Yeshiva University High School For Girls - Elchanette Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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MARCH Car speeds up to Central . . . occupant leaves car sixteen inches from curb, rushes into build- ing. teaches Math or something. nameis Fried- 111311 . . . Whereis Charlie? No, not him . . . Bay Bolger. Queen Yospa stars. graces Purim Festival. MAY Social event of the year 4L'ag B'omer outing! starts with a bang . . . of Rabbi Faivelson's glas- ses, that is. Next day, barrage of 'l'.A. buttons sweeps school . . . Going steady? JUNE Klaperman again. Spring fever hits girls and changes to frenzied fever as final month is an- nounced . . . Schoolis over. cifffgibm . X 1. A wma' Vonage SEPTEMBER First day back-quiz on summer homework. A new teacher is added, hllar Hoffman Hecha- dashi' . . . better known to his disciples as Hatachnis.i' Dr. Saphire becomes Principal as Ylf. takes over. OCTOBER Dir. Bassell, alias the womanis reason for not getting married, becolnes our new English in- structor of . . . ? Faigy and Miriam start party epidemic. NOVEMBER Geometry test tomorrow. Evening school opens for one night at 1329i-18th St. Rhoda accom- modatingly trudges in with blackboard on shoul- ders. Mr. Rock promptly begins lessons. DECEMBER Movie night- did Mr. Deeds get to town? 4tDue to the lateness of the hour, we never did find out. - Twenty - 1950 JANUARY Myrna's New Years Eve party. Leah comes late because she forgot her Bio review book. Makes up for lost time. During Regents Mrs. Schwartz becomes one man escort bureau. Are the windows in the doors at Ylv. for the teachers, benefit or the students? FEBRUARY Basketball game-Central vs. Ramaz. Game ex- citing. big crowd, enthusiasm. great team work, wonderful cheering. we lost. Boom! Crash! Bang! Zing! Clangl Boing! Entrance i11 Central of Beedle Oops Teitelbaum. MARCH Purim-free hamantash. Found it on the bill. Explosion in Chem class. Big fire. Due to heroic efforts of scientist Friedman. no lives were lost. Sorscher bangs head on fire extinguisher and extinguishes brains. Avoid final rush and fail now! MAY Social life picking up: lfag B'omer here again. Rrrip . . . Barbara wears sweater around lower part of anatomy for remainder of afternoon. Baseball game . . . teachers vs. students, T..-X. that is. Mr. Friedman literally lies down on the job as Casey strikes out. Arista formed . . . Sen- iors strike. JUNE Problem: If we take Geometry Regents we'll lniss our Mishna final. Boo Hoo. Get our Regents marks 4BooHooD3 . . . Term ends . . . What, no summer school? SEPTEMBER Girls return with air of superiority-Senior year. you know. We notice that Bozzie ca111e Beck. Charles Friedman becomes .fdnlinistrator of C.Y.H.S. or as overheard, File Clerk Charlie . . . How's Amy Gay? OCTOBER A new deviation of the homo sapiens enters our portals . . . Miss Taub, Attorney-at-law. Our favorite Rabbi Herskovics enters school-girls' faces look familiar, can't recall their names, calls them all Shulamith. Mrs. Schwartz has baby boy . . . Hazel Tov! NOVEMBER Class guest arrivesfnameis Platovsky. First glim- mer of hope-rings decided upon. Nope, 11ot en- gagement, just graduation. Faculty sets girls' minds at ease-only sixteen midterms this week fnot counting the three in Safrusl. Silbermintz announces engagement, One downfthree to go.

