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

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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

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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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enior ag A J As the one o'clock gong struck on Monday, April 15th, the Seniors prepared to take over the school for a day. This year, attendance was greater than in previous years because the day was kept secret. Cameras were snapping ceaselessly, as the Elchanite photographers took more than one hundred pictures of Seniors in every conceivable and inconceivable pose. The schedule was arranged by Manny Green- wald, who collaborated with Louis Bernstein and the Senior Council. Alvin Reines was the administrative assistant, spending the day drinking Coca- Colas and handing orders to the secretary. E. Holzer was principal for the day, and for the most of it blew ol? hot air! There was a steady stream of Seniors trick- ling through the halls, rushing delinquents down to the office. Some Seniors were fortunate enough to instruct more than one class. Perhaps one of the best run classes was English 4, but Pep Berger was reluctant to reveal to us the secret of his success. The Canadian Flash, l. Zeifman, came down a quarter to six, only to discover, to his amazement, that his class had cut. At the end of the sixth period, the Seniors held a small party in Room 212. Sodas and cup-cakes disappeared with mysterious speed. Although the entertainers were a bit shy at first, and Fisch never got much further than 'NUTS El'l 'IDN never- theless when Kramer got started, the wisecracks flew at an alarming rate. Cohen de- lighted the class with a baseball game, played and narrated in Russian. Diplomas and degrees were then handed out, Gerry Homnick receiving the longest one ever to be issued by a Senior class. The Seniors all had a wonderful time and agreed that the day was most assuredly a success. Twenty Eight