St Johns High School - Torch Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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LESLIE ZIMBERG A rare male speciman who likes to keep his work up to date. He can also be seen forcing Torch magazines down Room 39’s collective palate. ALVIN ZIPURSKY My foreign correspondent tells me that Little A1 was Sports’ Editor of the Torch, and presi¬ dent of Room 39 for two terms. His rugby tactics proved to be quite successful in controlling the class. He and a certain teacher both like to curl. XI-40 MORRIS ALTMAN Room 40’s literary artist — that is, when the teacher is out of the room. Poems are his spec¬ ialty, and his hobby is selling dehydrated “Borsht”. GERRY APPEiLLE Claims he’ot got water on the knee, but we know it’s skin. Our faithful secretary and all¬ round student and athlete. He particularly likes rushing into Room 29 after study period. We can’t imagine why. STEPHEN ARSENYCH One of the Rover boys, here, there, and everywhere. He is known for his exploits (mostly unprintable — at his own re¬ quest.) Steve is an “A” man in Physics, Chemistry and Bas¬ ketball. DAVID BABIER Still can’t get over how the 7 ball froze outside the pocket. He is a continuous visitor at the Lodge, but somehow keeps his work up. He is also a very popular fellow. ALLAN BEYER Another one of Joe’s prodigies who is continually looking for a “mark”. From what we’ve seen of him (very little) we find Allan a very likeable person. JOE BREITMAN Joe is a regular contributor to the Tech. Review. He knows everything about everything, except how to use a razor. ALLAN CHAPNICK “How do you do? I’m so happy for you to see.” Our own Mad Russian, who keeps telling us how he played the fiddle for the Czar. GEORGE NIECKARZ The budding artist of the room, although the quality of his work shows that he will soon be full blown. Must stay up nights painting the town red because he doesn’t get to school in the morning. ISRAEL FEINGOLD A gift from Dauphin and a credit to our class. Israel is a quiet, hard worker who believes in saying little, doing much. Maybe that’s why he always says so little and does so much. XI-40 WALTER DUDNEWICH “Dud” is a pretty classy basket¬ ball player on the junior team, an outstanding student, and very nice stu-fellow. What more could you want? P.S.—“Dud” was also picked to take glider training, one of St. John’s ten. BILL DYSON We all like to hear Bill sing Long Ago and Far Away. A swell guy, and an asset to any class. MONTE GERSHFIELD Is he handsome? No. Is he smart? No. Is he living? Give us time, we’re still working on that. In spite of all those dis¬ advantages Monte is a very able social rep. and a swell fellow. JOHN GRAY Tall dark and drapesome. John must be a fast reader for he gets through three or four books every library period. At least he goes to get another often. Another of our pool sharks. GILBERT GREGORY I’m forever blowing bubbles. G.G. calmly walked into Room 40 and started blowing bubbles. His punishment — he was not allowed to smoke for a week. P.S.—It almost killed him. KASIMIR GREGORY We don’t hear much from Kas, but when anything goes amiss in the class, a voice pipes up in the class, “Blame it on Kas.” JACK GUSMAN Chalks up A’s in all subjects— we all call this fellow Jack A. No offence please. We all like you Jack even thought you are a trifle intelligent. Page Thirty-three

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ANNE NURGITZ ART SILVERMAN Another one of our opera chorus Another class wit who forces girls—but she managed to catch last night’s Bob Hope jobes on a certain lead. Seldom seen in some unlucky 39’er. Art’s main class—she claims it’s Torch” worry — Should I become a work that keeps her busy. doctor or an opera star? RITA PLESKOW Her beautiful voice gave her the part of Edith” in the opera. Although rather quiet, her marks are excellent. Favor¬ ite pastime—giggling with Shiela in Chem. periods. TEDDY POLSKY An accomplished pianist who can really make those keyboards fly. She only studies when there’s nothing else to do. Be¬ lieves that school is a waste of time. Could be . . . FRIEDA RABKIN Fun-loving, clever. Her voice qualified her for the opera and various festival choirs. Right now. University seems to be her ambition. SHIELA RITTBERG Take a beautiful voice, good figure, and plenty of giggling, shake well, and you have Shiela. Could be that Kate’s” interest in the opera was sub¬ jected to more than music. TED ROMANSON A high ranking officer in Sea Cadets. Specifically—chief petty. Dapper Ted has to wield a mighty knife to ward off the girls. YVONNE SAWCHUK Our vote for Room 39s leading Glamour Girl. Prominent in sports and room activities, and was responsible for most of these write-ups. ALFIE