Pennsylvania College of Optometry - Iris Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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E IRIS i934 0 West Philadelphia High School Temple University 1' sz ii: Music Committee l3l lACOB COHEN Hlackn Philadelphia, Pa. I Exemplifying the City of Brotherly Love, jack has been a steady commuter to Col-- lege Hall. He always managed to arrive in the nick of time for classes, but after class, nothing could 'tear him away from the suite of rooms near the Senior Lounge. Suffice it to say that jack's good sportmanship was enough to make him welcome at any meeting. Entering the Freshman Class unheralded, he quickly became known through his inspiring performance of the latest in soft-shoe steps at the Freshman Smoker. This act alone was enough to insure his making friends, and it was not long afterwards that Brown and Hur- witz were making the first hesitating taps behind locked doors in an effort to match the nimble jack. Knowing jack's propensities for a good practical joke, we were not surprised to see him one of the ring leaders in devising new methods of embarrassing the more conservative members of the Clinic staff. Sixty-one

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Sixty ' T'FlE IRI S l Trenton High School Lehigh University, C.E. 1' Q fb Vice Chancellor, Camma Omega Pfhi Fraternity t2l junior Assessment Committee l3l l AARONl.COHEN UA-V, Trenton, N. l. O When we first assembled as the Freshman Class at P. S. C. O. there was a great deal of confusion in the minds of Faculty and student body alike as to who was who among the three Cohens of the group. A.l. soon became outstanding for it was impossible to miss him in the classroom. For three years A.l. commuted daily between Trenton and Philadelphia. Be it understood that he was a family man and prone to narrate incidents indicating the high l. Q. of his cherished offspring. A.l. or Pop , as he came to be known among his more facetious friends, always had a large repertoire of gags and stories which we imagine were acquired through chance acquaint- ances with travelling salesmen while riding from Trenton to Philadelphia. The greatest of the Cohen group of P. S. C. O. l934 was by no means the least scholastically speaking for he gained repute early in his career here as a mathematician and theoretic optician.

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Sixty-two 'THE IRIS l Central High School Temple University 1' sz fb Gamma Omega Phi junior Publication Committee l3l josEPi-i col-:EN ..,0e,. Philadelphia, Pa, I lf you are sure that you do not hear a noise behind you, and if you are sure that you are all alone, then look around and you will see joe. The quietest man in the Senior Class, he can hardly ever be located by listening for him, but can usually be found interrogating some member of the faculty on an obscure point. And may we say, that if the point is ob- scure to joe, it is very very obscure to most of the other men in the school. joe first attained fame in the first roll call of the Freshman Class, when the professor pro- ceeded to stutter on the trio of Cohens. From then on, they became landmarks in the school. But quietness hath its reward, for this very virtue gained joe a deserved reputation for wisdom. which has never been disproven.