Weaver High School - Portal Yearbook (Hartford, CT)

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LOOKOUT EDITORIAL BOARD: On left desk, Donald Mastronarde (Editor), Edward Lebetkin, Stewart Katz and John Aniello. Middle group, third row. Gale Nussbaum, Steven Kramer, Paul Spector and Robert Katz. Review Co-Editors: Donald Mastronarde and Susan Gold- man. REVIEW As a mother brings a child into the world, so too the Review staff, with infinite pains and tenderness, brings forth each year a collection of art, poetry, and prose. By running around and asking potential Pulitzer Prize winners to please submit their entries before the deadline (a most flexible date), by spending their vacations reading and correcting the entries that have trickled in, by turning out a good deal of original writings them- selves, Susan Goldman, Donald Mastronarde and Paul Spector, under the guidance of Mr. Devine, produced a literary magazine along with a few premature grey hairs. At the end of May the child was born and, although it’s not an anthology of originals by Picasso, essays by Thoreau or short stories by Hemingway, the Review is creative and thoughtful, the product of Weaver’s young artists. 12 W ‘ i.

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HONOR SOCIETY FOOT- BALL TEAM: Back row — Harvey Remer, Burton Eisen- berg, Joe Toce. Middle row — Robert Ellis, Orlando Fer- reira, John Aniello, Steven Weinberg, and Danny Piset- sky. Front row — Marshall Milner, Michael Graham, Ho- ward Wein. PORTAL As Frankenstein had a creator, Portal ' 66 had an edi- torial board. Unsuspecting as innocent bystanders, we were moved to volunteer our services thinking to make an unselfish contribution to humanity — the yearbook. Maturity is something which is acquired soon after work- ing on a yearbook staff — so is disillusionment, rebell ion and general anarchy, long hours in a darkened school without pizza and softened murmurings of threatened assassinations. Happily we presented a united front when under attack by the opposition, which came quite fre- quently once production began. Throughout the entire tragicomedy, one smile remained unfaltering, one laugh remained uncracked. Our faithful, intrepid advisor, Miss Kathleen Gallagher, remained oblivious to the pressure of exterior forces and each time, as Humpty Dumpty left his wall, she glued him back together. Her smiling face will always remain a cherished memory, locked in the file cabinet along with all the other paraphernalia, and her philosophical advice, Don ' t give up.” While the editorial board struggled with its creativity, the business board squeezed ads out of stones. Early morning conferences in the lobby were followed by hordes of students swarming over merchants and eloquently de- manding that they should have equal advertising rights. Thoroughly overwhelmed and, in some instances even convinced, the ad sales became definite contracts and even more definite payments. The long-suffering and kindly Mr. Alibrio had weathered another yearbook. Back at the layouts, things were becoming a little tense. Only one man, Miss Gallagher, still smiling, announced periodically our deadlines were already passed. In fact every week there was a gentle reminder that we were a little behind. We began to ask the seniors if they really wanted a yearbook or wouldn’t they be content with an eight page supplement to the senior issue of the Lookout. Things were a little indefinite and we contemplated ac- quiring the services of the Caped Crusader and the Boy Wonder. Press nights turned into weekend affairs, and they moved cots into 227. But we work well under a little bit of pressure, one happy family and all that jazz. Miss Gallagher smiles on into the night and you are reading your yearbook. Banzai? We hope everybody is happy. PORTAL BUSINESS BOARD (left to right): Steven Gut- tenplan, Danny Gross, Paula Slutsky, Peter Katz (mana- ger), Jeannette Walker, Nata- lie Boynton, Sharon Farrell, Henry Hurvitz, John Jacco- bucci, Myrna Nearman, Gale Nussbaum, Mark Kurtz and Burton Eisenberg.

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LOOKOUT We need seventy-two more inches of copy for this issue and it’s 11:00 P.M.” What do you mean you forgot to get that ad?” Who’s going out for the pizzas?” Put down those scissors, they’re lethal weapons.” I’ll bet Portal has left already . . . ” It’s press night in Room 176, alias the Lookout office and people are all over the place. Click, click, click,” go the typewriters. Mr. Italia yells at Donald, Donald yells at Arnold, Arnold yells at David and they all glare at the cub reporters. In the surrounding areas, pens are flying, literally and figuratively, as last minute articles are written and rewritten. The ads and articles for the issue are thumbtacked on dummy sheets. Pizzas are devoured, sodas are downed, and miraculously enough, in the wee hours of the morn- ing, the paper is put to bed. As the last people leave, someone says, Next time we’ll have every- thing done on time.” Second row, Barri Rosenberg, Barbara Sher- man, Linda Spanier and Anita Lazer. First row, sitting, Nancy Neckes, Allan Adolf and Steven Rosenthal. On right desk, David Kap- lan and Sheila Sondik. LOOKOUT BUSINESS BOARD: Sitting, Jonell Johnson. First row, Seth Nussbaum, Cathy Barlow, Ho- ward Wein, Martha Pivnick, Ula Dodson, Harriet Cohen, Robert Wolberg, Nancy Grogan, Joseph Waxman, and Laurie Scott. Second row, Stephen Cramer, Steven Wein- berg, Danny Pisetsky, Joe Toce, Louis Berens, Barry Wolfgang, Joseph Zwarick and Mr. Spencer Shaller. 13