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

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UPPER B PROPHECY During the past year I found out: Alan Kramer, famed for coyness, now acts as a Japanese girl in a 'hit', play written by one Fred Charlton. Kramer, with the aid of the Askinasi Elocution School, has recovered his lost lisp. Charlton was succeeding in his journalistic career fselling papersl, before he was made by his play. The great lover of the Jap girl is none other than Mason Abrams, who has condescended to leave Shakespeare for a short while. Everett Cohen, the famed essayist, is now writing his memoirs, he guarantees that no word of less than four syllables will be included. The only essayist comparable to Cohen is Edward Junger, who has written just one piece- On How To Avoid Homework --an overwhelm- ing success. Little children thank him. Across the street from the theatre in which Charlton's play is running is its greatest com- petitor-the Jacobson Theatre. There Alan Jacobson, the Jester, daily convulses audi- ences with his sparkling wit. The butt of his jokes is Ned Weissberg, whose recompense is permission publicly to Haunt his Arista pin on an azure background. Wechsler, the pro- fessional football player, is Jacobson's best customer, he comes to the theatre twice for every time Alan sees him play. It was not difficult to find Victor Hersch- berg. He is world renowned as the author of the revolutionary Quantum XYZ theory and several language books. . . The other day I turned to the fourth page of the New York Dimes-Postalgram and was knocked over by a full page advertisement of Robert Pelz wearing gorgeous green underwear. On the next page was an eulogistic address made by Joseph Loeb, Jr., the famous politician, in which he,compliments Edward Weitzen and Arnold Friedlander for having solicited the most Red Cross funds. . . '?r7eitzen's glamour was caused by his unkempt hair. . . The rest of the U.B Class has, I've been informed, created a union for a two-hour, forty dollar minimum wage week. The Communists call them conservative. . . page ninety-one

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UPPER B Since its initial term at Townsend Harris, the class of January, 1935 has nobly ac- quitted itself in all lines of endeavor. Im- bued with a fine spirit, both toward the school as a whole and the class as a unit, and containing in its ranks promising material for both teams and non-athletic organiza- tions, the group has marched along like a victorious army, crushing all opposition and issuing from the battlefield with colors flying. The council, consisting chiefly of new members elected this semester, conducted itself in a manner befitting its position and brought to a successful termination many substantial tasks. The function, a visit to a professional football game, aided the class materially in both prestige and financial con- dition. The increase in the paid-up class members is attributed to the superiority of this affair. The Courier, the class newspaper, was rather successful, considering the limited ex- perience of the staff members in the journal- istic field. The position of the editor, held by Joseph Loeb, was a thankless one, for his classmates exhibited a decided indifference to his efforts. Aroused to the fact that it soon must as- sume the leadership of the school, and in the two forthcoming terms prove to skeptics that it is capable of joining the ranks of other outstanding classes, Upper B forges ahead, all possible obstacles steadily overcome. N. Weissberg ....,. ............. P resident R. Pelz ....,,....... ..... V ice-President S. Askenasi ..... .................... S ecretary E. Weitzen ...... ...................... T reasurer F. Charlton ......... ....... G . 0. Representative Mr. MacEwen ....... .......... F aculty Advisor page ninety

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LOWER A It is in the Lower A class that the final touches of worldly wisdom are mingled with all the other subtle changes which the Harris student undergoes during his transition from the naivete of the Lower C to the polished self-assuredness of the senior. Behind him he has two and a half years of intellectual training. He has participated in the activities of clubs, councils, and teams. Now he is prepared to lead them, to take charge of the aiairs of the entire school. With this fact in mind the class of June, 1934, tried not to slacken the pace in its stride towards that ultimate destination. It achieved recognition when five of its mem- bers were inducted into the Arista, the greatest honor which the school has to be- stow. It was well represented in the Held of athletics, there were Lower A's on every Harris team. The banquet, traditional func- tion of the pre-senior class, was heartily sup- ported, and was a great success. The council did its work sincerely and seriously, and ac- complished much during the term. Judging by this performance, the present graduating class need certainly have no fear that there will be a lack of capable men to carry on its work next term. S. Alterowitz ...... ............. P resident M. Aronstein ..... ..... V ice-President H. Blondheim ...... ,......... ......... S e cretary L. Goldstein .... ......................... T reasurer L. Levey .......... ...... G . 0. Representative Mr. Dennett ....... ........... F aculty Advisor page ninety-two