Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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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

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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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i iv iii ioi;v Greenwald was sacrificed on the altar of Masmid, and Marv Fredman and Irv Wiesel were used to wipe up the floors of tho vnriour, baskethflll courts throughout the city. Realizing Ih.il Ihe school owed us something, the men of ' 47 still gave of their flesh and blood. Dave Younger and Avrohom Rapaport were bruised and bleeding after being caught in the gold rush which followed the announcement that lab fees of the Fresh- man year would finally be returned. Was it worth it for 35c? This was the year that Morris Sanders hung around the office only to read the notices. . . . The Dean had not yet extended Grace to him. . . . Numa Kronen- gold was still wearing civilian clothes. ... It wasn ' t till he joined the Army that the clothing shortage hit that branch of the service. . . . Hy Sky was still an un- known comedian. . . . hly might have been unknown but his jokes surely weren ' t. . . . But of course, the jokes had a fifty year headstart on him . . . Alvin Reines was still talking intelligently in two-syllable words. . . . Reason: only one Psych, course under his belt. . . . Gerry Homnlck and Maurice Ehrman sfill denying they will pass the exam. . . . What exam? . . . any exam . . . Some of us found Dr. Abel able in his knowledge ... of holidays and days off. He was very sociable too. Prof. Margalith discovered that Rabbi Berkovitz knew some Poli. Science, while Dr. Brody found that he knew some Rashi. ... eh what? . . , Stanley Metzger basked in the sun of Dr. Litman and relaxed In the shade with a Gemmorah. . . . Beryl Rosenzweig and Mendel Fisch sent packages to Europe for the Yeshlva boys. Were It not for his brother ' s ' clothes, Mendel might have been packed away himself and shipped over there, when supplies had dwindled. Some of the fellows met Prof. Kraus for the first time. Fisch was caught copying someone else ' s name on his exam paper . . . lucky he erased It before the exam started. ... It was In the Ed. Class that Fisch finally became educated . . . found out who Horace Mann was ... he developed his dialectics here by arguing over the exam questions. . . . Twersky and Wiesenberg joined Betar and Prof. Brody ' s American History Chaos. They also complained that his European DK. Kl.l I.KMM ' : Assmiair I ' roivssor nj Chcmi. ' lr DK. K ()I.I) . l.OWAN I ' rolvssor ol I ' hysirs DK. M •. KK TL S .■IssislnnI I ' niir.ssiir ol Hiding DK. SHELLEY S.APHIRE Professor of Biology