Horace Mann School - Horace Mannikin Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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Boffom Row: Kluger, Deifscn, Rose, Meer, Chen, Goodrich Sarnoff, Newmark, Goldslein, S. Solomon, Bookman, Goldman, Singer, Second Row: Sussman, Heineman, van Laer, Levin, Jacober, Hofrichler, Weisberg, Zabar, Baer, Rolh, Neger Johnson, Osbourn. Third Row: Lehman, Wolfsie, J. Rosenberg Langner, Langsdorf, Ellis, Davis, Sneresky, S. Feinberg, Loeb Arnspiger, Cornick, Corcoran. Top Row: Frelwell, Ross, Wilkin son, Blinken, Munroe, Van Gelder, Holme, de la Chapelle Messifer. as we soon found our, Seniors. To be a i member ol Jrlwal elile sociely was like reach- ing lor The moon and rlie larllwesl slars. lr was somelbing for us only lo wisb .and pray lor, and somelwow we fell llwal we could never make il. Dr. Tillingliasl greeled us and aclually seemed To know some of us from llwe srarr. We fell llwal if Tliere was one friendly band in rlwese unfamiliar surroundings rliar rlwere were probably many more. We were riglil. Miss Mclnlosln also greeled us and promprly began lo baffle our naive brains willi ber Monday alle:-noon educarion sessions. Bewilderedly, we began lo learn a slrange new language called Synlax and began cramming for lworrible examinalions on lndirecl Obiecls and Demonsrrarive Pronouns. Under Miss Mclnloslfs domineering rulelage we learned Hue inlriguing operarions ol: llie Comb and Jrlie Naillile and were fold rlnar There were Men employed To reporl on unbecoming aclions in Jrlwe subway. Senior adviser Dr. Blake wilb Q' Treasurer Pressman, Vice-Presi- denr Mori, and Secrelary ,Q Anrlwony. W.,

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Boffom Row: Schoen, Morris, Marlin, Pressman, Bilgore, Dr. Blake, Mori, Anfhony, Weilz, Speiler, Schneider, Kulkin. Second Row: Boros, Richard., Greenufeld, Schwartz, Berdon, Bernslein, Fuller, Spanel, Rubin, l-lonrg, Melicow, M, Solomon, Alrgcr, Third Row: Hirsch, Pincus, Green, l-laugaard, Bachrach, Gluck, n Cohen, Sreinberg, Galler, Binder, Smilh, Goodfe. Top Row: A Rosenberg, J. Feinberg, Rofhchild, Lavine, Kau rnan, Ingber, Schlesinger, Corsi, Waddell. NE warm Seplember morning way back in The year l94O, a sorry-looking group ol eleven and Jrwelve-year olds slumbled down Jrhe sleps of 'rhe subway slralion al 242nd Srreel, peered a+ a couple of respeclable ealing esrablishmenls, and silenlly plodded up a long, sleep mounlain unlil il had reached a gray shrine ar The lop, bearing The name of lhe l-lorace Mann School for Boys. ll is dirliculr, as we look back on ir now, lo Jrhink of Those 42 lirlle urchins as 'rhe beginnings of Jrhe Class of '46, bul somehow we accepl il as Jrrue. As we Jrimidly sellled ourselves in lhe sears on Jrhe lefr side ol lhe audilorium, we were aware of a noble barralion ol gods silling on our righl. They were called, Presidenjr Paul Bilgore ...A

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There were oThers who held us in check Too. ln lvlr. Gerow's hisTory class we reconsTrucTed The Tallen ciTies OT Babylon and Greece and learned To respecT The generosiTy oT ThaT benevolenT genTleman when we Tound ThaT we could buy back Tor only TiTTy cenTs our own pencils and pens leTT in The classroom The day beTore. Mr. Clausen TaughT us how To diagram simple, compound, and complex senTences and had us memorizing passages oT poeTry. Soon The halls began To echo wiTh chanTings oT: The Assyrian came down like The wolT on The Told, And his cohorTs were gleaming in purple and gold .... WiTh Mr. Anderson we Traced arTisTic language maps, combed The dicTionary Tor unusual word derivaTions, and Tried To reciTe The Greek alphabeT in Three seconds TlaT. We worked diligenTly on The LinguisT and Tramped The sTreeTs To obTain adver- TisemenTs. Allan Newmark Tramped The TarThesT and goT To be Business Manager, breaking all TradiTion. And Then There was Mr. Chandlers ''never-To-be-TorgoTTen-no- maTTer-how-you-Try geography course, in which ll2's and 59's were given ouT gen- erously wiTh no marks in beTween. ln The Spring we elecTed Franny Chen PresidenT, .lim Powell Vice-PresidenT, Mack Young SecreTary, and Sam Lindsay Treasurer. WiTh These boys To lead us, we began To Train Tor The day when we could deTeaT our haTed enemy, The Second Eorm, in The Friday rip-ball sguirmishes. ln a bloody engagemenT in April we meT These cruel oppressorsy and, alThough The injuries were heavy on boTh sides, somehow we TelT ThaT we had come ouT on Top. The year Tinally ended, and we eagerly looked Torward To The day ThaT we could siT on The oTher side oT The AudiTorium. l-lowever, as Second Eormers, we sTill could see no more Than a Third oT The sTage. Losing no Time in showing our superioriTy To The EirsT Form, Though, we were ready To beaT The living daylighTs ouT oT Them aT every opporTuniTy. Mr. Gerow Took up where he leTT oTT in ancienT hisTory and broughT us Trom The Dark Ages To The eighTeenTh cenTury. We Tound ourselves siTTing up nighTs compiling inTormaTion Tor The long LiTe on a Medieval Barony and Renaissance arTisTs' reporTs. l-lorrible punishmenTs were concocTed Tor violaTors oT The sereniTy oT The classroom, and even The mosT reTined were wriTing ouT a hundred Times - I musT noT use my 'Weekly News Review' as a weapon oT oTTense or deTense or as an asTronomical ob- servaTory. We read Ivanhoe and Evangeline Tor English and creaTed epic poeTry in The sTyle oT l-liawaTha while Mr. Gilmour coached us in ariThmeTic and sold us eggs on The side. Some oT us rallied around The crimson banner and Tollowed The daunTless l-larvard rooTer, Mr. Nagle, inTo his classroom where we soon Tound ThaT The LaTin language was Tar Trom dead. We also learned ThaT iT was unhealThy To use The words Thing , 'imaTTer , aTTair , and Winchell in ThaT genTleman's presence. Jim Powell was PresidenT ThaT year wiTh Bill Green as Vice-PresidenT, Mack Young as SecreTary, and Larry Goodrich as Treasurer. Mr. Gerow was our loyal adviser, and Eddie Housepian, The non-voTing represenTaTive To The G.A. Gur class meeTings were mainly occupied wiTh plans To amend The G.A. consTiTuTion To enable Eddie To voTe. l-low well we remember The big day when Billy Green advanced our aims To The enTire sTudenT body, and how cleiecTed we TelT when The amendmenT Tailed To geT a Three-quarTers' maioriTy by only a Tew voTes. 26