Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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for Vice President. Samuel Koppel Wohlgelernter ' - and Sam Glaser won on person- alHy, friendliness and cliques. Yes, as JUNIORS, we are ready for the □ n miN. We know the ways of life and are prepared to apply our knowledge to the affairs of school and certain extracurricu- lar activities in which most young men are interested. With the ' beginning of the new term, one can feel the change. From now on we also run the school. From apathy we turn to Industry. Shmuel Koppel leaves for Israel, Sam takes over the Presidency and Cyrus Shavrick defeats Bernie Ducoff for the vacated office of Vice-President. We make our weight felt on the Commie as Joe Yoshor hops on Max Frankel and they both straddle the News Editorships. Sol Blumenfeld leaves the team to throw the ball around as Sports Editor. Sam Kenner becomes Athletic Manager and starts looking for a home court the rest of the year. He discovers that New York is a mighty big town and a mighty full one. Denny Geller continues playing good basketball with his mouth open and Chief Simon joins him wifh his bobbing hair. Al Sokolow deigns to co-op with the Co-op and Jack Zucker is enticed into it by the thought of selling delicious Yankee Doodles. Duddy hialpern assumes a major role in Co-op, even though he is busy with his capulative verbs — R.B. Bahn is appointed Concert Bureau Chairman and sets his office hours from one to three a.m. (when there are tickets). Mike Korbman decides to use his smile to good advantage and becomes co-chairman of the new Student Placement Service. There he does a fine job in procuring positions from baby-sitting to detective work (everything being in a Yeshiva boy ' s line). His lonely hours are enlivened in the office by Joe Yoshor and Ted Steinberg. Jack Alster ' - ' has switched to City, and so things seem to be quiet. In intramurals, we debate with empty papers to empty audiences and empty judges and win the debating cup. Bernie Ducoff, Al Sokolow, Charlie Bahn and Sam Glazer out-talk and out-attend the competing teams. We place second in volleyball contests and turn up third in basketball. Denny, Chiel, Vumi Green, Sam Glaser, Sam Kenner and Sol Blumenfeld all take turns in passing the ball anywhere except through the basket. Abe Hirschsprung ' - ' ' is having a hay-day with his Horse-Riding Team. We establish Informal headquarters In Sol Blumenfeld ' s room, Rm. 308. Here, after Irresistible Bahn ' s snub by a Boro Park girl, we found the Moral Sam Glaser So- ciety whose motto is, Down with Boro Park. We make our plans for the coming year in this caucus room full of smoke. Yeshiva politicians choose the coming Presi- dent and decide the fate of Yeshiva (only it doesn ' t turn out that way). Our society asserts its authority in the case of the M.S.G.S. against Al Sokolow for unmentionable deeds. The wise Bernie Ducoff is chosen as Judge. Charlie Bahn is picked by Al io be his defense attorney. The ingenious Sol Poupko handles the prosecuting end. Charlie changes Al ' s plea to insanity and sentence is passed. Al Sokolow, you will grow a beard on one half of your face. A marvelous impromptu affair Is thus finished. Izzy Weinberg leaves college for Hachshara and a diminutive maidel. ' ' - ' Poupko ' ' spends a week calling up a radio announcer and posing as Professor Rahman Al Zion. ' Yes, I taught at the University of Bagdada. We discover a Poppa in our midst, Melech Augenstein, ' ' who learns the joys of life long before us somber Misnagdim.- ' - ' ' Many, many of us (Norman Lamn and Matthew Katz) consent to major In chem- istry. Dr. Levine decides that his very big class (Matthew Katz and Norman Lamn) deserve some very special favor. So, he arranges for all yields to be on the shelves before the experiments are started. Naturally, all of the boys (except Norman Lamn and Matthew Katz) take advantage of the hormonlst ' s favors. Joe Gold, meanwhile, continues to use his eyes for physics, his feet for Bedford Avenue and his hands for talking. Hollander, Lamn and Katz start to grow moustaches (so they say). Ted Stein- berg, Moish Twensky and Jack Zucker leave for Israel and are detained by the Lebanese. They find the Yeshiva boys too hot to handle and send them back to us. n in Cologn Christopher ■ ' See the article The Anthropology of Pre-Historlc ■ ' The home town ot this cowboy is Columbus, Ohio. P. ' Mazel Tov; March, 1949. ™ See Seter hta-Litvakim. Ibid. See Seter Shivchei Ha-Baal Shem Tov. ' A sect whose members remain bachurim till the age of fifty. Encyclopedia Yeshi

