Lafayette High School - Legend Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Miss HELEN SHANAHAN: Likes a good sport . . . says she was voted in by the Senior class because she understands the growing pains of the high school boy and girl . . . likes teaching Health Ed. because I like to play. . . . advice to us: Follow the Golden Rule. . . . thinks we're cc lively, likeable, average group of girls and boys. duties. Mr. WILLIAM HORN: His idea of a dream student is one who walks in on time, erases the board, gets the homework on the board, explains all the math, examples, teaches the new lesson and sits down when the bell rings . . . I get the check myself . . . is popular because students get to know me after having me in the same grade term after term . . . asked what he thinks of teaching, I'm a better learner than a teacher and it didn't take long to learn it doesn't pay to teach. tFigure it out yourself.J My I AW 'HMV Mr. NATHAN BLUMENTHAL: Likes a student with a sense of humor, one who is well-liked by students as well as teachers when asked if he'd choose teaching if given an other chance replied: With the present financial return, this is a difficult question to answer advises Seniors to try to be fair always and realize that teachers and students have both rights and 2' ., W ., W ? 7 WW 4 W , N X ff f f W f K f 6 ' y y We f 4, yi... sf f Mr. MARTIN LEFKOWITZ: Likes a student with a sense of responsibility fine sense of humor and warmth of personality . . . would choose teaching if he had another chance ONLY if there's a better salary . thinks we're all a fine bunch of livewires.

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STUDENTS' PETS Well, we got out ol Lafayette, didn't we? But at least we had the last word. We picked our best-liked teachers. You want to know more about them? Let them speak for themselves. Mr. AARON TODER: Likes good students, but not teachers' pets . . . attributes his popularity to his patience and torti- . tude fseems to be losing his patience, but, of course, it's not because of usl . . . thinks we're a f , .qq swell bunch . . . his advice to Seniors: Graduate. S H WM 2 F5 X gr 'rw Sf, fx Nr S . X X .. N - 51 ff A X f , f T, Mr. IULIUS JACOBS: my His idea of an ideal student is one who will use V his knowledge and energies to make a better world for everyone . . . attributes his popularity ,l,, y to the fact that I gave a piece of gum to every wiyy r p' Senior with a label attached, 'Vote for Iacobs ' 2 . . . suggests as a new discipline system: Let them listen to Mr. Yudell harangue on soccer. The length S N Xi of the speeches will keep everyone out of trouble. it Mr. ISADORE MILLMAN: His dream student is a blonde with blue eyes . . . attributes his popularity to the tact that La- fayette students are poor judges. . . . wouldn't choose teaching as a career again because he ,J ulvll V thinks there's no money in it . . . his advice to Seniors: Do some work tor a change. . . . when S asked what he thinks of the present graduates- No comment: I might get locked up. 12

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Mr. EMANUEL BLANK: Likes a student with native ability, intellectual I honesty and a sense of social responsibility . . . Y i n thinks his popularity is probably due to poisonal if U maggotismu . . . has never yet failed a deserving J' Senior . . . says we're of the same caliber as fy some of the finest grads we've had in the past f1 . . . advises us to continue with our studies if we U ,',A have the opportunity. Mr. GEORGE H1-XUPT: Doesn't like a perfect student but one who's a head. Mr. HERBERT WEISBERG: ' Likes a student who doesn't gripe, who has poise, self control and who knows what is going on and isn't in a daze . . . thinks of us: They're human beings. I can't say anything worse about them . . . his advice: Hold fast to your ideals and your hopes for a better world. Don't become cynica1. little mischievous . . . thinks our class is just right -average, good individuals . . . never gives out pink cards and is talked out of none Che thinksl . . . his advice to Seniors: Don't get a swelled 'WMM If only other teachers would read this stuff! What a wonderful world we'd have then! lTeachers were interviewed by Doris Davis. Marilyn Eichenbaum, Abe Emanuel, Estelle Liebowitz, and Lila Rubin.l 14