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

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A LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR April 17th 1930 Gentlemen of the Class of June 1930 The year book of june 1930 will ever hold a unique position in the annals of Townsend Harris Hall for it will serse to epitomize the activity of our school during the period of its existence that began with the location of the old Free Academy on the present site in 1907 At this time following the suggestion Dr John H Finley then president of the College the building occupied by the Sub Freshmen was called Townsend Harris Hall And now with the impending remox al to 23rd Street our school is about to turn the page of another chapter in its history To many alumni of the College of the City of New York the return to the downtown site of the preparatory school will for sentimental considerations appear a most happy move t Harrisites separation from the uptown campus cannot fail to brmg regrets But even these regrets should be considerably lessened by the prospects of the IH For your Director too this issue of Crimson and Gold will always have an unusual significance and will be pleasingly reminiscent of a very happy year of work at Harris Staff and students have been exceedingly gracious and considerate of the stranger that came among them at the opening of the Fall semester The honor of be1ng deemed worthy of a dedicatory mes sa e is a high one and greatly appreciated I only trust that I may continuc to deserve your good will and respect And now to the members of the Class of june 1930 under whose im mediate direction is being published this edition of Crimson and Gold may I extend my heartiest good wishes for success in the continuance of your studies In building the superstructure of your education we instructors earnestly hope you will find that the foundation stones have been well laid and as you go forth from these halls that with the poet you can say Somelzme p61Z7LZPf zt wzll be nz pleasure Z0 767729772587 these tbzngr Cordially yours GEORGE M FALION Dzretfof 7 7 . . U . . 7 . . . , , , . . . I 7 . 0 . . . U . . . . . 5 O C , 0 very material gains that will be ours in a well-equipped modern school build- 8- I . , 3 . . . . C U . . . , A O ' ' , - ' 7 7 . ff ' . .' ' . . . ' H 7 ' 1 P ge Forty-four

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Prophesy Director? We always knew those boys would carry out whatever un dertakrng came therr way At last after escapmg two trucks and a sedan we reached the subway station and recervrng the wrong change we looked up to drscover the agent was none other than Bert Rap paport up to h1s old tricks We began to walk lersurely to wards the wartrng tra1n when ZOW1Cl pack us 1n the car Glancmg over our shoulder we not1ced Charley Ordman glrmmermg from beh1nd a subway guards badge No sooner had the tram begun when we heard a crash felt a wrndow pane on our head and smelled a tenfic odor But as we had expected rt was none other than the playful and rndustrr ous Maxwell Wertzman revolver 1n one hand and a mrxture of sulphur and z1nc rn the other tryrng to de termrne the respectrve strengths of each In a short trme the tram arrrved at Trmes Square and alrghtrng we proceeded to the street There on the corner was a large crowd 1n the center of whlch stood Kurt Lehman on a da1s by Krrkman swayrng the assemblage w1th those 1mmortal words Step up folks only a drme ten cents At the theater we were greeted by the flat nasal Yeah of Edward Schlessrnger actually 1n office Even 1f lf was only a box office he had still the laugh on Danny Hrrschl and erry Buslrk who were st1ll run nrng up and down the a1sles search lrghts 1n hands In sprte of jerrys drfficulty 1n read1ng numbers and after berng ousted from f1ve drfferent places we finally seated ourselves rn the last row of the second balcony After readrng the short story rn the pro gram wrrtten 1nc1dentally by the far famed Wrlham Grbson we wart th1s9 Well we ll be darned 1f If 1sn t Edgar Kerner prernrer danseur and the Amado Canton Grrls Thus rt was that we decrded that New York was too far gone We then boarded a shrp manned by Meltzer and Lavrne of aquatxc fame We soon became desperately 111 and upon awakenrng we thought we were 1n heaven But no we were merely feast1ng our eyes on the wh1te garb and angel1c features of jack Wolfson the Sh1PS steward We finally awoke and saw a man who seemed strangely fam1l1ar Its Sheepshead' No Sheepshead rsnt Sheepshead at all It IS only Don Kern 1n drsgurse 7 7 it 7 . 7 7 li 77 , . - J 2 ' . . , - , . A , . . , . . . . . , , , . ' 1 , . , . . . , v , . , . . , , . - 1 a , - Someone from the rear began to ed for the curtarn to r1se. Whats . Q . O , 7 7 7 , . a i ' - 3 , , . . u , 7 7 ' 7 7 7 ' 7 7 , - . , . . . , j 7 7 ' ' 7 ' 7 , . , . Pg F ty-th

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