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

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EXTRA! ARISTA EDITION Great GREAT tvlECK. MEW YORK Sic transit gloria Monday, the first day of each school week, completed the cycle. One sponsor, Mr. Fields, and assorted staff members heaved sighs, plunged the cage” into dark- ness again, and sent another finished issue to the printer. Thereupon they Enid Schildkrout, Editor in Chief brooded, somewhat happily, over the next three-day session of writing, edit- ing, and assembling the Cnide Post. Thus each week Editor-in-Chief Enid Schiidkraut and her staid staff mem- bers, Esta Diamond, Lori Plesser, Barbara Milman, Joan Schloessingcr, Ellen Faust, Ellen Kaplan, Maddi Magzis, Linda Friedman, David Katz- man, Alan Schlosser, Judy Gozan, and (what a list!) Mike LaMonica, pro- vided their classmates with extremely palatable journalistic fare: startling scoops on sundry topics; candid com- ments on and by faculty members, fellow students, and administratore; Esta Diamond, Associate Editor radical but brilliant editorials; master- pieces of creative writing; and imagina- tive, futuristic cartoons. While writers wrote, Art Wasser- spring handled the paper's advertising ton and her girls typed, and typed, and . . . The weekly cycle commenced each Wednesday as the first drips and draps of assigned copy began to trickle in. Each editor, having formed a glorious mental picture of the layout for his page, set about trying to fulfill his Lori Plesser, Assistant to the Editors accounts, Richard Fine managed prob- lems in higher finance, and Judy Tick- Mr. Fields, Sponsor vision. After re-writing, cutting, and snipping were completed, said glorious layouts often had to be thoroughly re- vised to the dismay of their creators. Thursdays were the Big Days. All the torments and frustrations of the week were forgotten as each page slowly began to take form. News staff members busily re-wrote last minute news flashes; sports reporters checked their statistics; and feature writers carefully revised their syntax and guessed where commas belonged. 18

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MODERN DANCE V. Po ey and P. Eliot see double. C. Kleinman and P. Eliot, Student Directors Terpsichores, named for the Muse of Music, staged a thoroughly interesting, artistic dance recital last March. The first portion of the pro- gram was a series of abstract dances choreo- graphed by the club membership and based on Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. Part II consisted of a group of original dances en- titled “Mixed Metaphors. Terpsichore members were selected after passing comprehensive audi- tions testing their technical ability, their rhythmic sensitivity, and their creativity in the field of dance. N. Topf floats through the air with the greatest of ease. B. LeVine and P. Posner trip the light fantastic.

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EXTRA! GRADUATION EDITION Neck POST After a day off to catch up on sleep, homework and creative writing pieces, the crew appeared back on the job each Monday. The typesetter's proofs had been returned, and assorted pairs of eyes poured over them in frantic search for errors. Each editor pulled out his trusty scissors and paste to attack his dummy. It was at this point that an editor was likely to dis- cover that somewhere, somehow, some- one had goofed, and that an entirely new layout was needed. Yet, miracu- lously, by four everything was in order; and the finished product was rushed off to the printer. . . . And as Wednesday morning again approached, the staff took deep breaths and dived into their happy Guide Post goes to press task once again. They were content for they knew that, in Great Neck, al- most everybody reads the Cnide Post. Through it all the typists’ fingers speedily flicked over the keys in the Cage” catacombs. Work was occasion- ally interrupted by frightened, fren- zied cries of Where's my headline sheet? or Who brought the cookies today?” writing, in which all present partici- pated, remained. By sunset, with all articles and headlines finished and ready for the printers, satisfied Guide Post slaves slowly trudged home (or to After five o’clock only Guide Post Dr. Kotzmon and A. Schloesser, Sports Editors Cotiom row—B. Milmon, J. Schloessingcr, News Editors. Top row—E. Foust, Feature Editor, M. Mogzis, Coordinating Editor. editors and a handful of die-hard regu- lars remained in the building to keep the janitors company. Coffee was served to these valiant few as they crowded about the weary sponsor's desk, each with a multitude of queries. Meanwhile at cafeteria work benches the news staff struggled over the paper's final format. New and different ideas lit up their faces; and after many possibilities had been discarded, someone inevitably came up with a suitable layout. Then, only the tedious ordeal of headline Maddy Magzis' car, known as Guide Post’s golden chariot). F. Eliol ond J. Sherry, Art Editors,• J. Gozoi, Copy Editor.