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

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no Y Feb. 1940 Well, here we are, forty young freshmen who have just finished reading the pamphlet describing the wondrous beauties and opportunities of T. A .... The O. W. I. couldn't have done better . . . We enter the building and find out the truth . . . We ask for the elevator and some fellow with a crazy blue and white hat takes us to the dumbwaiter . . . We enter our civics class, and are introduced to raffle books . . . and Doc . . , Someone tells us to answer as I call your name , and we see Doc Saracheck - our maitre d'anglais . . . The Bronxites, lnc., Ltd., elect Shia Sass and William Altusky as president and vice-president respectively. We outsiders re- solve to break up this monopoly next term. We get our raffle books and notes from Doc . . . We forget the raffie books, and . . . lose . . . the notes . . . We notice that the room seems to be in a perpetual state of coolness . . . We look for a draft, and find Fisch talking . . .-We meet A. Perlmutter 8: Co .... Melvin Schein comes to register . . . We see him again at the end of the term . . . We meet that wonderful couple, Joe Herman . . . Gazing upon our program cards, we notice that French is next . . . We are introduced to Mr. Abromowitz, and don't see eye-to-eye with him at all . . . He tells us he used to be a boxer . . . a boxer of oranges most likely, someone cracks . . . T.A. finally gets used to us, but not vice versa . . . Shia tells us about the Student Council and we resolve to become politicians . . . We take our first finals, wish they were the last . . . Oh well! . . . Next term will be easier, . . . we hope. lb X t AUDUBoN H E , tgg!5',f MI fy. -gg JJ 5 L raring to go - - - home sept 1940 Well . . . here we are again . . . thirty upper freshmen raring to go . . . home . . . We go mountain climbing by the banks of the river. Joe Herman nearly rolls off a cliff . . . Weiss and Lassner try to make us support a class newspaper . . . William Altusky is elevated to the presidency, and Phil Strassberg becomes vice-president . . . Lassner starts getting in some tongue exercises . . . The first issue of our paper, The Broadcast, appears . . . Nice ink!! Twenty Two

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HISTORY

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pleased to meetcha! ,ff . . . We meet Mr. Orleans, affectionately known as Ike . . . By the way, our class has adopted a stray mouse, whom we call Ikey . . . Ike, the teacher, gives us a library proiect . . . We all go to the library and get our cards out of hock . . . We order class hats . . . The second issue of The Broadcast ap- pears . . . This one we can read . . . Newman sues Weiss and Lassner, Inc. for libel . . . They smirk . . . We decide to have the trial in the English class. Ike throws us and the case out of court . . . Joe Lassner begins to crack corny iokes . . . Sale of cottton at the nearby drug store booms . . . Mr. Matz tells us to start studying for the final exams . . . Gosh! . . . Are those things here again? . . . Well! . . . That's all for this term . . . Oh, by the way . . . Fisch is still talking. cy If if f 'C-' f fs 'Q WG stan . . . . . . Talking Feb. 1941 Well, here we are again . . . Thirty-three Sophs . . . The extra three are Louis Bernstein, .Ioe Apple- man, and Joe Mandlekorn, who have ioined our ranks . . . Mr. Orleans starts selling us concrete and organizes a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Sentences . . . Once again we meet Mr. Abromowitz . . . Once again we flunk . . . We start seeing triangles before our eyes . . . Oh! . . . it's Mr. Lichtenberg, our geometry teacher . . William Altusky is given another chance as president, and A. J. Weiss becomes vice-president . . . Broad- cast comes out - We read it! . . . We try to get another appropriation tor it, but . . . no! . . . The class must be stubborn . . . we'll move up to the Academy News . . . Lassner still practicing tongue exercises . . . Dr. Charles subsitutes for Mr. Abrom- owitz one day, and wonders how Mr. Abromowitz can teach a class with Fisch, Cohen, Perlmutter, and Willig, in one corner . . . Mr. Abromowitz responds by separating the group . . . Fisch and Willig in one corner . . . Perlmutter and Cohen in another . . . and then pointing to Perlmutter and Cohen, he Up! - Out! -I 2' . D U 7 ' I6 it Q. waves Fisch and Willig out of the room . . . Gosh it's those Finals again . . . Fisch makes up for a summer of silence by outspeaking everyone in Class the last day. Sept. 1941 Gee! I didn't know we were so popular! . . . Mr. Orleans has us again . . . some day he'Il regret it Twenty Three