Evander Childs High School - Oriole Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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I N T H E Before fhe dawn of a new day for all of us, lef us pause for a momenf fo reminisce. Lei' us gaze upon 'rhe foofprinfs we have made during fhe four years we have spenf in Evander's halls. We sfarfed life as a group of budding young minds, laboring under 'rhe sfigma of being Freshmen. Whaf fhrills fhe lordly Sophomores had in sfore for us, sending us down fo fhe basemenf for our lunch. Then our sfafus in 'l'urn was changed fo Sophomore. Wifh fhe passage of sfill anofher year we progressed info fhe .lunior ranks. Here fhings really began fo happen. Our sixfh ferm wifnessed fhe specfacle of fhe class coming fogefher for fhe firsl' 'lime as a unif. Pauline Collins very graciously provided fhe various forms of enrerfainmenf, and Mrs. Sfern helped us ouf of our ferpsichorean difficulfies by organizing a dancing club. The enfire affair was quife a novelfy for mosf of us. Buf fhe sevenfh ferm saw fhe class really come info ifs own. Affer a very lively and fair elecfion, Dominick Annese, Vivian Simon, Regina Haas, Gerfrude Hofmann, and Peggy O'Brien were chosen as our Senior Class officers. Affer fheir inducfion fhey sef abouf preparing for our firsf Senior dance, which fook place on May 8, in 'rhe boys' large gym. The Senior ferm was fhe very essence of excifemenf and grafificafion. ln fhe field of sporfs we cheered fo 'l'he glorious vicfories of our foofball feam. Our social life, foo, broughf laughs and ioys fo be cherished forever. A Hallowe'en dance was held in fhe real pumpkin manner, wifh pranks and iokes pracfisecl by all on all. The week of Novem- ber 4fh wifnessed inflafed Senior chesfs land headsl walking fhrough Evander hallways. The cause, nafurally, was our Senior hafs . . . Quife a differenf afmosphere was nofed around fhe school af fhis fime wifh many Freshmen running for cover. December opened upon one of fhe maior evenfs in fhe hisfory of fhe class-Senior Week- during which was presenfed The Warrior's Husband, wifh Frances Keifel, Theresa Scafidi, Henry Gosch, Bernard Rosenfeld, Richard Birnberg, Emma Goldfarb, and Sam Rubensfein as fhe chief sfalwarfs of enferfainmenf. Our achievemenfs did nof cease here. The following day fhe Frolic Day dance was given in fhe Girls' large gym. lmmediafely following fhe mid-ferms fhe Prom was held af fhe Rifz Carlfon. Mac Pollack and his orchesfra supplied syncopafed rhyfhm for fhe formally garbed Seniors and Seniorifas. This gala evenf fifly climaxed fhe social calendar of fhe class of January I937. ln fhe wake of fhese brighf days we graduafe info fhe new beyond. A richer, and more mafure planf has been fhe ulfimafe resulf of fhis enfire day of confinual sunshine -a composife symbol represenfing four years of menfal and spirifual formafion in fhe Evander mold. The morrow will see fhe wake ofa new sun illuminafing new and fhrilling visfas. As Evander producfs, we are prepared!

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M A T E S The Oriole STQTT presenTs To you The Year Book oT The Senior Class oT January I937, a chronicle oT your achievemenTs while in Evander, and a TiTTing climax To eighT Terms of hard work! We sincerely hope ThaT iT will be warmly received and appreciaTed. The Theme of This Oriole is Geography, wiTh all iTs applicaTions and implicaTions, and The knocks and boosTs were suggesTed largely by geographical Terms and daTa. The Topic, we believe, is appropriaTe To The Trend oT The Times when space and physical barriers have been so reduced as To make all The world a close TraTerniTy. The TuTure will see our class scaTTered over The Tace of The globe. We will be The Torerunners of any social and poliTical change. As we graduaTe, inTernaTionalism is The Topic of The day. CounTries and people ThaT were once only names in dusTy books are now The drama'l'ic geography oT The daily news. lndeed Geography is noT alone The Theme of The Oriole, buT The key To Tomorrow! Soon, Evander Childs will be a happy memory ne'er To be TorgoTTen, and Though Time may dull Treasured memories we hope our Oriole will sweep away Time's cobwebs and will recall a-new our TondesT years. In bringing you This Year Book, The Oriole STaTT has endeavored To make iT mosT represenTaTive of The spiriT of our class, namely good Tellow-ship. Years hence, The picTures of classmaTes will bring To mind The many Triendships you made and The scenes oT school acTiviTies will help you To live once more Through cherished school days. ln The Wake will recall To you The ioyous Times we experienced TogeTher. ThoughTs of our Senior dances and our promenades will TloaT back To us. From The Crows NesT unfolds To you The TuTure, and only Time can Tell wheTher our nonsensical prophesies shall perchance come True. Be assured, ThaT The lessons we have learned here aT Evander have been puT To pracTical use in This Oriole. lT is as perTecT as we could possibly make iT. ln aTTribuTing a knock or boosT To each member oT The class The Oriole STQFT gave Them in good sporTsmanship and True Trankness. We only hope ThaT you will receive your commenT in The same spiriT. We ask your indulgence on This poinT: ThaT you realize They are buT opinions and conse- quenfly are noT infallible. Now ThaT we have seT ourselves aT ease, we Tormally inTroduce you To The Oriole of The Class of January I937.

