Seward Park High School - Almanac Yearbook (New York, NY)

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THE ALMANAC Then a Terrible caTasTrophe occurred. War was declared! IT Tlared up aT The end oT The Term. Each Term The same Thing occurred wiTh The same resulT. A Tew were leTT groaning on The Tloor, a Tew rose, a Tew lay sTill. This Terrible relenTless opponenT always issued a Tormal sTaTemenT immediaTely before each war began. He signed himselT REGENTS. The Junior year was reached wiThouT anyThing remarkably new happening. How- ever, The Junior year iTselT was one oT The mosT evenTTul oT all Times. The heads oT These sTudenTs had cleared so considerably 1ThaT They were able To see clearly and To enioy Tully everyThing ThaT wenT on abouT Them. There were more clubs, more plays, The Black Flamingo and anoTher opereTTa, lolanThe To gladden The hearTs -oT every Junior. Qnly one Thing saddened everyone. The TooTball Team ThaT had been Trying hard Tor Three years Tor a vicTory had yeT To gain one. Then, on a snow- covered Tield, beTore scarcely sevenTy-Tive hoarsely cheering specTaTors, CapTain Sammy Levine TighT-roped down The side lines Tor sixTy yards, and Punchy Pollack bumped Three men oTT his shoulder To breeze along Tor TorTy yards, To give The Blue and WhiTe Torces a I2-O upseT over The boys Trom Commerce. To prove This vicTory no chance accidenT, a week laTer, Seward gained iTs second successive vicTory over Morris I9-O, To elecTriTy a madly cheering crowd oT 2,500. IT This were noT enough, during The second halT oT The Junior year, Seward gained so many honors, ThaT -ThaT year will remain alive in The memory oT every Blue and WhiTe supoorTer. The World and The Folio won TirsT place honors in The Columbia ScholasTic Press AssociaTion conTesTs. Led by CapTain Jack Banks, The Blue and WhiTe guinTeT won The lvlanhaTTan BaskeTball Championship under The TuTelage oT Coach MonTy Banks who himselT had capTained a Seward Five To This TiTle eighT years previously. A sTudenT-TaculTy ping-pong maTch was sTaged wiTh The sTudenTs eking ouT a 4-3 vicTory. To make The overTlowing cup become a waTerTall, The largesT boaT ride in Seward hisTory wiTh 4600 aTTending was held. Then aT The senior TaculTy baseball maTch, The TaculTy knocked The wind ouT oT senior sails wiTh a Thrilling 8-7 vicTory. The man in whom Seward placed iTs hope Tor The, successTul eleven The Tol- iowing Tall, iTs new TooTball coach, David Hussack, led The aTTack wiTh a home run and a double. A Tired sun-burned' mob oT sTudenTs graTeTully leTT The Hendrick Hudson as The sun hung low over lower New York Bay. ln SepTember I934, The whole sTudenT body congregaTed ouTside The school To begin The Tall Term. However, insTead oT bouyanT spiriTs, horseplay and all oTher Torms oT exuberance presenT on such occasions guieT and Taces greeTed The eye. Young Coach Hussack oT whom so much had been expecTed in Turning ouT a high- calibre TooTball Team, died early in The summer, drowning aTTer having saved Two boys, a hero To The end. Page Fourfeehn

