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

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VILLAGE SCHOOL Forty-eight students, three full-time teachers, only two work rooms and a kitchen, no buses, not much money but also no bells, no hall guards, no passes, no cutting, no tests and no grades. In the art room, a group of students and teachers are involved in a sensitivity session; two students work on wax sculpture in the general room; in the office, Muriel (nurse-secretary-moth- er-in-residence) types up someone’s mid year evaluation; a teacher and a student walk around outside, intent on their conversation, ignoring the freezing cold; at the kitchen stove, a small group prepares a lunch of rice and vegetables; at the kitchen table, a Spanish class is finishing up; in the background, Andy practices on the banjo; across the alleyway, a social studies seminar is in progress.

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF susan bitensky ACTIVITIES EDITOR..................linda friedman LAYOUT EDITOR.................linda sirow SENIOR EDITORS.....................julie goldstein judy lore FACULTY EDITOR................miriam smith BUSINESS MANAGERS ............marty cohen larry greenstein ross levine PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR......robert sadock COPY EDITOR...................myra lieber ART EDITOR...................holly lerner SPORTS EDITORS................alan epstein richard lichtenstein UNDERCLASSMEN EDITOR...........liz ames LAYOUT STAFF...........................jon freudman, danny golden — assistant editors randy berkowitz, julie crown, kenny gilden, didi lichtenberg, lynn okun PHOTOGRAPHY STAFF.......................edmond blausten, paul ebin — assistant editors malcolm arnold, robert cantor, jon cutler, joseph dehn, james frankel, david kahn, elliot klein, geoff marcus, paul morris, jay pines, judy pollack, glenn reit, eric rosenberg, alan schwartz, larry sheer, david teicher, mitch teicher, ken weiss, scott winter PUBLICITY STAFF...................................lonnie lardner — associate director peter dwork, debbie leiberman, sue malamed, charles renick, jackie taubes ADVERTISING STAFF joan bregstein, lawrence ganz, barbara hirschberg, terry kornblum, gerald meisenberg COPY CONTRIBUTORS...........andy aaron, william aronstein, amy bloom, robert chertoff, david frankel, jennifer jaffe, adraienne perkins, judy pollack SPONSORS.......................................................leonard mandel beth london SPECIAL THANKS TO...............................................charles renick for hand-lettering susan feldman for divider-page designs linda sirow for cover design gus forster for photographic contributions I. robert shields for encouragement and advice

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The bulletin boards reflect future plans and wishes of different school members: a sign-up sheet for a jazz workshop; another for a class on exis- tentialism; a dire warning from Muriel to people who haven’t paid for their NY Times subscriptions; notices about films, ballets, plays that can be seen cheaply as a group; a note from someone who wants to do a thesis on the Village School — will someone, anyone, please call her and talk to her awhile?; an announcement of a forthcoming article about the VS; assorted names and numbers of resource people who offer advice, transportation, and information. There is variety in every aspect of the school. Each person in the VS maintains his individuality. While Danny is studying Marxism and armed revolution, Steve preaches the gospel according to Goodell. Hair goes from short to long, from neat to wild. Clothes range from strictly utilitarian to ultra-fashionable to casually hip. A typical school day ranges from shooting pool to a study of archeology. Categories, classifications, grade levels — they are all things which no longer apply to people in the VS. They are a mixed bag. They are also a school community and a group of people trying to make education work.