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and when the ten minutes have elapsed we rush for the entrance leading away from Dr. Klein. It develops into a great race almost every session — Dr. Klein running to intercept us and we. led by the indomitable Manny Baum, racing the other way. Some of us work for long extra hours on Dr. Levine ' s unknowns and others use their imaginative powers and guess (correctly, enough of the time). We elevate 1o the Presidency the noted author, Charles Neal Bahn, and to the Vice-Presidency, the dignified speaker and unbending worker, Joseph Yoshor, whose motto is, Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Nothing is heard from them until they run again. We debate most of the year in a series of highly unat- tended class meetings on a class trip which we do not hold and on class hats which we do not buy. Simon and Seller proceed to make themselves inconspicuous on the basketball team. Yoshor, Frankel and Drazin join the bottom ranks of Commie and everybody has a furn watching books disappear from the library. We are an average Freshman class and are molded into the proper forms without too much rebellion. We are still under the Influence of DStJ ' D icn. We are somewhat scorned by the seniors above but it Is a puerile year for them, and we feel we can do better. At least we mean to try. So we help elect Earl Klein to the Presidency of Student Council and start to really build a functioning student government. We are SOPHOMORES and ready to learn ntyn t3X. We are past the DSK ' D ItJ ' n stage. We know the ropes now. We understand that it is necessary to learn the great art of living, extra-curricular activity, mutual help, nrv. The road to success In college Is cooperation. What are the Soph courses? Let ' s see — advanced English, advanced Math, advanced French. Well, three is a more advanced number than one. We take only three and a half hours to register this time. It pays to date a secretary or two, eh Simon? Ted Steinberg ' and Moishe Twersky are elected, as Betar sweeps our class on a Beigln platform. Sol Blumenfeld gets the lowdown on writing philosophical sports columns from Mike Fenster. Denny Geller and Chiel Simon continue as our represen- tatives on the Mites. Sammy Kenner becomes team manager and supreme commander of the basketballs. Sy Schorr joins the Chess Team and Jack Zucker is usually found slugging away at a Yankee Doodle. Mike Korbman, a 5:45 riser In the army for a few years, exhibits a perfect example of retroactive Inhibition by sleeping straight through Abe Drazln ' s bugle calls in the mornings. Lo and behold, Melech Augenstein is married. Who could have imagined our fa- mous chasid being the first of the class of ' 49 to get hitched? He finds Bio a cinch. Of course. It will only be a one credit per year course for him from now on. Jolly well, Guvner Abramson Is wooing Le Flambeau, and it seems that he is destined to get H — vets get everything nowadays. Tobias Is learning to cuss in and at French. Our first class nite in years Is a success. With the play written by Joe Yoshor, and Eli Horowitz acting the leading role, we tie with the Juniors for first place. The little terrorist Maxle Frankel steals the show. The Soph Intramural team, composed of Sol Blumenfeld, Abe Drazin, Charlie Bahn, Sam Kenner, Denny Geller, Sam Glaser and Chlel Simon, play ball. Nough said, despite Blumenfeld ' s reading of Zarasthustra. On our French final exam we are asked to write the whole course. Jack Zucker doesn ' t know his head from his I ' assamolr, but then — who does? The Soph year is not very difficult. We are neither the lowly freshmen who suf- fer the effects of entering a new school (or Institution), nor the lordly upperclassmen who will have to run the school. But we will be upperclassmen next term and the change Is already felt In our class elections, for out of these elections will come the eventual Senior rulers of the school. Six of us run for President and another half dozen 1 V,. ' ' Seymour Haber, in his Books and Things. swears thai iwo branches of +he Yeshlva College Library have opened in the homes of Joe Gold and William Frank. ° See Bringing Dates lo Fruition, Yeshiva College Catalogue. ' Mentioned tn the Relics of Lebanon. by M. Aaron Carp. ' ibid. Related to the famous Devil Dog. A well-known aristocrat. See Tractate Sabbath I 14a concerningP ' i ' ' ?15 n TD-Thts is no joke 7 ' ' s

