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

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now seemed quiTe an ordinary one. BUT we had come To love and respecT The halls where we lingered and were proud in The ThoughT ThaT maybe The presenT PirsT Form was holding us in awe. Dr. Blake, our TaiThTul and inspired adviser, TrighTened us wiTh his ThoughT Process and his TesTs which looked so easy when you TirsT looked aT Them. WiTh Dr. Blake we Took aparT l-lamleT and aTTempTed To puT him back Togelher again in The iuicy mid-year exam. T-le encouraged us all wiTh his happy belieT ThaT no one would aTTend college This year, Though Dr. Tillinghasf TervenTly hoped ThaT some oT us would be accepTed. Mr. LewerTh, The Columbia Tlash, saw ThaT we didn'T geT away wiTh anyThing in American hisTory, and Tiendishly invenTed new schemes To pull down our averages each week. Some oT us who had Tormerly connecTed Mr. Payne wiTh a happy smile and a pleasanT manner oT lisTening To play-skipping excuses received a severe iolT in physics classes. We TelT The sTrain oT coming in laTe on Monday mornings, bleary-eyed Trom a weekend wiTh beauTiTul women and college applicaTions. Paul Bilgore served as PresidenT: Paul MorT was Vice-PresidenTg Telly AnThony, SecreTaryq and STan Pressman, Treasurer. Larry Goodrich, Bill SarnoTT, and Francis Chen ran The G.A. Green and Blinken ediTed The Record, Newmark and LangsdorT, The MANNTKTN, Galler The QuarTerly, and Loeb The Manual. Chen, Blinken, Green, T-leinernan, Newmark, and Schlesinger were The leading scholars in our unusually brainy class, while Johnson, Goodrich, MessiTer, MorT, Gans, Corcoran, and SarnoTT were The ace aThleTes. We marveled aT The undeTeaTed Soccer and Swimming Teams and will long remember The A.A.P.S. swimming Tinals and The EasTern Prep School lnviTaTion BaskeT- ball TournamenT in Bronxville. April 6 was our April Pool's Day, and mosT oT us sweaTed ouT The six hours oT College EnTrance Exams, Though considerably shaken wiTh Spring Tever. Many oT us recovered in Time Tor The ele- ganT Senior Prom The nexT week- f' QQ' ' we end and Trenziedly searched clos- eTs Tor our TaThers' moThball-in- TesTed Tuxedos. ln The Tinal weeks we experienced a new Tondness Tor The securiTy oT our Alma MaTer and a Teeling oT uncerTainTy regarding our TuTures. In days To come we shall wiTh nosTalgia Think back upon Class Day, The happy, lighT-hearTed senior play, and Dr. TillinghasT's Tinal. solemn, sTirring words .... And Then one day in June we were walking slowly up The hill To receive our diplomas. We knew we could make iT. 28

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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

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OWEN H. ALPER Owen won The Tond affeclion of his classmalres early because of his abilify 'ro Jralce a iolce as well as engineer one. lnleresfed in magic, he forwarded The Magic Club un+il ilrs disconlinualion. Spealcers' Club and Debaling Sociely. A lceen mind Tor sporls aided The occasional wriling of an On The Bench column. Business Head ol The Record in The Sixlh Form, Owen golf special commendalion from Mr. Melcalf Tor his ellforls as a J.V. Foolballer. ARISTOTLE A. ANTHONY Probably one of The besi-nalured guys in H.lvl.'s hislory, Telly was deserve edly elecfed Senior Scribe This year. His pleasanl smile could be viewed on The gridiron and especially on +he cinders where he was an ace speedsler. Three years of crooning in The Glee Club and seven in The baihlub enabled Telly +0 sing wilh 'rhe Quarlel and Small Chorus. Vehemenlly denies lhal he is relaled To a cerlain Greek philosopher. OWEN TELLY 29