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

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April, 1934 Dear Diary, I wish I were a better baseball player. This is the third time I have been beaned by fireball Johnny Dow. Del Manzo is a much nicer pitcher- more control. Of course the stars are Avakian and Kubie. who have been taken for the ,Iayvee squad. This is the time of year when outdoor study halls are really a pleasure. I'm certainly glad to be out here, but I wonder how they happened to skip over that eighty-one in Math. Sin is rampant around this school. Some peo- ple I know are going home at an hour quite un- specified by Mr. Bruce. And do you know who brought that cigarette-case to school? I guess it's about now that Compton thinks his work is worth all that trouble. I wish I had done some work. I surely would hate to have to study this summer. IV Sept. 1934- Dear Diary, What a mustache! What a man! He is indeed handsomeg he probably teaches English. There is also another good-looking feller whom we don't know. but he doesn't count--no big red mustache. October, 1934 Dear Diary. The man with the weedy lip turned out to be Elbert Knapp Bailey. sole controller of a small Chevrolet and a Fouth Form American Lit course. One day we went into the study hall to elect Don Kubie Class Presidentg George Avakian, Vice- Presidentg Larry Lader. Secretaryg and Alan Blue- beard Jaffee. Treasurer. Mr. Briggs became ad- viser. Gosh, but the football team was good! What a big bunch of fellows. I bumped into ,lim Grandi in the hall this morning and he didn't even notice it. The team is undefeated and scored on only once. Iona is the only opponent left on the schedule. and Ump thinks we'll lose by a couple of touchdowns if we have a good day. The soccer team was fiendishly successful. too. The football Thirds didnit lose a game and they even beat Poly 7-61 I thought I got excited when Lefty Mandel ran seventy yards with a minute to 510. but you should have seen Mr. Nagle! They're giving out ,layvee letters soon. VI'onder if I'll get one? Mr. Metcalf let me play almost half a period in one game. It's been a swell sports season--even I got up to the second round in the Tennis Tournament. A whole bunch of fellows went out for the 'fRecord', but only a few got on. Avakian's been watching Kaufmann tear up his '4Sportlights', col- umn every week-guess the poor fellow won't ever get anywhere. March. 1935 Hello, Diary, Remember me? Gosh, I would have forgotten all about you if I hadn't been sick today. I've got a little cold and besides Mr. Kalligan is giving a Math test today. The Varsity basketball team won the E. P. S. L. championship againg the swimmers won eight and lost oneg the Jayvees took ten out of eleven. Say. what a classy dance we had. Old '37 is right up there with the smoothies. Every time I went over for a glass of punch Cwheeeelj that predatory male, Biow. was there with a different dolly. Cute brunette Compton brought up. She's smooth. They say she's almost fourteen. Social note: It's a funny thing. someone over at Fieldston kept calling up the ofiice and asking for Miller C. to come over and get his French book, which he left on the subway. May, 1935 Hi. Diary! The year is went. The Varsity baseball team won the league championship. Good track team, too. Oh. yesg there was a bit of class work here and there. The bright boys of the year were Alan Thorn- dike. There were a few First Formers with phe- nomenal averages. but everybody knows how easy things are in the Lower School. You've never worked till you've been in the Fourth Form. Comp- ton. as usual, broke out into a rash of good marks. ? .r d f l 4 i 5 I 1 . ,, ffii-' 'L - C 1 it ' W f f H- ri tfalff i 1 fm ,V . I 3 Q ggggg X!! 08020 1.3 55 V ' ?k rs bfi

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1t .l1. f X NOTIQE it f 'E pg J x, 1, is x f I N X , 0 'Si ,-gi, fx-ff X af 'a TP we s cg , mm 2 . f 'if ts 1 g .Qs -- gf, - .i st-9 II Oct. 1932 Dear Diary, I guess I sort of trailed off toward the end of last season. I got through my exams all right and here I am back after a short summer. Gollyl A lot of the fellows are wearing long pants-at least two or three of them, anyhow. I asked my Dad about it and he said nothing doing. I hate to go around like a sap. I must stick out like a sore thumb. There are quite a few new guys. They have a couple of games here at school, marbles and chestnuts. You take the chestnuts, and bore holes through them with a locker key. When you play, you slide a nut over your knotted hand- kerchief and your opponent does the same with his handkerchiefg then you take turns trying to smash each others' chestnuts. It's a great game. The marble game is run like a regular gambling con- cession. The operators fix up all sorts of compli- cated apparatus in the dirt in back of the old gym. The sucker comes around with his marbles and tries to get into the pot. He gets big odds-but then he always loses. Feb. 1933 Dear Diary, We just elected our class officers. Ed Beckwith got to be President. He felt so good he gave a party to celebrate. Two of the guests were sort of lonely. Arthur Bijur is Vice-President. and Jerry Freed is Secretary. Jerry has his job down to a system. He is probably the only living executive to read his minutes from a blank page-the way you would give a speech. Baumann takes care of our money again. The football season went off pretty well. Kubie, Lester, Davis, and a fellow named Sloman were part of a good team, but they got beaten finally by the Army outfit which contained Reisner, Gratz, and Steckler. The assembly speakers arenit so bad this year. There was one who really had something. He brought up a mess of charts showing why he could play the saxophone because there was something queer with his windpipe. Del Manzo is turning out to be quite a swim- mer. Bowers is a super-star in basketball, and Jaffee shoots over his head just to be different. The Library Committee, while prowling about, discovered Murray Haig, George Herman, and Larry Lader off in various corners reading books. They adopted them violently and now the forgotten three slave at the bulletin board. Compton is continuing to get terrific marks. I hope I scrape through my finals. III Oct. 1933 Dear Diary, It certainly feels funny when a fellow finally works up to the head of the Lower School to rule the roost. I never thought Iid look back on it like this, but-well, now that we are here at last. we're rather too old to enjoy it all. Almost everyone is wearing long trousers these days. Iim going to go to dancing school. A few of the boys have been there and they say itis not so bad. The football teams are shaping up rather well with Rimbault, Kubie, John Gifford and Pope. Bijur is definitely a soccer star. and Jacobi, Bownes and Graef are up and coming. Feb. 1934 Dear Diary, Class elections are over, and Kubie is both President and class representative to the G. A. Bijur is Vice-President, Lader is Secretary, and Baumann surprised nobody by becoming Treasurer. The intellectual life of the class is really throb- bing and pulsating. Poffenberger made the Library Committee. That blossoming master-mind Jaffee is presiding over a newly formed Good Government Club. The sacred and hallowed constitution of the G. A. has just been exhumed and operated upon for acute obsolescence of the electoral laws. And last and definitely least Lader and Lasker have been accepted by the Record Board.