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CLASS OF JANUARY I'-735 . BED TIME STORY Time To go To bed, junior. Aw, I don'T wanna go To bed. AImosT bed Time. Come now, don'T be sTubborn. Aw righT, daddy. BuT TirsT Tell me a sTory. Oh, well, iT ThaT will saTisTy you, I suppose I'lI have To. N a cold February day, a bewildered, iiTTery group oT children enTered The new Seward Park High School. They looked so clean, you could Tell aT once Thar The previous nighT had wiTnessed sTeaming baThTubs wiTh soapy washrags busily plying Their Trade above and below The equaToriaI line. Their cloThes were neaT and looked as Though much care had been spenT in Their selecTion. When They arrived aT The building, several kind looking genTlemen gave Them some TaTherly advice on how To enioy The years They would spend in Seward. Hardly had They been senT To Their classes, when school session sTarTed. They were dubbed Freshman by The resT oT The sTudenTs. The usual hazing Took place. Wherever The Freshmen wenT They meT cold sTares: whenever They were losT or wanTed To Tind ouT how To go To a parTicuIar place in The building, They were sure To be given The wrong direcTions, and They were made The vicTims oT a Thousand and one oTher pracTical iokes. Be'sides This, so many new Things, The exisTence oT which They had never known, swepT pasT Them so ThaT They were IeTT quiTe dizzy. A ForTnighTIy ThaT had The appearance oT a real meTropoliTan newspaper, a Folio conTaining arTicIes wiTh a proTessionaI Touch, a dramaTizaTion, RoIlo's Wild OaTs, in which Teachers Took The roles, an opereTTa, The Mikado, in which sTudenTs sang Their way inTo everyone's hearT, TooTball games, baskeTbaII games, aTTer school clubs, all whizzed passed wiTh such sTarTIing rapidiTy. And beTore The Freshman real- ized iT, They were Sophomores. Several hundred addiTions Trom The iunior high schools came To boIsTer This group. EveryThing ThaT The Freshmen oT a year beTore had enioyed, were also en- joyed by The Sophomores. The only change was ThaT The ForTnighTIy changed iTs name To The Seward World. The Two annual perTormances were parTicularIy ouT- sTanding. The sophomores Thrilled and chilled aT The GhosT Train, and The melodies oT The PiraTes oT Penzance were hummed Tor weeks aTTer The acTuaI perTormance. Then came The boaT ride. The once Timid, buT now budding, girls oT a year ago, were escorTed by TasT growing men and They all liked iT! Page ThirTeen

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CLASS OF JANUARY I935 Tlue Juniors were now Seniors. Aucler a disappoinling slarl againsr Sluyvesanl, Hue lioorball leam, lo use Hue pl'uraseology ol: Hue newspapers luad en+ered Hue big lime class. During Hue lerm, Hue girls presenled a maslerpiece in Hue Dance Pageanl. Tlue besl play yel was presenled by Hue ufaculuy in Caplain Appleiaclcf' Besides Huis senior aclivilies surged on. Because Hue siXHu Hoor gym luad lo be used as a sludio by Hue mural painuers, Hue Teas were l'ueld in Hue library. Piclures were lalcen by a luappy pluolograpluer wluo sang lo luimseluf as lue worked, Hue mid- lerm dance was lfueld, senior class celebrilies were elecled, senior weelc and class day and Huen Hue prom all followed eaclu oHuer. Finally, Hue class said goodbye lo Seward al Gradualion. Well son HuaJr's all Huere is lo Hue slory. Now will you go lo bed? Yealu, dad. Were you in Hual class? You bel l was. Wlua+ class was Huau dad? Tlua+ was Tl-lE CLASS OE JANUARY I935. Lawrence Diclc TI-IINGS WE'LL NEVER FORGET HEN we were Eresluies, Ramblin' Roun' beliuLHed us. Wluen we were Soplus il ignored us, and scanl aHenHon did we receive wluen we were Juniors. Bul now Hual we're Seniors-il beliHles us again. Tl-lE IRONY OF Ill l l We'll never lorgeu Hue Hurill we gol wluen we enlered Seward ufor Hue lirsl lime, and found ourselves already a parl out Hue scluool. We'll never uforgel Seward's liglul and 'final allainmenl' ol Hue lvlauul'uaHan baslcelball cluampionsluip out I933-l934. We'll never forge? Seward's lirsl good ufoolball Jream. Our own Sammy Levine piloled Huem lo cluampionsluip in Hue '34 season. Jusjr lo celebraue our leaving, we guess. We'll cerlainly never liorgel Hue boal-rides. Eaclu one was eiglul solid luours ol lun. Dancing on: Hue declc, faking piclures, roaming Hurouglu Hue parlc, warcluing Hue Senior baseball Jream Hurow balls al Hue laculuy and luave Huem luil riglfuu back al Huem, and Huen we danced and sang our way luome. We're sorry io luave seen Hue lasl out Huose lor us. . We'll never uforgel Hue Prom. Coming up lo Hue luolel in a laxi, we ufell swell. Aluer Hue dance, some of us wenl 'ro Billy Rose's Music l-lall. Boy, we were suepping our! We'll never lorgeu Hue RegenJrs'. Qur leacluers smiled wluen we sal down lo wrile, buf Huey sniclcered wluen Huey read our nuarlcs. Tl-lElvl DAYS ARE GONE FOREVER! Bernard DumoH Page Fiffeen