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

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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

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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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OHM? 31710 all je! This is Captain Larson of Experimental Space Ship F-C reporting our progress on this strange planet. As you may recall, it was only a week ago that we left our planet. I can still remember our magnificent sendoff. General Monroe came to address us before our departure. His power- ful voice emitted a message which still looms clearly in my mind. Men, he said, uyou are going on a dangerous mission. But this job must be done and you are the pioneers in this undertaking. Recently, our scientists discovered this planet called Zeruk, and this space ship which we have been able to produce will enable you to reach Zeruk. Goodbye, and good luck '77 Our engines were started and after some days of travel, we neared Zeruk. After cruising the planet, our ship landed on a rocky plateau. As far as could be seen, Zeruk certainly resembled our own planet. Through the use of our fine instruments it was discovered that the oxygen content was only slightly higher than ours. Many of its elements and compounds are known to us. What aroused our curiosity were the great ruins which we saw here. It seems that a great civilization once existed here and we can't understand how it was so completely demolished. Of course you want to know if we found any beings that resemble us. I would like to clarify this matter by relating a fascinating incident. It occurred only four days ago. I sent out a group to explore the sur- rounding area. Private Darwin left the group to delve deeper into the wilderness. After wandering about a while, he discovered a huge monster. It was a form of life lower than ours. The monster carried a primitive weapon and growled ferociously. Since it was getting dark, Darwin returned to the safety of our ship. Upon arriving he immediately reported what he had observed. The next day we commenced the hunt for this savage beast. It was hard travelling but after only an hour we caught sight of it. We spread out and started to surround it. The creature then noticed us and started to run away. When cornered, it became panicky. In a moment of desperation it lifted its weapon to its shoulder and shot some sort of metal pellets at us. Lieutenant Atkins was hit, and fell, wounded. I decided to destroy this beast before it could do any more damage. I lifted my ray gun and pulled the trigger. There wasnit even a trace of it left. It was completely destroyed. By the way, we did find some remnant of this former civilization. While excavating through some of the ruins, we discovered what appears to be a great book. It was preserved remarkably well. A few of its pages were quite legible, especially the first page. After working on it for a day our translators comprehended its first sentence. Roughly, it means: In the beginning, G-cl created the heavens and the earth. 37 MARTIN SCHNALL. thilty