Lafayette High School - Legend Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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0144 Zzaaaadled Each term for approximately three or four years we have listened to, criticized, laughed at, spoken to, hated and loved C?,?l our teachers. Finally, in the eighth term we are given our revenge Cheh, hehl, we vote for our favorites. Why they were picked, we don't know, maybe out of sympathy or from fond memories, or because we were bribed . . . well anyway what have they got to say for themselves? Mr. Nathan Blumenthal: Was educated at N.Y.U., Fordham, and Brook- lyn Poly Tech . . . teaching is a family affair . . . likes Woodworking and farming . . , believes good- will and fellowship exist among the student body at Lafayette . . . advice to seniors: lt is up to the graduate as future citizens to correct the injustices in the world and do their utmost to promote ade- quate educational opportunities for future senior Mr. Alvin Broido: classes. Mr. Herbert Weisberg: He became a teacher by accident . . . works with youth organizations . . . believes Lafayette students are hurnan beings, worse than that he cannot say . . . advice to seniors: One with truth is stronger than all the battalions . . . never ag- gravates himself . . . likes to go home-to whom? . . . a pretty red-headed wife with green eyes and two lovely children . . . wouldn't you? A slow lecturing voice and a loin the GO. will always introduce that famous economics teacher and student school companion . . . Mr. A. Broido . . . he teaches to direct students in their proper paths and instruct them how to make their lives worth-while . . . seated behind his office desk he directs all traffic between Lafayette students and their money CDid you see that new car he was driving around in recently?J . . . enjoys playing golf and telling anecdotes, as long as someone will listen to them . . . Remember the difficulty you had in trying to go to a good college, think of the next fellow and try to get an unrestricted, democratic education for him. 25

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18 Mm fad. 143' ffze .fafaqellle Qafed or Where's Yer Pcrss, Sister? By Charles Binder So I was on the Service Squad! So what? So XXXXUII ,XZ I this: I got pushed around by big fellows, teach- X ' ers, and captains, I pushed around little fellows, 'fi' sergeants, and privates CI was a lieutenantlg I sent - ' ' I people who were late around to the side entrance. Q, u Ml I sent people without passes, who came up to the main entrance, out into the bitter cold. I slammed Enigma' doors in freshies' faces. I greeted the teachers when they arrived. I used to freeze, holding doors 5:-qi: ,iN open for our faculty. I For what? For just 80 credits a term . . . and . I5 . If 3 lessons learned in the school of experience. The funniest thing about the front door post, is the large variety for excuses that the students present in order to get into school early. To get out of the cold or heat, they suddenly become members of the swing band, orchestra, dramatic club, speakers bureau, football team, and stage squad. Urgent phone calls have to be made. Students have to go to the emer- gency room. Some give me a different story each morning, never following in line with what they said the previous day. lf I were to believe some of them, several fellows would probably receive enough service credits for a class of forty pupils, working 8 periods a day, 5 days a week. Some of the feminine gate crashers tried to get through by flashing smiles and by using their feminine wiles. Nevertheless, I was always able to resist their charm, and turn them away from our doors. I was a social outcast. As I walked through the halls, and felt their stares, I felt so low that I had to look up to see bottom, so low that I had no trouble tickling an ant's foot, so low that I could crawl under a worm without difficulty. Sweat and tears, joy and sorrow, happiness and dismay have passed by me and my lurid eyes at my memorable post, and now into the world beyond maybe I'll see them again. But never the sight of these gate crashing football players or those pleading tear-jerkers or those energetic, enigmatic, everlasting teachers. Long may they all live and the Service Squad also. 24

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Mr. Gordon: All round good student . . . never flunked any subjects . . . favorites are math, econornics, and history . . . was purely an accident that he be- came a teacher . . . didn't like Zoology and didn't like the smell of formaldehyde so decided to for- sake medicine for history and economics . . . what else could you do with it but teach it? . . . aspires to be able to play a good game of golf . . . at a very young age, Mr. Gordon wants to do as many young men want to do . . . travel and loaf . . . greatest ambition right now is to buy a car . . . here's news . . . Mr. Gordon is engaged . . . now that he's engaged he'll have something else on his mind beside history dates. Mr. Michael Santorcx: Went to New Utrecht HS., C.C.N.Y., Columbia -and is still there . . . known to his friends as lerry . . . married to a very lovely woman named Aquila Cmeaning eaglel . . . Cshe must have been hypnotized by his eyesl . . . hobbies include arts A and crafts, dancing, especially waltz and tango . . . pet peeve is people who are insincere . . . has been teaching at Lafayette since its opening . . . was head of the GO., but he left that post for the Army engineers . . . at present is faculty adviser to Arista CSr. and lr.l . . . is very fond of Lafayette and its students, and hopes that they continue to show their school spirit as in the past. Miss Betsy Antin: Lady with eternal smile, who wears Red Cross Ambulance Driver's Uniform and gives hard his- tory tests Cwhat a combinationl . . . is known to all of us as the pride and joy of the Social Studies Department . . . as a little girl she always wanted to be a teacher and she was awful smart . . . partial to adolescents and doesn't like to scold . . . very sports-minded and enjoys almost all outdoor activities including horseback riding, skiing, golf, swimming, and truck driving . . . but from practical experience she wants us lwe seniorsl-we should learn well English and have better manners . . . l like 'ern was what she said about us . . . Ctake it any way you wantl . . . ln you lies the tre- mendous responsibility of retaining our peace-do a good job. 26 , RJ 1