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

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the graduating classes of 1952, being of sound mind and body, do hereby bequeath all our valuable and precious possessions acquired during our years at Central to our most honorable, exalted and distinguished teachers. We hope that these legacies will help 'to perpetuate our memory in the halls of Central. LEGACIES To Dr. Saphire we leave a student body who will not contest rulings on examinations. To Dr. Lewin we leave a lifetime supply of O,Sullivan's Rubber Heels. To Mr. Friedman we leave full tuition to a school for soda-jerks. To Rozzi we leave an automatic average computer. But Rozzie, my average is two points higher! To Rabbi Herskovics we leave bigger and better packages for Israel. To Mr. Horn we leave a yearbook that will write and pay for itself. To Mr. Ravetch we leave scenery for all future plays. To Mr. Bassell we leave a class meeting that wonlt sound like the Snake Pit. Ladies! Be Seated! To Mr. Unger we leave a society with a national income lower than combined savings and taxes. To Mrs. jofen we leave a test so easy that we won't cheat. To Mr. Hoffman we leave a pencil to hx the blur on his HShalon stencil. To Mrs. Schwartz we leave a Boro Park Young Israel that is more centrally located. To Madame Feur we leave a language with more regular than irregular verbs. To Rabbi Berenholtz we leave a collection of Boy gets Girl stories. To Mr. Annenberg we leave a lassie, cocky but classyfl To Mr. Wallach we leave a child of Wonder and scorn. To Mr. Schur we leave all our 68 page notebooks - medium thick. To Dr. Lichtenstien we leave a class on Derech Eretz and in the art of becoming Yedidim. To the incoming Elchanette Board we leave all the debts of the outgoing Elchanette Board. To Central we leave . . . f Executor ISHA PESULA LE ADUS - Nineteen -

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DIARY OF CLASS OF IANUARY 1952 Entrance exam - we cut after exam . . . Excitement - new building - this is it! Bang! Boom! Clear the way - mass immigration of freshman class! Where? Here! Nine emaciated, skinny suckers start on a long trek - smallest class - biggest instigators . . . We sat down in Chumash - precedent for months later . . . Seruya main debator f Quiet, it was the cat , cries Faivy - Seruya enters on all fours . . . New printing enterprise penetrates walls of Central - Hoffman, Hoffman and Hoff- man. Inc. Warehouse - C.H.Y., Wholesaler Hoffman,Retailer - Hoffman, Custom- ers - us. Commodity - Shalonim . . . Years roll by - enter Sherman-Lewin Anti- Trust act - end of monopoly . . . New faculty member said to be old and wise in the depth of the Hebrew language - years followed him - so did we - name is M. L .... What does French have to do with the Brooklyn Bridge, Mr. Fohr? Any- one who's not a complete idiot should know that answer . . . Supreme Court justice Lewin declared unconstitutional thoughts of secession to New Utrecht, jefferson. Erasmus - even T.A. considered . . . We learn how to figure with the new retired Hebrew teacher - teaches Math on the side . . . Pop came Rosenbloom, the Shmoo . . . Goldstein and Rabinowitz, Esquires advocate revolution - overthrow of the ignorant masses and extention of Mathematics . . . elementary Algebra added - we are now in M.e.s.s. I with the new eligible teacher, dr., lawyer, Indian chief .-- we learned Science . . . The papa and son dimples exhibit being shown in Room 5 - subject class - English . . . Final week - precedent continued - union of slave workers strike for shorter working hours, higher compensation . . . Federal and school troops restore order - force yellow dog contracts to be accepted . . . and so to rest again . . . DIARY OF CLASS OF IUNE 1952 Twenty-six belligerent girls enter 221 Kingston Ave. on a rainy Friday with spirits just as damp . . . Then on to room 6 ! . . . Notice - 26 belligerent girls receive acceptance letters in the mail . . . Report on first day - also rainy - we receive first French lesson on linguistic record - !'Lecon une, Knock! Knock! - Entrez! . . . Progressive education can be fun!? . . . English class at 9:00 A.M., Mr. Ravetch - There was an Ancient Mariner - hungry already Miss Marcus? - 'he stoppeth one of three' - you're late get an admit - fBy thy long' - But Mr. Ravetch, the bus - 'long gray beard! - get out Miss . . . . . . Test with Lewin - please try O'Sullivan's heels! . . . When the Freshmen were in Hoffman's class - Let the Freshmen go. Oppressed so hard they could not stand three periods in a row!! . . . Freshman politicians - Young and Katzoff run on one ticket . . . Mr. Lilker crosses Freshman in G.O. meeting - can only run for Sec'y - Katzoff wins by a landslide . . . Tommy the bus driver - M.A., Ph.D. - tutors Freshman in Civics while waiting for the light to turn green . . . Karalitzky rewrites old C.H.Y. song to the chagrin of Tchaikovsky who is rumored to have turned over in his grave . . . Weiser becomes business manager - destined to last full 4 years. Rabbi Faivelson becomes Sue's chief publicity agent in Laws and Customs - Law - to bring ads, - Custom - to flunk if you don't . . . L'ag B'omer - Marcus. Schnall and Freshies walk away with all the honors . . . Tziril and Barbara disappear - they worked their fingers to the bone . . . Pheelis you arre eeting, I geeve you a zerro . But Mrs. jofen, they're only cough drops. HSince when do cough drops have crumbs? . . . Dr. Lewin speaks to Upper Freshman about new program -Q this term we will have M.e.s.s. I- . . . New teacher comes to school - Perrie swoon - Girls go shopping for 64 page notebook - not 65? . . . Blossom has no qualms about finals H takes 'em all . . . End of term - Winnie tops honor roll!! . . . Finals. Report Cards and three years to go. - Twenty-One --