New Haven High School - Elm Tree Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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. ,J-1, .. ..Y,. Fd-V-H--.. 1' F53 nii n-134011 a i57l1ITnit 1 i1iT1HTfiiiibTiBWm ' About this time the question of the hour was, 'KXVho will be the officers of the class ? From Freshman days this thought was often uppermost in our minds and always a matter of keen interest. The opportunity to end this doubt and uncer- tainty presented itself when Mr. Kirschner announced that the Class of Nineteen Twenty-Three would be allowed to organize. Nominations were then held, fol- lowed by a campaign the like of which has rarely been seen. Finally came the day of judgment when it was decided that james Birney was to be President, Frederick Chapman, Vice-President, Herman Levy, Treasurer, and Edna Lane, Secretary. Another event of considerable importance was the election of four juniors to the recently organized Student Council. Of eighteen proposed, only jim Birney, Fritz Chapman, Ken Martin, and Herman Levy were picked. Thesdiagting in an advisory capacity, well represented our class in all school matters. The literary and journalistic efforts of this year were on the whole not very successful due to the lack of support from the student body. Nevertheless, the S6'7ll'f7'l0l and the Crescent managed to surmount their obstacles and came out, for the most part, regularly. On the Scfztinvl Editorial Board were Herman Levy, VVarren Hughes, Claire Schoenberger, Gertrude Sternschuss, and Eileen McManus, while john Hall ably managed the business end of things. But Herman Levy and Dud Stillman didn't stop with High School publicationsg they obtained positions as 'reporters on the Register and the U nion respectively and wrote up the York Square news. V Y Spring athletics were now Hourishing. johnny johnson, then of our strong band, and Ed Peters, maintained the honor of the class on the baseball diamond. Likewise Sturgeon, Beck, Slocumbe, and Haczela were the stars of the Track Team which defeated Hartford and New Britain in the annual triangular meet. Jackson, Carl johnson, and Chapman were also conspicuous in gaining honors on the championship Tennis Team. Finally, the year drew to a close and ended the activities of scholarship, ath- letics, journalism, and dramatics, in which the Class of Nineteen Twenty-Three excelled. These accomplishments will long remain in our memory and serve as an inspiration for greater efforts in future years. HARRY RESNIK. 25

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Q o o 4 SN HIE'-EIISVTISIPItThCD1-CITCIII1 aiiiifii iilgngkf ment of athletics Gardner Crabb and Bus Friedman demonstrated their versatility by defeating their two Senior opponents. The reputation of the junior Class was raised many a notch through the efforts of the girls, basketball team. This team easily defeated all opponents and gained the coveted championship. But with Viola Smith as captain, Gertrude Sternschuss as cheer-leader, Natalie Jacobson as manager, and Charlotte Peck, Edna Lane, Mary Chamberlain, Katherine Morrison, Blanche Cameron, Doris Clarke, Helen Fidler, Glenna Bullis, Virginia Toole and Delia Tracy as players, can anything else have been expected? The boys' team followed the example set before them by their fair classmates when it conquered the proud and haughty Seniors. But in a spirit of unselfishness and generosity, it lost the game and likewise the championship to the lowly Sopho- mores. In giving the athletic achievements their full measure of praise, let us not overlook the dramatic accomplishments of the year. These consisted of two plays, The Maker of Dreamsi' and The Atonement . The former was given at the Christmas assembly and provided pleasure to all who witnessed it. The latter was written, presented and acted by the Senior Public Speaking Class. However the matter of being a Senior didn't bother Abe Bawarsky, since he obtained a part in this production by some method mysterious to most of us ordinary juniors. One of the most successful events of the year was the exhibit given by the Science Department. Naturally, the Juniors took care of everything pertaining to Physics. It was the duty of those in charge to explain to the onlookers the experiments which they performed. jim Birney, after expounding the theories involved in his experiments to an elderly gentleman, even blushed when he found out that he had been trying to increase the knowledge of a professor of Physics at Yale University. In the field of debating, Demosthenes himself would have rejoiced had he heard our own orators in the forensic clashes against the neighboring high schools. Our representatives earned a complete victory in the Triangular Debate between New Britain, Hartford, and New Haven by defeating their two opponents. These decisions have placed New Haven in a favorable position for acquiring the VVes- leyan Cup. VVith such success, we are not surprised to learn that three juniors, Herman Levy, james Rirney, and Russell Flanagan, were the mainstays of the regular debating teams. Less satisfactory, however, was the result of the Dual Debate against Bridge- port, which ended in a tie, both affirmative teams being victorious on the question, 'fResolved, That Trade Unions are Essential to Successful Collective Bargaining . In this debate, which was the last of the year, Myer Mermin and the three juniors previously mentioned were active participants. The class team, consisting of Saul Gamer, Abraham Bawarsky, and Harry Ratner, easily convinced the judges that the arguments of both the Seniors and Sophomores were invalid. By doing this, the Juniors won the interclass champion- ship and the debaters were awarded Demosthenes medals. ' 24

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was-. , , 777- ,, T - 'T' p , gN. Q. LQLQSDA. 57 gli 1 n 1' CU -lgttzga 13 n n k Svvninr Emir SEPTEMBER 'WVQ meet not as we parted, lVc feel more than all may see- Senior Year is at last before usg we have reached the envied goal and the future months beckon to us enticingly. 'fJim Birney affirmed and declared in strident tones that if he grew equally as fast every summer he would soon be able to tower over his class by means of his stature as well as by his executive ability. He called a meeting of our class shortly after the strain of the first few days had disappeared and we sensed in the atmos- phere a feeling of union and cooperation that had never been previously detected. The Class of ,215 was prepared to face its future obstacles in close formation. Bus Friedman believes in close formation too, so he did not allow the summer lethargy to linger beyond its appointed time, as far as his football followers were concerned. The warm sun did not prevent the Girls, Outing Club from enthusias- tically entering into plans for future outdoor and indoor activities. In fact, for the first month after a return from long blissful days our class seems to have been unusually energetic. OC1'OBER Saul Gamer and Fred Beck were elected to edit and finance our Class Book. A few days after this election we read with joy in the Sentinel that our High School team won a cherished honor in tennis from the faculty. Soon we found ourselves witnessing Gardner Crabb kicking a beautiful drop in our fast game with Bridge- port. About this time Ellwood Travis appointed his Pin Committee and pinned them down to work right away. lt being early in the year and everyone light- hearted, it was thought a fine time to start the Senior Chorus-much to the annoy- ance of the lower classes. K Dramatic meetings started in earnest and the fact that the York Square Players and the Shakespeare Club decided to combine, with Levy as President, is worthy of mention. The records of this month cannot be closed before we offer condolences to f'Bus Friedman for the sad blow he received in the game with New Britain, which incidentally, we won, 20 to 7. 'fBus went home looking a little less handsome on account of a broken nose. NOVEMBER November is reached at last and we feel that the trees are commencing to don their winter mourning in sympathy for us after receiving our first reports. How- ever, we heard that Russell Flanagan and Milton Newman were so overjoyed that they ran all the way home to carry the glad news. Possibly the only place where change is made, very often, is at the Lunch Room. But the exception to this last or plastic rule, is that Saul Gamer, now, holds the position of President in our Mathematics Club. Witli Mr. Booth as director and Saul's technical mind guiding ' 26