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

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UNFINISHED SYMPHONY Four Thousand, Tive hundred and sixTy-Tive voTes-more Than The sum ToTal oT all Republican voTes casT in The sTaTes of Louisiana, Mississippi, and SouTh Carolina in The lasT presidenTial elecTion-wenT To ClinTon's polls. When The pencil scraTches and chalk dusT had cleared away, Clin- Ton Tound ThaT iT had elecTed Saby Jaffe 6.0. PresidenT, STanley SpecTor, Vice-PresidenT, and VicTor Rosenblum, SecreTary. lrving JaTfe and Alan Hahn were chosen as sTudenT represenTaTives in The Board oT Governors To assisT Principal Clark, Mr. Feibusch, and Doc KwiT-The TaculTy members oT The board. The iubilanT cries oT successful oTFice seekers had hardly died away when The TirsT week of February broughT a vehemenT 6.0. bookleT sales oTTensive. Thus, more Than TorTy-Tive hundred ClinToniTes were subiecTed To a painless exTracTion oT TorTy cenTs. lT was, however, a necessary exTracTion which was uTilized To insure ever-expanding exTra-curricular acTiviTies-The backbone of ClinTon life. So impressive was The lisT oT discounTs, reducTions, and bargains oTfered ThaT iT caused The News To ediTorialize-noT on spending-buT on saving TorTy cenTs by ioining The 6.0. ATTracTive boosTer buTTons, 26 BOARD OF GOVERNORS

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SCATTERBRA N Roll OuT The Barrel of Service, CharacTer, and Scholarship, and you have ArisTa-ClinTon's honor socieTy. Guided by iTs dean, Doc Guernsey, and capTained by Joshua Okun, Elmer Pader, and Seymour Zublcoff, ArisTa does more Than oTfer recogniTion oT meriTg by aiding The individual sTudenT, iT plays a huge parT in making a beTTer ClinTon. The Help Class CommiTTee and The STudenT Advisory CommiTTee are imporTanT ArisTa agencies Tor sTudenT aid. DirecTed by Norman Lazar and Sigmund Groch, bi-weekly help classes were conducTed Tor sTu- denTs who needed assisTance in The sciences, 'Foreign languages, and maTh- emaTics. As a resulT of insTrucTion received in These classes, a 'Failing ClinToniTe was almosT invariably converTed inTo a passing one. Under The leadership of Bernard Raider and Gus SiroT, The STudenT Advisory CommiTTee perTormed an invaluable service. Using The experi- ence They had gained from Their years in ClinTon, members of This com- miTTee canvassed each Treshman secTion, proTFered advice, and answered The queries oT The newcomers. ln a lighTer vein comes The work oT Myron Wander's EnTerTainmenT CommiTTee. Besides The semi-annual WalTon Dance, ArisTa enioyed a boaT ride To Indian PoinT. ATTer all, even ArisTa men musT have diversions! Conspicuous service, inconspicuously rendered-ThaT's ArisTa. ARISTA ,rzgqm-1 f-' I ' 25

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G.O. EXECUTIVE couNclL . . a free subscripfion fo fhe News, and reducfions for baslcefball games, fheafres, and museums were only a few advanfages flnaf G.O. member- ship procured. The General Organizafion also sponsored an immense inframural program, a presenfafion of fhe Nafional League's baseball film, Winning Baseball, and a giganfic club carnival. . Affer serving Clinfon as Honorary Presidenf of fhe General Organi- zafion for four years, Mr. J. Roland Gallo foolc on a new iob-af fwenfy- one dollars a monfh for Uncle Sam. Reliable sources disclose fhaf Mr. Gallo sfill wears his GEO. buffon-if goes well wifh a lchalci uniform. The General Organizafion losf a frue friend and a conscienfious adviser in Mr. Gallo. Forfunafely, Mr. Abraham Feibusch, formerly in charge of fhe P. T. A. and an enfhusiasfic profagonisf of exfra-curricular acfivifies, was on hand fo assume fhe honorary presidency. The hisfory of your General Organizafion in fhe I94l spring ferm was one of earnesf efforf on fhe parf of fhe officers and harmonious col- laborafion by fhe sfudenf body fo make a full and a happy ferm for each and every Clinfonife. General Organizafions come and go, fhe symphony of educafion surges on and ahead. Buf fhe human mind, and cerfainly fhe minds of Clinfon sfudenfs, are insafiable, craving progress, and sfill more progress. Thus each General Organizafion is an unfinished symphony fhaf will confinue as long as fhere is a demand for more educafion in Clinfon. 27