Cooper Union College - Cable Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Tap-J Wolfkind, J. Warren, R. Kline, G. Kleinman, E. Mauthuer, E. Greenberg, M. Levinson, H. List, W Jangla Hogan. 2nd Row-M. Muller, J. Phillips, A. Olson, E. Platig, A. Johnson, R. Hardy, S. Reed, W Punton, H. Rinnert, M. Shapiro, N. Resnick, Bottom-M. Freedman, C. Pattarini, J. Goldberg, H. Ennis, A. Foster, H. Ohori, A. Palmer, E. Mesel, R. Hughes, J. Brown, .l. Schnied. '4What is the basis for this statement? you ask. Well, We next refer you to the principal characters of section three-and we repeat once again, characters. There is Mollick, the laughing boy and bane of his instructors, of whom Mr. Ruf, physics instructor, has more than once spoken to the effect, 'LWhat! You here again? And I was almost happy today. A quiet boy and Whistler of the classics is William Oshinsky who disgustedly declares Engineers, bah! I should have been a musician. The section also boasts the three principal freshman oflicers, Bob Manfredi, President, Harry Pines, Vice-President, and Paul Pistrack, Secretary, of Whom we may quote the following typical statements: '4Hi ho, fellows! Hi holv fllflanfredij 'Ll-lave you heard this one, fellowsfw Qlninesj And from the ingenuous Pistrack, What can they keep on the sixth floor? Top-J. Weingart, R. Wehrli, B. Stopek. Bottom-H. Tanzer, C. Weiss, J. Young, H. Young. t , Wi - . at 4 f ' M-wxwwczk

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where you learn the subject. lt's drilled in of necessity. As for the separate sections, there are four in the day school and six in the night school. The day school roll begins with a Jersey boy formerly of Brooklyn Poly, one Herman Amster. When anyone wants to know some- thing about New Jersey, Amster is the person to ask. We suspect Tom Calla- han is an Irishman. His attempts to outdo Amster in the humor department are a positive proof of this fact. His subtle remarks in every period are nu- merous. Long will be remembered his outburst in engineering drawing of HI hate every last one of you fellows for disturbing me. It is you who are to blame for this messy plate. i It's amazing, says Davis when he learns something interesting. He will probably say it many more times before he learns all that The Cooper Union has to offer. Daneman was a supporter of the Chinese even before the war broke out. We don't know why, unless that mustache of his is hiding his yellow ancestry. And to those who don't know how to pronounce Klem Baczewski's last name he is known as that fellow in section one who always has his hair slicked down. It is quite generally agreed although not yet proven that Diamond is the wizard of section one. The class, approval was shown when they elected him as section one's representative to the Math Club. The greatest surprise to the class occurred when they discovered Bernd was born in New York. His almost perfect English contains an accent which marks him as a foreigner. Of the rest of the four sections that arose from this aggregation it has, in the last months, become our definite opinion that section three represents the greatest and most peculiar variety of brains and exuberance of the lot, which is, in such a class, quite an achievement. T op-- S. Scheim, H. Wald, A. Zigas, S. Schatz, B. Loveman, I. Schieber, E. Reichenthal, R Sachere A Peranio, S. Tanne, D. Sokolowsky, M. Manes, S. Levy, R. Manfredi. Middle- I. Newman, W. Oshinsky H Rostoker, T. Shwartz, L. Phillips, R. White, H. Mirles, J. Schwartz, A. Solnick, S. Shein, S. Londoner E Thater T Tashpian. Bottom-R. Safier, S. Zubkotf, R. Riskin, H. Picorini, H. Pines. P. Pistrack, T. Lonergan W Pepper, M. Lewis, M. Mollick, P. Missina.

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The most peculiar individual in the whole freshman class is without question Flores. He does more things wrong in one day than the rest of the class does in a week. Karlo Keljo is always complaining about his sleep. He sleeps four hours a day, two in school and two at home. The witty team of Hyman and Levander is always good for a laugh. Hal Goldberg is aiming to outdo them and become the class wit. So far he has advanced half way in that direction. Bob Lawit- was the most surprised boy in the freshman class the day Mr. Halsey actually answered one of his questions. Stan Kasperis life has been made miserable by the terrible ribbing he took in class about his relations with a certain young Art School student. The three musketeers of that southeast window, Lawit, Fornason, and Corner have been doing all right in matters amatory. ln case you don't know them, Fornason is the walking Esquire, Corner the handsome fellow with the curly black hair, and Lawit that wolf with the lisp and glasses. The spirit of levity was not entirely absent: specifically, Herbert Sekuler's efforts at facetiousness, and Art Zigas' monumental ability to top without fail a joke of any order. Speaking of consistency, the whole section was deeply shocked when Sol Tanne slipped down to a 98 on a Physics test. Tanne never divulged the secret of his downfall, but wethink a girl may have had something to do with it, although it isn't much to her credit to cause a fall of only two points. ln spite of Harry Williams, protestations, the general conclusion was that the bane of his doleful existence must have been something he kept hidden away in his heart. On the whole the section was one of many facets. Meyer Steinberg contributing naivete, Seymour Weismann, Flatbush, Harry Tashjian mushy English themes, and Thomas Schwartz unadulterated Thomas Schwartz. In the night school we have fellows that really deserve some credit. They did not begin with a pleasant weekend in New Jersey. ln fact we imagine that they have very few pleasant weekends. Working days, attend- ing classes at night and studying between times is pretty tough. Nor does it leave much time for social life or extra-curricular activities. It is for their ability to endure in spite of the lack of these things which we find so neces- sary that we commend them, particularly the freshmen. The news of December 7 came as something of a shock to everyone. It was not a shock in the respect that no one was able to foresee it-we have more respect for the freshmen than that-but a shock in that we had now actually come face to face with that previously distant abstraction, that bad dream which we chased from our minds by throwing the paper aside or turning off the radio, that horror, the practice of which we had been born just too late to witness in its last great exhibition. It was now here in all its glory-or lack of it. To present such a reaction may seem to be over- doing it a little. Perhaps it is in some cases but it is, nevertheless, a re-