Erasmus Hall High School - Arch Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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' U3ast and 53resent Wilh apologies lo Thomas I-Iood I remember, I remember The school ol my lour years The early session when we Came peeping in al dawn. We never came a wink loo lale. And rushed like mad lo make lhe gale- Bul if we didn'l, woe is us. Miss Slanlon sure could raise a lussl I remember, I remember The gymsuils, big and small Green and blue and paslels, loo We looked like Aulumn, and Spring and Fall. The bell would ring-A lire drill! March down lhose slepsI lwilh boys lo see Couldn'l gymsuils be glamorous? I remember, I remember Erasmus loolball players. Tall and lair: black and blue While we would cheer wilh mighly prose- A leg would break, and lhen a nose. They were our heroes, lhough almosl dead Ivlinus a loolhg minus a head. I remember, I remember The school ol my lour years. Gradualion and Senior Day Diplomas and lhe lears, We bid larewell and look our palhs, Bul now 'lis lillle ioy To know I'm larlher oll lrom Erasmus Than when I was a boy. and laugh al us

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Qzrls' Sports They call me Snoopy I'm a camera, Class oT January, I95O. I've been ouT To more sporTs during my Tour years aT The Old Grey School Than any oTher Erasmian To daTe. Why I can remember back when I was only a box camera .... Those were The days when we as Treshmen goT up aT The crack oT dawn To play hockey. Ivly TeammaTes, Alice Cardona, I-Ielen AvloniTis, Phyllis Schlags, lvlary Ellen Dyer, and Carol Zeiger, were an enThusiasTic group ThaT spring in '-46. They've remained ardenT hockey players, and won Their E, I-I. in sixTh Term. I didn'T seem To click unTil I was TiTTed Tor a Tlash- couIdn'T see aT ThaT hour in The morn .... In Third Term I had begun To maTure. I became a reTIex camera and had guiTe a Time Trying To caTch Those low serves which Phyllis Schlags execuTed aT Tennis. Whenever l'd geT a shoT oT a TerriTic Torehand drive by RuTh Schein, iT wouIdn'T be in Tocus. In The background Though you would clearly see EdiTh RosenThal, Ann EranceviTz, Carolyn T-legarTy, or Carol Zeiger searching Tor a Thing called Torm. AT soTTbaII I goT my TirsT good picTure. I caughT Elaine RiT- Ter caTching behind Sabina ReisTeId's powerTuI baT. Our TorTe aT This sporT lay in The STock Twins, Lorraine and Beverly, Gladys AugarTen, Teresa SisTo, and CaTherine Riche. Lady Luck wasn'T wiTh us here eiTher. Ouch, my ground glass hurTs . . . musT be grow- pains again, yep, and here I am, now a miniaTure camera. I've Tound Two more wonderTuI sporTs, baskelball and badminTon. AT baskeTbalI, The big six, I-leidi Vorchheimer, Sabina Reisfeld, our Twins Beverly and Lorraine, Mary Ellen Dyer and I-lelen AvloniTis were Too TasT Tor me. I didn'T have To go Tor re- pairs unTiI I poked my lens inTo badminTon. We had IoTs oT Teamwork and acTion, es- pecially when Elaine RiTTer and Carol