAME of Lacrosse Has been changed; there are but ten men instead of the former twelve, and the playing held has been shortened. What effects the changes have made upon the College Lacrosse team— recently elevated to a major sport—is problematical. But at the time of this writing, the St. Nick team has lost to Army, 13-1, and to Swarthmore, 5-4. For the Army game, there is no alibi. But the Swarthmore contest showed what ailed the Lavender. It was defensive playing. Led by Lou Detz, the St. Nick attack sallied forth successfully four times to net shots. But the defense faltered hvc times, which tells the story. The team docs not even approximate the Olympic entry that Chief “Scalp- cm Miller is said to be looking forward to. It is, however, big enough, fast enough, smart enough, and well experienced. And should the defense tighten up, a successful campaign may be expected, despite the formidable schedule. The first string line-up is an entirely veteran affair. Every regular was seen with the team when it was a “twelve instead of a “ten . Bernie Kush- ner cavorts in front of the goal, while “Slim Juliber and Gene Gilhuly are at point and cover-point, respectively. Two basketball teammates, Julie Trupin and Artie Kaufman, are at the defense posts. Lou Detz at center is backed up by Hank Rosncr and Hy Schulhafter at the attack posts. “Jock” Jochnowitz and Willie Rosenthal cover the out-home and in-home positions, respectively. 253 Wrestling VV HILE the boxers were struggling through a rather un- successful campaign, the wrestlers were showing a marked improvement over their previous sea- son. The standing for this year was two vic- tories in five collegiate meets. Both wins came at the beginning of the campaign. Brooklyn was trounced 21-9, and the Lafayette grapplers were pinned 23-13. Franklin and Marshall, and Columbia won easy matches. The College s next loss, however, came as a surprise. Brooklyn College had learned a good deal about wrestling since its defeat earlier in the season, and returned to beat the College 29-3. Jack Bigel, with four wins in five matches, and George Hutchinson and Dave Kimmcl, with three apiece, led the matmen. Robert Horowitz, Joe War- ren, and Captain Becker also showed up well. Others who saw action were Ray Vernon, of the wrestling Vernon family, Maier, Pace, Goldrcich, Ferber, Hartcnstein, Sternberg, and Clark. Boxing rjpHE College boxers found themselves, at the beginning of the past year, in a very em- barrassing predicament. The discontinuance of boxing at many colleges made it difficult to round up opposition. And a boxing team without op- ponents would be very badly off. A total of two matches was finally arranged; and the best that the St. Nicks were able to do was one loss and one tic. The Army pugilists car- ried off a 4 2—2J4 victory, while Springfield was tied at 3-all. It is virtually impossible, in two meets, to determine the merits of the team. Striker boxed both in the 155 pound class and as a heavyweight; Bloom, 145 pounder, and Brown, a light-heavy, stood out for the College. 254 Fencing rjpHE fencing team lost three meets this year. That's news! During the past three years, the St. Nick foilsmen have al- ways been on top of the list. This year's record was three defeats to four victories. Army was one of the victors. The score was 13-4. Colgate and Hamilton were beaten W 2 2 and 11-6, respectively, but the N. Y. U. and Columbia matches found the College on the short end of 10 2-6 and 914-7 4 scores. Then the Lavender touched off a 14-3 victory over M. I. T. followed by a 15-2 fencing lesson to the foilsmen of Boston Col- lege. There were no Barmacks among Coach De Vince's charges this year, but Captain Sam Stewart competing in the sabre and epee, and Frichtman, in the foils and epee, did their bit. Other members of the team were Levine, sabre and foils, and Lewis, foils. Rifle npHE St. Nick rifle- men, like the fencers, started the present sea- son with a consistently line record of their pre- decessors to uphold. They did, however, suc- ceed in maintaining their position. In their flrst thirty-seven match- es, they were able to outshoot their opponents thirty-one times. 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NEW YORK CITY INDEX ▼ 10 255 Administration 36 Football 244 Advertisements 259 Foreword 9 213 217 Art, Department of 41 See also Delta Alpha, Delta Associate Alumni 211 Kappa Epsilon, etc. Officers 212 Frontispiece 4 Athletics 235 German, Department of 40 See also Baseball, Basketball, etc. Government, Department of.... 42 Baseball 248 Handbook 198 Baskerville Society 209 Headlines 78 Basketball 238 History Biology, Department of 61 Commerce Center Class 162 206 Department 48 254 Main Center Class 67 Buildings—See Vieivs Microcosm 15 Campus 196 insignia, Dtudcnt Council Commerce Center 167 Chemistry, Department of 56 Main Center 189 Society 209 Kappa 224 Classical Languages, Dept, of. . . 60 Klapper, Paul 7 Clubs—See Organizations Lacrosse 253 Commerce Center—See Seniors, Lieberman, Philip 227 Vieivs, etc. Lock and Key 219 Dedication 6 Major Letters 235 Delta Alpha 220 Mathematics, Department of. . . . 58 Delta Kappa Epsilon 222 Mcnorah 204 Departments 38 Mercury 194 See also Art, Biology, etc. Drafting, Department of 38 Microcosm History 15 Dramatic Society 200 Managing Board 8 Economics, Department of 54 Staff 192 Education, Department of 46 Music, Department of 39 Engineering, Department of. . . . 55 Officers' Club 202 English, Department of 50 Organizations 189 Faculty 35 See also Biology Society, Cam- See also Administration, De- partments, etc. Pus, etc. Phi Beta Kappa 217 INDEX (Continued ) Philosophy, Department of.... 43 Physics, Department of............ 44 Politics Club ................... 208 Public Speaking, Dept, of....... 45 Rifle ........................... 255 Robinson, F. B.................... 35 Romance Languages, Dept, of. . 52 R. O. T. C. Rifle ............... 210 Seniors Commerce Center Celebrities ................ 161 Class ...................... 168 History .................... 162 Main Center Class ....................... 82 History ..................... 67 Soph Skull ...................... 218 Sports Highlights ............... 236 Student Council ............. 190 Swimming .................... 250 Tau Alpha Omega ............. 226 Theta Kappa Phi ............. 230 Track ....................... 252 Views Chemistry Building ......... 24 Commerce Center............. 31 Great Hall Aisle .................... 26 Window ................... 27 Lewisohn Stadium ........... 23 Library .................... 28 Main Building............... 29 Tower .................... 30 Townsend Harris Hall........ 25 Water Polo .................. 251 Wrestling ................... 254 ▼ rrn i 11