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CROW' NEST ATTer many weary years of using The Trial and error meThod ImosTly errorl, I can safely say, Wow!, Tor I have finally uncovered The secreTs oT Those ulTra-mysTic Indian propheTs . . . WaTch closely now, while I pour a small amounT of This glorified seITzer Ichampagne To youl inTo This luxurious looking glass . . . Silence please, while I puT The baTh Towel on my head lall Hindus wear 'emI, Take a heTTy sip of The giggle waTer, and gaze inTo The champagne glass . . . Now, if you'll all quieTIy hum The cIairvoyanT's Theme song . . . You all know iT. IT's called I Won'T Trance . . . IAnoTher sip of cham- pagnel . . . QuieT now . . . A-hah, a vision . . . The bubbles are clearing . . . a hosT oT Senior CeIebriTies some Ten years Trom now! . . . Time marches on! IT's I947! And The Tirsi' celeb To hiT my eye is none oTher Than The honorable DOMENICK ANNESE-argu- ing ThaT he's been going To Syracuse ever since '37 and why haven'T They noTiced him? Now oTher figures crowd inTo The vision. Ecce homines! Ecce Teminae! Behold, look, see: ROY MCARDLE-Posing on billboards Tor collar ads. INGRID LEIRE-Turning down her 5,000Th Hollywood proposal. MR. BURSTEIN-Reduced To selling ham sand- wiches in a Jerusalem synagogue. MATTHEW MIDDLETON-Playing Tarzan in a sideshow. ANTHONY SCHIAVONE-Really a pop now and buying shoes Tor Trip- leTs. PEGGY O'BRIEN-PuTTing Emily PosT ouT of a iob. GERTRUDE HOFMANN- ObTaining her college diploma while no one was looking. MARION JENNINGS-Modeling ear muTTs in Brazil. LILLIAN DOLGIN-Trying To recall how she looked wiTh her chin down. PHIL GROSSMAN-Answering radio con- TesTs-5O words, no more, no less! ADOLPH JACOBY-Third assisTanT To an organ grinder Iwho doesn'T swingl. FRANCES QUITTEL-Harmonizing wiTh Those Chicken SisTers! UDITH STEIN-ShouTing praises of The Warrior's Husband. DOTTY GRAF- PerambuIaTing down Barnes Avenue. EVELYN WEISSBERG-GhosT wriTing Those Can- Tor ScripTs IET Tu BruTusl. PHYLLIS LEVENSON-Selling magazine subscripTions in ScoT- land. HANNAH GOTTEHRER-Truckin' To The Jugoslavia naTional anThem. WILLIAM STUBENVOLL-PuTTing The ham in HamleT. RICHARD BIRNBERG-Doubling Tor Johnny Weismuller as Tarzan. MR. RYAN-STiII ThreaTening To publish Those Memoirs. PEP KAWALLER-Making Floyd Gibbons quiT in despair. JACK COTTIN-Peddling his own liquor IcoTTin ginl. JULIA VON FRANK -Down in Mexico, Trying To coIIecT renT from The border Iboarderl. GRACE EWEN- WriTing Those Ii++Ie greeTing card iingles. MR. QUIMBY-PracTising Tor The I948 Olympics by chasing cuTTers around The building! . . . And I, oT course, was good aT school, I never had no vices, I IosT my iob aT The Five and Ten-I couldn'T remember The prices!