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

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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

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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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SPRING I945 Having a slighf idea oT The predicamenT, we sympaThized wifh Tv1acbeTh. who suTTered greaTly because oT his hard and unsexed wiTe. . .. The SpiriT oT ClinTon surged To greaT heighTs as The red and black Tive was deTeaTed only by Monroe in The lasT game oT The regular season .... Then on To The Garden .... and The CiTy Championship .... WiTh a Time oT 00:50:04 Long John Taylor seT a record Tor The 440 yard run. . . . ClinTon NighT was a bargain as we saT Through Two shows Tor The price oT one. Ozymandias by The TaculTy and The sTudenT's producTion oT IT Will Be All RighT On The NighT were sensaTional .... AmidsT all This good There appeared a Touch oT sorrow. PresidenT RoosevelT had passed away To eTernal resT. ClinToniTes paid homage To This man. who so greaTly sacrificed himselT Tor his counTry .... A new soTTball varsiTy in a new league Took The Bronx championship .... Our handball Team wenT on To vicTory .... Summer again. Thank goodness! FALL I945 Lower Seniors-iT won'T be long now! . . . The war was over, and we came back To a peaceTime ClinTon. In spiTe oT The TacT ThaT everyone was speaking oT ieT-propelled aTom bombs, There was hope Tor lasTing peace .... Mr. Edmund Burke's speech was almosT The cause oT a revolu- Tion againsT The English deparTmenT .... Lacking KauTman, Klein and LamperT, The baskeTball Team began The season Tresh .... ClinTon Tielded a TooTball Team under coach Hank Jacobsohn. We were The TirsT To do so oT all oT The Bronx schools, which had disconTinued The sporT .... We plugged and crammed our way Through RegenTs week. SERVICE LEAGUE