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

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1 ,-+ fur.:- were competing for the various teams and were to be among the more important athletes to represent the class and school in interscholastic competition. In our final year, only two boys entered the class. They were Ira Zaretsky and Joe Wolkenberg, both of whom are very well liked by all. This year we were rather unsuccessful in our athletics, but as usual the members of the teams fought hard and always were full of spirit and determination. The science club under the guidance of Doc Stevens was again the most active in school. Throughout the year many interesting experiments were performed and talks on various subjects were given. The highlight of the Science Club was the demonstration on Hertzian waves given by a representative of the Bell Telephone Company. This demonstration was given in an assembly, and all the boys of the upper school were invited to attend. The other active clubs were the art and chess clubs, under the supervision of Mr. Ross and Mr. Kramer. There' are certain dates in history which no one ever forgets: 1215, the granting of Magna Cartag july 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence: 1815, the Battle of Waterloog December 7, 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor. Tonight, june 8, 1950, we add another important date in history, the graduation from Franklin School of one of its outstanding classes. In conclusion, and on behalf of the graduation class of 1950, I wish to thank Mr. Hall, Mr. Berenberg, and all the members of the faculty for their under- standing, guidance, and patience with us throughout the years. Tonight we leave Franklin, but I am sure that all of us hold a warm place for it in our hearts. MARVIN KORNBLAU 0 twenty nine '1 - ..tit1.i...1-, ..,.....,.a,. , t 1 hx, an ,H . A I . ,. . id ' J, Q . i -1... r A lf'

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GZASS HISTORY Ladies and Gentlemen: Upon being notified that I had been selected to narrate the class history at graduation, I rejoiced in the apparent simplicity of the task. I thought that it would be just a matter of asking my classmates for any information that was necessary, but this was not so simple as it seemed, because many of them upon questioning seemed to forget everything but their names. I still do not know whether they had really forgotten or whether they wished to forget their past and start worrying about the college careers that were inevitably facing them. While writing this history, I tried not to trespass upon the task of the class prophet, but in many cases it was rather difficult not to transgress. l sincerely hope that this history will serve to rekindle in the minds of my classmates the great events in which we have participated. My first recollection of the class reverts to the time when I entered as a shy young youth in Junior I. Before that time the class was not too large, and the only members of our class that were present in the Intermediate grades were the class salutatorian, Richard Bernstein, and the twins, Bruce and Frank Hol- stem. A large number of the graduates entered in the junior years. Among them were Edward Blickstein, one of the better contributors to the Red and Blue and also one of the best musicians in the class: Eric Tolmach, the present editor-in- chief of the Red and Blue, and Larry Greenspan, the student voted the most likely to succeed by the faculty and the class. In these years most of us got our first taste of the inevitable Latin classes. Although we used to dread them at the time, many of us have or will come to value the important instruction in analysis and word usage that Latin gave us. ln these grades we encountered Mr. Kern, whose sharp sarcastic humour had Illost of us baffled. After a few years with Doc Stevens one or two of us got used to his various systems, but until this day when one of us is detained by Doc we have no idea what it is for, at least when we speak to him. Another obstacle in our paths was algebra. I believe that Mr. Carson went away rather exhausted after trying to convince us that imaginaries weren't, and that we would have to learn them. By the time the class reached the senior B grade all of our foremost ath- letes were already in the class. Arnold Lederman, class valedictorian, captain of the basketball and soccer teams, and pitcher for the baseball team, had already entered. jerry Stern. Bob Meltzer and jay Stevens-just to mention a few- twentx eight 0 f I --.f.14m.n-- .:,:.......L

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gi thirty CLASS PROP!-IECY OF 1950 According to an old Roman legend, the Cumaean Sibyl or prophetess came from the east to the Roman King, Tarquin the Proud, offering nine books of prophecies but at so enormous a price that he refused to buy them. She then destroyed three and offered the remaining six at the same price and was again refused. Destroying still another three, she asked as much for the three left, and Tarquin's fear and curiosity finally induced him to buy. Of the official collection supposed thus to have originated, one or two fragments still survive. When I learned that I was to be class prophet I contacted an old friend of mine who lived in Edzine, a small village located in Turkey just south of the ancient ruins of Troy, and told him that I was in a desperate situation, not knowingewhere to get any information on the future of my classmates. Since it had been rumored that one of Sibyl's books had just been discovered in that part of the world, I had high hopes of finding something in it concerning this year's graduating class. My hopes were verified when I received a telegram from my friend, urging me to hop on a plane as quickly as possible and to come to Iidzine. After five days of constant traveling by air and sea, I finally reached my destination, a weather-beaten shack located on the edge of a small stream. jim, my friend, knowing that I had to take my end-term examinations, escorted me quickly into the house. As I looked around the dimly lighted room, I spotted a large yellow scroll which lay on a table in the center of the room. This was what 1 had been looking for, SibyI's prophecies. I tried to read the writing but soon realized that it was written in Latin, however, suspecting that this might happen, I had invited Richard Nemerov, Latin translator extraordinaire, to decipher the scroll for me. Dick soon spotted a column whose headlines read as follows: Doings of Franklin's 1950 Graduates in l965. As we read further on we saw the following: Larry Greenspan, the successful engineer, and Richard Bernstein, the fam- ous theoretical physicist, are rival Science Fiction editors. A few weeks ago Richard came back from the first flight to the moon. Not to be outdone, Larry flew to Venus. jockeys Bob Genisman and Dick Grubman have finished in a tie for last place in the second race at jamaica. Caesar and Virgil, the ponies they were riding, are both owned by Richard Nemerov, the millionaire. Dick got his mil- lion by writing a book entitled How to Pass 'Doc' Steven's Geometry Class. Marvin Kreiner has become a great expert on automobiles. In a very in- spired moment he decided to dispense with the wheels on his car. As he ex- plained to the eagerly listening world, it will save a great deal of friction and thus spare the brakes. Much to the inventor's surprise and disappointment the car refused to run. Robert Meltzer has become America's handsomest man. He has posed for every product from bathing suits to Spratts Dog and Cat Biscuits. .,....l..r.... A... - .... .. . . '.,,, ni,