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

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.Mfiforg .jvlonor Sociefg oggrarg Squad pecan! Ofhce Cgjqucwf unum1e m ai1,i ,asm-mi mv -rlwl.. T, me knew speed because everyThing was speed: speed To beaT The bell To class: speed To .geT on line in The lunchroom: speed To dress Tor gym lThose were The good old days when we wenT To gym. remember7l . . . A smash hiT was pre- senTed aT ClinTon-lNliTe, l-lere Comes lvlr. Jordan, ably supervised by Miss Leon . . . ClinTon's Track Team won The Bronx Championship and The Penn and STaTe Mile-Relay Championships buT was deTeaTed by Franklin Tor The CiTy Crown . . . lvlrs. Whalen reTurned and issued a swell copy oT The Magpie . . . Murray Frank elecTed G. C. prexy . . . EXTRA, EXTRA, France was lnyaded . . . Eisenhower and lVlonTgomery, who led our vicTorious armies were cheered in ClinTon's halls. . . Summer came . . . and so one year had passed .... SepTember, I944-January, l945: Tearing ourselves away Trom a pleas- anT summer vacaTion we looked Tor- ward To see some real games oT baskeT- ball, Schayes and KauTman heading our lisT . . . we were now sophomores and we TelT preTTy high . . . classes were en- larged by many Junior l-Tigh School graduaTes . . . sTudenT and TaculTy polls assured us oT The re-elecTion oT Pres- idenT RoosevelT . . . our armed Torces were aTTacking The very hearT oT Ger- many while General lVlacArThur was re- Turning To The Phillippines, TulTilling his promise . . . sTamp sales reached The peak . . . G. O. leader, Normy AlTman . . .Canada Lee, presenT aT The Douglas SocieTy sTaged a moving and inspiring 28 QL! .f

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. . . and half in a dream and lwalf in a daze suddenly finding yourself a senior, 4 years in Clinfon guickly passed by .... Yes, looking back we can recall every- fliing as flwougli we were living flfiose years over again. Ridiculed as fresn- men, sneered af as soplnomores, ignored as iuniors, and gaped af as seniors, buf now fliaf if's iusf abouf all over, we don'f feel so eager fo leave. We've grown up in Clinfon and we will long fo come back. So . . . lef's go back now, and sfarf af our beginning .... - - Sepfember, I943-January, l944g The day was divided info seven periods and fnere were 43 minufes fo eacli . . . Larry Fuchs, G. O. Presidenf . . .War Drives in full swing . . . baskef- ball feam fraining for flie coming games . . . frack feam pracficing for flweir indoor campaign . . . our spirif iumped because of flfie good news re- ceived from our vicforious armies in flue Mediferranean and African flweafer of War .... February, I944-June, I944g Public and nigli scliool bad been welded info one and we nad become accusfomed fo flwe clwange . . . many new flwings were flwrown af us . . . flwere were new words in our vocabulary, suc'1 as gym spofs, pool room, fower, sfairway and lunclfi passes lall of wlwicfi could be obfained easily and cneaply if you knew flfie rignf personsl. We sure 27 3,,.,,f omaha em IQ 3 omg, swf Service league nmamemm

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program on The subiecT oT a beTTer un- dersTanding oT inTerracial and religious relaTions among The people oT America. February, l945-June, l945: This Term we were exposed To Shakespeare . . . BaskeTball Team won The Bronx Championship . . .Then came Madison Square Garden overTilled wiTh cheering ClinTon guys and The Big Five lJoel KauTman, CapTain Jordy Klein, Jerry LamperT, lVlilTy Griess and ArTie Glassl playing a swell game . . . CiTy Champs . . . Long John Taylor oT The Track Team, smashed The record in The 440 yard run wiTh his Time oT 50.04 . . . ClinTon-NiTe a greaT success since you saw Two shows Tor The price OT one. IT Will Be All RighT on The NiTe by The sTudenTs and Ozymandias Rides Again by The TaculTy . . . ClinTon was greaTly shocked when news reached us ThaT our beloved PresidenT, Franklin D. RoosevelT, was dead. The sTudenT body paid TribuTe To a greaT leader who gave his all Tor his counTry . . . ln sporTs, a varsiTy soTTball Team was added . . . Our handball Team won The Bronx-lVlanhaT- Tan Championship . . . summer arrived. SepTember, I945-January, I946: Once again we reTurned To The Cas- Tle on The Parkway, grill hearing ExTra, ExTra, War is Over, in our ears . . . Japan had surrendered ,during The sum- mer vacaTion and peace TreaTies were signed on The baTTleship Missouri . . . The whole world was Talking and Think- ing abouT aTom bombs and ieT planes buT The war was over . . . Our baskeT- l 0 l 6Ll'l'l S uae! ae qua 29 :rf 5' fl of A 5' MHC l 00l'l'L 650161,