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

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Administration Encourages Increased Student Participation The tone of student politics this year was very different from last year's. While the 1968- 1969 General Organization fought inde- fatigably for a student voice in the decision- making processes of the school system, the 1969-1970 Student Organization found itself overwhelmed by student representation on various committees. Mr. Noyes welcomed the formation of stu- dent-faculty committees, believing that stu- dents have thus far contributed tremendously to them, and firmly believes that there is room for more student involvement in the com- munity. Students, however, were quite skeptical as to the efficacy of the committees. This was 20

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF..... Joan Gildin ASSOCIATE EDITOR . . . Carol Bloch COPY EDITOR ........ Mady Moyer Contributors: Amy Bauman, Marsha Berkowitz, Dennis Gidseg, Lynn John- son, Elliot Kass, Ronald Krauss, Daniel Laskin, Meg Lemkin, Marc Machiz, Steve Messner, Judy Pollack, Linda Ripstein, Cathy Rosen, Peter Schles- inger, Nathan Shaffer, Eric Siskind, Laurie Udell, Larry Waxman UNDERCLASSMEN EDITOR Susan Bitensky ATHLETICS EDITOR ... Cliff Walzer Contributors: Paul Good, Neil Rosen- berg, Erie Rosenson, Marc Rosenwas- ser, Mike Schur SENIOR SECTION EDITORS David Bloomfield Ken Sher ADMINISTRATION EDITOR Reuben Cohen ART EDITOR ......... Jane Needle Layout Staff: Jon Friedman, Ken Gil- din, Dan Golden PHOTOGRAPHY EDITORS Leland Deane Alan Schwartz Contributors: Ed Blausten, Joe Dehn, Paul Ebin, Robert Goldmann, Jon Gor- don, Bruce Horowitz, Dave Kahn, Scott Kurnit, Michael Leeds, Robert Leighton, Paul Morris, Bob Moss, Jay Pines, Judy Pollack, Glenn Reit, Bob Sadock PHOTOGRAPHIC ADVISOR Steve Rattner BUSINESS MANAGERS Robert Fleischmann Joan Wlodaver Staff: Jon Benjamin, Jessie Bergman, Randy Berkowitz, Margie Doppelt, Gus Forster, Jane Hamburger, Mitch Hoch- berg, Bob Kleinman, Jeryl Koenigs- berg, Nancy Larick, Judy Lore, Jeff Nager, Margie Rothstein, Matthew Schoenberg SPONSORS........Miss Beth London Mr. Leonard Mandel 19

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most apparent when the question of maintain- ing a relationship with the Board of Education was raised early in the year. Finally, after many hours of heated discussion among last year’s student deleqates, the Board trustees, the principals from both high schools, and the Phipps administrators, an agreement—the Memorandum of Understanding—was reached and subsequently endorsed by the student gov- ernment of both North and South. Elections were held, and the following Mon- day night student deleqates William Aronstein, Reuben Cohen, and Marc Rosenwasser met a hostile community and an unpredictable Board of Education. The community changed little and the Board became more predictable and sympathetic. The deleqates, as well as serving as student representatives at public meetings, met reaularly in private with the Board. With Dr. Miller, Superintendent; Mr. Abramowitz, Assistant Superintendent for Instruction; and Dr. Sobel. Director of Secondary Instruction, they discussed such topics as Draft Education and Registration, Freedom of Mobility, and Flaq Desecration. The Curriculum Development Council, estab- lished by the 1968 Great Neck Teacher's As- sociation-Board of Education contract, repre- sents an attempt to involve teachers and stu- dents. as well as administrators, in the process of initiating and influencing curriculum change. The CDC has accepted a working definition of curriculum as every experience the child has under the direction of the school and every- thing that the school contrives to shape the life and insiqht of the individual. The scope of the CDC's work is vast, and its members include professionals from all branches of the school system. During its first two years of operation, this FAR LEFT: Mr. M. Elliot Noyes, Principal: ABOVE LEFT: Mr. Henry Boro- viclca, Assistant Principa : CENTER: Mr. Mortimer Abramowitz. Assistant Superintendent tor In- struction. Dr. Ridgley Bogg. Assistant Superin- tendent for Business: ABOVE, left to right: Dr. Thomas Sobol, Director of Secondary Instructior Dr. Marion E. Wiles, Execu- tive Assistant to the Superintendent. Dr. John L. Miller, Superintendent of Schools: LEFT: Mr. Ed- mund Fontanella. Assis- tant Principal. 21