Townsend Harris High School - Crimson Gold Yearbook (Flushing, NY)

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Q4 - THF HARRIS ANNUAL L L 1 Lia. '22 bfi- X A L L LLL L L, I-Cin ' ' Ll. L LLL LLL LLL LLL HL Ll.L - VIILYRDRCOHCKQ years ago the students of the academic classes of V C. X. Y. decided that the l,ax'ender and Black of their Qfgimx Wi older brothers were not the colors that they desired. and they set tu work to select ditlerent ones. Crimson and r Li'tio1f1 were chosen. That choice, made in 1905. was the beginning' of Townsend Harris Hall as one of the High Schools of the city. Before this time several unsuccessful attempts had been made to publish a paper in opposition to the College Mercury. Twice the attempt failed. 111 1905, however, the Academic Herald linally got a lirm footing, not in opposition to the Mercury, but as an organ of the Townsend Harris Hall students. Nineteen hundred and live. therefore, was the beginning of Harris activities. In 1906 the Public School Athletic League started a basketball tournament. Townsend Harris Hall entered a team, and for the first time Harris was represented in interscholastic athletics. This team, practically the same one that featured for C. C, N. Y. a few years later, captured lirst honors in the iirst and second tournaments C1906- 1907 and 1908-190917, and gained for Harris a high position in the athletic lield. Nineteen hundred and six rounded out and completed the work of the preceding year, and, from a shaky foundation in 1905, the Spring of 1907 saw Harris activities a reality, and Harris a member of the Public School Athletic League.

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NINETEEN-THIRTEEN-FOURTEEN 93 TOUSSAINT. RICHARD, Cornell Member Ac Staff, Member Annual Staff. Did you see him smile? Wl1en? Quite a hustler. -Tager. TRENKNER. EDVV.-XRD C. C N Y What you are we shall not hint, Because it looks not good in print.-CA Mineralogistj. TUCKER. HENRY, C. C. N. Y. President A. A., 'l4: Soccer Team, '12, 'l3. Baseball team, 'l4. I'll tell you what, this boy is game, I-Ie'd be a sport if he were lame. L'DELL, JEROME, Cornell Charter Member H. D. S., Harris cheer leader, Delegateg Ac Staff, Animal Stalfg Ex-President Chess and Checker Club, Track Team: Graduation and Class Day Committeeg Vice-President A. A., '13, To every game he brought a dame, Sure he had taste whene'er he came. VERGARA, LOUIS, Columbia Louis, Louis, mathematical star, Won't you tell us who you are? VORSANGER, BERGMAN. C. C. N. Y. For a singer is not Iiorsanger. VVADE. PHILIP Swimming Team. Dear Phil, you've surely made a name, For as a swimmer, you've gained fame XVEBER, CARL W., Columbia Phi Alpha Sigma Fraternity. , Long and lanky, all skin and thin. Never works but wants to win. XVEEKS, RICHARD R.. C. C. N Y Little umbrella spoke who are you? XVEIL, ADRIAN, Cornell Annual Staffg Wrestliiig Squad. How's the worm you swallowed getting along, Bud? XVHITELAVV, LEROY, Cornell 'XVrestling Squad. XVEENING, SAMUEL, C. C. N Y. Is he still in weaning? By the by, a farmer doesn't wear such loud socks. But then, farmers don't take hery' home. XVILENSKY, SIDNEY, C. C. N V He bought an A. A. ticket! Hurrah! XNILLE, FRANZ I. A., C. C, 'N, Y Three first prizes in the Alliance Francaise examinations. WVIRTH, HERBERT. C. C. N. Y. Bears the closest resemblance to an axone. VVOLFF, HAROLD, C. C. N. Y. Annual Delegate. VVhen you get him angry, he lives up to his name. If all Sunday school teachers were like you, thereid be no Sunday schools. ZIMMERMAN, EUGENE. Cornell Phi Alpha Phi, All-Scholastic Soccer Team, 'l3: Charter Member H. D. S.g Track Team, Treasurer, Upper A class, Annual Staff. Zimmie came to our ranks 3 years ago from way out west. VVe've moulded him into a pretty good Harrisite and we're proud to claim him as one of us. ZIMMERMAN. MORRIS, Columbia He's the guy who cursed and swore 'Cause he couldn't go to war.

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NTXETEEN-THIRTEEN-EOURTEEN 95 Qnly one thing was lacking and that was an Alumni Association. This, however, came more recently than the other innovations. Not until Tune, '13, did any one entertain the idea of founding an Alumni Association. During that year a committee was formed, consisting of Otto Y. Tabor, Theodore Greenbaum and several others, all C. C. N. Y. men, to form such an organization. This committee was ham- pered by many things. Lack of funds, the disinterestedness of the graduates, and its inability to get in touch with the older graduates were the chief obstacles. lt was difficult, also, to communicate with the fellows who had gone to other colleges than C. C. N. Y. The class of February l9l-l learned of this budding association, and decided to see the thing through. A large amount of the surplus in the class treasury was given over toward forming an association for making and fastening ties of friendship among the graduates of Townsend Harris Hall. A committee, consisting of Harry Lipshitz, Harold XYisan, -lulian Bergoffen, Robert Santangelo and Harold Emerson, was formed to do the executive work of the association. After some delay, the newly formed body called a meeting for April 28, l9l-1. Although only a small amount of ex-Harrisites came-the rain had probably dampened the ardor of many fellows-temporary ofhcers were elected to draw up a constitution and to build up the membership. The officers were given the power to do the executive work of the association. Lorenz Reich, yO7, a former president of the C. C. N. Y. Student Council, and who, during his four years at that institution, was Business Manager and Editor of the Nlicrocosin. and Business Manager of the Campus, was elected president. Mr. Reich is the secretary of the Campus Association, and is a Tutor in mathematics at Townsend Harris Hall. He is an active, progressive man, and exactly the one to steer the Alumni clear through the shoals which beset a newly formed organization. The vice-president is Frederick C. Schang. 'fFreddy, as he was called during his stay at Harris, was the Editor of the Ac, He is now at Columbia University where he is Editor of the Jester. Sidney Samuelson, 'll, the Editor of the City College Mercury, is the recording secretary. Morris Ryskind, 'l2. is the corresponding secretary. The treasurer, Greenberg, '12, is an active fellow who was formerly president of the l9l6 class in City College. For a young organization, the Alumni Association, in choosing its officers, has made a fine start. 'XVhether it continues as it has begun, only the following classes can tell. The Tune, ,l4, class, the first to graduate after the formation of the Association, will indicate in what light the younger fellows consider it. If they come out to a man as soon as they are eligible to join it, the founders and members of the Society will realize that the issue is a vital one to Harris. The next meeting of the association, that is the first annual meeting, will probably take place in September, l9l4.