Lincoln Junior High School - Lancer Yearbook (Yonkers, NY)

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY Our futures lre on the horrfon They hold the promrse of the unexplored and the untrred All of our energres wrll be d1rected toward the fulfrllment of the goals whxch wrll confront us rn years to come Our hrstorres are our own and eyeryones for our lryes are rnterwoyen Our paths haye touched and played upon the meanlnof and drrectron of the others NN hat blurry rrnpressrons of experrences, faces and emotrons wrll find them selxes rn our consclous thouffhts twenty years from now? XX hat portron of our school lry es wrll we wrsh to recall? We wrll all remember the cacophony of carpenters hammers of concrete mrreers and of creatron rtself that accompanred our hrst few years at Lrncoln The school was bernv burlt and we were growrng wrth rt, rn number and ya rrety Our General Organmatron Grew from an rmpotent organ to become a large flourrshrng orUan17at1on wrth unportance throughout the entrre school Vrth Mr Geller as faculty adyrsor and the elected scnror officers Dean Petros Mary Larse and rlemma Kaplan rt sponsored all sports and many of the socral events The GO store opened, and as more responsrbrlltrcs were Urxen to the orvanwatron, we heard the begrnnrnff of lklr Raffgros speeches to BUY A G O CARD AND SL PPORT X OLR SCHOOL In our unror year the yarsrty football team came rnto berng, rt was a rough and drscouragrng start wrth only two touchdowns made all season But durrnv our Qenror year thrnvs be Gan to look up We scored at least once 1n each game and succeeded rn trouncrnff Rooseyelt an old rryal lkleanwhrle the V foot ball team won the crty champronshrp two years rn a row and holds a promlse of successful Varsrty football rn the near future In basketball we haye shone more brrllrantly In our unror year Preston Denby and Kenny Sarubbr became heroes on campus rlhey helped us tre Gorton Hrgh School for the Central Westchester league champronshrp Dur mg our Senror year the 6 3 trro Fen S8Il1bbl Preston Denby and rm Brady led us to xrctory t1me and trrne affarn In addrtlon to these two sports the G O sponsored track swrmmmg, cross country bowllng and tennrs teams Hugo S1ewertsen and Georffe Sage made a name for us 1n cross country competltron, whrle Arthur Leyrn racked up a fine bowlrng average The cheerleaders were also supported by the G O Irene Cohen and Arlene XV1lson co captarns recrurted male cheerleaders Grl Sanchev, Howre Strome, Jerry Susman and Steye Gutman to lend support rn leading the cheers wrth therr deep bassos They drd a fine loud Job The Imcoln Hrgh School band rs one of the finest rn the crty Brrffht yellow md purple unrforms were ordered ln our unlor year from money rarsed rn a 18 Q I .x Y . . E 1 .X 1 ' .1 Y. .4 N. v T . -. x 4 ' Y , . Y . 7 v : 1 ' v s vs ' I ' 1 D , . . . . . I Q N . Q . W Y Y Q V , . D , ' ' v v . 7 ,' . . 1 V . ., Y . . ' H Q V. Y. . . Q - D Q J Q. . . . y. . ! .Q ,. , O . D . , .' . . --r ' y ' n 1 Y 'J , . . 7 . . . . D . . . . . , H D ' O ' D v , , ,, . . L . J . H H . , . Y . . ' . Y . . Y. Y Y V . . ' ' s es L ' V ' 1 , 1 ' , D. D , . Q a ' ' ' x . . . . Q . , 1 , , . -Y r X . . Y J . Y A K ' x as , sa 1 x - A1 . ' . . , ,, Q. . . 9 X ' a ' ,I 9 D . ' - . 1 , . . E . Y L Q - - ' Q Y . . Y . V. Y ,. . - . . 4 . V. , , ., , , . , . . . , V . . 1 'S ' 4 . . Y - as . Y W , J . Y Y . .

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maffafinc drru The surntx fue members looked 'rnd sounded loud W hethcr marchrnff rn tht rain or plaxrnff comfortably rn therr own auditorium the band was one of the achievements of 1 student body takrnfr an aetrwe interest rn therr school As the school ffrew our encrffres and rdeas dexeloped and were grwen a chance to be tested rn other fields XVe were rn a Llfllqlle srtuatron a new school wrthout the restrrctrnff tradrtrons of precedent was rn our hands to be led down new roadways of experience One of the experiments was the foundrnfr of a lrterary drffest FOMPITN Dll Al Published once '1 year rt was '1 selected cornprlatlon of essays poems stories 'md art work that was submitted to the staff bv the students It had an ausprcrous bevrnnrng rn our umor xear and rn the Senror year rt was under the direction of Richard Abrams, Brll Hresrnger, and Phrlrp Srlverman The SCROLL our newspaper beffan to appear at reeular rnterx als mainly through the efforts of the edrtors Rrchard Holt Kal Kessler Gary Stern and Robert rrtkowrtz It contarned exerythrnv from srck jokes to strrrrnff edrtorr als Last year, haxrng been submrtted to the Columbia Scholastrc Press rt placed second rn ltS class time enerfry 'md anrcrety went mto these pages than were exhausted rn any other published article social ment or football ame Irene Rubenstein editor, and anet Stern art edrtor pushed the staff alonff when they were lax and actually held the orvanrfatron tovether The culmrnatron of thrs work rs the finest and largest yearbook rn Lrncoln s hrstory In scholarshrp our class erceelled The Honor system was rnrtrated rn our unror year 'md carried throuvh to the Senior year It consrsted mainly rn the honor of haxrnfr more work than anx other class Qpecral proffrerms were rnstrtuted such as Adxanced lirolofrx Theatre Arts and Spanish Four Four boxs Rrehard Holt kV1lll'lIH urck Phrlrp Srlxermfrn and Allan Zaklad placed as sernr Frnalrsts rn the National Merrt ualrfyrng Tests Thrrteen other stu dents reeexed letters of Commendation The rnductron of the 'National Honor Society included some thrrty students the lardest Group to be honored rn a srnvle class rn Lrncoln s short but scholarly efcrstence The Senror class ofhcers were Jeff Hoffman Domrnrck Darnato, Ioseph 9anche7 and Helen Capelrnr They headed the Senior Council w hrch planned all socral cxents of the class rncludrnv the genror Prom I'hese were the accomplishments of '1 group of people actrnfr as an efficient student body They reflect the efforts of ererv classman These are the ev perrences which wrll help to shape our future Our wrctorres and farlures lie behind us and before us 19 5r'.' ' T . Q - ' 'v' ' , ' c . Y 1 ' ' w ' v .' D . ' ' ' ' ' ' . . V , . v , L . x dv L '. C C L I Q - . ' ,. ' ' . , ' . ' U a o ' ' I O ' 7 ' A , , A , O 6 . , , L - f . . s L , . . ., ., A 4' L ' T Y . . . , , k 5. . , 3 ' , ,D D 1 , t 'S 3 5 4 . s D , . C , 7 7. . . . . l L 1 5 X , C.s. Our final and ultimate literary achievement is this yearbook. More work, ' , 5 1 . i ' i . L , ' ,. . 2 ' 3 ' Q ' ' 7 J ' 7 ' 5 9 G 1 D I' D ' Y f . . , . . - . Y I DIV, f . f. C L s . 5 D D . . . , V . O , . , , . . . H , , - I L . , . X A , V . if . ., D K . . V r K D r