Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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erbs ; we DO know more than his bebby Our Freshman rear Whnlta life, tchal joys. But hold on-il ' s only The beginning, boys! . . , SOPHOMORE YEAR In Fate ' s hands If e ' re all nom tools Half tcise men And half fools . . . Commy sees red as two Sophs break all prece- dents by joining the governing board, tulfilling our motto, if we can ' t bend em, we break them . . . Rosenthal is news-editor, Karp, sports-editor . . . Morrie Epstein and Joe Sokolow go to the head of the class . . . the Executive Committee issues an Emancipation Proclamation from their suite of tables at Harry s — no classes after 7:30 — P.M. for sane people, and A.M. for science majors . . . Linn acquires a Sophomore English class, and takes a wife to help with the themes . . . We have our first real smoker with Sid Reiss doing a take off on the Gypsy, Oscar Reichel dispensing risque stories and Menachem Mendel uncovering his famous Muchacha . . . Dramatic Society revived by some of the ' 42 Men . . . Muni and Tracy get the jitters . . . Prof. Robert Calvin Whitford flops florry for a six dollar joke . . . We learn English doing cross- word puzzles . . . Oscar Reichel tries to find his place in the world as he takes over the Lost and Found Dept. . . . P.O.N, takes over the Publicity Bureau and holds the fort until Sherman returns from Georgia . . . Hesh leaves the Varsity, and by coincidence we cop the basketball intramurals . . . Progressive Articularization is the keyword as we learn that we can toss wisecracks while becoming scientific politicians and political scien- tists . . . we get the weekly History exams that Prof. Brody is noted for, but they prove easy once we dis- cover that they ' re in the bag . . . The Spry Sophs take over the Minyan one bright morning, with Rabbis Kramer, Miller, Seiden and Reichel officiating . . . All agree it was a huge success, and should be repeated — every four years ... so dere I was at the Class Nite . . . what was I doing at Class Nite? . . . cheering squad is formed, and Samson, Fisher and Reiss yell their brains out in adulation of Sadie — Sadie the Tuenty-tujo

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depleted financial condition does not deprive him of entertainment . . . Margy Margolis and Moish Ep- stein counsel the Council . . . We de-pantserize the jittery juniors as the dorm supervisor tries hopefully to tear his hair out . . . Doc hlurwitz mechanizes our gym class with bikes, rubber tires and all, pre-prloritles you know . . . Our speech, which we thought would click, did, but is stamped n. g. by Prof. Damon . . . Hesh Esterson, Irv Jaret, and Sam Rosenblum start a four year major on the basketball team as they pop in some long shots for good old Y. C. . . . Our first Class Nite presentation — with Menachem Mendel ' Fischer and Itzik Jaret going Into the Shadchan business . . . We get up the creek at Tlbbet ' s Brook as we proclaim Fares for the Fair ' s sake . . . Class Nite II, featuring an hilarious pot-pourri of song, dance, and snappy chatter by the Furious Fresh makes us an A- 1 artistic success; yet by virtue of mere intellect, the subtle seniors win again. But onward, onward through muck and mire. Hy a Muck! . . . Writing heads for Commy gives us sleepless nights, and Yus Rosenthal fifteen bucks via the Feuerstein Award (boy. was he happy until h ' s creditors formed a double line) . . . Mickey exhumes the humor from the exchange papers to ghost write a ' Jest in Fun ' colyum for Jerry Kestenbaum s by-line. But who are we to talk! Hy a Mire! . . . Koolyk is also a member of the class . . . The ' 42 Men earn the name as Rabbi Reguer begets Gabriel and we listen to a speech on ' Today I am A Father . . . Another old proverb is changed when the people who live in Glass Houses plead with us not to throw — cigar butts at the usherettes . . . One night is all we need to convince our teacher, an Ish Sar, that we have not mislayed ' our Prov- z B 1942

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feineh, Sadie the gitte, etc. etc. . . . We play L. I. U. — and the cheering iquad blow, its brains out ... we ring out the old year and try to ring In the new on the phone, but the booth is too small . . . Jelgart stuffs the ballots in the election of Sadie . . . Floch flows in from Vienna, and flays the boys with a flow of fluid Latin . . . Levovltz is also a member of the class . . . we take hHyglene down dere with Major Freed and find that one must stoop to conquer . . . the first Varsity Show blows in with March — again all honors go to the Class of ' 42 for the writing and acting . . . Rube Siege! has a heavy Southern accent . . . The audience devours the Wolves ' (with a special ' curtain call by J. Wallace Seiden) as the boys put on wigs and fight for freedom and Harold Politoff ... Dr. Belkin wins our further plaudits as he states: the assignment for the next session, skip the next chapter . . . Margy ' s short stories make the rounds, eliciting the comment, Oh! Henry. f MfpntK to odd lloir {ant tinie ' t gone. Some Jleelinfc hourt — And tre ' rr half donr JUNIOR YEAR The world is ours to hare and hold i o lonfior IIP Fate ' s chess men. If ' e fought our ir« ' , ire won, zee :con — Voir tee ' re upper classmen Reading Pa. proclaims a special day to commemo- rate the ascendency of her favorite son, Marty Zion — to the presidency of our class . . . Denver does like- wise for Mel Rossman who holds down vice . . . Mickey Kramer, the Bensonhurst bon-vlvant, fills his father ' s pants and the Athletic Manager ' s shoes ... he juggles basketballs and books to write down Yeshiva ' s most successfull basketball season . . . Dave Sofer discovers a bomb inside the building . . . like most other local bombs, it turns out to be a dud . . . Proletarians! tiie day of days arrives . . . with fast beating hearts and whirling heads we enter the sanctum sanctorum . . . it lives up to everything we heard of it ... we are awed, amazed, stupified, repremanded, cajoled into believing that to know that you know not is half Ticent -lhree