Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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UPPER JUNIORS The members of the class of ' 50 returned from their summer vacations, their coats brushed and their nails trimmed, looking like an administrator ' s ideal. They were tired from two months of play and were eager to learn. But, they came anyway. They came to prepare to take over the school. In Student Council, their president, Sonny Schwartz, sat, spraying his throat and preparing to open the Social hHall for a day or so. Vice-Presi- dent hHoitzboig was practicing putting his foot down — he would put both feet down, but he always keeps the other one in his mouth. The Juniors also had captured the secretary-treasurership in the person of Lauer, who had spent the summer vigorously practising his signature. In the Co-op the Juniors had hHonest John Levine with one hand in the till — he ' s only co- manager — and busily making money. It looked like the real thing, too. The Juniors looked forward, to a successful year in debating which culminated in winning the intramural crown. On the Commentator, Matlin took over the news-idiotship and, when he was not busy licking the editor ' s boots, could be seen walking around with a worried look. The Juniors also looked forward, to a victory in intramural basketball. With a team of Danzig, Komsky, Rosenblum, Marcus, Dyen and Lauer, the expected to walk away with the championship. After all, Danzig and Komsky were the best bench dribblers on the school team. Rapp inherited the chairmanship of the Y. U. Zionist Actions Committee and had been practising walking around with a push- ka for months.

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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.

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LOWER JUNIORS This smallest class of Yeshiva College (In njmbers, that is) showed the unique quality of going from one election into another. With Leon Levy leaving for Israel, Ernie Ruch assumed the Presi- dency, while Ludwig Nadelmann was elecled as Vice-President. Soon, however, the scene changed and. in February. Nadelmann became Prexy and B oner Vice-President. The lower juniors, anxious to prove that there is no direct relationship between iheir quantity and quality, took quite an active part in Yeshiva ' s extracurricular life. Arthur Silver headed the Chess Club which made an exceptionally fine showing in the Intercollegiate Chess tournament. Ruch lead the Arts and Crafts shop, and Brenner became publicity manager of the placement service. ZwI Beltner won the T. I. elections and Dave Rosenhan debated successfully on behalf of Yeshiva. A Lag B ' omer outing and a Melave Maike which never passed bey ond its embryological stage made the year a highly enjoyable one. 29