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

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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,

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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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mafia Omce .gjguowf emu SW! Aff omg swf ball Team missed KauTman, Klein and l.amperT . . . BerT Nackenson, G. O. PresidenT . . . The music deparTmenT be- came less exciTing aTTer The reTiremenT oT Mr. Benjamin Scudder . . . FooTball reTurned . . . Mr. Edmund FooTe, one oT our mosT beloved and respecTed Teach- ers leTT ClinTon . . . RegenTs had us scared sTiTT . . . The Term ended as we were becoming Juniors . . . We were geTTing up in The world. February, I946-June, I946: Our baskeTball Team looked good wiTh Lloyd Thornhill and WalT Robin- son . . .Julie Briller, G. O. PresidenT . .. U. N. O. senT more exciTemenT clamor- ing Through ClinTon's porTals by Taking over l-lunTer College Tor several weeks . . . WhaT a l.iTe was presenTed aT ClinTon-NiTe, under The direcTion oT lvlr. lVlilTon Belasco . . . lvlid-Term and Re- genTs blues seT in and The anguish oT waiTing Tor marks kepT The Medical Room prr ousy . . . we were eager Tor9 T ' .m To end so we could skip The T c.. deeds oT lViacBeTh and his har and unsexed wiTe lso help me Tellows, ThaT's whaT iT says in The bookl . . . giganTic Gymkana sTaged, TRemem- ber ThaT Spanish dancer who did one oT Those Spanish can-cans 7l . . . we looked Torward wiTh anTicipaTion To The ever approaching summer vacaTion when school cares could be TorgoTTen and Shakespeare could resT on his laurels once again .... 30