Queens College - Silhouette Yearbook (Queens, NY)

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one 4 e the dm, Our first impressions of collitch life were somewhat dimmed by the usual torrential storms which we have since come to accept as a necessary part of the first two weeks of school each September. YVe trotted around docilely in the rain buying math books at 54.40 a throw and those Taylor tabloids that became obsolete faster than the Lockheed P40g saying yes, professor to George Hinckley and asking Dud Straus what his major was. Dean Kiely welcomed us ofhcially in President Klapper's absence and we all decided Madlyn Donnelly must be the College G.G. with her upswept hair and that plaid reversible. Those were the days when we all contemplated our Persian Rugs after reading Of Human Bondage and professorial idiosyncrasies were matters of reverence rather than contempt. lt was this same glad September that Queens acquired those legend- ary characters, those men of rhyme and song whose names are on the lips of all true Queens men - that blessed trinity W- Dr. Bradley, Dr. David and Joe Machlis who have been commenting and commented about ever since. October 26th we celebrated QCTS first birthday. Miss Gram, rising splendidly to the occasion, provided little birthday cakes with one blue 418

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and E THA5 October 6, 1940 was a red letter day for Queens College-we finally had a varsity team which brought home a trophy. We feel it Htting and proper to print the names of that famous squad of nine men who brought this first trophy-and the only one to date-that the college has gained in inter-school competition. It was Lou Kunin, George Aaron, Morris Grumet, Moe Altchek, Mel Klein, Milt Schwartz, Tom Thorne, Ralph Hein and Nat Ostreicher who won the championship in the Flushing Y.M.C.A. table tennis league. i Outside of this one departure Queens College has not been able to overcome physical limitations and turn out winning varsity clubs. Groups of men have formed A'clubs to play other schools, but the stu- dent body could never get too steamed up about them. Basketball and baseball have gained a certain degree of popularity, but if it were not for the weekly notices in the Crown few students would know of the existence of tennis, boxing, track, swimming, soccer, handball and golf squads. Some people have visions of the dim future when Queens College will have a stadium and gymnasium and crowds cheering great inter- collegiate teams. But the more realistic person munches his sandwich and walks over to 'Abehind E building to watch the Dead End Boys win another basketball game. 47

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candle and we all sang Happy Birthday to You, and fairly shook the cafeteria with our sentiment, understandable since we had just seen our first professorial procession, and though Dr. Cayer's tam o' shanter from Oxford was still a thing of the future, the pageant was a sight to behold. This was a term of organization, organization, organization. The Student Council adopted a constitution-has anyone seen it? The Lens-Horizons was published-has everyone seen it? The Qu.een's Husband, first varsity play of the college, proved the first of Sally Pschenitza's many starring Hvehiclesf' The SAO brought us Gary Cooper in the Lives of the Bengal Lancers which ran as an added attraction to the Campus Newsreel - commentaries by The Hinckley. However he did it, photographer Lou Palmieri managed to miss 992, of the student body, but we liked looking at Tommy Ahearn anyhow. Christmas came, on the 25th of December as usual, with YV. Withers playing Santa to the Virginias of the Faculty. Oh, and it was this semester that we met our advisers. Well, it was a nice chummy idea, having advisers, and we will say they kept discreetly in the back- ground. It was this semester, too, when Mr. Knag made up all that messy business about student self registration which has since come to be known as the biennial rat-race. We marked time for about three weeks waiting for the kids to pass their regents in high school and then threw ourselves with renewed passion and vigor into our second semester. Our first spring term on the campus is suffused with a rosy glow. We suppose the cafeteria was jammed even then and the Quad no doubt had its bald spots, but now it seems we sipped cool lemonades on green velvety car- pets. The Apple Orchard be- came a reality. Shirley Chambers was on the basketball team which actually won a game. Marty Wilkins made a habit of cutting in on dancing to the juke box in the Upper Lounge: no one went to classes. VVhat actually happened was - we got our usual 9 to 4 programs 49