James Monroe High School - Monrovian Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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THE SENIOR BOOK In the Fall of 1927, we were lower Seniors. Seniors! -the name itself was thrilling. We'd soon be Seniors. Meanwhile, we had to content our' selves with lesser affairs. Mac Goldsmith won the VicefPresidency of the G. O. by a few votes. Catherine Rambo succeeded to the Secretaryship unanimously. Willie Rambo, the other half of the family, was elected Repfat- Large, with Estelle Wasserman as his running mate. Sid Ment took the managing editorship of The Mirror, with Sol Dobkin, Cliff Schuman, and Lew Funke as assistants. Leo Rubenstein was named editorfinfchief of The Doctrine, with Irv Zindler and Sol Dobkin as associates. Joe Richter managed the business affairs for the publications. Cn january 31, 1928 we were-nothing. Cn February 1, we were- Seniors! We had a class full of ripfsnortin' he men, or nice gentle women. There was a strange collection of cakes and collegiates and of bigshots and inferiocomplevces. Such a bunch had to decide an election. Willie Rambo, big blond boy from Evergreen Avenue, ran off with the Presidency. Rita Austin won the VicefPresidency, Edith Grossman the Secretaryship, and Eli S. Marks the Treasurership. Sol Dobkin was voted Publicity Mana' ger, Chubby Seligson, Boys' Athletic Manager, and Norma Meiler, Girls' Athletic Manager. Meanwhile, other things had occurred. Catherine Rambo and Clifford R. QReclj Schuman were elected Leaders of the Arista, and had the pleasure of inducting twelve of their classmates. Cliff and Catherine also served as President and Vice-President, respectively, of the G. O. Irv. Haberman, Mac Goldsmith, Frank Moskowitz, and Georgie fEyeshadej Schwartz PoohfBahed the G. O. Council. The Service League awarded silver pins to seventeen and admitted fortyffour Seniors. Quite a crowd! Lenny Greenthal won the individual P. S. A. L. fancy diving title. Other prominent class athletes won their and even formed a Varsity Club. Most of the Seniors conf tinued with the work they had been doing as lower Seniors. What will happen in the years to come? Do you remember our Celebs? Turn to that page and read the list, once, twice, again. Do you remember Senior elections, Red Letter Day, with its songs, its skit, its stories, the Prelim dances, where one was cured of bashfulnessg the Prom, and its attendant circumstances, Field Day and our Red Letter Day Beretsg Class Night and the Minstrel Show and Gifts to Celebs, and, finally, Commencement? Senior, do you remember? If you do, that's expected of you. If you don't you have only to turn to the History of the Class to refresh your memory. At present, the mind of your scribe is teeming with all sorts of facts about the Class of june, 1928-syet, who knows but that he, too, will go the way of all flesh and in years to come, have to finger the pages of the History to recall old scenes for himself? LEO RUBEN STEIN .Senior Class-Turnty-two '

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JAMES MONROE HIGH SCHGOL Eiatnrg nf the Snninr 0112155 F we remember correctly, a History of the Senior Class should take into account everything that has happened to us since june 15, 1925. For it was on that day that we registered at Monroe. As we rode over the bridge on Weschester Avenue we could see two buildings towering to majestic heights over a 3 ' wilderness. The territory east of Westchester Avenue was oc' GIIIITIIIT 5 , Y 1 lj C l l j cupied mainly by truck farmers. Fortunately, several streets had been already cut We trudged up a long hilly block until we came to the main entrance of the brandfnew james Monroe High School-to find writ above the portals those words of William Pitt, 'iWhere law ends, 'tyranny be' ginsf' How frightened we were! What awaited us? It seemed to us almost like L'Lose all hope, ye who enter here. We were young and impression' able and almost tempted to run home again. But we screwed our courage to the sticking point and entered the auditorium for the first time. Thus be' gan our life in school. Few of us can remember way back to the Fall term of 1925. Do try: the exercise is invigorating. Now, when you have found you remember scarcely anything, return to this History. Cf course you know Sid Harris made the football team, and broke his ankle, and was elected Secretary of the G. O! Of course you know that Joe Dreyfuss became Managing Editor of our Mirror! Cf course you know that Irv Haberman was hanging around the G. C.! Of course you know that Marjorie Fairclough, Lydia Rosoff, and Bella Halpern contributed to our publications! Cf course you recall! How easy it all is! Quite a few of our boys and girls were rarin' to go and succeeded in getting started during our second term in school. Shorty Lang made the basketball team. Sid Stein came late a few times. Our politicians succeeded in getting started on their careers. Irv I-laberman was elected Fourth Term Rep and Cliff Schuman, he of the flaming locks, Third Term Rep. Marjorie Fairelough, Lydia Rosoff, Cliff Schuman, Lenny Greenthal, and Georgie fSwaggerj Schwartz slaved day and night for Mr. Whaleii's Mirror. Carlos Arcilagos, the Spanish Athlete from Venezuela, launched Rojo 'Y Om, Catherine Rambo came into her own as Girl Leader of the junior Arista, which, by the way, claimed many of our classmates in its membership. Several qualified for the Senior Arista, to which they were admitted in the Fall. Senior Class-Twenty-one

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