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Professor Flelsher decides to give his advanced English classes creative papers to write instead of exanns (because he doesn ' t like to mark exams). We learn to think and benefit from our own creative work. Mr. Terkel joins the faculty and we are some- what surprised by his enthusiasm and eagerness. He points his finger and says, Boys and girls, I don ' t lecture — I instruct. So be it; we are not semanticists.- A goodly number of us sweat out Psych, and find that we can out-talk Psych, majors in other schools (powerful stuff to impress the girls). We feel benefited by the widening of our views this course has given us. Sam Glaser calls class meetings and for once there is enthusiasm. We debate on Dramatics, and of course Norman Lamm is in the opposition. The essential differences between us come to light. We plan hikes and moonlight rides and the split grows deeper. Yes. we are an active group of Juniors. We learn to function and prepare our- selves for assuming the roles of leadership in the coming year. There had been talk among the Seniors of the lack of students, among us, to run the Student Government: but we are discovering ourselves, learning what kind of men we really are. We are ready to work and we prove it as with a minimum of dirty politics we have a clean election. Sam Glaser noses out Mike Korbman for the Presidency and Denny Geller is elected Vice-President. Cyrus Shavrick defeats Abe Drazln for the Senior Class Presi- dency and Norman Lamn wins over Max Frankel for the honor of Vice. Our SENIOR year is here and we are ready to learn nyi mv.Yes, we are ready to apply the laws of Kashruth to our college and make It really kosher. We are now D ' DSn U yil, always ready to teach r V , knowledge, to our younger brethren. We are all off to a good start and a terrific Senior year. We have no chips on our shoulders, only a belief in the value of student activities. We have high hopes for an eventful and frictionless term. Max Frankel becomes the shortest Commie editor on record and Joe Yoshor the tallest managing editor. Sol Blumenfeld remains sports editor and Abe Drazln be- comes business manager. Matty Katz is handed the Masmid on a silver platter and, for once, no debts. He appoints Bernie Ducoff and Norman Lamn to the Literary Editorships from whom he is given warm thanks and promise of unflagging endeavor. However, nothing Is accomplished by them, except getting into pictures, until they begin worrying about receiving the Masmid key and really start to work in February. Cy Shavrick is chosen as Business Editor and Duddy Halpern Technical Editor. Nahum Shulman, The Softspoken, gives the boys the keys to success, at $7.20 each. He runs rings around others, for a much higher price. Kobrinetz, who attends classes when not attending lasses, thinks the rest of the class Is a bunch of — es, and decides to do some constructive work on his own initiative. Meyer Sandell Is busy with the Dean. Mike, who comes from Rochester and the air-force, is taking home the bacon — In test tubes. Leo Landman, not officially a scientist, decides that he has en- tered enough data into the lab notebooks of his social life, and comes to a positive conclusion. He is engaged. Duddy Halpern decides to change his copulative verbs (are — be) to the past tense, and looks with a new light into the future. Hollander ' s moustache already resembles a broom, and he decides to make a clean sweep- of things. Rackovsky goes back to Florida for a vacation, and comes back all Braun in the face. The Wolf Brothers enter our building, attend classes and depart. Say, who and what are they? This book is the tribute to and the record of our work. The year itself is a fruitful and eventful one. We have learned our nVT mi ' . ™ Semanticists are defined as Haber and Frank. Of late, however, Haber has returned to ■igorous integral signs, while Willie Frank has been seduced by Cybernetics. This latter science attempts to show that the best way to trea places. Perfect for Willie. cf. Get Thee to a Punnery, by Wn urotic is to fix his flats or put the bolts in the right Frank, Sh. Lit. A.