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

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Lorna Lobley Marjorie Mandell Assistant Art Editor Margaret Lewiston Activities Editor their Alma Mater that not even vacation could tear them away. Ann Doniger, Bobbie Green- berg, Leni Rosenberg and Art Ziff hightailed it back to school the first week in July to prepare the senior supplement. (The name of the origi- nator of this novel suggestion will be withheld from print for fear of assassination.) At last, though, the Arista was complete . . . eleven months of hard work complete in one volume, including supplement! Art Editor ARISTA SUB-EDITORS: First row, left to right—T. Manzo, J. Gardner. Second row—P. Mandelker, W, Tucker, M. Moyer, T. Mullin. ARISTA SUB-EDITORS: First row, left to right—M. Greenberg, J. Comer, B. Whitman. Second row—S. Ornstein, C. Naren, M. Fried.

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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

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Vol. 26 No. 25 Great Neck, New York, June 14, 1956 Price: Five Cents III Wind llloics Good It was a typical Friday afternoon in November and tin Guide Post editors worked late and bard preparing tin- week’s copy. However, tile following Monday, when they entered the “cage” to layout the paper, they found the usual melange of people scurrying about, but no copy. Over the weekend, the Griscom Printing Company, the firm which printed the Guide Post, burned to the ground and with it, tile week’s articles. This issue was to have been the one where the new modern name plate wa to be introduced. Tin old line cut of the high school was to In replaced by a streamlined “photo by Ziff.” Fortunately, the cut of the name plate was salvaged from tile ashes and with the sole remnant of their paper, the editors set out in search of another printer. GUIDE POST EDITORS: Seated, left to right—C. Stein, M. Siegmeister, M. Lloyd. Standing—O. Morks, J. Gardner. After considerable sleuthing, the Arland Printing Company in New Hyde Park was discovered, and the new printer brought many new and exciting changes in format: shiny paper, modern headlines, new layout, to mention a few. A final innovation was the plan that each week several GUIDK POST editors were sent to Arland to look over the shoulder of the printer as he was “sweating bullets.” Mr. Fields briefs next year's Editor- in-Chief, Mel Levine. 20