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

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LOWER SCHOOL L OWER SCHOOL featured many new faculty faces this year, the second of Mariana Leigh- ton's reign over grades 1-4. Two new faces graced first grade in September: Mrs. Seggerman and Miss Halsey. Mrs. Seggerman was formerly a director and head teacher at an extended school program, as well as having taught at Bank St. School, New Lincoln School, and P.S. 166. Regretably Mrs. Segger- man had to leave at Christmastime, but she was quickly replaced by Mrs. Rowan, formerly of the Park Avenue Christian Church Day School. The oth- er first grade section was well handled by Miss Halsey, who had formerly taught at the Brick Church School and at a public school in West- chester. Another new arrival from Park Avenue Christian Qnow we'll tell you that's where Mrs. Leighton came fromj was second grade teacher Mrs. Andrejevic, who teamed with the always colorful Ms. Round to lead the second grade smallfry out of the darkness into the light. Once again veteran third grade leader Mrs. Bounds returned ther 22nd yearly to team with Mrs. Fusco. Reportedly Mrs. Bounds set a record for having visitors spend the day in her class, she petitioned Mr. Nichols for part of his salary as Admissions Director! Again Messrs. Grassi and Terrill headed the fourth grade, and apart from getting their charges ready to face the rigors of Upper School, they ran back- gammon tournaments, took trips, did plays and even posted the day in sports on Mr. Grassi's door. fl bww. - DIA 'X Qs Tl' GRADE 4 GRASSI - back row Ashton, D. Paler, A. Landis, D Schwartz, Hyde, middle row Rubinstein, KaiNielsen, Tang Feldman, Haenischg front row: C Corelik, Nesbitt, Temkin, Stern DeVoeg absent: laffee, deFex, Close

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If 7th Grade could best be characterized as a class of students, then 6th Grade could best be termed a class of jocks. Although such hard-workers as jonny Potter, Tonio DeVido lpermant assistant teacherl, and leffrey Oestericher brought smiles to the faces of all their teachers, it was Colin Hagen's gang of athletes who brought smiles to the faces of the coaches. Hagen, who believes he is Bert Jones, lr., led his cohorts Misha loukowsky, Marcus Henderson and Kevin Keels to great athletic exploits on the football field, although their basketball fortunes were some- what less than expected. Fogwell Fogel from Greenwich proved a wel- come addition, although he couldn't come close to jeremy Levy for being the class character. Mark Browning, tallest of the tall fellows, continued to write amusing stories for his English teacher and all who cared to read them, while Peter Judson and Roger Raines remained on stage throughout the entire performance - namely, the year. Scotty Mat- tox went to field for two months wearing boots, while Stuart Thompson completed the deal of the century - suckering an unfortunate 7th Grader into buying a 5-year-old lacrosse stick for S17! Hrivnak 84 O'Connell were once again inseparable, while Chris Leo was once again - well, we're not having any of that kind of language here! Cha-wen Sze continued as the class brain fand trumpet virtuosol but it was Nicky McKhann who had a smile for everybody - including Bobby Haag!

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5 'va' Mrs. Leighton, former Assistant Director of Park Avenue Christian Church Day School, became head of Lower School in the fall of 1975, and to-date her biggest contribution has been to see that her teenie- weenies get substantially more time for art and shop, previously denied them because there was no morning time to work them into the program. Now they get their sports one morning one day a week, thus in the afternoons they can be turned over to Ms. Kopple and Mr. Meyendorff at 1:30. The curriculum in the first grade consisted of teaching the little uns the three R's of readin', 'ritin' and 'rithmatic, First grade, naturally, must concen- trate on these learning skills before pushing on to other things. Here, number concepts are most im- portant, and several ways and approaches are used. One of these is with the colored Cuisiniere Rods, which help build relative sense of number values. In second grade, daily life revolves around learn- ing sentence structure and grammar. Here the boys often write stories about themselves and other inter- esting life experiences. Once a week the boys get a library period, where they are taken by Mrs. Ritten- berg. They always have a ball, taking over Aunt Ritty's office, as well as enjoying her new selections for them. They also get the opportunity to learn library skills and the Dewey Decimal System fwe thinkl. Twice a week Lower Schoolers get read stories by Mrs. Leighton, who generally selects some thrillers to make the little fellers relax after a hard day's work. Although there are no fireplaces in the build- ing, Mrs. Leighton's readings do seem like fireside chats. GRADE 4 TERRILL - back row Hoppl, D. Schiff, jones Washington, l. Sinclair, Hecht middle row: B. Smith, M Wasserberger, Berry, Handy Bourne, E. Bader, front row Porter, Marcano, R. Bulkley Sttoll, Pollack, Kulok