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

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' our out VWEW I I .- N ifgzrssw Q x-Q 1 Q i i y l -JA. N-,s-'.s! . . . Monsieur Blume threatens us with flunking the French Regents . . . We laugh . . . How could we? We've had Mr. Abromowitz for the last two terms!! . . . Charley Friedman walks into the Chemistry Class . . . ln a fit of absent-mindedness, both Mr. Lebowitz and Joe Mandelkorn slap him on the back nd ask him for his Program Card . . . Mr. Small is back . . , He thinks that we're better than the average high school History student . . . We're still sg l flunking History . . . Whew! . . . His reports are even harder than Doc's . . . Green finally elicits from Mr. Small the names of some good books . . . Gerry Homnick earns the name Smiling . . . the nerve . . . He cuts, then walks into the office and X0 H4w S. HRW X . . Just flashed his smile J.-'g J Y ii 7 smilingly asks Mr. Abrams for an admit . . . As Dale Carnegie says CDon't sue me if he didn'tJ A winning smile is a winning personality . . . Gerry lust flashed his smile and Mr. Abrams, Dr. Safir and Miss Rosen- blum signed it . . . Bernstein starts debating on the School Team . . . First third passes . . . Mr. Orleans gives Larry Willig a high mark . . . the calm before the storm . . . As if in gratitude, Larry starts a revolution . . . Rebellion quelled . . . Fisch still talking . . . He tells us that he was mistaken for a phonograph at a party . . . Segelstein starts in- sulting people . . . calls Spielman a paragon of physical pulchritude . . . Wonder why Wally didn't sock him? . . . Dr. Charles goes to Washington . . . Leaves his Latin Classes six weeks before the Regents . . . Mr. Strum takes over the Latin Classes . . . Mr. Seligman take over the English classes . . . Standing before the Class, he carefully eyed everyone and thereupon introduced himself with these immortal words, Now that you've sized me up, what do you think of me? . . . You guessed it . . . I got kicked out for laughing . . . The little old man with the heavy eyebrows and thick glasses, who lives in Albany , is starting to polish his lenses . . . lt's Regents time!! Feb. 1942 Surprise!! . . . W. Altusky is not elected president of class . . . Joe Mandelkorn succeeds him . . . If you call that success! . . . George Wolf, The Silent Man becomes Vice-president . . . Fisch organizes a punchball team between conversations . . . We win the championship of school . . . Larry Willig leaves Twenty Four

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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

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i 4 1 ,, in sc. , X, rg CC J JJ xk.. Q 5 Y T. A .... Now Joe Mandelkorn starts a revolution . . . He deplores the system by which the students of our fair class are burdened with too much English homework that we have no time for doing our French . . . French , he says . . . Huh! . . . Much happens . . . Class in turmoil for two weeks . . . Everything ends up nicely and we only get twice as much homework . . . All right . . . Mr. Abromowitz is considerably surprised to learn that we never did it . . . S. Cohen and Perlmutter wow the audience at Class Night in a Russian play by Lieber . . . We YOU r'tus'r PAciFY N.B.A. come to class and watch Mr. Orleans distort himself . . . We tell him he ought to be an actor . . . He gives us a proiect on the theatre . . . The movie- theatres begin enticing us . . . We take a course at the Lane and Gem . . . We try to obtain admits . . . but . . . one must pacify N. B. A .... So we only cut twice a week . . . After all . . . we are nearly seniors iik l ff, WW' N Elect me - And eqg b - I : now . . . Joe Mandelkorn tells us that he intends to run for the presidency of T. A .... Weiss for the vice-presidency . . . Strassberg for treasurer . . . Okun for secretary . . . J. Lassner for athletic manager . . . Election comes . . .Mandelkorn elected unanimously . . . Strassberg becomes treasurer . . . Okun secretary . . . Lassner athletic manager . . . Weiss loses by three votes . . . Claims again that if Joe Herman would have been there on election day he, U.H.J, would have been able to cast four votes by this time . . . Anyway, we control the Student Council . . . Executive Council . . . And the school . . . Fisch still talking and here comes the Regents . . . We still have not decided which is worse. Sept 1942 We're waiting calmly for the invasion . . . The three-year course boys should be here any minute Twenty Five