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

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6.0. OFFICE SQUAD Quien sabe7 Qui saiT7 Ich weiss nichTI All day! Mix iT wiTh sodium! GeT OTT ThaT podium! Remember your sciences And Europe's alliances, MisTer Scudder's singing, Lunch-room siren ringing, Crowded hallways-crowded sTairs, ThaT squadman who always glares, Teachers roaring, Pupils snoring . . . ThaT's CIinTonI HamIeT's TirsT Term in QIinTon sped quickly by. IT was The Term when: CIinTon IosT iTs 77 STreeT Annex, The Red and Black STeamroIIer capTained by ShorTy Consagra had only one brief TasTe oT vicTory-over Commerce. H' was CIinTon's TorTieTh anniversary . . . dancing in The gyms . . Q special issues of The News and The Magpie . . . congrarula- Tory messages 'From The Mayor and Trom The Governor .... I938 . . . Spring: AnoTher look aT his reporT card convinced Hamlef HorowiTz ThaT he was really in second Term. No longer was his IiTe in I7

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THANKS FUR THE MEMORIES The shrill ring oT The alarm clock broke cruelly inTo The sweeT dreams oT HamleT HorowiTz. His eyelids quivered, winked open. WiTh a gurgle, HamleT leaped inTo The cold air. Today was SepTember l3, I937, The day oT days-his TirsT day in high school. He couldn'T aTford To be IaTe! AT 7:32 a.m. HamleT sTepped Through The porTals oT DeWiTT ClinTon High School. On reaching his assigned room, he Timidly poked his head Through The door. As no one hir him, he broughT The resT oT his body in wiTh him. An imporTanT looking personage aT The TronT oT The room handed him a more imporTanT looking documenT-known Tamiliarly as a Program Slip. As Tar as HamleT was concerned, iT mighT have been a map of Asia-he iusT couldn'T decipher The Thing! Finally, wiTh The help of TwenTy oT his classmaTes, HamleT discovered ThaT he had no lunch period. He waved a grimy hand in The Teacher's Tace .... You'll have To see your Tloor chairman in The Program Room, she said. Walk Three TlighTs down, go Through The underpass and . . . HamleT was losT Tor Three periods .... When They Tound him, HamleT was glassy-eyed and muTTering:- SERVICE f LEAGUE g v- - , f v . . ,R . E , I OFFICERS

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ClinTon chaoTicg iT had Tallen inTo an orderly paTTern. HamleT Tound Time To Try ouT Tor The Red and Black Tive .... We don'T know wheTher There was any connecTion beTween This and The TacT ThaT ClinTon won only one P.S.A.L. game ThaT season. Discouraged no end, HamleT enTered his hearT Throb's picTure in The News PreTTy Girl ConTesT and she . . . well, your girl isn'T so good eiTher .... ThaT same Term, Mosholu's neTmen won The Bronx crown. I'-738 . . . Fall: Since The Board oT EducaTion needed a building To house The newly Tormed Bronx High School oT Science, iT shipped The l84 STreeT AnnexiTes here .... Poor HamleT had To sTand in Three oT his classes, buT whaT did he care7 Wasn'T The TooTball Team, direcTed by The newly appoinTed Coach Jacobson, Tinishing iTs season wiTh only one loss- The WashingTon Tray7 ThaT Term, l'lamleT had an opporTuniTy To swing iT aT a series oT dances sponsored by The P.T.A. in The ClinTon gym .... I939 . . . Spring: HamleT was sTarTled by a dynamic 6.0. member- ship campaign. Mr. Gallo's agenTs wenT so Tar as To wander Through The corridors singing: ln The class, in The halls, On The sTreeT someone calls: STop! Whoever you may be, . c as BAND I8