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

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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

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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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As haughTy Third Eormers and champions OT The Lower School, our Throng swelled wiTh mass inTilTraTions Trom oTher schools, and SenioriTy seemed a liTTle closer Than a disTanT sTar. School was geTTing harder, buT iT was much more Tun. We plowed Through English wiTh Mr. Leese, picking up an amazing amounT OT inTormaTion on The way, debaTed on Communism in Mr. Briggs's class, and were amazed ThaT Mr. LaTham's General Science Midyear was a maTching quesTion ThaT spelled ouT l-l-G-R-A-C-E M-A-N-N. Several OT us were biTTen by The ExTra-curricular AcTiviTy Bug, joining The Record, The Library CommiTTee, and The Microscope, Science, Ship, PhoTOgraphy, and Erench Clubs. Bill Green won The Presidency wiTh Larry Goodrich, Erancis Chen and Jim Powell in The Vice-PresidenT, SecreTary, and Treasurer oTTices, George lThe liTTle Napoleonl STeiner was G.A. RepresenTaTive. Under The guidance OT Mr. Nagle, our adviser, we invesTigaTed The inTricaTe workings OT a naval base and The Brillo soap TacTOry. The EourTh Eorm was noTeworThy Tor Two reasons: our enTrance inTo The Upper School and The sTarTling appearance OT Jim EreTwell. Gur classes became more varied as we soughT To Tind our besT inTeresTs. Mr. Dodge's lplus andl minus sysTem TerriTied some oT us while Mr. LaTham's movies OT animal dissecTions had a decided eTTecT on everyone who Took Biology. Those Taking The course beTore lunch had diTTiculTy eaTing, and oThers who Took Biology aTTer lunch had diTTiculTy reTaining Their's. A Tew hardy souls Took Greek. We elecTed Larry Goodrich PresidenT, Bill Green Vice-PresidenT, Mack Young SecreTary, Jimmy Powell Treasurer, Bob Blinken G.A. RepresenTaTive, and Mr. Crandall Adviser. The wonderTul moonliT class dance ThaT year was only rivaled by an ear- shaTTering assembly announcemenT by Eddie l-lousepian, who used a live revolver To adverTise The parTy. The Team OT Marcus and Silver enTerTained us royally in assembly also. Then we were debonair Juniors unTil The day we meT Mr. BaruTh, who prompTly removed The superioriTy complexes we had assumed. l-le gave us Shakespeare and Shelley and KeaTs sTraighT Trom The shoulder, and aT The end OT The year we all agreed ThaT Uncle AI could read MacbeTh beTTer Than Maurice Evans, Though we could never guiTe believe ThaT caTs in England were Tour TeeT long. Some OT us were Taken in by romanTic lyrics and began reciTing love sonneTs To enrapTured girl Triends. Explosions were heard daily in The Chem Lab as were The piTiTul moans oT Mr. Dodge's sTudenTs, lamenTing The lengThy assignmenTs in La Rana Viaieraf' We saw our class- maTes in maior club oTTices and on VarsiTy Teams. l-lomework was really geTTing hard. Our class exalTed The iron sTrucTure OT our hero and class adviser, Charley Avedisian, and chose Bill SarnoTT PresidenT, Paul MorT Vice-PresidenT, Eranny Chen SecreTary, and Paul Bilgore Treasurer. Larry Goodrich reporTed The G.A. doings and served as Manager OT The newly-Tounded CanTeen. We deeply TelT The loss OT our beloved Triend, Ump Tewhill, in The spring OT ThaT year and were moved by The beauTiTul service The school presenTed in his memory. We rejoiced The ending OT The European war. Miss McInTosh renewed acguainTances wiTh us as we mapped ouT a dazzling shindig Tor The Seniors in The Torm OT a glorious CommencemenT dance. Our own class prom was noThing shorT OT TerriTic. 27