Roxbury Memorial High School for Boys - Bostonian Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Row 1 Michael Herman, Alan Kaplan, Barry Weingart Melvin Bloom, Barry Lederman, Steven Lerner Barry Steinberg Row 2 Mr. Walsh, Armen Tarbassian, Stephen’ Epstein, Harvey Golner, Harold Davis, Kenneth Norris Chemistry Chib This year, as it has been in many others before, a group of hard working students from Rox- bury Memorial have formed a Chemistry Club. This club met on every alternate Friday through the school year in room 313 under the able direction of Mr. Joseph Walsh. The Club’s purposes were to give any boy who was genuinely interested in the science of Chemistry a chance to supplement his reqular classroom work and to increase his practical knowledge of the subject by interesting and educational features. Under the expert guid- ance and supervision of Mr. Walsh, we had many interesting experiments, lectures, and movies. At the first meeting of the club, our primary objective was to elect officers and to form a program committee which would design our projects for the year The follow- ing boys were elected as officers at the first meeting: President, Mel Bloom; Vice-President, Leonard Rogoff, Kenneth Rosenberg Barry Weingart; Secretary, Barry Lederman; Treasurer, Alan Kaplan; Sergeant at Arms, Kenneth Rosenberg. We will strive to make the Chemistry Club one of the best Roxbury Memorial has had.

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Acting Mayor McLaughlin places a wreath on Benjamin Franklin’s statue while committee watches. enjamin Salle Day Gea: For some years the governors of the Common- wealth of Massachusetts have, by proclama- tion, set aside a week known as Printing Week. This takes place during the week in which the birthday of that great patriot and printer, Benjamin Franklin, is celebrated. The various societies and printing organizations band to- gether in doing honor to Franklin and in pro: moting the printing industry. The phase of Printing Week in which Roxbury Memorial students participate takes place in front of Boston City Hall. Together with representatives of printing organizations our students gather at the foot of the statue of Franklin where wreaths are placed in his memory. This year the 253rd birthday of Franklin was highlighted by our being greeted by the act- ing mayor, Councillor McLaughlin, who ad- dressed the group. Following an introduction by the president of the allied organizations, Edward Keeley, our John Willis delivered an excellent oration on Franklin. Later the group adjourned to the Parker House where an excellent luncheon was enjoyed.

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) : : ; : | . : | : ' Row 1 Barry Steinberg, Kenneth Norris, Steph i ' : phen Epstein Row 2 Mr. Gross, Theodore Guba, Barry Lederman Chess Club Our chess club was one of the first members of the Inter-Scholastic Chess League, together with Latin, Newton High, and other high schools in the area. Our group was small but a select one; our members were Kenneth Norris, Barry Stein- berg, Stephen Epstein, David Cohen, and Theodore Gruber. We had played many intrascholastic matches, battling one another for the first position, and analyzed the games and moves of the masters. Chess, a game of pure skill and intelligence, orginally started in India, where the winning move was called “sha matt’—“the king is dead”, then it slowly spread to Germany, where the winning move evolved to the word “schachmatt,” then to the English “Checkmate” when the game covered Europe. A chess game served the purpose of a duel between two Italian nobles in the middle ages. The moves were acted out on a giant board in the town square. We have not gone that far at Memorial, but our matches seem dramatic and vivid to us, under the guidance of our faculty adviser, Mr. Gross.