DeWitt Clinton High School - Clintonian Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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East Side, West Side . Up in tide Tower, in the room aiyove the music rooms fyou sometimes near ttie tresiirnen singing De Vxfitt Ci, tiiey edit the Magpie, The room is iarge, arched windows in every wait, and iigiit and invigorat- ing. in tide center of tiie room are two smaii tainies strewn witti students, manu- scripts. Around these taiaies time memioers of the Magpie read, correct, and criticize . . . And the Magpie is the magazine with a theme, to entertain and to edu- cate tiie student, to ive ciean-cut and vivid, to anaiyze, to scuipture, to sicetcii, to ciiisei, to paint tiie peopie, tide worid . . . iViany years ago, Mr. Rapiaaei Piaiiipson headed tide Magpie, even tiaien the iviagpie didnlt crusade. But time articies were more woridiy, iess inewiidered, iess bitter tiian novx f... ioeiore tiiat tile Niagpie was a tainioid-magazine, smaiier, iess pretentious . . . This term tide Niagpie ideai is Hixfietropoiitan Carnivain Tide red, tiie yeiiow, tide iniood and time fiesta, tine paint-pots and tile piiiories of this city are its suiajects. Sidney Ciciayetsicy is time editor-in-ciaiet, Mrs. Marceiia Whalen tiie facuity adviser ,... Yousre An Education in Yourself -aso after a quarter-century of amassing iwigin averages and accumuiating extensive service records, Arista decided to prove to ttie worid of Ciinton that 95,5 on a record card neednit duii a tmasicetioaii eye, nor vveaicen tide effectiveness of a down-Field iaiocic. Foottnaii and ioasicetinaii teams were born and the sicepticism dispeiied. Neverttieiess, the vaiue of tiie society to the sciaooi stiii remained in its services. One of tiaese, organized oniy iast term, has now taicen its piace as

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They were trying to squeeze, to juice a story and make a headline. fr-Phe words have to he like putty, so that you can pun them and push them and maize them fit the cotumnsg the General Qrganization stands for nineteen spaces and Doon Guernsey for fourteend But they coutdn,t pick the dignified words that were to head the dignified story. Then somehody started to speak ahout the days when the HNewsU hadnt heen connected with the G.Q., when the headlines were stangy and partiatg and the others rememhered the times even further hack . . . NV hen he was through reading he went into the ottice of the faculty adviser, Mr. Raphael Phitipson, to get cartare to go down to the printer . . . When you go to the printer you don,t leave there untit nightg and your hands are htactc with ink and your eyes' red from the continuous reading. When you,re through at night, when the First proof has rotted out of the press, you put on your clothes and go home with the other fellows. You,re a httie thankful that everything has turned out an right, that there are no mistakes: hut you,re too tired and hungry to laugh or he happy. The next day the statt- men pore over the paper for mistatcesg the students skim over it hurriedly and then throw it away. You sit down with the editor-in-chief and start woric on the next issue . . . ARISTA

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the outstanding contrihution of Aristae-the hetp-classes. Taught hy Arista hoys, the classes are for the heneht of anyone interested in hettering his scho- lastic situation. After this, there were those activities which hy now have hecome estahiished customsffreshman advisory committees, the puhiishing of scholarship lists, setting tickets to school functions, and a host of minor occupations. This term, as an added feature of the usuat Arista assemhties, a more pronounced attempt was made to introduce the significance of the group to the schooi hy means of the popular question and answer program. in charge of the hroad pian ot action were the three oichicers, Sanford Kossar, the Leader of Arista, Adrian Duncan, the Vice-Leader, and Milton Sohei, Secretarywaii under the ever-present and irrepressihie HDOCH Guernsey. These are the eight-one hoys of Arista, iess than one per cent of the school: - Stanley Aneicstein, lsraei Aran, Rohert Avigdor, Ralph Beriow, Richard Bimonte, Viyron Chariap, Richard Cohen, Rohert Cohen, hfiaxweii Davis, William Deyo, Eugene Disicant, Adrian Duncan, Bert Eisenstadt, Jerome Eiswit, Lazar Emanuel, Bernard Friedeison, Herman Gisser, Lawrence Gold- stein, Lawrence Gray, Soi Greenherg, Henry Grotta, Irwin Guteiewitz, Rohert Handeiman, Wiorton Harfenist, James Harford, Larry Hariam, 'Leonard Harris, Rohert Kahn, Henry Karger, Sanford Kossar, ixfiiichaet Kozonis, hflartin Lehrer, Ira Leventer, Ira Levy, Victor Luheisky, Adolph Panareiii, Aihert Reiner, and HONN'H Ludlow. Bernard Wlaiherg, Giihert Marazzini, Ned Marguiies, Edward Masket, Richard McCarthy, Amieto Miccioii, Charles Niontorte, Seymour Newman, Jacoh Qstrow, Michael Pappas, Sam Prussaic, Sanford Rosenhhim, Donald Rosenthal, Nlartin Rosenthal, Jay Sandler, Edmond Saveiii, Ahraham Schaef- fer, Nathan Schainhaum, Philip Schiau, Edgar Schoiniic, Morton Schultz, Leon Seldin, Rohert Sheridan, hfiyron Siegel, hqurray Siiherman, Nathaniel Siion, Emanuel Singer, Xhfiuiam Simms, Milton Sohei, Harold Soiomon, Morton Spitz, Frank Squire, Jerome Steinherg, Irwin Stern, hiaivin Stern, Haroid Storch, Aihert Targan, Stuart Tave, Xvaiter Vrindten, Sidney Vxfarschausky, Stanley Nvechsier, Irwin Xveiss, iworris Zerner, and Matirice Zingeser.