Lafayette High School - Legend Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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f'Out, out brief candle-ii These words rang a familiar note in my befuddled brain as I recalled the day in English 7 when we dramatized Macbeth. It was a bleak, stormy day and the rain was beating frantically against the window panes. The three witches were huddled over their 'fbubblingi' cauldron and a mystic spell was cast over the room. Next, a maze of numbers came into my view and I was told to prove an identity. All I could remember was the identity of my fellow sufferers during the year of Con-Fusion, as we called it. I don't know why everyone dreaded that course. I really enjoyed Hunking Math. ll. I had such interesting classmates that term: Pythagoras, Einstein, Danny Halperin .... A shufiiing of feet and babble of voices brought with them the realization that the exam was over. I was left alone in a large, foreboding room and my mind wandered back to the day of my first Regents, when at the completion bell I was the only remaining student. I remembered that Hrst Regents. The review books, the extra assignments dur- ing the Christmas holiday fhomework for January 2: three regents, oh nollj, the frantic studying of the list of postulates the brain in my Geometry class was certain would be on the test fnone of them were.j I remembered waking up at 4:30 Regents morning and coming to school later with four pens, six pencils fassorted colorsj, two bottles of ink, three rulers and countless erasers only to discover that I'd forgotten my compass. I recalled thinking that after this experience finals would be simple. But oh, those College Boards! ! l I thought of how I had labored through 32 years of High School waiting for my Senior term when I, too, would have connections on the program committee. Tradition holds that the lordly Senior fwith connections of coursej gets away with five periods-one major, three lunches and senior music, natch! I remembered all my friends who broke tradition, winding up with eight peri- ods, 7M majors, and if they were fortunate, five minutes for lunch, in the locker room. I had been a bit short of majors and decided to take some practical subjects like Sten. and Type. The first 65 in my life and me a SENIOR! l i A bolt of lightning Hashed before me and as the storm began to subside and the room grew light I found myself staring wide-eyed at the calendar and the bleak wall of the Legend office. I looked down at my senior pin and realized that I was back in 1953. A glance at the clock told be that my Health Ed. period was already in the sands of time. My fantastic day-dream was at an end and in a short time my High School days would be terminated. They couldn't keep me back just for missing one little gym period, not after I had participated in that startling scientific experiment of turning back the hands of time-or could they? ? ? BARBARA EPSTEIN f, f 1. g f l f r KW 4 rf .i if Q I: I i ,, VA A l f 4 H' 3 llll .1 ,MMI Q N 54. 54- If V X XX 'Q' 'ixl 49, Q X I F I l ffu X Z X XE? F X Q . K wir' K. X V . A nn f ,. Lx - i gmw gb i-i '-uuligmxu-.ik V5.6

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What Zfrive Glo y 1920 As the 1920's unfolded, the Charleston was the dancing rage and prohibi- tion was at its peak. It was during this time that many of the sport world's figures gained their acclaim. One of the roughest and most colorful sports in this spectacular era was foot- ball. When the great teams of this period met on the gridiron, the sight of blood and broken bones was familiar. The most outstanding team of this age was the great Notre Dame team. From this rough and turbulent sport arose such great stars as John Levi of Haskell College and H. Hardwick, great end for Harvard. 1953 Moving now into our generation, we find football has become a carefully played game. In high school competition there have been many great teams, but none of which in our opinion can surpass the great Lafayette football team of 1951-52. Some of the players who have made Lafayette such a great team for the past two seasons are AL GOLDSTEIN, LOWELL CHERESKIN, NICK DE CICCO, SAM DE LUCA and ROLAND HOBBS. 1920. Probably the best liked and most exciting sport of this era was baseball, which produced such great teams as the New York Yankees and the New York Giants which brought into focus such immortal stars as Rogers Hornsby, Connie Mack, and the greatest star that sport has ever known, 'LBabe', Ruth. 1953 Lafayette can also boast of a great baseball team, consisting of such popular players as JERRY BOXER, STAN FISHEL, SAL LA MURA and JACK GIORDANO. 1920 Basketball, not too prevalent during the 2O's, has climbed steadily and gained popularity until it is now one of the major sports. During this period Nat Holman of C.C.N.Y. and Claire Bee of L.I.U. drew public attention to basketball. 1953 Lafayette, having a young, but promising team, has developed some of the future greats of basketball. The most notable player is capable SANDY KOUFAX, who has been scouted and will most likely be a future professional basketball player. Credit should also be given to BURT ABRAMOWITZ, FREDDY HORWITZ, JAY LICHTMAN, HESHY RUSSEL, and MARTY LICHTERMAN. 1920 Another sport, not famous in America during the 19203, but very popular in Europe where it could be compared to our national pastime, baseball, and also well known in Lafayette is Soccer. 1953 Our soccer team has won more championships than any other team in the city. This past season they copped the 'CBrooklyn-Manhattann championship. One of the most important factors in their campaign was the outstanding playing of JOHN LO MONACO, JOHN VENTIMIGLIA and DONALD SPECTOR, As the great teams and players of the 1920's went down in the history of the United States, the stars of Lafayette's great teams will go down in the History of Lafayette. WARREN SMITH LARRY BERNSTEIN Twenty-nine