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

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THE ALMANAC Swimming The swimming Team compIeTed a raTher unTavorabIe season, despiTe The eTTorTs oT Coach Wroldsen. Probably The only accompIishmenT worThy oT menTion is The TacT ThaT Theodore Bourie oT The Seward Ivlermen holds The besT Time Tor The 220 yard swim. On November I7Th, Bourie, swimming in The C5eorgefWashingTon I-Iigh School pool seT The season's TasTesT Time Tor The 220 yard swim, in 2:28.6. This enTiTIed him To The disTincTion oT being The TasTesT man fTor The 220 yard swim in The CiTy. OuTsTanding perTormers Tor This season were Rapschenok, DeITBarTo, Di STeTano, SandowiTch, Brandwein, and Baron. . GIRL SPCDRTS - AI Arcai is The girl's honor aThIeTc socieTy in Seward Park I-Iigh School. A sTudenT I is enTiTIed To membership if she excells in her scholasTic and aThIeTc records. The 'members oT This club, The'name oT which means Leader, usually meeT Three Times each Term in order To organize and To keep up To daTe on The variousiphases oT gym- nasTics. Miss Mars, who Takescharge oT The meeTings disTribuTes The liTTle red Tabs wiTh The whiTe A s on Them. These are seen on The gym cosTumes oT The I-Iai Arcai members. The leaders help The gym Teachers by acTing as squad leaders and Taking care oT The apparaTus. ExTra curricular crediT is given To members. This Term, The I-lai Arcai didn'T meeT unTil laTe in The Term because oT The pageanT which oc- cupied The GirI's I-IeaITh EducaTion Dep'T To The exclusion oT pracTicaIIy everyThing -else. ' The pageanT was also responsible Tor The TacT ThaT mosT oT The usual TournamenTs 'held by The GirI's I-IeaITh EducaTion DeparTmenT were eliminaTed This Term. The inTer- -class baske+baII TournamenT wasn'T sTarTed unTil abouT The mid-Term examinaTions. The games were raTher rushed. Four were played every Thursday aTTernoon Tor Tour weeks. A greaT many sTudenTs Turned ouT Tor The games regardless oT The TacT ThaT Their schedules were Tixed and They were busy on Thursday aTTernoons. I The PageanT was a greaT success in spiTe oT The TacT ThaT This was The TirsT Time such a program oT music and dancing had been carried ouT by The sTudenTs. Many visiTors saw The PageanT and all were Tavorably impressed. The saTisTacTion oT every- one was very evidenT as shown by The applause given To Those who parTicipaTed in making The pageanT The ouTsTanding sTudenT evenT in The Term. The program oT The PageanT was.as ToIIows:- . I. OVERTURE 2. DIVERTISEIVIENTS a. PiraTes Bold b. EgypTian Dance c. An Evening in Spain 3. RUSSIAN SAILOR'S DANCE 4. BALLET-A RUSSIAN TGY SI-IOP Pa ge ThirTy-eigI'1T

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CLASS OF JANUARY I935 Seward I6-Richmond Hill 0 November 24Th marked The conclusion oT The greaTesT TooTball season in The hisTory oT The school. Richmond Hill was Toppled To The Tune oT I6-O aT DexTer Park. CapTain Sammy Levine, ouT mosT oT The season wiTh a bad knee, undoubTedly played bang up TooTball againsT The Jamaicans. ln The TirsT period, on a reverse play, Rom- anowiTz crashed Through Tor a Touchdown Trom The 8 yard line. ln The second period Levine booTed a beauTiTul Tield goal Trom The 24 yard line. lncidenTally This was The only aTTempT aT placemenT ThroughouT The season. ATTer a scoreless Third period, Levine ripped Through righT Tackle Tor a Touchdown, Trom The 4 yard line. Scheckner's aTTempT Tor conversion was good. Soccer As usual, soccer s+iII' is one oT Seward's besT sporTs. We are graTeTul To Mr. H. Cohen, coach oT The squad, Tor his successTul insTrucTion ever since he Took over The Team. This year The Team engaged in six P. S. A. L. meeTs, winning Three, losing Two, and Tieing one. The end oT The season Tound Seward occupying The 3rd place in ManhaTTan. The season opened wiTh a vicTory over CurTis High 5-O. Seward's goals were scored by STein Bukowsky, RoTh, and Kozik. Tarashinsky and Sawaris played Tine deTensive ball, conTinuously breaking up The CurTis Plays. On OcTober l lTh The Seward BooTers Toppled TexTile 2-l aT CroTona Park. RoTh and Kozick scored The Two goals Tor Seward. Goalie NoviTzky excelled Tor The Blue and WhiTe, wiTh a Tew specTacular sTops. A On Wednesday, OcTober 24Th, The Team received iTs TirsT seT back aT The hands oT Haaren High. The TirsT halT saw Seward in TronT wiTh a 2-O lead, buT The deTense in The laTTer parT oT The game weakened. Haaren managed To score Tour Times, which proved iusT abouT suTTicienT. The Tinal score was 4 To 3. The Tollowing week, Seward Took advanTage oT a weak Townsend Harris squad The Tinal score was 4-I. STein Tallied Twice: while RoTh and Brown scored The oTher Two poinTs. I I - In a TasT and Turious baTTle, The Seward booTers on November I, held The Blue and Orange STuyvesanT booTers To a I-l Tie. Our boys were given Two Tree Tries aT The goal buT were unsuccessTul in boTh aTTempTs. Kozick scored The lone poinT Tor Seward, by ramming iT in wiTh his head. On November l3Th, Seward meT deTeaT aT The hands oTiCommerce High School in The lasT P. S. A. L. game oT The year. The Tinal score was 2-O. Page ThirTy-seven

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Seward Park High School Robert B. Brodie, Principal ' Q IHHIIII 0 IIHHIII January, i935