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

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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 --

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DIARY OF CLASS OF IANUARY 1952 Never thought we'd stick it out - giving it another chance. - We have returned to the intellectual corner . . . Jewish History, Civics, Algebra, Ancient History - he sure is persistent - and ancient . . . Models wanted - 'fToughie Goldstein applies and is accepted provided he extends curriculum to music and gelt on the side . . . Mithtah Friedman, are you teaching Algebra? . . . Return to nor- malcy - we get the real dirt in Bio . . . Ambitious girls will receive five extra points for French scrapbooks - we are all ambitious - result - no French scrapbooks . . . With condolences to Chusid, we divorce HShimmy ! . . , With a new addition to the faculty, we now have ten HBanot'l . . . Tiens! Voila Bob!! -- well la, die dah!! . . . Rumored - new Dr. roaming campus - patients waiting in prayer ward - finally arrives beard and all . . . Tic-Tak-Toe - taught exclusively in Bio - Hybrids dominate over pure . . . Nine French scholars excited over Regents - i'Fine - I always wanted to see your new building . . . Bio Regents - well, shall we go on - to our summer vacation? DIARY OF CLASS OF IUNE 1952 Twenty-four belligerent girls converge upon school for sophomore year . . . Maze! incurs wrath of the most high - starts off term with a bang - by tripping over victrola cord . . . Schnall put on trial for killing of class mascot Albert - Weiser presides - Schnall found guilty of premeditated murder - Sentence - pay for next mascot - also Shmoo by name of Alawishus . . . Sondra accepts position as part time ass't at Collenstein's Ice Cream Parlor - otherwise known as Edie's Candy Store - just a little more whip cream - puleeze . . . Shapiro wins marathon of 176 questions on Mishpatim Shalon - Time: 15 minutes - no exemption this term, but receives great encouragement for next term . . . Art teacher M Mr. Goldstein, comes to school Bohemian style - by bicycle -- confides to sophs that he will soon marry - Judy Kashtan passes approval on his fiancee . . . Dr. Lichtenstein enters with black briefcase and wishes to be our new Y'did . . . Morah Sara descends on Central and refuses to appreciate our red-head. Although spurned, Sondra, starving, returns on hands and knees . . . Mr. Schur beats Rebbetzin jofen to the punch and we learn the facts of life in 4th term . . . Mrs. Schwartz tries to teach us Geometry - fLBut, Mrs. Schwartz, I can't draw a straight line with a ruler. 4'That's what I get for trying to teach blockheads squares and circles , answers Mrs. Schwartz . . . Mr. Friedman becomes administrator - among other duties becomes Mr. Anthony of Central if . . Mr. Horn walks in like a lamb, storms out of room like a lion - behavior of girls impossible . . . Mr. Lilker gives us Medieval History course - first half of period History - second half - personal tries to teach us Geometry - But, Mrs. Schwartz, I canlt draw a straight line girls first find out it wasnlt necessary to start studying in November . . . Kashtan becomes first girl to cut regents!! - Too bad!! She has to take them next term . . . Finals, Regents and two years to go . . . - Twenty-Three -