Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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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

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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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knowledge . . . We seek vainly for the other half in our other classes ... we agree that Yeshlva without LItman is like blintzes without sour cream, or like hari without kari . . . Seiden presides over Malmonides hiealth Club . . . kerchoo . . . Seigel has a terrific Southern accent . . Friedman is also a student . . . So is Eisen . . . Health service runs short of medicos so ' 42 men-in-white play doctor with the frosh and examine them for reflexes — and — do you have a sister, is she pretty? . . . recruiting for Yeshiva ' s water-polo squad and crew goes full blast, with unsuspecting Frosh looking for the Y. C. colors on the Harlem . . . world Jewry joins us in our deep grief and sorrow as we mourn the loss of our beloved and revered presi- dent. Dr. Bernard Revel of sainted memory . . . Pysch. has many surprises for us . . . long live Gestalt! . . . and Doc. Luchins . . . Einstellung takes over as we learn how to break frames of reference . . . our motto is, if we can ' t bend ' em, we ' ll break ' em . . . H M S (His Majesty ' s Subject) Plotnick comes to U. S. as part of the bases-destroyer swap — we ' re base and he de- stroys . . . ' Commy becomes a forty-two organ as Sokolow and Reiss join the Governing Board . . . Very Warm For May gets a warm ovation — our way of paying for the tickets . . . Ben Welber heads math club . . . but takes his stiff problems to Camp Deal to master during the summer . . . it ' s Art for credit ' s sake as we go out with the lights ... to Abby It ' s art for business sake, as the registrar ' s office, secretary and all, moves to old art room ... or is It art for Artstein ' s sake? . . . we make after-dinner speeches In 1961 but can ' t remember the dinner . . . Creekus Fisher and Kaduchas Jaret cop Class-Nite banner for ' 42 . . . Gelbart cuts a philosophy class to take himself a wife . . . Litman to sue for alienation of affections . . . It ' s almost done We ' re feeling lotc Three years are done One more to go SENIOR YEAR Time fleets fast Alack Alas We sadly knotc This too shall pass Twenty-four