Yeshiva University High School For Boys - Elchanite Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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ilLast'G1I1iIl anb Gestament We, the first Graduates of T. A. Brooklyn, being at this time in no fit state of mind and body to be held responsible for what we say and do, hereby leave and be- queath the following to our beloved institution and its intimates: Clause Clause Clause Clause Clause Clause Clause Clause Clause Clause Clause Clause Clause Clause Clause I II III IV V Vl VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV To Rabbi Zuroff we leave a special assortment of admit pads of a variety of colors. To Miss Sherman we leave automatic bells that ring five minutes late each period without any special attention. To Mr. Strum we leave a soft arm chair and a new Adam hat. QHO-humlj. To Mr. Horn we leave a book without any underlying theme or purpose. To Mr. Grossman we leave a freshman class that will really appreciate its music period and a victrola that doesn't cry. To Rabbi Faivelson we leave at the First National Bank 1,000,000 ad blanks, and a yarmulkah with glue on the inside. To Mr. Lilker we leave the hope that someday PR will be used in T. A.'s elections. To Mr. Turetsky we leave a new Drash'i' on the geometric proof of trisecting an angle. To Mr. Godin we leave all the unfinished French homework. To Dr. Lichtenstein we leave an automatic average computator which computes averages without taking marks into consideration. To Mr. Landowne we leave the duty of formulating a new theory of evolution based on the discovery of the connection between the seedless watermelon and the fossilized amoeba. To Mr. Lebowitz we leave the task of splitting the electron and a new screwdriver with which to do it. To Mr. Cantor we leave a new language to get to the bottom of. To the ambitious pioneers of T. A. Brooklyn we leave the hope that someday they will see a new building with a swimming pool and a gym. fNote to future graduates: This clause may be reprinted word for word in your own Last Will and Testaments without chargej. To T. A. we leave a four year course in sanity. health, and happiness for the inmates of the future. In witness whereof we do here affix our hand and seal the twenty-eighth day of june, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight. Signed, THE SENIOR CLASS Illtkflllj'-0718

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Lllll ITE 1 DECEMBER, 19-i7 . . . No time at all to study . . . Rabbi Faivelson's plan for a student to spend his leisure time . . . one cheerful evening' a week at his Hebrew Club . . . raise money for Food for the Hungry' campaign, for T. A. publications . , . sell tickets for his annual Tzedaka affair . . . write articles for Elchanite, Tatler, Kolenu . . . Gala Chanukah affair. JANUARY, 1948 . . . Three regents . . . buttons, pins, rings, senior hats, senior day f... Somebody make a committee! . . . Tatler appears . . Top floor partitioned again-new classroom . . . 6 purposes, includingfstudy hall. FEBRUARY, 1948 . . . Two histories, two Englishes, seeing double . . . Q Double double, toil and troubleuj . . . Willie runs for sec-treas . . . gives out 26 bow ties, gets 25 votes . . . GAZLAN! MARCH, 1948 . . . Nisson Shulman in city wide oratorical contest 4 . . What are you going to do with the 325 . . . Rabbi Faivelson see you yet? APRIL, 1948 . . . Senior buttons . . . Vffinograd stocks up for next ten years . . Starishevsky starts concession . . . both Fred and Seymour came to school on the same day! . . Sandwich bar installed . . broken . . Porky sells sandwiches . . Lockers installed . . . No more halls . . . MAY, 1948 . . . Moving faster . . . Elchanite, assorted rallies . . . 100fk disatten- dance . . . glass enclosed bulletin boards . . . JUNE, 19-18 . . Graduation . . solemnity . . thoughts go back to the beginning . . new building on lot next door . . . Bedford Avenue and President Street. Mordecai Katz l , Tweizly

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J y W EDITORS: XV. ORENSTEIN, FRED VUIESENFELD AND H. WEISBERG 'UH s f NEW HOSPITAL FOR MENTAL DISORDERS ESTABLISHED S, ' 1, -' The cornerstone for the Chicago Institute of Insanity was laid today. Chief Psychi- J cih ,Q .itrist will he I, Wfinograd, B. S., M. S., I.N.C. CI.N.C,-Special degree given to I psychiatrists upon becoming pyromaniacs. Requirements for this degree include the A 1 burning of a house and a car on one matchj O BILLIONAIRE BUILDS NEW SCHOOL of, Wm l B' enfeld whose immense lortune runs into logdrithms, has just com, Stan ey len . . pleted the blueprints for his new school. Tuition is 51,000,000 per semester. The school consists of 10 gyms, 4 movie houses, 8 auditoriums, 6 saloons, 25 gambling dens, 5 solid gold Olhces, one classroom, and I25.000,000 students. School hours are - ' ' Af Zzlito 2:16, once .ill d.1y every day extept lor Yom-lxippur, and study hours are rom every leap year.