Horace Mann Lincoln High School - Lincolnian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Qzhe 1933 Qfomce SECOND FORM. WE BECOME ALTRUISTIC lClass officers: Sfern, Pres.: GoTTlieb, Sec.: l-lenry, Treas.l NlVhen we came back To school ThaT nexT SepTember we were all 1- more confidenf and ambiTious. On The firsT day we looked The new firsT-formers over wiTh conde- , scending amusemenf. We were Second-formers. ThaT meanT ThaT you could be bullied by Third, fourTh, Tif+h, and sixTh formers, buT ThaT you had in Turn like power over firsT-formers. ln his firsT address To The school, Mr. Tillinghasf said ThaT l-lorace Mann was a school for young genflemen. We filled ouT our pink and blue slips l again-This Time wiTh a flourish,-and when we goT our program cards we were insTanTly aT home. While our scholasfic life wenT on land for a few of us This included l.aTin and Miss MclnTosh's rooml some of us became alTruisTic and sTarTed widening our horizons. WiTh a clash of cymbals Buchsbaum became a member of The Business board of The Record l-.aTer on, in April, Barnouw and McGowan joined The reporTorial sTaff. McGowan had become a nine-days wonder for having had Two sTories published in successive QuarTerlies. Barnouw followed aT his heels wiTh a sTory and a poem, boTh of which gained second prizes in The QuarTerly conTesT. The class of '33 has always been a very liTerary one, and These sympToms were observed by Mr. Blake, who gafhered The child prodigies To his bosom and formed a LiTerary Club. This included McGowan, Barnouw, Viereck, and laTer l-loover. No sooner had The club been formed Than someThing wenT fzzzz wiTh McGowan's TriumphanT liTerary career. l-le sTopped produc- ing masTerpieces, and allied himself insfead wiTh The Boy Scoufs of America. The Three remaining members. however, finally became The bulwarks of The QuarTerly. Barnouw wroTe sTories abouT Tramps, ex-services men, and garbage men: l-loover Turned ouT solemn Ii++Ie poems abouT God, DeaTh, and lin his Senior Smoolhle Bliven yearl Love: while Viereck produced purple Tales abouT murderous Spaniards. Brenf Couchman lex-'33l was a member of The Liferary Club when iT was sTarTed, buT lefT The following year. w. P. M.-Big sim T '1 .2 54 y,

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Jim 1933 corroborafion of fhe horrible sfories we had heard in fhe lower school, among which were fhe fables fhaf second-form bullies would fake you ouf info fhe woods af nighf, fie you 'ro a free, and leave you fhere by yourself. One or fwo imporfanf evenfs are puf down for fhe year '27-'28. ln fhe January of '28 lvlr. and Mrs. Herman, parenfs of John l-lerman, presenfed fhe school wifh a new sfeel grandsfand. We vaguely remember fhe ceremony which foolc place before if, wifh fhe school lining up in silence in a fhin drizzle of rain. The grandsfand was an invaluable giff,-gen- erously harboring Andy's sfore and fhe Dramafic Club scenic equipmenf as well. I-lorace Mann gourmands had formerly obfained fheir gumdrops from an lfalian wifh a liffle carf. The unforfunafe lfalian was fhe buff of much heclqling and persecu- fion from us nasfy liffle youngsfers, so we were de- Pafflol John Hefmfm prived of one of our amusemenfs wifh fhe insfallafion of Andy's con- fecfionery shoppe. We sfill had ofher liffle games, however. Graybearded seniors may remember playing peelc-a-boo wifh fhe spealceasy owner af fhe boffom of fhe hill. The old spealceasy is gone now. lf was padloclced a long firne ago, alfhough fhere is a cordial shop nexf door. The window- fronf of fhe old speakeasy was painfed wifh a fhiclc coafing of orange over which was wriffen somefhing abouf faxi service. lin spofs fhe painf was worn away. and we urchins would squinf fhrough af fhe bar. Somefimes we lcnoclced af fhe door and fled, and fhen a large man would rush ouf, bellowing affer us. As firsf formers we were appro- priafely inconspicuous fellows, and we did liffle fo gef our names info . as fhe Record, Kahn and Keller In me,,,O,,am-,.ie,,,y He,,,,a,, were menfioned for high marlcsg Sfern was elecfed presidenf in Janu- ary, and in May fhe lasf issue of fhe issue of fhe Quarferly bore a sfory by Pefer Viereclc. Ofherwise we were liffle noficed. lf seems fo us now. as we loolc baclc, fhaf we musf have been very model firsf- formers. Cerfainly we didn'f run around and yell, like fhe unruly firsf- former of foday, did we? lf seems unfhinlcable. 3' 53 T,

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JM 1933 ' AnoTher organizaTion which blossomed in The Second Form was The JusTinian Club, which was composed oT Bliven, Munsell, Gwynne. Barnouw, Kahn, l-lenry, Donohue, and Devine, and which was banded TogeTher by Miss MclnTosh. NaTurally This was Tollowed by anoTher club-The CreTan Club, under l The advisorship oT Mr. Blake. ln iT were GoTTlieb, Keller, Euld, Herman, Tyrrell, WolT, STern, and Russell. BoTh clubs preTended To be doing a loT oT good in The world, and boTh zealously drew up idealisTic consTiTuTions. UnTorTunaTely, like The Roman Empire, The JusTinian Club wore iTselT ouT Through The dissipaTing eTTecT oT parTies and house meeTings, which all invariably ended up in rough- house. The JusTinian Club lasTed Through To The end OT The Third Form, when, as a sobering gesTure, The members donaTed a prize To The BesT CiTizen oT The Lower School, who happened To be a member oT The CreTan Club, E. PTeiTTer. The Record occasionally gave space To The l.iTerary Club and To The Two social clubs. lT also menTioned Kahn and GoTTlieb Tor marks, and ExTon and MiddlediTch Tor Tennis. Beyond This There doesn'T seem To be much hisTorical maTerial, excepT ThaT Miss Malloy came To l-l. M. ThaT year. Oh, Susanna! THIRD FORM. NEW TEACHERS AND Tl-IE YO-YO lClass oTTicers: E. PTeiTTer, Pres.: STern, Vice-Pres.: GoTTlieb, Sec.: STroTz, Treas.l When The class oT '33 reTurned To Horace Mann in The Tall iT was greeTed by a whole slew oT new Teachers. Messrs. Franzius, Baker, T-lunT, ScoTT, and SmiTh had deparTed Tor divers reasons, and in Their places came Messrs. Gibson, Oliver, Briggs. l-lughes, Cunningham, and ETTelson. Perhaps iT was during This year ThaT Mr. Camenzind sTarTed To culTivaTe a musTache and laTer decided noT To. We can'T exacTly remember, alThough iT was surely md: i mai,,+a,,, , , in The days beTore Mr. Kalligan sTarTed on his. The new Teachers were a iuvenile loT, almosT young enough To be idealisTic . . . whaT wiTh Mr. Briggs Telling us ThaT our hisTory books were our Tools and we shouldn'T be aTraid To mark Them up . . . Mr. Cunning- T55i-