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swag asy- HES! 1948 7 JANUARY Our Class History actually began before our school did-Remember the little gathering in Shulamith's home? . . . Enter 2 definite, l-1 undecided-talk, talk, food . . . enrolled l6 new students. FEBRUARY Wlhere? Young Israel of Eastern Parkway- Down to basement, back door entrance, first closet on the left. Can't miss it. Something fishy goes on every Thursday. Chaja's fish gets per- sonal delivery. APRIL Naming of schoolAGaula? Rejected .... Moriah? Tried for a week. Central Yeshiva High School for Girls? Now thereis a snappy little name. How's Amy Gay? MAY XVe know our teachers three months now. Rabbi . . '7 . . RHlJ1ltOW1lZ peeked through the hole in his news- paper as we passed each other's llllfllCl'lIlS . . . Wie got what Mr. Horn was driving at as he munched happily on Debbyls sandwich. JUNE School sweaters arrive promptly with heat wave. Final exams proetored by Marty, with sunglasses. Siege of measles envelopes school. School ad- journed four periods earlier. ssrnsmssn ' ' New term . . . new student, Shirley Zall. So shy and retiring, she'll get over it . . . Probably first day shyness. Increased enrollment. Need for bigger building arises when Frieda insists on a seat of her own . . . claims Yospa's getting too heavy. Move to Kingston and Park Place. Klaper- man becomes first G.0. President. -N OCTOBER With Yom Kippur around the corner, we find Rabbi Faivelson trying to sell us the latest edition of How to Fast Without Getting Hungryf, Sorscher begins collection of notes . . . E 'SMH-'Sf l P tcm af A .1 Q' H Q. f 9 is Q29 J 4' V K 9 o 9000 aoo0 NQVEMBER Confusion, Excitement, New hairdos, Lipstick., Happy smiling faces! . . . No, the school didn't burn, it's our Welcome Freshmen Dance. DECEMBER For a Chanukah present, the girls chip in to buy Mr. Hoffman a one way ticket on a Slow ,Boat to China. Chaja vehemently objects and suggests a seat on the Mule Train. First step in the Wrong direction-Chanukah affair held in T. A. 1 9 4 9 JANUARY Writh the mimeographing of finals there is a sudden influx of volunteers as ofiice help. Off for our winter vacation . . . one day. ineteen -

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DECEMBER APRIL Chanukah Festival great social success. Eve11 Crown Heights seniors atte11d. Hello there. Faivey! Us -J O mm .. L2 JANUARY Central Purple Heart to Selma for quick recovery from appendicitis attack that astounds 1llCtilC3l history. Result-entire class passes Sten. final. Class poll taken .... What a lJlIllf'll of liars we girls are! FEBRUARY First session of Economics begins. First topic dis- cussed. Bikini bathing suits. Second topic- Girls. this is not a boy-girl relationship. Third topic-Censored. Mr. Horn informs 11s we'rc Ollly S900 short 011 our yearbook. After learning about hell i11 Ravetclrs class. thc girls go llllflGl'St2llNi- i11gly to Mr. HOHIIIHIIIS class. Yivien goes on ll0IIlE'YS'0l'li strike. Senior pins arrive. MARCH Rozzie gets hooked: new bait needed for office. Mystery of the month-who took Shlosh's book? Girls refuse to answer 011 grounds that it IIIHY iIlC1'll1llll3IC them. Eco books arrive . . . now we can make necessary corrections in o11r notes. After four years of investigation. Hr. Friedman discovers building is ll0t bomb proof. Logically. therefore. we have our first fire drill. Entire Senior ward almost escapes. Herciless Marty herds us up and down stairs . . . .lofen teaches us Ethics and learns a bit. Girls forget to bow to teacherseno Hebrew diplomas. College applica- tions. Ponce De Lewin explores lsrael. Carnival . . . Girls have taken revenge Oll tl1e teachers. - Tu' llerra helpsplan her surprise shy-seventeen party . . . Who is Selma Hoseninan? 6.4lItU.tl0lt B'klyn College Students find out . . . Pesach vacation starts. only eleven book reports per student . . . The diploma is printed . . . Tired of class? Cen- tralettes escape via underground H.R. lback stairs! . . . Crossword puzzle siege started by Se11ior Class . . . Pictures taken for Yearbook . .. But l don't like 111y picture. Can't it be changed? Canit Ulf' nose be shortened? Gosh! can't he change Illf' hairdo? Really l donit look like that at all! What a terrible photographcrfff Y Murder in 1'00lll 6: .lofen disects chicken . . . L'ag Biomer. assemble at 9:00 a.111. klllll depart promptly at l2:34l. stay at park two hours. Girls COIllIllilill they didn't get sunburned. Lucky they didn't drown . . . Pre-exemption finals. Dr. Lewin dissatisfied with marks tho' girls couldn't have 110116 any better had they S6911 the test before- hand . . . Prom decided 1111011 . . . Senior day postponed for 3 years. Well. no 111atter how llllICll they like us. SVU-1'f' 11ot staying that long! . . . Congratulations to Hr. Ravetch 011 the birth of his son Jeffrey. JUNE Oh joy. a luncheon ill o11r honor . . . suspicious girls bring an oflicial taster. Even Shulamith praises school. llarty goes i11to COI1lP6'tlliOll with senior class and takes off te11 lbs. Girls hide ,lew- ish Ethics notes from parents. lest they be taken out of school . . . 772.8-13 minutes left 'till grad- uation. so Dr. Lewin tells IIS after careful cal- Clll3llOll. lxhy so a11xio11s. donit you like us? Senior day finally-a success. with the help of the students Hllil faculty. Extra thanks to Hr. Ravetch for l1is excellent SpO1'lSll13l1Slllp. Almost makes 11p for our 315 years here. Graduation night . . . heat wave of century arrives as graduates march dow11 aisle ill lOllg SV00l6'l1 gowns . . . Girls. we assure you that's a diploma not a 'sha'alon'. Stop shaking . . Wie finally made it I Y I Wand xl' 6 , if C Q. Q slr enty-One