Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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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

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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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Now the school ' s ours officially but we are re- minded that Dean-a de Malchusa Dean-a . . . George Cohen serves as council prexy, Zion as V.P. and Mirsky as secretary . . . .Reiss takes over presidency of class while Rossman is contented to retain vice . . . the faculty becomes envious and we are deprived of un- limited cuts . . . managers of Lane, Colly and Empress petition Dean to give them back . . . We learn about life at Illinois in the I920 ' s as Professor Abel breaks down and discloses his past . . . Rosenthal edits Com- mentator with Margolis and Weisel as new additions to the board . . . Commy ' comes out blushing at the appointment of Looksee to the presidency . . . Elgart becomes a professor of gymnastics and goes to gym to work out with the dumbells . . . Miller, Sokolow and Karp drive to Lehigh U. for the International Relations Conference . . .They spend most of their time survey- ing the situation a-broad (three of them) . . . Medetsky, also a student . . . Professa Flink warns if you have nothing to say, don ' t elaborate on it . . . which changes our class period from recitation to lectures . . . Redcap Riot rivals Commy ' . . . Siegel and Karp join Gangbusters . . . we get our College keys . . . Linn hits the jackpot . . . gets his doctorate and baby girl . . . Y. C. queen of 1 960 ... the faculty celebrafe the occasion and Professor Litman rings A-bel with a lecture full of da stuff . . . Epstein, Horowitz and Reiss bask in Florida sunshine as seniors start new term . . . Philo majors keep in tune with infinity under guid- ance of Dr. Jung . . . Joe Sokolow edits Masmid — have an aspirin, bub . . . Reuben Siegel ' s accent gets him elected honorary mayor of Harlem . . . David Mirsky s Buck Fever rises (at the Varsity Show) until he has his appendix out . . . Modern Prometheus is pre- sented before capacity crowds . . . Coleman says we did better than pros and the boys turn their eyes to- wards Sardi ' s ... we offer Kramer condolences on his birthday . . . Esterson throws a stag and drag affair after finals . . . thirty-five cent cover to keep out the riff-raff . . . The movinp jingpr irritef And hnrinp trrit. riepnrls. But the memory of these Utile things ' 5 forever in our hearts.