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

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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.

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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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ere sieguteeniniouish ease ee Row 1 Orrys Williams, Steven Epstein, Burt Norris, Frank Dumphy, Leonard Sorin Row 2 Mr. Moran, Robert Jumper, David Rosenthal, Michael (Gear ee JZ atro When you enter Memorial every morning you see seated at the desks in the corridor two boys, one with a pad of tardy slips and the clock, the other with a pen and notebook. These brave boys are part of the Corridor Patrol, under the supervision of Mr. Moran. These courteous boys sit at the desk during the day, waiting to hand any tardy student a tardy slip. They also direct visitors to wherever they have to go. Their prompt manners and efficient service have done much to create a favorable impression of the school in the minds of visitors. Even though their hours are long, their pay nil, and sleeping conditions miserable, these boys are proud to be on the Corridor Patrol. The following valiant boys are part of the Patrol: Robert Chambers, Ethan Chase, Richard Columbare, Frank Dunphy, Stephen Epstein, Mallick, James Lewis, Ethan Chase Robert Jumper, Michael Mallick and David Rosenthal. It is these boys who have been protecting your school.