Franklin School - Franklinite Yearbook (New York City, NY)

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ROBERT WECHSLER Bob 'Hold the fort-I am coming. ---Sherman. Entered 1920 Yale Franklinite Contributing Editor. 5: Red and Blue Athletic Editor, 5: Debating Club, 5: F. A. A. Secretary- Treasurer, 5: Cub Basketball, 1. Z: Captain, 3: 'Varsity Baseball. 5: 'Var- sity Basketball, 4, 5: Senior Dinner Committee, 5: Senior Dance Commit- tee, 5. Page twenty-Hue

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HENRY STERN Shrimp l'll speak in a monstrous little voice. ---Shakespeare. Ermwed 1921 Princelon Debating Club, 5: Cub Basketball. 4: 'Varsity Basketball. 5: Mathematics Prize, 4. lllffl' 1LL'1'l7ly -foul' H CLAUDE SPERLINQ On their own merits, modest men are mute. ---Colman. Enlered 1918 Yule Debating Club. 5: Cub Basketball, 2. 3. 4: 'Varsity Baseball, 5: 'Varsity Basketball, 5.

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CLASS HISTORY According to Messrs. Funk and Wagnall, a history is a systematic record of past events. To be thoroughly systematic, then, we must begin at the very beginning. Today we have remaining only four of the tots who toddled up the stairs to Primary I in the manner made famous by other class histories. Still, these infants were a lusty lot and, even in those days, made plenty of trouble for their teachers. By Intermediate I, more than half the members who are now in this class had entered our ranks. Intermediate II marked our first venture into extra-curricular activities. In this year our class organized a baseball team. This was a significant event in view of the fact that up to that time no class aggregation had ever been formed independently of outside assistance before the Intermediate III year, nor has this feat since been duplicated. This team, whose members averaged ten years of age, engaged in contests, not only with the class above us, but also with the class two years beyond us. Although our games, which were played below the railrbad tracks at Eighty-third Street and the Drive, usually lasted for not more than three or four innings because of the loss of all our balls in the river, still these contests paved the way for the more serious efforts which were forth- coming in later years. We did not taste of victory in either of the penmanship contests which are usually chronicled as the outstanding events of the Intermediate III and IV years. Nevertheless, we have the satisfaction of seeing that while our hand- writing has steadily improved since those days, the penmanship of the victors' has, by their own confession, undergone considerable deterioration. We did show our supremacy, however, in the eraser fights and interclass skirmishes which used to take place during the luncheon periods. In Junior I we first started to play baseball seriously. Our class team contested with the athletes from higher and lower grades and generally emerged victorious. In the track meet we also showed our ability by carrying away a number of the medals. Our premier participation in int-erclass debating came in the following year when our orators succeeded in overwhelming the more experienced speakers from Senior C. Our first representative to make the Red and Blue staff took oflice this year. It was then, also, that we first recognized the importance of class organization, for a class constitution was drawn up. Although this docu- ment was forgotten the week after its completion, it required many stormy class meetings to achieve its ratification. During this period a class library likewise flourished-that is, for about two months until our avid readers had consumed all the volumes and the members of the class ceased to make contributions of their old and shelf-worn books. Page twenty-six