Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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and aculL led DEBORA G. Vi lESENTHAL Registrar :HISTO]RY French classes were a good place not to be that year, with both Dr. Braun and class having a tough time keeping up with Leon Korngold and Charles Spirn, two French emigres. It took these two Frenchmen nearly a full year to discover that in a French class at Yeshiva College you must speak English, Hebrew, or even Yiddish, but never, never French. After all, think of the other 48 boys who can t understand what you ' re talking about.

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' z UI m in id tra tion S %s: tf ' -S ' - UR. SAMLEL BELKIX Fresidvnl oi Yeshiia L nhenil) „i rhiio 7;sis ' . The year ' 43- ' 44 saw Berkowifz, Fredman, Wiesel, Singerman and Scharfstein form an orbit around a nucleus composed of Dr. Levins and his pushcart. These five test tube babies managed to get their major in Chem through the operating of Scharf- stein, the 20-20 vision of Wiesel, the innocent face of Singerman, the keen analysis (of shopping news) of Berkowitz and the elaborate kiddush tendered by Fredman. The lab technique of these five chemists prompted Dr. Levins to say on the completion of their last chem course — You boys are a boon to the Social Sciences!

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DR. ALEXANDER BRODY J ' roiessor iii Hislory DR. BRUNO Z. KISCH Professor of (Jtrmistry DR. BERNARD FLOCH J ' rolessor ol Greek- and Latin DR. IRVIN(; LINN rialc I ' rufessvr of En ;li.sh CLASS HISTORY We were divided between two English classes: all those men with first names using the Nation and U.S.A. as their text books, and those boys with the last names being treated to the literary attempts of such sterling story-tellers as Brichto, Spivack, Mandel- korn and Homnick. Dr. Linn had his class blushing with tales from Dos Passos while Professor Klein ' s nose blushed without provocation. It was here that Artie Sorenstein recounted his adventures with the Green- wich Village Bohomians; Kagan found to his utter amazement that a New York Post editorial warranted only a C , v hile a chapter from Barnes and David is worth an A ; and Homnick nearly lost his smile and his nerve with his composition which rolled under the radiator after he had tried to sneak it into the pile of opera on Prof. Klein ' s desk, and for which he later faced the music. We were young then — some of us were even younger. Prof. Margalith had to dismiss fully one-tenth of the class before citing certain juridical experiences usually heard in cleared courtrooms. Youthful Doug Wilensky, having emigrated from Newfoundland to Yeshiva College at the awkward age of KVa, couldn ' t appreciate Prof. Freed ' s lectures on sex, either. First he tried to do his homework and ignore the lecture completely. As he turned more scarlet, he tried stuffing his ears with cotton, and finally achieved his goal by leaving the class to inhale the fresh air which then restored color to his pallid face. The fresh air was what we all needed to recuperate from the experiences of our first year in college, and so we gladly accepted the vacation that June proferred us, only to return once more for our SOPHOMORE YEAR With only one year of College under their yarm- ulkes, you couldn ' t expect the Class of ' 47 to do any better than elect Zeifman and Fredman as President and Vice President of their class. The year ' 44- ' 45 saw Dr. Fleischer perform the Faerie Queen for the English Lit. Class amidst the applause of those same fellows who were later to see an unsuccessful imitation of this same act by a certain tie salesman of dormitory fame. We switched tracks . . . those who hadn ' t taken science In their first year were now given their first Twenty -luv