SILVER Room 39 offers its heart-felt and sincere condolences to Alfie on his recent loss. Don’t take it too hard, Alf. Lots of people have lost their appendix. NAOMI SHUBIN Volleyball, basketball. Girls ' Sports, Editor of Torch, and other activities, form a list of Naomi’s achievements for this year. Her genial disposition has won her many friends. RITA SILVERMAN Room 39’s Glamour - Girl,” sometimes manages to escape the late-room. Good-natured and popular, Rita never seems to lose her temper. DAVE SIMPSON There’s one in every room. Our chemistry fiend would like to own the school’s chemistry equipment. Latest reports say he practically does. CHARLES SMITH Chollie is the driving intellec¬ tual force of 39. Tho’ reputedly active in a party rhyming with Mutt and Jeff,” he actually stayed home and did his home¬ work. SAM SOLOMON Samuel has taken a keen inter¬ est in civic affairs and hopes to become mayor soon. (Watch out, Mr. Coulter!) Comes de revolution” and we’ll have three history periods a day. MEL SPIGELMAN In Mel we see a perfect speci- man of a sportsman. His favor¬ ite sport used to be hockey, but of late he prefers a period of tumbling in Room 29. SEYMOUR WARKOV Seymour spent a relatively quiet year in school and amused himself only in Maths, History, Latin, Chemistry and English. The rest of the time he tried to do his homework and play basketball. DAN WATERMAN Good natured Dan (pronounced with a nasal effect) often causes pandemonium with his timely quips at the most untimely times. NATE WERNER The jester whose enthusiastic guffaw has become a class insti¬ tution. Nate was also a good basketball player, a track star and a friend of Arthur. Page Thirty-two

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BEN GRUSHKO With most meat markets it’s the cow, but with Grushko it’s the bull. In Ben, we have a humorist (not our kind), a good kid. BOB HANDLER Room 40’s B.T.O. Often seen with his right hand shaking above his head and crying for another pair of shoes. Bob is a good fellow and a fair student. RONALD J.P.G. HAVELOCK “Baldy” as he affectionately is called by his cronies, is Room 40’s Abbott and Costello rolled into one. Our sports captain, played on the senior basketball team, Ronnie is a wonderful fellow and a good student. CHARLES ISKOW Here we have proof—proof that man is descendant of the little fellows that swing in the trees. Kidding aside, Charles is a bar¬ rel of fun and a great guy. JACK KAPLAN Our hero may be seen at 1.20 tumbling. Well, that’s one way to see the world. LAWRENCE KLAPECKI Room 40’s artist who is respon¬ sible for all our posters. Law¬ rence is well liked by all and an asset to any room. (He’s never there.) MAX LEW Was once seen in a pool hall— However Max is one of our quieter students. He is an “E” man and we don ' t mean efficient. JOE MESHNIK Most of you saw “Lost Weekend” —if you looked closely, our hero was the third body from the left. Joe did some good work on the rugby field, and is also our vice-president and chief mauler. EDWIN MYER A swell guy and a likeable person who is interested in model building (airplanes) and keeping quiet. Ed makes no comment on the girls around the school, none being needed. BERT MINUK Bert is still looking for positive electrons — there is no such thing, but that doesn ' t stop Bert. EARL POIDEVIN A leader of men (Air Cadets), follower of women, and works diligently in all subjects. He excels in one period especially (study period). GORDON POLLOCK Another of Room 40’s “better students”. Poor Gordon can’t lose his attraction for Room 31. He is constantly “Trilling” out¬ side the door. Gordon is a good student and a still better fellow. AARON ROMANOVSKY Little “Butch” is contantly seen buzzing around the school. Where he goes, nobody knows (how about it Butch?) Aaron is a very diligent worker who is very well liked—and no wonder, he’s so cute!! ELKEN ROSENHECK The big bad boy of Room 40, quite a scholar. We heard once that Elkin is going to write for a scholarship, well good luck to you Elkin! JOE LIBERSON A bit on the broad side. We never hear from Joe, he’s too busy studying for next year. What little we hear from him, we like. ALBERT LOWE Albert seems to hang around Room 13—we wonder why. Mr. Laycup advised Albert to leave school for a little holiday — a sort of Lost Weekend. Page Thirty-four GEORGE ROSS A gentleman, and we use the term loosely. George excels in English literature and washing boards. Needless to say, a quiet chap and good student. ARNOLD RUBIN Arnold is known as the Dutch¬ man (don’t ask us, we don’t know why) Dutch can usually be seen at a certain place where the boys hold sticks and shoot little colored balls around. How¬ ever, “Dutch” is a swell guy and a lot of fun.