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

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Themselves Tor The coming season. . Our armies ripped across ATrica and The MediTerranean, someTimes speeding, someTimes only inching along .... Once again mobs gaThered ouTside a cerTain room on The sec- ond Tloor-Mrs. Lowell was back. SPRING I944 The Term moved TasT .... We ioshed one anoTher abouT The girls we broughT To The ClinTon NighT show, l-lere Comes Mr. Jordan . . . . The Track Team gave a splendid showing as They copped The Bronx Champs and The Penn and STaTe mile relay championships .... A Tine issue oT The Magpie Tollowed Mrs. Whalen's reTurn To The school .... ClinTon's guinTeT ripped Through To become Bronx champs, buT dropped The CiTy Championship To a sTrong Franklin Team .... Murray Frank was elecTed 6.0. presidenT .... D-Day came and our armies began Their push Through France .... America's doughboy was giving The Nazi superman a beaTing. E LIBRARY i soufxo REGENTS SQUAD

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LUNCHROOM SQUAD Cl-lEMlSTRY SQUAD as lhe wallmen look lhe Bronx-Manhaffan lille, fhe mermen wenl wilhoul defeat and lhe chessmen surged Through +o fhe Cily Championship. lWha+ alhlelesll FALL i943 Wilh deep sorrow we relurned lo school only +o be revilalized by The news Thai lhe lime we were lo spend al Clinfon each day was To be shorler. lWe really loved The place +hen.l S+uden+ opinion had lalcen ils effect We had aslced lhe Board of Educalion 'ro abolish school and They cul forly minufes from each day. l'l'ha+'s progressll . . . As veieran Clinfoniles, we advised many of our classmales, who had ius'r arrived from Junior l-ligh School. lvlosl of lhem haven'+ spoken +o us since .... Larry Fuchs was overwhelmingly elecfed 6.0. presidenf .... War drives wenl on al Jrhe same slrong pace .... Our baslcelball and lraclc leams sharpened PHYSICS souf-xo A

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GUERNSEY SQUAD FALL i944 Vacafion was over and since lhere was nolhing beller +o do we reiurned +o school. l-lha+'s a iolce, sonll . . . The baslceiball five loolced good wilh Shayes and Kaufman heading 'rhe lisl .... Clinloniles insured lhe re-eleciion of Presidenl Roosevelf in a Clinion News poll. . . . Wilh Jrhe danger of air raids over, our lrophies were moved back +o lheir showcases .... Alihough viciory was approaching, our war ellori never slaclcened .... Normy Allman climbed ihe ladder of success io Tne G.O. presidency .... The Douglass Socieiy pul on a show 'ro befier racial and religious underslanding befween 'rhe peoples ol America .... Canada Lee, noled acior, praclically acled oui his speech on Jrhe be-nelils of educaiion in esiaplishing a clearer undersianding beiween all groups .... We caughl' The fail end ol lhe iwo cilies and passed English by a hair's breadfh. DOUGLASS SOCIETY