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

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now . . . Here they come . . . and here goes Mr. . . . He had them last term . . . We meet our new English teacher, Mr. Tauber, who claims that he's going to make us think clearly in twenty easy lessons . . . ls he kidding? Who d'you think thought up that excuse that I gave to Mr. Abrams when I cut yester- day? . . . Mr Tauber introduces us to Russia . . . Glad to meet you, How do you do? . . . We learn from Mr. Tauber how to articulate . . . We learn f?J English from Newspapers, Magazines and Radio, and not from Mill on The Floss . . . We get a new French teacher, Mr. Ross . . . Should be good . . . Claims he went through a couple of fancy named Colleges . . . Mr. Wettstein, Charley Friedman, Dr. Sarot, Mr. Godin and Mr. Renov find themselves in with a the Army . . . We present . . . Charley wrist watch for a gift . . . Stan Green . . . is Doc's new pest . . . Wonder why he's always going out fifteen minutes before the end of the period to shut the Library for Doc ? ls the History ' r f. f-51 Q H M . . full fledged politicians period . . . that boring? . . . Election time is here. . . . We're full fledged politicians now . . . the heat subsides . . . Okun becomes president, Aranov Vice-President, Singer secretary, Shoulson treasurer and Kramer athletic manager . . . Fisch still talking . . .Not even Mr. Tauber's speech corrections can stop him! . . . Regents are here . . . and gone. Feb. T943 We made it . . . yup, we're now Seniors . . . 43 of us too . . . Can't chase anyone out so Mr. Tauber gets half the Class . . . Officers are Bern- stein, Fredman, Siegel, and Zeifman . . . Differences between Okun and Bernstein patched up . . . Unity restored to the Seniors . . . Eddie Wolfe starts or- dering Hats and Rings . . . Greenwald arranges Senior Day program. Administrative Assistant and Principal picked out of a hat . . . are A. Reines and E. Holzer respectively . . . Seltzer resigns as Elchanite Editor because of ill health . . . Green- wald and Holzer appointed to succeed him . . . After we have left half a term's work behind us, we start worrying about Class Night . . . Pesach ffm Cf , 1 7 '- -:Q lylff -' i 'f 'fi f Q Xi f , Xi xx X 1 -. AV' I p'dfrYup . . . We're Seniors now vacation . . . We come back and find Nat Rosen- baum ready to direct the Senior Play . . . The rings arrive . . . Work on Class Night continues. . . . Doc gets a telegram making him heir to a S50,000. fortune . . . Was it the Elchanite or Scharfstein who sent it? . . . Senior Poll results announced . . . Elchanite faces a crisis . . . Holzer starts a campaign for ads, Greenwald for articles. . . . Both start dribbling in . . . We pick Hotel Raleigh for Senior Play . . . Casting com- pleted and everyone is satisfied . . . Bernstein be- comes religious in the play and speaks with a Southern accent . . . Wolfe portrays realistically Cand with no practicej a drunk . . . Kramer waltzes through his part. Fisch and Cohen miss Night School and bemoan their fate. Wiesel tries to stop Younger from dying as Segelstein yells for organization . . . Younger goes through his part with cribs . . . Strassberg tries to sell Fisch his novelties . . . He ends up by buying them from Fisch . . . The show is rushed with a few rehearsals, last and most important of which, was on Saturday night, May 21. Bernstein and Wolfe look for dorm rooms to spend the night in . . . and find . . . Fredman, half asleep, roaming through the halls, cautioning them to be quiet . . . After that the boys slept but two hours and watched the sun- rise . . . The great day has come . . . Sunday, May 22, was spent in the giving of last minute instructions . . . Scharfstein amazes everyone by coming and then buying a Bond . . . Red Gold- man brings a be-yooty to Class Night . . . Gerry Homnick finally arrives with Sifra . . . The show can now begin . . . Someone's blind date doesn't come so he stays up studying Talmud . . . Who was he? . . . The show goes off and Fisch and Strassberg start a race to see which one can steal more scenes. Twenty Six

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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

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. . . Fisch wins by a nose . . . Younger kills the audience instead of dying himself . . . Bernstein goes fiat when he sings his hymn. Wolfe finally completes a game of solitaire . . . Show is a big hit - a preview of things to come . . . Homnick and Segelstein get lost after the show in Fort Tryon Park . . . How'd they find their way back in such darkness? . . . Next day . . . Bernstein gets sick and is excused from Class . . . Rest of the Seniors -NNN T C T .' Cf Fishing For Trouble cc w , .Lxag N--4? Cin sympathyj mysteriously disappeared from Classes . . . They were shocked to find themselves in the movies . . . The outrage! It's a mass cut. . . . Mr. Abrams sees the Seniors personally . . . Bernstein confers with Mr. Lichtenberg . . . All we get is sympathy but no admission to Classes . . . We Hnally begin a dribble back to Classes . . . After three days almost everyone is back . . . with unexcused admits . . . Okun and Dr. Safir have a little f?J misunderstanding . . . Doc sud- cii 4 fag Misunclerstanding , 4 FQ-Q denly asks to examine the Workbooks . . . Homnick travels around the room in front of Doc , finally disappearing . . . Wonder why he leaves the room so often on such occasions? . . . Altusky's record of five minuses in one minute is almost broken by Sutton, who is content to stop at four . . . Class keels over . . . not from the heat . . . Doc had iust announced that he has taught a girls' P.T. Class. . . . Just when the discussion on Russia gets hot, Mr. Tauber gets cold . . . catches the Flu . . . Seniors start troubling Office again . . . This time they change Graduation from Thursday night to Sunday afternoon . . . Korngold still wears beret and Ehrman asks Doc if he is exempt in Eco with two 95's. Last Elchanite shots taken . . . Eco exemptions announced . . . Reines almost beats Mr. Orleans in an argument . . . Epstein reports that the manpower shortage is affecting us . . . no one to play on our Chess Team . . . We have an Elchanite Farewell Party . . . Mr. Tauber volunteers to answer any embarrassing question thrown at him . . . We have quite a time bidding the school farewell . . . Wo go home for the Shevuoth holidays . . . We come back for the Regents . . . Graduation on Sunday, June 27 . . . To T.A., we say au revoir, but not farewell. 2 E? - Twcnty Scvcn