Allen Stevenson School - Unicorn Yearbook (New York, NY)

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As with any typical A-S year, new fads circulated like the plague. Star Trek mania was attempted once again by 8th Grader Matthew Peyton, along with Barrett Lester and Andrew Glickman. This group spent a great deal of time collecting buttons, models, space ship plans, etc. Again, skateboarding - now stronger than ever - rerappeared. Led by Gregg Demirjian and a countless host of others who spend more on skateboards than GM spends on chauffered limousines, the skate- boarders were less of a nuisance, as their boards were forbidden items in school. Some boys were superstars ilike Demirjianl, others were beyond classification, but most were just intermediates. Some were just plain unlucky, Peter Judson frac- tured his skull while rolling at high speed, and Danny Szor fractured his skateboard while standing still! For the 93rd year the A-S dress code was unpopu- lar, and severe challenges were raised by certain Ninth Graders, who turned to the Salvation Army to A X Q X X fi'-Ha.. 5 S clothe themselves. Despite an overall Preppy look, there were substantial numbers who resisted socks and shoes for bare feet and clogs. All this disregard for the regulations obviously prompted Mr. Cole to send home a stern note of warning in March ias well as sending home a few boys who disregarded his orders.i Apart from an overnight popularity of the Kiss group, the Ninth Graders began the classroom sport of Bounce Ball. He's-no-angel Bradley Kulman had a strong hand in beginning this sport, which uses Mr. Pariseau's desk as a court. Chucky Evans provides the ball. 29

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6 Throughout the year the most prevalent item coming up for student criticism was the newly- minted Honor Code. Despite its high-flung aspira- tions, the Code still hasn't been taken seriously by enough of the boys. The Editors would like to caution their readers that in future years more stu- dents ought to heed it if A-S is going to remain a top quality school. Those desiring more information on the code should contact Mr. Cole at the school, or they may write to Bradley Kabbash ,at 333 East 79th Street. Under the guidance of Mrs. Krasa the lunches improved last year, along with the prodding of the Student Council. Several polls and resultant meet- ings with Mrs. K. were held, and as a result several items were added to the A-S culinary bill of fare. Orange juice, garlic bread, pizza and yogurt became staples, although yogurt came only once before it was adjudged too expensive by Mrs. Krasa. This year also saw the introduction of breakfast food as a substitute for luncheon food, that's right, French toast made its appearance several times - to the delight of the smallfry, the puzzlement of the Upper Schoolers and the incredulity of the Faculty. Once it was even served with chicken soup - as a pre- ventative against the flu! Over the long summer vacation several improve- ments were made to the aging premises. New wall mats and an attractive paint job lat lastly were added to the gym-auditorium-lunch room facility, but most important of all, another locker room was built in the old lunch alcove. This was for 5th 84 6th Graders, and it allowed the center of the old locker room land boy, is it oldlj to be used as a weight lifting and wrestling facility. The new locker room also brought with it office space for joint Athletic isicl Deerectas Kersey and Daly. As usual, the gym floor was re-surfaced, only this time lines were added for the national game of Poland: Foursquare. 28 GRADE 7 WOICIECHOWSKI - back row: Allen, l. lenoure, Speyer, Parkinson, Bross, middle row: lon Levy, Gellert, Briger, C. johnson, front row: C. Leong, Ransick, L. Siskind, P. Papazoglou, absent: Chigrinsky, Kaminski, Y. Thrush

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GRADE 6 HARLAN - back row: W. Whitmore, Sze, Browning, jeremy Levy, Kallman, middle row: D. Thrush, Russell, Fogel, P. Aston, Tsacoyannis, front row: P. ludson, A. DeVido, 1. Potter, McLain, Roger Raines 1 53'-A 'ily li J -J E si all it -7 Q: At Mr. CoIe's directive, each Upper School home- room was required to put on its own play for Friday assembly. The first attempt was by this year's out- going Ninth Gradersg their was also the last attempt of the year - again in the spring. The first extrava- ganza was a hastily cobbled together skit of jimmy Carter, while the second was a Faculty Meeting tread Poker Gamel. The final disaster was a game show. 7Bers followed, with yet another Ford-Carter debate, sparkled with dialogue between Ycaza Thrush iCarterl and Peter Briger fFordj. Then came a skit depicting daily life at A-S, as seen through the eyes of SB. Roger Sommers and Barrett Lester were behind the newsdesk, as Andrew Glickman played Walter Cronkite. The class also spoofed com- mercials iwhat else?j in between the late-breaking news items. 8A's presentation combined with Mr. Landis' an- nual Book Fair presentation, as Adam Lesberg led a cast of thousands who portrayed bookworms look- ing for a home. Next was Mr. Kersey's imaginative St. George and the Dragon, and if it weren't for talented substitutes tthree leads got sick the day beforel, the thing would have had to have been cancelled. jimmy Sinclair, Eric Cliette, Larry Sweet, and Tony Couloucoundis were some of the stars, as St. George and the Dragon got together in the end. A few days later Mr. Schroeter's 7A group put on two amusing detective numbers. Neil Bader iwho forgot his lines and then forgot to look in his opened briefcase for themll, jesse Cohen, Steven Metcalfe, Tony Green, et al, will never match the standards of Sherlock Holmes or George Raft, but everybody in the packed audience had a great deal of fun.