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All the Seniors bought white gabarcline blazers and the year ended in a hazy blur of white. the air filled with Hot dogs! Hot dogs! Ham on rye. please. V November. 1935 Dear Diary. Vfho comforts you when you're sad? Tells you who to take to the Fifth Form dance? Is sus- pected of being 193775 permanent adviser? Ran a mean mile at Yale? Vflhy, it's-er-you know. '37 felt the annual urge to elect. Results: Don Kubie. Presidentg George Casa Loma Avakian. Vice-Presidentg Artie Bijur. Secretaryg and Alan Iaffee. Treasurer. Football season was only fair-the team lost a gamel St. ,lohnis beat us after thirteen straight. Soccer took seven out of ten. and the .layvees lost to Poly. 56v6. Oh. gloom! February 1936 Dear Diary. I'm beginning to look forward to reading the uliecordv every weekg the Jaff has taken over the Contemps column. Big brother doesn't even buy the Hester now. lVlr. Miller started an oratory contest in his home room. and Bill Gibson won the final round. ltis the southern drawl that gets 'emg Emmy Lou told me so. Looks like the basketball team's going to take another championship. Swimming is doing okay and so's Jayvee. May 1936 Dear old Diary. Weire almost Seniors now and the Fifth Form has turned into a group of social fiends. We had our class dance and Mr. Nagle inveigled the lesser lights away to a game of parlor hockey. Some fun earlier in the year at the operetta- Johnny Gifford and P. J. Brown flirted about on the stage of the A. W. A. Clubhouse. P. J. still Q Q. 735-4 B -q ch rl? -l l - CM 'til Inq' E Y . fl: i N Q X f i ' - , - gx Q ' Q- X . 55-4 Q 94 '.' i l x 'N f .QKX X121 9 s Q 755' 1' maintains that it was all in fun. but Une Never Knows? Class genius was George Compton. There were some high marks in the Fourth Form. but every- body knows that until you've reached the Fifth Form you've never worked. Anyone who lived beyond the second floor will remember the elevator strike. We walked our eight flights in fear and trembling. but lads of greater temerity like dough-face Don Smith not only rode but made good money as strike-breakers. Big fuss over class rings and pins. Everybody was dissatisfied. because who can pawn an onyx ring? Incidentally. local Vfinchells are wondering what foresighted young Junior bought three rings. Mr. Neitz announced his retirement after 31 years of teaching at H. lVl.l Heill be remembered as the man who gave Pat Bownes his nickname back in the Third Form. Our energetic Mr. Gibson packed up his curve ball and left to become head of the Modern Language Dept. at Penn Charter. Baseball's not so hot this year, and neither is track. but the ,layvees have one thing to brag about -Don Del lVlanzo pitched the only no-hit. no-run game in the history of the school. Mr. Tillinghast displayed scads of meaningless blue prints which were illegible beyond the first row and announced to the school that next year's stimu- lating Wlednesday assemblies would be held in a new auditorium. with better facilities for drama. etcetera. etcetera .... VI November. l936 Diary NOT HDear Diaryf, It doesn't pay to get too familiar with one's diary. Look at Mary Astor. Our dream girl really appeared last spring. but we didn't stand a chance with Mr. Neitz around. As it is, the competition is pretty tough now with Seniors using every possible subterfuge to go into the office. Vflhy is it Miss Shay keeps asking me what I want? Now for the banal realities of . life. The Pforzheimers gave the -ft school a new library. but work on the new auditorium uhad not pro- gressed according to schedule. V Somebody had broken all the win- ' dows in the old gym, but outside of 1 that. we couldnit see much change. They say it'll be ready by Thanks- giving. work W N N Y 7 X ' v 'Z' t 55 XE Q! i n P 'r X E Vi-Sf X 1 twist- X -s 1 6 mm Some lightning fast work enabled