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Stuyvesant High School Memorabilia

From the New York Herald, Sunday, January 27th 1907 (click for PDF, read magnified)

          Montage by Alan Dombrow '62
 

                

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Caliper Cover                                       
by George Segal '41 +

    Old Stuyvesant Gymnasium            

SHS Baseball Team (Cagney '17, second white cap from left)
 

SHS Football Team 1921
(Gar Davidson '23, leftmost, second row)

Thelonious Monk's Notebook - February to March, 1933; Page Image and Excerpts

From Lot 45 of GUERNSEYS_AUCTION, February 20th 2005, EBAY

 

 

"Mr. Marks Thelonious Monk E4 - 7 February 10, 1932

New York brewers, apparently mindful of the Congressional thirst, announced plans today for invading the Washington area with modern beer-producing plants and beer gardens with swimming pool trimmings. Michael Klechko, vice president of the new Amsterdam Brewing Co. announced immediate erection of a 150,000 barrels-per-year brewery. That is a capacity only 100,000 less than the output of the New Amsterdam's in Manhattan.

'We have no misgivings about Congress ultimately legalizing beer. If this Congress doesn't do it the next one will.'

'I do not think this is a bad idea providing it will help the unemployment.' "

"In handwriting that can only be described as 'glorious,' Thelonious Monk penned his thoughts on many topics during his junior year. Topics he wrote about included Stormy Days in the City and Country, Everyone Should Read Good Newspapers, Canto Fifth, Stinking City and A Tale of Two Cities. Other essays go in diverse directions ranging from life-saving see-saws to New York's breweries."

Monk attended New York City's Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. Stuyvesant was, and remains, one of a handful of NYC schools geared to advanced students. Competition to get into these schools has always been intense and the fact that Thelonious was admitted speaks of his intelligence. Already an accomplished musician, Thelonious participated in numerous competitions. It was said that he won the Apollo Theater's talent competition so often, he was ultimately banned from the contests. Despite his obvious accomplishments, he never was able to join the Stuyvesant High School band. It is unclear why this was, but it has been suggested that jealousies of his talents were such that political reasons within the band kept him out. Thelonious left school after his junior year, disappointed that he never became a band member. It is interesting, therefore, to note that displays of Thelonious' accomplishments are prominently featured at Stuyvesant to this day."

According the to January '49 Indicator, the ensuing investigation, chaired by the honorable Joseph T. Shipley (J.T.S.), may have taken place in the spacious room 201, aka the Auditorium.  All councils, teams, clubs and pubs were summoned in turn to answer the investigating committee questions.  A full transcript of those sessions were recorded in the January '49 Indicator. These excerpts, for the basketball and football teams, were uncovered by the Campaign with an act of freedom of E-bay information. Here they are, on the internet,  for the very first time........ 

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These dribbling boys are "Doc" Ellernites. But enough of  euphemisms. To put it bluntly, they are the 1948-49 Basketball Team, the team that came "oh so close" to beating Lincoln at Madison Square Garden!

First Two featherweights, Zaroff and Zimmer, appear, and then, the 1948-49 Football Team

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J.T.S.: Don Zimmer and Murray Zaroff to the stand. He calls them both at the same time since as everyone knows, they are Siamese twins with extension cords.

U.M.R.A.: Raise your pigskins. Thank you. Because of your splendid cooperation boys, I now offer you two Clinton buttons at a price that makes them almost a gift.
Don Zimmer and Murray Zaroff take buttons and chop them in half with their shoulder blades. (They always carry a few spares.)

MR. SCHOENBERG: (who knows perfectly well what kind of a team they have) Do you have a good Football Team this year?

D.z., M.z.: We have a wonderful team!

M.z., D.z.: We have Bernie Yarchover, Pete Price, Bob Bailey, and Murray Schnipper. We also have John Lezdey, George Giovanni, Carmine Sferrazza, Eugene Ruffini, and Kiyoshi Matsuo, our first aid man.
There is some strenuous name calling over the long extension cord.

MR. MARKS: (who is in on everything) Stop it! I hate scenes over the telephone.

MR. HART: But what about the skeleton in the closet?

D.z.: Girls make good cheer leaders.

M.Z.: They don't make good fullbacks.

D.z.: That is debatable. (No wonder the Debating Team doesn't like them.)

Coach Thrush gives the extension cord a little tweak that sends them sprawling. Whenever they sprawl they sing, so . . .  eMZee Deezee:

We've got Yarchover, Price, Schnipper, and Bailey;

We beat

Every team

that we meet,

Except occasionally.

What do we care about girls

When we can get Clinton;

What do we care about girls

When we can get fifty yards at a run;

What do we care,

What do we care

About silken hair,

And lustrous eyes,

And perfumed air (Several female cheerleaders appear.)

Except occasionally.

 

At the end of the song a collection of strange looking characters(Stuyvesantians) paddle between the cheerleaders and two furious football players whose view they are obstructing . . .

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Stuyvesant 1952 Baseball Team (Click on Picture for more...)

