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

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A cerTain sTudenT ll blushl of our class ioined The aImosT legend- ary class of Summa Cum Laude. IAside To I'l. I. lvl.-Three of your cheers, pIease.I Three Torms resembling Sid FursT, Dave Mirsky, and Ezzie Spice- handler are coming. They're carrying someThing. IT looks like .... Yes iT is-The coveTed InTra-mural debaTing championship! Whooppee, Yippee, and Oh Fudge! FirsT Two regenTs. GeomeTry-marks like Tever--They ran so high. French-we saw The TesT-we laughed-The Board of RegenTs laughed-we sTopped-Danny GuTman and a seIecT Tew are sTiII laugh- ing. The aToremenTioned Mr. STrum, now a married man, is so Tame. ThaT he gave a 90 Iwow?I wiThouT even shedding a Tear. Y W 11 ik 1 FIVE -- FIVE - - FIVE... The old order changeTh, yielding place To new. Ivlirsky of The IaTecomers To This noble insTiTuTion eIecTed presidenT oT The class . . . congraTsI Mazol Tov . . . Ivlazol Tov . . . Ivlazol Tov-and Ivlr. RosenThaI geTs himself a wife, The class geTs him a pipe, and The iunkyard a car! A greaT schism is Taking place. I IaIT oT The class is learning how To make CBI-ISINOBIS-IniTrogIycerinl, C I-ISINOZIB ITNTI and oTher playful and harmless compounds. The oTher haIT oT The class is learning how To curse I-IiTIer in his naTive Tongue. LoTkes are Tlying all around. PracTicaIIy all oT 'em are landing on our Delaney cards. They are noT' Those in which we indulge during Chanukah, buT The work of Doc's TrusTy ole pen. My neighbor inTorms me ThaT he noTices quiTe a difference in Doc's marking during a day when The Yanks won-and when They IosT. lk ik ik it II! A bell is being Tolled SIX Times. The old order TurTher changes. A Philadelphian Foo becomes pres- idenT oT The class, and a human sail-boaT The vice-presidenT. Class enTers school poIiTics. John Law Ivlirsky emerges as vice-pres- idenT oT The S. O., George Zeno Cohen secreTary oT same and FursT edifs The Academy News--scarIeT Tever and all. Class sTarTIes school by acquiring undernourished dunce caps Tor oTTiciaI headgear. Johnny Glasser explains. 'They shrunk Trom The waTer ELCHANITE TwenTy-nine

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A colossal 3 gazes brazenly down aT us. Our ranks are swelled by a wild horde from The swamps of Brook- lyn. A sTalwarT young buck, Kramer by name, of said horde Tries To buck our building, and geTs The worsT of The argumenT wiTh Three broken ribs. Young horde Tries vainly To perform a coup d'eTaT lplus much shouTing, mud slinging, nominaTions, obiecTions, accepfances, declina- Tions, refusals eTc. eTc.l Cohen and Karp of The Old Guard reTain leadership. Undaunfed by The oufcome of The firsT squabble, They Try again and place Mirsky and l-laimm as secrefary and aThleTic manager respecT- ively. Who-Mr. AsTrachan. Whaf-shoufs, Louder please! When-when he feels like iT. Where-in The English class. How-Through use of his larynx. Why--we sTill don'T know. Mr. Oscar RosenThal, behind a French musfache, wiTh innumer- able charTs, comparaTive rafing Tesfs lwhere passing mark was usually 57 and lowerl Tried hard, buT in vain, To Teach us The difference beTween garcon and fille-as if we didn'T know iT already. Two floors up, second door To The righ+ again. This Time To be amused, amazed, awed. befuddled, and The like by The scienfific dis- courses, inTellecTual discussions, songs. and jokes of Dr. Dlugafz. Dr. D. laddressing an up and coming Mendell-Tell me, Shmeye Leib, where is The sand pipe? S. L.-lwiTh The hopeless look of a Dodger fan, poinTs To his abdomenl-IT should be some place around here. Dr. D.-IT should! PK Pk FF FK K An angelic chorus is genTly swinging. Youre a four. The Old Guard-Those frosT-biTTen reacTionaries, remain all-pow- erful wiTh Karp and Gellman a-Tap. We are delving info ancienf hisTory books on Ancienf l-lisTory, un- der The TuTelage of Mr. lhere's hopes for a Ph.D.l Jacob l. l-larTsTein, who has since deparfed for happier hunfing grounds. Buf his l'm always one ahead of you! lingers in our memory. NOT To forgef a cerTain hisTory exam. Ring The bells! TooT The horns! Blow your noses! TwenTy-eighT ELCHANITE

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on his brain. 4 E . I don'.+ Think Ihisufunny, do you? The Chem Class becomes a Glee Club and offers iis own rendi- fion of Ihar immorral classic, Sally of Our Alley. Maesrro Jacob Ab- rahams conducfing. A L'homrne avec les cheveux magnifiques, Jacque Goldslein, Iakes a lip from his predecessor and acquires a conslanl companion for him- self- fill dearh dolh us perl, and sruff. The class shells oul once more, This lime for a book, Live Alone and Like I+. ' lApparenIly he didn'I.I Scene-: Classroom of Modern European Hislory. Characlersz Dr. Shapiro, class lif anyl, currain. Dr. Shapiro:-lhanding our papersl Dr. Shapiro:-lcolleclring papersl Class:-lmissingl Dr. Shapiro:--llzeeds Iwo lorkes Io each Delaney cardl Class:-lsfill missingll Curfain Thus' ended Ihe Iirsr of our spon+aneous vacalions. Mr. Orleans is frying hard To make Brouns or al leas'r Runyons lDamon's pal, merhinksl ou? of us Isk, Jrsk, Isk. I Regenrs again! So whall Come on SEVEIQI - Come on SEKVEN . l+'s here! The class gels borh feel sluck in Jrhe mire of school polirics. Karp becomes presiden+ lior no good reasonll Sid and Dave inlerscholasric debafors lsling if boysll Mike Kramer and Joe Elagarl' cofcaplains of Ihe Discipline Squad, and O. Henry Margolis IH. I. M.I and Morris Epsrein IM. E.l edirors of Ihe rag you're now reading. ll hope you arel. A cerrain fencing coach, who also fancies himself 'fo be an Eng- lish Teacher, exlolling Ihe virlues of hi: brolher Looyeh and swearing rhar, Elf my grandmorher had roller sk-ares, she'd be a mororcyclef' The drama crifics are amazed by 'rhe sheer beauly, The clarily -:I undersranding +ha+ Paul Muni lends 'ro 'rhe role of Ophelia. :We -areunanimous in agreemenr 'rhar Mr. Maurice Small knows his proverbial 'srulf' 'buf I slill mainrain Ihal his maslery of Economics would: nor be complele wi'rhou'r Ihorough knowledge of Sewer Case's, The Economy of Words . il it PK FK 'EIGHT bells-and all is well. Y-The class sinks neck deep in poli+ical mire. Warsaw elecred pres- TWV.. .. ELCHANITE