Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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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

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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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DR. PHILIP KRAUS Associate Professor of Education D. BLOCK Assistant in Mathematics DR. KARL ADLER Lecturer in Music H EMANUEL RACKMAN Lecturer in Political Scivnc CLASS HISTORY History course has too much of Britain in it. . . . Wally Spielman refused to change ponies for hloraces in the midstream of Prof. Floch ' s lectures. . . . Manny Green- wald taught Prof. Floch all about the elections, Alaska, South Africa and various other far-fetched places. This was the year of the gang war that made Al Capone and his mob look sick in comparison. It all started when Mark Frankel tried to move in on Sol Shoulson ' s new racket . . . the Baby-Sitter ' s Protective Ass ' n. Peace was finally established when they divided up the city according to the number of children with children taking all mothers with an even number of children, and Frankel taking all mothers with odd children . . . Siamese twins, and babys with two heads were divided up equally. That June most of us were asked to act as ushers at the graduation of the Class of ' 46, to get used to the ordeal we were told. They were right too, it was a sobering ordeal. The strongest beverage they served was coffee, but it tasted like embalming fluid, that It was. The Dean put it in our coffee to make sure that we would keep during the warm weather. Seymour Katz was given too large a dose and so looked like a mummy for the rest of the year. That helped him to land a job ghosting an article on Der Yeshiva Held in the Morning Journal, and so we were preserved for our SENIOR YEAR Well, it finally happened. What we had been afraid of for four years. Some attributed it to the after effects of the coffee. Others called it a revenge neurosis. At any rate we elected Ralph Berkowltz president, and Alvin Schlff vice-president of the Senior class. Berkowltz had to be promised that no class or student council meetings would be held on Thursday nights . . . the nights when Gimbel ' s was open till 9 o ' clock. . . . The Class of ' 47 combined with the rest of the school in an attitude of the devil may care and elected Student Council Officers. Earl Hollywood Klein became chief executive, Marvin Peoria Friedman got Truman ' s old job, and Mendel Brooklyn FIsch, after spending three years learning to swim was floated into the secretary-treasurer office on the first wave. ... It looked like the school was slowly going to the Fisch . . . especially when Flsch absented himself from S. C. Meetings. Tu ' cnty-six