Manual Training High School - Prospect Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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y,?-:SN-, W. .:n....... .,...-.... -t-W... . M... 3.4.3 Li l.. -f lf ft lj t Q ., xx Your first real thrill came when at Manual's great Welcome Home and Victory Pageant you realized the part Manual men had taken in the World War. lt sort of made you feel sorrynthat you did your German homework during the Manual Patriotic Service League Sessions' The pen continued to speak: wllhen followed your 'wise fool' or Sophomore period when you thought you'd tell the world things. How far more superior than the insignificant little Freshman you believed you were. In June, '19, your wisdom led you to help circulate the Less Homework Petition and ohl what a shock it was when you found your homework increasing. During Speech Improvement Week you eradicated for more likely was supposed to eradicatel some of the defects in your speech. The installation of a chapter of Arista in your school proved to be another milestone in its history. In its ranks I see a good number of the members of your class, including all of the oflicers. In February, '20, the snow shoveling fiasco took place and of course you recall the good time fand lame backj connected with the war on the snow-pile. About the same time, basketball as a regular athletic activity was revived and Manual celebrated by hanging the crepe on Erasmus in the first game. ln the meantime you were growing more sensible and advancing all the time so that it was not long before you found yourself a lunior. The outstanding feat which occurred was the revival of the school play and your class was well represented in the cast of the 'Fortune Hunter, when it appeared at the Academy of Music. The 'Manual Weeklyf a new organ, first saw light of day and was received with joy by the student body. At this time Senior Day was instituted and for one day the Seniors let fly their dignity and became rollickin', frollickin' kids. Your next step, spoke the dispenser of ink, was into the realm of the great and mighty Senior and what joy you showed at having eluded the traps of the Regents Board so far. Possibly the most noteworthy attainment of the school during your Senior year was a one hundred per cent G. O. membership. I say possibly because during the same term Manual's football team defeated that of Erasmus for the first time since you were in school, aided, of course, by various members of your class. On Senior Day your class duplicated the tactics of the last class with as little propriety. On May 5th they assembled in the Auditorium and learned from various prominent professional men the secrets of success. This was the first meeting of its sort in the history of Manual and of course it remained for your class to start it. In turn the school play, 'Young Americaf the Senior 'Prom' and the beach party all held your interest, but when the idea of having this Year Book had matured S0mewhat you were lost in the maze. As a result of some real hard labor fask the staflj before you rests an incorporation of Manual as we saw it and it will form the object lens through which your classmates will sec it in the years to come.'l Thus spake the pen. l'2Tl

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he lass Zlaisturp Honorary President . . . ..... Miss JULIA T. Correa President .......... ...... H ORACE MILLER Vice-President .. . JEANETTE RUMLEY Secretary ...... ..... E DYTHE RYAN Treasurer ................................ DAVID NEWMARK ARADOXESI l-Hope and Despair walking hand in hand. That was the con- ception I had of the job before me. Writing a history of the class of June, 1921, threatened all the proportions of a ticker tape. How in the name of King ,Iames's favorite Bible could I, above all, hope to assemble into one homogeneous mass the deeds and misdeeds we perpetrated on our beloved tutors in our'four for livej year sojourn at Manual? My correspondence course in How to Improve Your Memory in One Evening failed me at the critical moment, so back to the dusty old pile of Prospects I had to go to get the necessary dope. I went in like a cyclone and came out like Stromboli in eruption, emitting clouds of dust. After the usual harsh words, I declared peace with myself and began to sift out the information and dust I had absorbed. Then my pen began to talk and this is what it said: Remember the day, when as a humble Freshman you first planted your foot in Manual and was surprised at the democratic air that existed. What a lost feeling you had when there were none of the 'don't you do this's' and the 'don't you do lhat's' which were your guiding lights heretofore. With not much ado you slipped on your harness and began the four year drag. Your Freshman year was more a period of harness adjustment than anything else. I can't help smiling at your actions in the first G. O. election you encountered. You walked the halls adorned beyond recognition with symbols of the party you favored and in your ignorance you carried the emblems of two opposing parties. fFreshie ingenuity' you might call it. I will admit as you learned the ropes you did throw off the nightmare and jumped back into bed, but I have the upper hand now and where you erred you shall suffer. To get back to the bill of fare. There were other bright lights in your first year at Manual. The appearance of 'The Thunderer,' an outlaw literary publicationg the noise connected with the First Liberty Loan Drive land the periods you missedj all helped to make Manual seem more like a picnic ground. When the 'Golden Indies' appeared you received your first glimpse into the Thespian art at Manual. It was during this period also that Arthur Guy Empey with his five feet nothing came over the top into the Manual barrage after an absence of seventeen years. ln the 'Faculty Follies' you received some sidelights on the human side of teachers and discovered how they acted in their playful moments. Remember especially how Mr. Bloom tried to imitate the 'missing link' and how Mr. O'Donnell portrayed the Kaiser at his worst. The first bazaar you attended and its disastrous after-effects due to excessive indulgence in candyg how you first bought candy and then went outside and joined the Anti-Candy League all bring back memories of your youthful capricer. i261

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L T -i ' EMANUEL ABRAMSON, 211,48 Pitkin Ave. Robin Hood Play ill, M. A. S. fl, 213 Camera Club f2, 33, Vice- President, 1313 Scribes i355 Economics Club Q4-lg Science Club tflllg Bank tflil, President, Modified Mg Chess Club 1179 Year Book St., Clubs and Chairman of Finances. University of Pennsylvania. Still they gazefl and still the wonder grew That one small head eoulrl carry all it knew. ' EDWIN ACKER, 3 MelJonougl1 Sl. Hockey Ill, Co-op Jazz Band, Co-op Tennis Team, Swimming ill. Co-op Baseball. Drake Business Scliool. Towers are nieasurerl by their sltarlows. Louis Anwsricm, lI52-flflith SL. Economics Club lflilg Camera Club tl. 2, 33. Long Island Medical College. Know thyself, 'Lis better sn. ' CliAm.o'1 1'1c li. Asuwoirru, tCuAm.ual, 4458 lfii-st Sl. .Basketball fl, 2l-----l'llClSClll11ilYlIl High Sclioolg Red Cross and llel- Eliun Relief Work il. 23, Swimming 13, 4-lg lVlan11al Y Club 1.3. fit, lVleml1ersliip Committee-Sth Craideg Tennis lflflg Prospect ffllg Bunk lllitg Weekly lflilg Science Club, Vice-Pres. tfllg Vic- tory Pageantg Year Book, Arista. Smith College. Madam Curie is another great seientife woman. I 28 1