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

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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

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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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ol' lfnglish. whom we met in our linal terms. are Dr. Shipley, lVlr. Mostow. Mr, Astra- chan. Nr. lirant. Mr. Hoagland. Mr. Pause, Mr. Leihel. and the rest. whom tor is it who?l we shall never forget. The popularity ol' these teachers is well- dcserved. and we know that as long as they teach in Stuyvesant they will he revered and respected hy their students. 'l'hc pursuit ol' those stray x's and y's turned into something more extensive than we thought possihle at lirst. as we advanced through geometry and algehra to higher mathematics. Just a few of the teachers who seem to stand out in our memory. for some strange reason. are lVlr. lioslow. Mr. Sternlierg. Mr. licrman. Mr. Ukean. Mr. Wortrnan. and lVlr. Greenfield. No douht. each of us has favorites which are not included in this ahlireviated list. ln morning session we were introduced to a new group of suhjects: the social studies. This means lfuropean history. American history. and lfconomics. Some ol' the most delightful teachers in the school teach these suhjeets. The department is headed hy Dr. lioss. and some of its familiar memhcrs are Dr. lioeder. Miss 'l'allman. Mr. Jacoli. lVlr. Phillips. lVlr. Hall., and Mr. Zuckerman. 'lille history they made. teaching us. is as memoralmle as the history and economics they made us learn. Stuyvesant has a unique course in tllat it requires a certain amount of mechanic arts. lilaking us grateful to this requirement is the fact that we have come to know some ol' the nicest men in Stuyvesant in the shops and drafting-rooms on the Sixteenth Street side of the huilding. Among these are Mr. Daly. Mr. Jordan. Mr. Greene. Mr. Yates. lilr. Stark. and lVlr. Soper. The only department in the school that seems to he left now is the health educa- tion department. which as most of you will allirm. is far from the least. Numhering as it does among its memhers most of the coaches of the teams. it is a very popular division ol' the faculty. Mr. Cooley. chairman of the department heads a group that includes Mr. liradshaw. Mr. lVlonal1an. lVlr. 'lihrush. lllr. Marks. Mr. Mandel. and Mr. tlollmert as its principal members. As a group. the ollicial class teachers of Stuyvesant seem to have had the hardest task. trying to keep their classes in check through two whole years. During these two years. though. we have gotten to know our ollicial teachers more or less intimately. and invariahly grown to like them. Leaving Stuyvesant will he hard. hut saying goodhye to our old ollicial teacher will he hardest of all, for he has come to symholize Stuyvesant to us. and we will long rememlier the school and all of its faculty after we have graduated and scattered to the corners of the earth. - 'AQ54 N' 17