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

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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.

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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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Row 1 Donald Duggan, Leonard Sorin, Harold Davis, Michael Herman, Miss Bogan, Barry Weingart, David Cohen, Me! Bloom, Lawrence Prag Row 2 S. Epstein, Sumner Fredman, M. Brackman, Michael Mallick, Lawrence Shepard, Orrys Willams David Schever, Robert Sonteg Gls Day (Gort flee The graduating class of 1959, under the fine guidance of Miss Bogan and Mr. Coveney, produced an outstanding and entertaining Class Day program. Barry Weingart, the chair- man, with the able help of Mel Bloom, Mike Mallick, Dave Cohen, and many others did a terrific job in presenting this year’s Class Day. The Class Will, Prophecy, and Superlatives were presented with great skill to the extent that compliments and praises were liberally showered by the audience. The play presented was one of the most entertaining ever pre- sented at Roxbury Memorial. Doctor Crudden, Head Master, and Michael Herman, president of the senior class, delivered the major ad- dresses of the day, both of which held the attention of everyone of the more than 200 persons present in the auditorium. We of the Class Day Committee hope that the entire senior class believes, as we do, that the Class Day exercises were a paramount success and will long stand as a criterion for senior classes of the future. It was a warm and humorous review of our years at Memo- rial, and we shall long remember it.