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

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In the Spring . . . Next year Ramaz holds its Lag B'Omer outing elsewhere. JUNE Bio and language Regents not too bad considering. Arista formed . . . Oh well, maybe I'll get in next term. Finished with minors. XVachman must have made plenty drawing during the past two years. SEPTEMBER History I, XY'ell, Mr. Lilker .... XWl1at's KCLO5, Mr, Lebowitz. You here again. I thought I saw the last of you in general science. OCTOBER On Tuesday, Rabbi Faivelson tells his classes he wants S-IUC by Thursday. O.K. Real money? NOVEMBER Library now going full force. Look, Bienenfeld, I don't owe any money on this book. DECEMBER I hear we're buying the Knights of Columbus mansion in Flatbush for an annex . . . Lot next door bought for two story annex. JANUARY '48 XVhat's logs, huh? . . . Ask Mr. Turetsky. FEBRUARY Dr. Saphire said no three and a half year course. This is a four year school and that's that. Maybe only hardship cases. Hey Moish, can you get me a draft registration card? JUNIOR T7 JUNE Bernstein cut -I5 out of 50 math classes and got 96 on the Regents. Mr. Turetsky's theory is that he took a home study course while he was absent . . . Feld, who has been counting since first term, says only three days to graduation. SEPTEMBER Advanced Algebra is unique. No walls in the class- room, no blackboards, tno place to put thema and no textbooks. The teachers room is American History Il's class . . . Feder sits in the closet twith the door openj . . . Slfg year course announced. Bienenfeld, Dachs, Feder, Stavisky and Xxlacliman get out in February , . . Dershowitz becomes a chemistry major . . . OCTOBER Double American History. Double English, Double trouble for Messrs. Strum and Lilker. XVith only live boys graduating wc-'d have had individual in- struction if only Bienenfeld would stop persecuting Stavisky. Then we'd learn mebbe. NOVEMBER Got our Senior pins. Five men of distinction , . . H, 'lffm Mr. Cantor keeps saying some of his boys dis- appointed him on the Regents . , . I don't care what you did to .Ioe Fisher. I still say you cant hypnotizc me. Yes. ,lack Glickman, I see a three- headed boy. DECEMBER Hurricane strikes Florida. 12,0Uo,tItItJ dollar dam- age. How dreadful . . . Dr. Saphir pays Seniors a visit to reassure us we can't make it in 595 years. However. new tive year plan tcoursej introduced. JANUARY '49 Five familiar faces are no longer with us. 'I'hey've gone the way of all students and will be no more. Ah well, tive down, eighteen to go . . . Say, Tippy, I hear Dr, Saracheks giving out lOtl's in English. Wlitit? l failed? Awl Wlait till next year .... FEBRUARY Seniors in control of G.O. executive. Greenberg, presidenu Toporovsky, vice-president: B I ti s h. Athletic Manager . . . All three got 160 votes. Roll call reveals 155 students in school . . . XVC got four new telephones we don't use. so we had to get a switchboard . . . We don't use that either. MARC!-I Only 102,240 minutes of school left. As La Guardia would say. Patience and Fortitudef' APRIL Say, Irv, what's the cotan of a b c over capillary action x Treaty of Chapultepec? XVell, leave the room. . . . Brooklyn College test. Y.U., here I come! Guess what? The Regents Scholarship Exam! Lucky I had my ouiia board along. Gee, that Der- showitz knows his bio . . . Lag B'Omer outing . . . Student Day arrives. VUhat'sa matter Greenberg. gotta stiE neck? Mr. Bassell has to read from Canterbury Tales. takes off jacket. Hot day, huh? JUNE We passedf We passed! XY'e passed? XVhat? XVe failed? I want my tuition back . . . Graduation night. Bewildered , . . in a daze. Shake hands. Diploma . . . FREE. And all my bonds aside were cast Yet these heavy walls to me had grown A hermitage f and all my own And half I felt that they had come To tear me from a second home . . . My very chains and I were friends So much a long communion tends To make us what we are - even I Rc-gained my freedom with a sigh And so to college. 'fe ff' ,.. ,1 ff .v X, Q' in SENIOR