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

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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-

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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 ' ham vociTerously approving oT Edgar Allan Poe and l-lamlin Garland, and reading WalT WhiTman aloud in class, making us blush . . . Mr. Gibson inTroducing regimenfal French discipline To The school . . . and T Mr. ETTelson honoring us wiTh The Tale oT The car- penTer's daughTer. WhaT was iT like, being a Third-Tormer? No senior can remember back ThaT Tar: iT is impossible To answer. We can only recollecT parTicular scenes and Tlashes oT The disTanT pasT. Being a Third- Tormer was someThing like being a senior, Tor we were aT The Top oT The lower school, which gave us a sense oT vague power. We exercised This power, Tor insTance. in The locker-rooms. Qnce upper-'Formers had a liTTle gag oT pouncing upon some helpless Tellow in The locker-room and shouTing, l-le hasn'T had a shower! ln vain The Tellow would proTesT. OTTen APe'mf ' Wilson he was made To undress and be dragged oTT To The shower room. ln The lower Torms This oTTen led To pugilisTic encounTers, and soon The whole locker-room would resound wiTh The barbaric and persisTenTly rhyThmic cry oT FighT, TighT, TighT, which everybody Took up and shouTed while pounding on The lockers. ForemosT in These baTTles emerged The war-scarred Tigure oT our own liTTle . Napoleon-Alan SpoTTs, who has since deparTed Trom This school, buT whose unsquelched soul we will noT easily TorgeT. ln This year Cowl made The soccer Team and Buchsbaum The TooTball squad. Barnouw, l-loover, and DelacorTe were represenTed in QuarTerlies, Barnouw geTTing on The board and having a sTory in ProspecTors, which was published in Novem- ber. ln May DelacorTe and l-loover joined The Record sTaTT. Two imporTanT evenTs, however: lal Peyser won The New York -limes' naTionwide oraTorical conTesTg and lbl The yo-yo sTruck Horace Mann School. OT The Two iTems The second had a more The School mealpacke' direcT sociological bearing, buT Peyser's Triumph was Big News and an occasion Tor much iubilaTion in The school. Peyser's speech was re- prinTed in The Times, TogeTher wiTh phoTos oT him receiving a cup. -T563