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

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STRUM, ELI The Wolf oT Marmion Avenue has an inTeresT in Womankind which some do noT consider quiTe plaTonic. He shares wiTh Brandwein The disTincTion of being The class aThleTe. Eli plays a TerriTic game of baskeT- ball and once liusT oncel sTruck ouT sixTeen Townsend l-TarrisiTes in a seven inning game. Tells all his girl Triends lTous les deuxl ThaT he's a college man, buT now The TruTh will ouT. TABACHNIK, JOSEPH Joseph is a recenT addiTion To The lnTer- scholasTic DebaTing Team. A naTive oT LiThuania, he emigraTed To FlaTbush where he received his elemenTary Training. ln his TaiTh in his oraTorical abiliTies, Tubby has his eyes Turned on The pulpiT and The courT- room. There is a signiTicance in his liking of l-lisTory, Mr. Kronish, and debaTing wiTh a vice-chairmanship oT The lnTernaTional RelaTions Club. TUCHMAN, HYMAN The word is making The rounds ThaT Tuckie has been suTTicienTly de-inTellecTu- alized To don a TelT haT, and a pressed suiT. l-le likes To siT around Talking philosophy and poeTry wiTh KanaTopsky. Brandishes The besT poeTic pen in The class, cannoT Take criTicism, reads voraciously, and scorns mosT anybody wiTh a deep, mournTul scorn. l-le will aTTend C. C. N. Y. WEITZMAN, JACOB The Russian Tarzan whom we all call James is going To be a whiz oT a Rabbi when he grows up. Going To go To Yeshiva College Too. Jimmy is a demon hand- ball player, and he specializes in a Tero- cious game oT chess. Breaks ouT in a cold sweaT whenever looked aT by Mr. Kronish, buT iusT loves hisTory. 7' , I!! 62 W U 1 1-- . ,, Rt., ij 1 g ' ' ELCHANHE T TwenTy'one

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5. 5. K, gr . . Vi- -'IFB .A T' 23:1 u s -Q I 'J' 3 ff ' ' - , 1 A qi g I. Q' , . ' . . ,.- yu-1....f 1 , 51 hifi X -. QS ii Simi-gk X . - 252 f ' r. ' h i ' f SCHILLER, JEROME A Tormer sTudenT oT The Yeshiva D'Har- lem, Jerry came To T. A. aTTer spending several Terms aT George WashingTon H. S. Judging Trom his work on The business sTaTTs of The ElchaniTe and The Academy News, his ambiTion To make money should noT be hard To aTTain. He will probably aTTend Yeshiva College. SCHOENKOFF, STANLEY STan is an energeTic and resourceful young man. Coming Trom The Yeshiva D'Bronx, he made The Talmudical Academy in Three and a half years wiTh ease. He is To conTinue his sTudies aT Yeshiva College. SINGER, HOWARD Microscopy, wireless, and phoTography are among The hobbies ThaT Take up Howy's spare Time when he's noT busy wiTh Tropical Tish, sTamps. Biology, or elecTriciTy. He is aTTending T. I. buT has goT his sTar hifched To The RabbinaTe iusT The same. His chief sTrengTh lies in his speaking and wriTing, boTh oT which are rendered by an admir- able ease and TeliciTy of expression ThaT should beToken well of Things To come. STEPANSKY, NATHAN STep is a walking dicTionary. We have a sneaking suspish ThaT Mr. Leibel does noT know iusT whaT STep's composiTions are all abouT. Mr. Leibel iusT siTs There and smiles sagely while They're being read and Then puTs down a Ten. ..lusT To give you an idea of whaT we're up againsT, he plans To maior in Archeology and Paleon- Tology lsee?l. We sure like The way he Trips up Mr. Kronish, Though. TwenTy ELCHANITE

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L.- in , ,QQ ,Q if N .Q as be WHITEMAN, MORDECAI iilvlordyu, a sfudious Yeshiva D'Bronx lad, concluded when in TA. fhaf his energy was being wasfed and he now goes in for sweef relaxafion. He can wrife: iusf flows flirough a composifion. He can playg glides over a courf or field. He can debafe: iusf drawls his way fhrough. Under fhe sleepy surface Mordy hides a brilliance of wif which spurfs fo fhe surface during a parfi- cularly boring English period. He is a favor- ile of fhe English Faculfy wifh his unforced sfyle. ZEITLIN, ZVI Among fhose presenf is The Zeiflin who has gof a lof of long brown hair. Zvi is affending 'rhe Julliard Music School, where he mulled a fhree hundred smaclceroo schol- arship recenfly for his fine fiddling. Thinks he's a mad genius. buf we don'+ fhink so. For fhree years his violin playing has been comble+ely unappreciafed by us dopes-- il's fhe frufh-buf he doesn'f seem fo mind. Twcnfy fwo ELCHANWQ