Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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KUTNER SEYMOUR — Brooklyn, N. Y. PEARLSTEIN, MOSHEH — Brooklyn, N. Y. LEVY, RAPHAEL — Perth Amboy, N. J. PERLOW, IRVING New York, N. Y. LIFSHITZ, DAVID Bronx, N. Y. POMERANTZ, HYMAN — New York, N. Y. MARGOLIES, IRVING — Brooklyn, N. Y. PRESSMAN, DAVID - Far Rockaway, New York We used more Braun and brains in French I and 2 than Monsier S. B. on his Ph.d. In chem class we used a big text-book, and a little professor used us. Berger got 100 s and Reichel argued for an 80. Mike Senders first started wearing out the seat of his pants. Prof., ha ha, you flunk, asked the class what marks they expected. Rosen asked between A and A+ and got a ha ha D. To look at him you ' d never guess that Pressman was a dynamic speaker. Professor Matz introduced us to foncshuns and the meaning of von overr hex tarns von overr vie in life. Even then Asher, Alex and Yagod knew their math better than Cohen and Rubenstein. Yukie showed the boys that hesber didn ' t belong only to the Rebbis. Our English prof ' s Linnen yarmeike and his manner of addressing the class, mice and men — became proverbial. In our hygiene class we were Fried from worries about don dere. In Doc Hurwitz ' s gym we learned how to walk, run, jump off the ground with both feet, and once we even saw a basketball displayed on Doc ' s desk. In Hebrew we learned how to write Hebrew correctly, i.e. from right to left. We also brushed up on the rules of grammar as . . . after the hei hayedeeaw comes a ... uh ... a noun. It sure felt good to enter the coop-store and find one of our own boys, Terry, behind the counter. The grass green tinge petered out to a sickly yellow for the dramatic production, Yellow Jack, in v hich a few upperclassmen supported Geller, Reichel, Comet and Rosen in the four most important of the unimportant roles. The class early took an interest in Commy.Weisberg dictated, Tennenbaum typed, Carmi re- ported, Levy tried out. and Geller started work on a freshy and watched the green ink slowly turn into . . .