Stuyvesant High School - Indicator Yearbook (New York, NY)

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t we 9 2 None of the experiences of our four years' stay in Stuyvesant have been more pleasant than those in which our beloved faculty have figured, and they will remain with us the longest-long after most of our other memories fade into the mists of time. Our appreciation of the extra aid they have rendered us. over and above the requirements of the regular school courses, is not usually expressed to them by us. The Indicator is therefore proud of the chance now offered to thank the members of the faculty of Stuyvesant High School for having shown exemplary zeal in the pursuit of their duties, for having been thoroughgoing and patient, and for having lightened our scholastic burdens with an occasional sparkle of wit, to prove that even teachers can be human. It is inevitable that as we go through the different stages of life, as we meet the many different types of people that make up this world, we will compare these people with the instructors whom we have grown to know and like here at Stuyvesant. Thus these new acquaintances will take on a semblance of familiarity. while our remembrance of those good old days in Stuyvesant will be refreshed. Most of us can remember faintly our first few terms at Stuyvesant, when our new official and subject teachers were introduced to us for the first time. Some of these first instructors have been transferred to other shools, but for the most part they are still teaching at Stuyvesant. If we should visit them or their classes now, no doubt we should express amazement at the size of the students. lt would be rather hard for most of us to visualize ourselves that size. But even if we do not admit it to ourselves. the case is actually that we have grown so imperceptibly that only our old teachers would be able to notice the marked differences wrought in us during our saunter through Stuyvesant's halls. It was a distinct shock to us to find that an average-sized class at Stuyvesant consisted of forty boys, which would have been a distinctly oversize class in elementary school. The subjects that were taught us that term included such strange ones as civics, algebra, and a very new one called elementary biology. Well. we were getting up in the world. VVe actually were taking the same subjects that had been taken by those high and mighty seniors, whom we saw sometimes coming home as we went to school. The truth is we did not appreciate afternoon session then. An extra three hours sleep in the mornings seemed very unimportant. Hut we know better now! As we became part of the school, we learned to like the teachers who struggled so hard trying to inculcate a little knowledge into our unwilling brains. For instance. there was Mr. Roslow, and Mr. Leventhal, and those other teachers of the dreaded mathematics, who would sometimes struggle for what seemed like hours to make certain members of our class understand just what the different x's and yis were intended to represent. But. like every teacher in Stuyvesant. they finally succeeded in their object. ' Another really delightful group of teachers who we met for the first time upon our entrance to the school were those comprising the three science departments- chemistry, physics, and biology. Stuyvesant being a technical school, with the 15

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-I Q' Y iU i1'Y'-'Q '. -' .W-I-TY vi 1-,. -' oqggei. 1' ' ' wang accent upon scientific sulxjeets. our science departments are. without saying. the hest in thc city. With thorough-going instruction in the course plus advanced experiments not found in the prescrilmed llegents syllahus hut giving the student a more practical insight into the sulrjeet just one feature of their tutorship. they also managed to make thc various demonstrations and experiments interesting to the average Stuyve- santian lay adding to the dry formulas a touch of their inimitahle selves. just a few of the teachers who managed to he assiduous in the pursuit of their duties while lweing at the same time pleasant and good-humored. making the sciences eternally a part of our memories of Stuyvesant, are Mr. Penzer. Mr. Schur. Mr. Lipelis. Nlr. lllue. Mr. Simon. Mr. Meyers. Mr. Raphael, Mr. llrownlee. Mr. llosen. Mr. llomlierger . . . 1 and rememlwer Mr. Ceffner and Mr. Kerner? They were really line men. Too had they had to he transferred. The lmasketlwall enthusiasts will rememlmer Doc lfllncr right away. and all Stuyvesantians would ohject to the omission ol' his name. llut. we do not need a record such as this to recall all our teachers' names. for the memory of them is engraved upon our hearts. Another group of courses that are an important part of high school life are the foreign languages. Uur choices of this required suhjeet were not all the same: some preferring lfrcneh to Spanish. others l,atin to German. hut all of us quick to recognize the service that these language teachers have rendered to us. lt certainly would require more space than is available to rememher all our teachers here. hut it is natural that each reader will recollect the names of his teachers whether it is herein contained or not. Mr. Laguardiais name will come at once to the minds ol' his lfreneh and Italian sludentsg as will the names of Mr. Cuffari. Mr. Ackerman. Mr. Morrell. llr. Moore. and Mr. Vlleinstock to their pupils. l,atin students will rememher Mr. Schahacker and Miss Lewin. hut the German students will cherish the memories of Dr. Scherer. Miss Jnnemann. and Mrs. Meyers. Mr. Pittaro. Nliss Doyle. and Mr. .laret make the learning of Spanish a daily pleasure to their students. Une department whose memhers have made a great impression upon us is the lfnglish department. Those delightful English teachers were with us one period a day throughout our high school career. and actually made us look forward to that period all day. livery one of the members of the English department was always almle to make us so interested in the topic that we would really learn it thoroughly. We will always remember the precise teachings of Dr. Law. and of Mr. Marks. Mr. llart. Mr. l.oewenthal. Mr. Kane. Mr. Weishin. and Dr. Kelly. Other teachers 16