New Utrecht High School - Comet Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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October 20-Tack Chakrin and Isabelle Cohen given leading pC1rtS iD Cyrano De Bergerac. Gctober 25-Bellantoni, Feinstein, Didier and Kobrin win tour G.O. ottices. November l-Senior Cabinet chooses the Park Central tor Senior Prom. November 6-School throws its doors open to parents as Open SCl'1OOl Week begins. 7 November l0-l38 Utrechtites installed into Senior Arista. lerome Schnur and Shirley Goldstein, leaders, speak. November 10-Students agree that America must stay out ot war at Peace Assembly. Dweck is Chairman, Donneson, Goldstein and Baron speak. November l0-GO. Cabinet chooses a budget committee as well as a committee to prepare agenda tor G.O. Congress. November 21-First tree in Beautity Utrecht campaign planted by Dr. Bogalin and Mrs. Appel. November 22-Mr. George Zinovoy, Chairman of the Physical Training Department passes away suddenly. December l-Senior Hop draws more than 500 as Artie Senior's Orches- tra dishes out the music. December 4-l-lendel noses out Donneson by l8 votes for Seventh Form Presidency. December 5-December l5 Music Concert goes into final rehearsals. December 8-Science Assembly Program presented amid roaring vol- canoes, ilashing lights and ringing bells. December 12-lnter-Club Council proposes a club period. December l5-S.B.O. sign put up as Music Concert packs the house. Mr. Ehrlich announces repeat performance on lanuary 12. December l8-lerome Schnur, Arista Leader, awarded Co-operation-in- Government Medal. Nine others win certificates. December 22-Dramatics Class directed by Mr. Serwer and Madrigal, present special program at Christmas Assembly. lanuary 4, 5, 0-The spectacular and stupendous production ot i'Cyrano De Bergerac presented. Mr. Bosenzweig directs. lanuary 8-Senior Arista Theatre Party sees Pins and Needles. lanuary l2-Senior Arista elects Semel and Greenberg for its new leaders. ' A A lanuary l6-Cabinet presents tour reports to G.O. Congress. Ianuary l9-Senior Class Night presented-that's just about all. Ianuary 22-Semi-annual agony begins as Begents exams are handed out. . Ianuary 29-Ianuary l940 Senior Comet appears. A Ianuary 30-1065 seniors graduate from New Utrecht in ceremonies at Brooklyn Technical High School. ' 'tThis review has been compiled by the editors of the New Utrecht Nuhs who urge you to subscribe to the school paper during the coming term.D Twenty-two

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woo Roxanne. Le Shufy played his role as author Edmond Bostand PTObUb!Y V!SiO1'lGCl him, good-looking, dashing but weak in front of women. ln the role of De Cfuiche, a nobleman who also has a liking for Box- anne, was Zelly Donneson. Donneson made a perfect job of his character as his jealousy for Roxanne's love was brought out. incidentally, this is the same Zelly Donneson who is famous as an orator in Utrecht. Eliot Agush handled the comedy relief well in the role of Bageuneau, the pastry cook. His acting at the beginning of the second act in the pastry shop scene drew plenty of laughs from the audience. Agush kept un- tarnished his reputation as an actor in this school. Marcella Marksamer turned in a fine bit as the fidgety, flirtatious Duenna. Al Lebarwitch turned in a great piece as the Meddler in the first act, Marvin Berman appeared just about as drunk as he was supposed to be as Ligniere. Harold Webman was excellent initwo small parts, those of Montfleury, the actor in the first act and the Captain of the Cadets, Carbon de Castel-laloux. The actors who portrayed members of the crowd and the cadets all acted to perfection. Credit is due the Stage Crew under lerry Schnur's supervision, includ- ing lights, scene changing, making of scenery and so on. And now . . . Mr. lsidore Rosenzweig. Guiding the aspiring thespians through stormy rehearsals over a period of more than three months, Mr. Bosenzweig, in his last production at Utrecht was determined to make Cyrano his best. l-lis interpretation of the play, did more than anything else to keep this play in the memories of the Utrecht students for years to come. Wait, here comes the signal from Mr. Bosenzweig for a slow curtain at the end of the last act. The Two Stooges, Buster Simensky and Abe Blumenfield are getting ready to 'lwalk the curtain, the properties are being collected by Elo Turchin and Hall Tall, and the loudspeaker is being disconnected by Abe Eaigelman. Curtain! Two Curtain Calls! House Lights! October 3-Utrecht Nuhs starts 30th term of publication with Morris Dweck as Editor-in-Chief. October 3-According to scholarship lists, New Utrecht leads the entire State of New York in scholarship. October 6-Faculty committee launches campaign to 'Beautify Utrecht. October 8-Work on Cyrano De Bergerac begins with Mr. Bosenzweig at the helm. October l9-Tall, Le- , , shefsky, Bellantoni nomin- ated for the G.O. Presi- dency, Dweck, Feinstein and l-lendel to seek Vice-Presidency. October 20-Ierome Schnur, Morris Dweck, Florence Turchin, Harold Tall, Shirley Ackerman, lsabelle Cohen, Emil Meli, Ioseph Ahearne, and Pearl Blau elected to Senior Cabinet. Twenty-one

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The hlSlOFY, the sudden death ofthe chairman of the Boys' P. T. department, Mr. George I. Zinovoy. '39 season brought to New Utrecht the saddest sports news in its Mr. Zinovoy was a well-known figure in high school sports, his position of chairman of the P.S.A.L. Games Committee attesting to this statement. lt was also Mr. Zinovoy, if we recall correctly, who put up a terrific struggle to bring baseball back to New Utrecht and finally succeeded in the Spring of '39, lt was really a blow to Q f Green and White sports when Q ww he passed away. Football-Since this was the Fall term, the gridiron again assumes its position as the leading sport in New Utrecht. A potentially powerful football team, captained by George Chieffo and coached by the able Mr. lerry Shaw, was too erratic to really get any place and finally finished the season with the unimpressive record of one victory, one deadlock, and five defeats. By ERYVIN SIZVIENSKY The gridders started off with a defeat at the hands of Manual, to the tune of l9-U. They followed this up with a l3-6 victory over Brooklyn Tech, the only triumph of the season. The thriller with Erasmus was next on the schedule and although the Greenies lost to the tune of 20-9, the efforts of Toe Biondo made it a moral victory, lt was ul-landsome Toe who kicked the spectacular field goal that put the Buccos ahead by 9-7. CEditor's Note: Although Biondo kicked from the Buff and Blue 28 yard line, the lU yard end zone made it a 38 yard kickl. The Curtis squad took the pigskinner's by 7-U, and Madison followed the Staten lslanders example and put the Greenies on the short end of the l8-6 score. A terrific battle with Iefferson followed, with the Buccos holding the highly-favored, all-powerful Orange and Black eleven to a 6-6 deadlock. lt was in this game that the Bensonhursters were robbed of their second triumph. The Kelly-Greens were on the Ieff one and a half yard line when the final whistle blew. Lincoln administered the final defeat of the season when they took the boys over the hurdles by a 12-U count. lt was also in this season that lrv Kintisch, the big right tackle made the World-Telegram All-Scholastic, but didn't get the chance to play in Miami, when the trip got involved in official red-tape.. In the Penn Relays of 1928, Charlie Padock dodged tons of bricks and hurdled fallen spectators as the stands collapsed and yet ran 175 yards in the world record time of 17:2f5 seconds. i The ball left the bat of the great Babe Ruth at a speed of 120 miles per hour when he smashed out his homers. ' q T ' ' f Twenty-'three