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 SCHOOL Nnurln Y the time one has reached the age of discretion, that - - seventeen, one is qualified to discuss and to criticize novels. 7 xi One has read enough of them by that time. . k Roughly, novels can be divided into three classes: .f win The fresh cold air novels. The warm stale air novels. The novels with no air at all in their setting. The fresh, cold air novels are invariably written on one theme, that of the dainty, deserted damsel who has been done out of her dues by a dastardly uncle, and the husky, handsome, happyfgoflucky hero, who helps the heroine in her hour of hardship, and, although the maiden protests against his supporting her, he carries his beloved, against her will UD, off to God's country and the wide open spaces. The second mentioned type has for its setting an ornate apartment or a magnificent mansion fpreferably the latterj. Heroine is, without exception, a pretty, pampered, powdered, painted, and provocative daughter of the rich. The hero, a blunt, brutal Qbut gentle to animals and children, bachelor, loves Annabelle to distraction, but is repulsed by her, because he cannot sway the Charleston way. Finally, in a moment of exasperation, Roger seizes his lady love and carries her perforce to the nearest justice of the peace, who marries them. The climax of these weighty works of art is of course reached when the blushing bride murmurs that she has loved him all the time. In the novels that have no air at all in their setting, or at best cold, dark air, the scene is laid in a filthy factory, or in an intolerable tenement. The sob-sister around whom the story circles, is a sweet, suffering maiden, who slaves ceaselessly at a sewing machine, and who is the sole support of a bedridden relative fthe more distant the betterj. The hero, a tall, tender truckdriver, is enamored of the girl and wishes to marry her. That perfect woman, however, is unwilling to do so, because of her feeling that it is her duty to care for her greatfaunt. Five years later, after many privations of body and of soul, the solitary s'hop girl ffor' the aunt is now deadj, finds herself one fine morning, consenting to marry the wistful wooer. Then comes a surprise indeed! The happy husband turns out to be either a great movie actor in disguise, or if not he, at the very least, the Prince of Wales! RUTH WEINERMAN Senior Cltzss-Tu'en tu-four