All Left to Right * member 1953 Championship team
Top: Len Ammaturo*,Art Hessel,Vinny Rago*,Tony Bartilucci*,David Levine,Don Timmerman*,Howie Norris, Larry Hefter*
3rd: Art Reckler*,Bob Pagano,Bob Briggi,Fred Gilligan*,Bill Fleischer*, Fredrick Fred*
2nd: Art Horowitz*,Ron Brooks*,Howard Adler,George Hiller,Jay Adrian,Howie Tepper*,Hank Nadler*
1st: Coach Moses Davis,Don Jaffe,Richard Bronstein,Karl Muller*,Eric Lederer*,Leroy Sawyer,Mike Vigod,Len Saltman,Alan Curtis

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Left: PSAL medal
for winning the Manhattan Baseball Championship in 1953.

 

Right: John Holt Memorial Award Medal
presented to Art Horowitz
as the outstanding baseball player
 of the 1953 season.

 

From:  Art Horowitz ‘53

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Stuyvesant Math Team, Spring 1953

Seated, left to right, Michael Lieber, Leonard Solomon, Peter Markstein;
Standing, Michael Gilder, Sol Greenberg (faculty coach), S. L. Berman (chairman of department),
Gerald Gonick, Lester Moskowitz (captain), George Stern, Sheldon Schlaff;
Missing, Philip Moser, Stephen Meyers.

BOX SEAT 1955
The Dedicated Sports Publication

Dedicated to Murl Thrush

All-time Stuyvesant Football Team

(From Steve Sorkenn '56)

L'Étoile – Fall ’57

November 1957

The Stuyvesant H.S.
Cyclotron

A Proposal By

Martin Gersten, Chairman
Charles Abzug
John Sutherland
Howard Frank
Robert Rudko
Neil Lipton
Ian Fries
Robert Sager


From Martin Gersten '58

Click on cover to see selected pages....

 

June ’59 Graduation Button from Morton Fleischner ‘59

While Stuyvesant was on double sessions there were several years in which two graduations occurred, which is why June ’59 was the 100^th Graduation.

Telegram from Robert W. Sarnoff, Chairman of the Board, NBC to Morton Fleischner ’59,  congratulating Mort on winning first prize in the NBC Broadcast News Conference

NBC had held a one-day meeting for editors of NY Capers. The day's activities included appearance by many of NBC's on-air personalities and approximately 800 students attended. At the end of the day it was announced that the best reporting of the conference in a high school newspaper would win a summer job in the NBC newsroom. When Mort won he got the summer job and his start in the business.
 

From Morton Fleischner '59

click on letter for
response in German and English.

 

 

 

 

Click on the Cover for more...

Spring 1963 Championship Math Team
Photograph from
Indicator, June 1963

Left to right,

Top row:
Harvey Sohnen, Clyde Schechter, Philip Greco, Alexander Tarczilo, Lewis Golovin.
 

Bottom row:
Roger Lehecka,
William Lepowsky, Mr. Greenberg,
Neal Felsinger

1968 Beat Clinton! 14-0 Game Ball
Capping an 8-0 season for the City Championship

Buttons Courtesy of Howie Hollander '69

1974/75 Championship Soccer Team

From Marc O Ellman '75, click picture to see some action shots 

For the first time since 1913, the Stuyvesant High School Soccer Team captured its divisional title, the Bronx-Manhattan Championship. The Team was led by offensive Captain Marco Ellman, with a front line that bombarded the opposition with 55 goals, as the defensive Captain Oleh Dekajlo frustrated the opposition by shutting them out in 11 games and being scored against only 6 times. Every player could confirm the fact, when things got tense, it was Coach Sidney Sheldon's vocal enthusiasm that kept us going.

Frank McCourt in the Classroom
Photo from Pam Spaulding '81
 

(1592-1672)

Location: Stuyvesant Square, west from old Stuyvesant HS, north of 15th Street
Sculptor: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Year installed: 1941

The severe Dutch colonial governor of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1664 is remembered by two statues, one at Stuyvesant Square and another at St. Mark's Church about six blocks downtown.

After the British sailed into New York harbor in 1664, Stuyvesant surrendered without firing a shot. He went to Holland to defend himself against charges of official misconduct, but later returned to his farm in Manhattan.

The Dutch word for farm is "bouwerie"; the main road that led to the farm is now The Bowery, while the short drive leading to the farm became Stuyvesant Street--one of the few diagonal NYC streets that were allowed to remain after the Commissioner's Plan of a gridiron street layout was adopted in 1811.

A pear tree on Stuyvesant's farm, planted in the 1600s, lasted until 1867--and only perished when two horse carts ran into it. It was on the present-day corner of 3rd Avenue and 13th Street.

Stuyvesant Square, in which the statue stands, was sold to NYC for $5. by Peter Stuyvesant's great-great-grandson. The four-acre parcel was once a part of Stuyvesant's farm; Stuyvesant Street, a few blocks downtown, was once the road that led to his mansion.

The Stuyvesant Voice was founded in the 73/74 academic year, becoming one of the most successful, and controversial, publications in the school's history. Loosely modeled after "New York" magazine in its combination of serious journalism and service features, the Voice was student oriented publication that encouraged freedom of expression. After the administration limited student run publications in the 75/76 acadamic year, the Voice continued to operate independently from school departments and budgets, and the publication made a small profit from direct sales and paid advertisements.

From Gail Froiman '77

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