Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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CL 4SS IIIVIOIV laslo of il, whllo lho ' ,0 who hnd nol Inkon .j who! ? worn rillowod to learn how hi ' .lory wo ' , mode. Fisch developed a fine lab technique ... his first deviation from Cohen ' s routine. Mendel started off on the wrong faucet ... All of us attached our bunsen- burner hoses to the gas jet, while Mendel, just to be different, attached his to the closely resembling water faucet whereupon a miniature flood quelled his fire for Chemistry. And that ' s how the Fisch learnt to swim ! ! ! We learnt that History repeats itself, that hiistory questions are repeated, but that the answers change each year. We meet the challenge of each exam and discover that we do learn more during the exam than during the classes. We find that our marks can vary, and that if there are 25 questions and if each question counts four points, one can still get a mark of — 16 . . . and that is why we took Mathematics. We functioned quite well invariably, with Dr. Gins- burg and his invisible circles both implicit-ly and ex- plicit-ly. We manufactured home works and when we got different-ial answers, Buddy Chernofsky always integrated them. After having taken Math I, we saw no need for taking Recreational Math . The T.A. graduates not having seen anything of Or, Safir in their High School Days signed up for Biology to see just who it is that supports Dr. Atlas . . . that leaning tower of Pisa, disguised as a Biology Instructor. At his early Friday morning class which started at the unearthly hour of 10:50 A.M., Dr. Hoenig was met by a group of deathly characters which made him feel right at home. The Class wasn ' t complete however. until 11:30 A.M. when Red Feuerstein showed op looking more other-wordly than a skeleton. We haven ' t yet discovered v hether Joe Mandel- korn took German to be more scientific or to under- stand what the Dean says ... Dr. Rosenberg, anyhow, thought enough of him to award him with a medal at the Beer Fast for proficiency. How could we have been but ethical as we gave back all to him who demanded it. Not to be outdone, we even gave back what our neighbors had to. We oscillated between the Sweed Midwestern tone of Prof. Thonnsen ' s voice and the resonant baritone of Prof. Ryan, who incidentally held the chair over us ... in the Parliamentary Procedure class. DK. SII)M: h. hokmg Assistant I ' rojcssor oj Jewish llisl( r DK. t;ERSHON CHURGIN. Assistant Proiessor oi Hehrcw DK. .lOSEPH NOBLE. Instructor in Hebreu IIEL L. . ' K Dean oi Men

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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

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DR. HV.MAN B. GRINNSTEIN Assistant Professor oj Jewish History A. HAROLD MLHRW Lecturer in Sociology DR. RALPH ROSEN BF.RC Associate Professor of German CLASS HISTORY We floated through P.T. with First Aid or any other a ids that Doc would leave around to help us pass. This was the year that the nnan with the gray beard and pointing finger, wanted and got Artie Gorensteln, Larry Willig and Mike Korbman, Berkowltz and hlom- nick battled too ... for the abolition of dramatics. Fisch spoke so fast in arguing for abolition, that he had to eat his words two years later, when he appeared in the Class Nite that was held during the senior year. Bernstein and Appleman fought unsuccessfully for re- tention of dramatics. We found a practical use for the knowledge we gained in our sophomore year. For a knowledge of calculus enables us to divide, and so instead of spend- ing all our time studying we divided our time . . . be- tween sleeping and attending the movies . . . What a boon Education is ! ! ! But with June rolling around we soon forgot our headaches and backaches of the sufFermore year, and began looking forward to a nice, quiet peaceful sum- mer in anticipation of our JUNIOR YEAR Ah! This was it ! ! ! the beginning of our manhood. With the Junior year came the immediate a priori knowledge of how the school should be run, and we lost no time in going to the Dean with our proposals. The Dean sent us to his next in command . . . Charlie, the College janitor . . . and that ' s how we came to have light bulbs in the sockets of the classrooms. hlowever, before enough light had been shed on the subject, the damage was done. In that interval of darkness, the class of ' 47 elected Josh Epstein, Pres- ident and Red Feuerstein, Vice President to light the way. But they weren ' t the only class members that attained immortality that year. Fully one-third of the class was annihilated at one of Dr. Litman ' s lectures. Another third was rendered radioactive as a result of Dr. Levin ' s lecture on the The Sex Drive of Freud . They are still in the realm of the untouchables as a result. The lost brigade led by Sol Zeifman and Moe Schwartz disappeared so completely that we still haven ' t found a trace of them. Realizing that v e owed the school something, the men of ' 47 gave of their very flesh and blood. Manny Tu ' cnly-futir