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

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Winter was, as always, cold, and so w'e set down to a stretch of work, skiing, basketball, an occasional Brandeis exchange,and a flying visit to the islands here and there. And classes continued as they always had and numbers went down in the grade books and people decided they would prefer a little academic freedom and the right to plan their own curriculum. And all the early decision people now knew of their fates. They teach us to remember; why do not they teach us to forget ? There is not a man living who has not, some time in his life, admitted that memory was as much of a curse as a blessing.”—Durivage The basketball team decided to be great and the junior prom committee could not begin work because there would be no prom. The curriculum committees decided to let students have a few' words and the Values Seminars finally came into existence. You have the touch of a sex-starved cobra” resounded on the stage and reminded people that the deadline for fifth applications was past. 12

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 The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama. —George Eliot. Spring was sweet and summer was warm. There was more beach and less school and there were college boards for others and Regents and finals. And they graduate, telling each other where next year would find them. Of all the faculties of the mind, memor)' is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.”—Colton.