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

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360 gg? How was I supposed to know? , cried Mike as he felt jerry's blow. It was the usual day in Washington Heights, very cloudy and quite dark in the early morning when he was awakened by his roommate jerry. Jerry, the tall, well built boy from South Dakota who didn't have a watch and was too lazy to go out in the hall and see what time it was, whispered, Mike, are you awake? If there was something that Mike, the short, chubby kid from Vermont liked better than eating, it was sleeping. Annoyed at being disturbed in his dreams he reluctantly replied, Yah!, I'm up. What is it? What time is it? asked Jerry nervously. Mike, trying to remember where he left off, rubbed his eyes, lifted his wrist to them, and released a sufficient amount of breath to reply, twenty-five to eight. This answer struck Jerry like a swarm of bees. To-day was Monday and Hminyann attendance was to be taken in five minutes. Mike, who was known to have one of the worst attendance records, was sound asleep. Jerry hopped across the cold cement floor and tore the covers from Mike's bed. Get upln, he yelled. Realizing that Jerry would not allow him to sleep any longer, Mike started to dress. By the time Jerry had finished washing, Mike had his arms over his bent knee, holding a sock over his toes. A few drops of icy water never hurt anyone and Mike got it, right in the face. Cut it out! yelled Mike in a rage. Don't you know when to stop? Don't you know when to stop? replied Jerry. Sleeping, I mean. That minyanln. thought Mike to himself very sadly. In what was once a quiet room, there commenced a rush from one corner to the other, in hasty search of some article misplaced the previous night. Mike was running around the room looking for a tie and then began struggling with the cover of a can of toothpowder. You can wash your teeth later, exclaimed Jerry, disgusted with Mike's slowness. Do you want to be marked absent? he asked. Mike. seeing a place where he could strike back, said in a loud voice, Look who's talking. Why don't you stop trying to cover up that bald spot? We're not going to visit Elizabeth Taylor. twenty-eight

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Despues de varias scmanas de luchas cn las cualcs cl gobierno perdia Constantemcnte, los rcbeldes entraron cn la Ciudad de Cartago, donde la gente los reeibio alegrementeg pero el Cuartel de la Ciudad no se rindio faicilmentcg pues lucharon hasta que todo el parque de municiones se les termino. Para este tiempo San Jose cstaba en peligro de Caer en manos de los revolueionarios pues estaba przieticamentc rodeada, por lo Cual Cl gobierno rcunio un gran numero dc soldados proccdentcs de distintas partcs del pais. El gobierno intento tomar la Ciudad dc Cartago, pero en un lugar denomimado El Alto de Ochomogos fueron detenidos. Este y otros sucesos ayudaron a la rendicion dei gobierno. Una manana despues de la rendieion, las fuerzas del gobierno marcharon por la Avenida Central disparando al aire hasta que no tenian munieionesg hacian esto debido a que la mayoria habia decidido entrcgar las armas aunquc algunos se quedaron Con cllas. Con cllas. El dia en que entraron varios Contingentes rebeldes, un nutrido numero de soldados fanzitieos gobiernistas empezaron a dispararles, lo que trajo Consigo el despliegue de los revolueionarios por la Ciudad y el rodeo de los Mariachis . En este heeho varios soldados murieron. Dcspues que todos los rebeldes entraron en San jose, estos marcharon cn un dcsfile de victoria, y para esto las Calles fueron rcgadas de flores. A mi pareeer, la lueha por el gobierno del pais se justifiea debido a que los revolu- eionarios habian ganado la eleccion prcsidencial llcvada a cabo algunos meses atrais. En esta oeasion el gobierno en poder no habia aceptado los rcsultados de la eleeeion y la habla anulado. Asi termino este episodio historieo dando lugar .1 una victoria mis para la democriicia. TOBIAS ROSENCXVAIG twenty-seven

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Well I'm sure that if we were, I wouldn't have had so much trouble waking you up. HYah! Well what about the time you went out on that blind date? I clon't think there was one fellow whom you didn't ask if both your shoes shined the same. O.K!, O.K! said Jerry. Lct's stop kidding around. 1 You know jerry, pondered Mike, uIt's kind of quiet in the halls. Izveryone must be downstairs already. jerry was standing by the door watching Mike fall over chairs, bang his head against the table, and do another series of unrehcarscd calisthenics. Wl1at's the matter now? he asked. HI can,t find my tefillin, answered Mike. Wlmile Jerry was looking in the book-cases, behind the radio, under the books and papers on the messy table, Mike ran over to the closet, pulled the door open, and right on top of his head toppled his hatbox, sending his new gray hat rolling over on the untidy floor. Oh boy! Wait until my mother sees this hat. She'll kill me, said Mike while holding his hat which was now so streaked with dirt that it resembled a marble cake. Did you look in your drawer? asked Jerry as Mike was putting his hat back in the closet. It wouldn't be in there, replied Mike. HI bet it is. Yeshiva boys don't bet, Mike answered sarcastically. Cut the downing, said Jerry, even more sarcastically. Both boys looked into the drawer and Jerry, looking very happily at the tefillin which were found there, exclaimed, Boyl Are you absent minded. It happens to every genius, replied Mike. Hal Don't make me laugh. Come on, begged Jerry. We're late. b If anyone would have been there at that time, he would have heard some feet scampering and would have seen two shirt rails waving as if in a hurricane. When they arrived in the Beth Medrash they were panting. Stunned, they stopped short at the door, observing that there was nobody in sight. jerry was astounded. Then he looked at the large clock hanging from the ceiling and realized at once that when Mike told him it was twenty- five to eight, it was actually twenty-five to seven. How was I supposed to know? cried Mike. JONAH MANN. twenty-nine