William Howard Taft High School - Senior Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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9f':1J'u'ufXZrfE. p, it ' gg, 6253, ,-'V 5 'U K I. f F f ci - I A 15,45 MAN OF DESTINY KIND SIR Mr. Ilarry Shelter, Administra- tive Assistant in charge ol' boys since 1953, originally taught Eng- lish here. I Author ol' boolcs on English, he spolte ol' lilie in terms ol' the brief candlen cited by Macbeth, and said, HMay the Ilaine ol' your achieve- nients burn brightly, and shed warmth on all man Itincl. 'Ilie world is both your stage and your proving groundfl JUSTICE Mr. Benjamin Kaplan, Dean ol' Boys, has held his present position at Taft Iior three years, after teach- ing Spanish here. He said sagely, Now that the last act curtain is about to come down, let me congratulate you on a fine performance and remind you that your severest critics may also be your very best friends. Mr. Peter Solcoloff, Administra- tive Assistant and former teacher of mathematics, told us, The whole world is your stage. You will ap- pear on the proseenium ol' lille as artists, teachers, scientists, business inen, hoine-nialters, and citizens ol' our country. Ile extended ht-sl wishes I'or hap- 13111058 llllll Sllk'L'l'SS III 'XIII IIIL' IAIIICS we might play. BLITHE SPIRIT Mrs. Lillian K. -lcrome, Dean of Girls and teacher ol' English, has a word of advice. Take time, every now and then, to evaluate your life and revise the script if necessaryf' She quoted Oscar Hammerstein, who said, 1'VVhy you are born and why you are living depend entirely on what you are getting out of the world and what you are giving to it.'l She agreed heartily. BEHIND THE SCENES Mrs. Ruth Cohen has been a member of Taftls Stenography Department since February 1957 and was a counselor for one year. In February 1958 she assumed Miss Murphys duties as Assistant Dean of Girls. She told us, 1 hope that you will lead happy, useful lives, and that you will play out your parts to the satisfaction and joy of yourselves and your familiesf' - jd ':'i-X'- 33 ga if-I E'-if-. ff fs' 'V' -' t r ' .1 V A, -'1 .-3. ' ' fi M., - rates -1.52 az., 1546, -I 7m.6Q.M6-iw

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Il if WW 'I 'P 51' ' A-iww WW' MY FAIR, LADY Dear Members of the Classes of 1959, The theme you selected for your yearbook startled the faculty at first. Had we cultivated a stage-struck generation? I-lad the Traveling Players, the varsity play, or the senior show infected the yearbook staff? On the other hand, possibly your imaginations had been fired by the famous speech in As You Like It or by Thomas I-leywood's less familiar lines: The world's a theatre, the earth a stage Which God and Nature do with actors fill. poets that the world is a stage on which If you have concluded with the we play various parts, we urge you to play the parts which fall to you in life to the very best of your ability. Put your energies and your souls into the characters lines and lackadaisically going through you portray. Half-heartedly reading prescribed motions bring scant results. Wliether you find yourselves cast in stellar roles or in bit parts, portray those roles with energy and enthusiasm. VVhile everyone cannot be a star playing to the plauclits of multitudes, even the player with merely a walk-on part can enact the role with such integrity that critics appreciate the performance and, more important, that the player himself can know the satisfaction of having done an honest and thorough job. Wlicn you have achieved some success in your chosen work-whether it be in the world of the theatre like Taft's Stanley Kubrick and Eydie Gorme or in any other fields-we hope that you will keep us at school informed of your progress so that we may applaud from the side-lines and glory in your accom- plishments. Yours with all good wislzes, fd.

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ef' ww SSM ! 'A' MISS HELEN ACKER has been a member of the Social Studies Department since the school opened in 1941. For the past ten years she has been oiiicial teacher of coopera- tive classes. SS 'IT f MRS. MARGARET DENKIN of the Social Studies Department is in charge of college counseling. She has been helping seniors with their college problems for the past four years. i MRS. IULIA LEWIS has been in Taft's music department for seventeen years, and is now acting chairman. She is in charge of the senior singing group which prepares -A' MRS. HELENA L. BLUE has been in charge of the Co-operative Course for the past eleven yearsg at one time, she was acting chairman of the Secretarial Department. She songs for graduation. f V, . I fig' fi 6:17 I , . , , ,,,, ,4 w 4' J if MRS. MARION LIEFF is a member of the Secretarial Studies Department. She has been at Taft for one year, and has had a senior ofiicial class. has been at Taft since 1941. - 'f '+f'T ' , .1 vm? A 4- 'A' MISS MARY BOYLAN, senior counselor and teacher of Social Studies, has been teaching at Taft since 1941. She has served as coun- selor for many other grades. iv MR. MURRAY STOOPACK, senior ofhcial class teacher, Was a counselor for two years. He has left us to become the chairman of Social Studies at Morris High School, after -A' MISS ANN MAISTRELLI of the Girls' Health Education Depart- ment has been a counselor for six years, and this year is taking care of seniors. She has been at Taft eight years here. T , wr I .lf 3 ii . . ,ui 'my' e 'N . : :. , f ' fu. .i '..f',f?7.?11 J' . , I ir MR. JAMES MQCORMACK member ol' the Music Department and clioirmaster, has been at Taft since 1942. li? I 35.1 :. ,K 'ii -.. 3 S Q 1 ' 5 'L' -I-L llI -..t -L ,t Q.. W- ZI , pr- Bi--,I,i'I. :L - '-..-......,l::. :M R px Xu 5 1' MRS. FLORA MOLLARD, teacher of Spanish and French, has been a counselor at Taft for seven and a half years, working with seniors for the past year. She has been at Taft since 1950. E , X' 'i 'i T since 1941, and has had senior ofb- cial classes in order to lead the , . ' , 'f ' ., chorus. E lia 'A ' 'f i' . MR. WILLIAM STIZOBEL, .1 - . 1 , If senior oflicial class teacher and 4 ' '- Track coaeli, came to Taft in 1941. l L He has had a senior ollicial class ever since, and is in charge of all V 4 ,fm graduation exercises. 1 1. lg-if ' ' ' i' ' 1. gh Moa l bi ,K f' i i, M 51 -5 1111 6 if MRS. SARAH SELLIN of the Social Studies Department has served as a eounselor, and for the past term has assumed the duties ol' college advisor during Mrs. Den- l4in's sabbatical leave.