Great Neck North High School - Arista Yearbook (Great Neck, NY)

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Ann Doniger Editor-in-Chief Playwrights Leni Rosenberg Copy Editor Barbara Greenberg Production Manager AUGUST! That's when it all began. Barbara Green- berg, Production Manager, and Ann Doniger, Editor-in-Chief, retreated to the comfort of an air conditioned room to start planning the 1956 ARISTA . . . September: The layout was placed in the capable hands of the art staff, under Lorna Lobley, Marjorie Mandell and Mrs. Greta Armstrong, and the theory of replacing symmetry with balance was in order. Meanwhile, Leni Rosenberg, Copy Editor, tried des- perately to devise ingenious tasks to occupy her time, as Mr. Booke, the Arista's copy sponsor, only looked amused, for he knew that this was the only time all year the Leni could relax . . . October: When Mr. Davis, production sponsor, was seen handing out cigars in the men's faculty room, everyone realized that the new arrival tucked neatly under his arm was none other than the much-awaited dummy (i.e. Layout) back from the printer. After a gay bacchanalia in Room 30, staffs settled down to work . . . November:

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1956 Arista Editor-in-Chief Ann Doniger Copy Editor Leni Rosenberg Production Manager Barbara Greenberg Directed and produced by Mr. Harry Booke and Mr. Douglas Davis Settings by Mrs. Greta Armstrong CAST (not necessarily in order of appearance) Activities—Margaret Lewiston, editor; Valerie Alexis, Michael Blumenfield, Wendy Doniger, Lois Epstein, Gwen Green, Dick Katzive, Michael Moldowsky, Don Spiegelman, Jeannette Strasser. Seniors—Mary Ann Mayer, Terry Manzo, editor and assistant editor; Valerie Alexis, Cora Five, Joanne Freeman, Carol Giztl, Binnie Harris, Barbara Marshall, Barbara Nagelsmith, Martin Newman, Lucy Nylund, Judy Ordover, Lorna Prestin, Richard Wegman. Captions—Maddy Fried, Barbara Whitman, editors; Lynne Bagley, Ronnie Brous, Joyce Goodfriend, Marilyn Grossman, Dick Katzive, Xandra Kayden, Nina Millock, Ellen Shatter, Carole Stein, Iris Steinert, Lynda Wilson. Identifications—Carol Naren, Susan Orenstein, editors; Sheila Beckerman, Birdie Coogan, Mutzie Christov, Carol Giztl, Joyce Goodfriend, Nancy Hopp, Penny Kramer, Sofi Kurtz, Nancy Lederer, Barbara Nagelsmith, Cecily Orenstein, Ellen Shatter, Carol Tryole, Sue Osier. Boys' Sports—Tom (Moon) Mullin, Bill Tucker, editor and assistant editor; Ed Feld- stein, Tom Ferraro, Don Fine, Frank Holtz, Roger Lintault, Fred Modell, Mel Morgan, Bob Rothman, Don Spiegelman, Bernie Strauss. Girls' Sports—Joan Gardner and Janet Comer. Typing—Marian Greenberg, editor; Gerry Alden, Sue Ash, Doris Goldstein, Robert Lande, Janet Kunreuther, Vivian Levy, Irene Martinez, Sue Sarnoff, Carol Schwartz. Photography—Arthur Zifr, editor; Arnold Breslow, Howard Breslow, Sandy Goldberg, Arlene Hoffman, Steve Halem, Jeff Kushner, Bruce Lieberman, Jerry Sklarsky, Jackson Storm, Bob Steinberg. Art—Lorna Lobley, Marjorie Mandell, editor and assistant editor; Carolee Steele, Ellen Jacobs, Lynn Kony, Elaine Fastenberg, Naomi Katz, Linda Rubin, Carol Rubin, Roberta Rosen. Advertising—Helen Levanne, Betsy Uchitelle, editors; Steve Albert, Sue Ash, Linda Bizzano, Ronnie Brous, Bruce Burns, Carol Burns. Business Managers Binnie Berlind, Iris Salzburg Publicity Editor Philip Mandelker 16

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Binnie Berlind and Iris Salzburg Co-Business Managers Helen Levanne and Betsy Uchitelle Co-Advertising Managers Arthur Ziff Photography Editor Mary Ann Mayer and Terry Manzo didn’t need scales to see that 1956 seniors were well- rounded, as they crammed four years of extra- curricular activities into the two square inches beside each senior picture . . . December: The universal spirit of giving and receiving seemed to be lacking among members of the activities staff. Meg Lewiston, Activities Editor, had little trouble presenting gaily wrapped assignments to staff members but reciprocity was not in order and as- signments were put aside and often completely for- gotten. Joan Gardner, Janet Comer, Tom Mullin and Bill Tucker, Girls' and Boys' Sports Editors, were in the same predicament . . . January: With the coming of the new year, staffs seemed to be somewhat preoccupied by prolonged holiday spirits, College Boards and Regents—with any- thing and everything except Arista! Toward the end of the month Marian Greenberg organized her staff and began to type the copy which had finally started to drift in . . . February: A very successful innovation this year was the Arista publicity show, directed, written, and produced by Phil Mandelker, Publicity Editor, and for weeks the only sound which escaped from Room 30 were the hum of voices and the swish-swish of dollar bills sliding across the counter. Binnie Berlind and Iris Salsburg not only organized sales procedures but efficiently kept Arista fi- nances in the black . . . March: Despite blus- tery winds and blizzards, Helen Levanne, Betsy Uchitelle Co. trudged from store to store in search of ads for the directory, while inside, sheltered from the storm, surrounded with beaten up photos and chewed up pencils sat the Cap- tions and Identifications Editors, Maddy Fried and Barbara Whitman, desperately searching for appropriate captions for girls' sports candids, while Carol Naren and Sue Orenstein got stiff necks from trying to differentiate elbows from knees in the Fire Warden's picture . . . April: Into the wee hours of the morning a small green light glowed eerily in the darkroom as Art Ziff and Jeff Kushner printed up last minute nega- tives . . . May: Editors, staffs and sponsors set- tled down for a brief cat-nap while visions of word counts, photo schedules and india ink danced through their heads . . . June: When all through the school there arose such a clatter they sprang from the desks to see what was the matter. The first proofs had returned from the printer. Classes were missed as last-minute changes were made. Finally the 1956 Arista was placed in the outstretched hands of eager stu- dents . . . July: Graduation was over, school was closed and Great Neckers departed for parts unknown to soak up summer sun. Four students, though, were so devoted to their yearbook and 18