Pleasantville High School - Green Quill Yearbook (Pleasantville, NY)

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When I came to PHS, it was a very, how shall I say it, conservative institu- tion. There were no mod clothes, no long hair, no love beads. At the time I came here, I was rather wild and thought I was really boss. I was the first to have really long hair. Iim Dance had moderately long hair, but I had long hair. I also wore bell bottomed pants and 'Beatle' boots. I had my flower shirts, too! -Iohn Capobianco One outstanding tradition that is followed at PHS is student apathy. This is a tradition I would like to see disappear. It has been around much too long! When I first entered PHS, I was all for abiding by the traditions. I wanted PHS to be like a TV high school: happy, fun-loving kids attending happy, fun- loving parties and happy, fun-loving football games. It was not enough for me to be myself. I had to be one of the gang-the good, old gang that I created in my mind because it did not exist in reality. -Mimi Holloway -Betsy Richardson There should be a de-emphasis on learning cut and dry facts but a revival of the humanities. There should be courses where understanding yourself, your fellow men, and the world around you is discussed and, hopefully, un- derstood. There is a great need for a more diversified student body with a greater mixture of races and ethnic groups. It seems as though we are being too pro- tected from the outside world, and I really believe some of us will be hin- dered in the futLu'e when it becomes necessary to deal with people unlike our- selves. - -Evan Eastman -Michael Bush I miss the traditional lunch hour when everyone gathers with his friends and hears the latest gossip. 'We hold your torch alight' is probably one of the most significant lines in the Alma Mater of PHS. Every time I hear this line, I am touched, as are most students, and yet I am also a bit disappointed. I often wonder if we are not just one more class carrying the torch for 'good old PHS' for just one more year. In many ways that is how things go in our school. Undisturbed tradition is the torch that only now has begun to dim. -Francine Moroney -Chris Iacobson Three cheers for PHS! With the war in Vietnam, starvation in Biafra and Appalachia, and racial bigotry in our midst, we get upset about a dress code. Such a time-honored practice is that of having a chemistry test every Friday, without exception. - -William Englund -Maggie Fraser

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The Green Gazette still starts off the day despite the now brief homeroom period, and students con- tinue to gather for conversation or studying in the auditorium during the shortened lunch hour. Girls now wear slacks as casually as they wear skirts, and boys have almost forgotten the days when long hair was a rarity to be laughed atg but the students themselves, their problems and hopes, despair and happiness, continue to be the soul of PHS. There is no longer an NAC bonfire, but football and basket- ball and chorus concerts and Seniors' Day and countless other traditions still go on. Perhaps the biggest change is within the students themselves. It seems that within the past few years there has been growing a new awareness of life, an interest in things outside of our own small world. We still attend school, groan at homework, laugh at our private jokes, care most for the people closest to us, but we are concerned with other matters, too, like the needy in Appalachia and the plight of Biafra. We fought for a new dress code, but we also expressed our feelings about the war in Vietnam by participating in Moratorium demonstrations or wearing American flag armbands. We are concerned with each other and the roles we will play once we graduate and leave the safe shelter of high school life. Hopefully, apathy is slowly disappearing and being replaced by sincere interest and a sense of responsibility to more than ourselves and our immediate world. The security of tradition is making way for the uncertain results of change, but change is inevitable, and through it we can hope to find and express ourselves. l 3

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1948: Only the cars look different. Table of Contents Theme 2 Dedication 6 Faculty 1 1 Seniors 33 Underclassmen 69 Sports 87 Activities 1 21 World Events 153 Advertising 157 Index 181