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

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GRADE 2 ROUND - back row Trimble, I. Henry, Rosen, Karch Fasth, C. Thompson, middle row: G Aston, Packard, P. lenoure, Utsch R. Zuckert, Gross, front row Kramer, Bicks, Loring, Rogge Keilner, Feinberg .ix

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during their plays, especially at Christmas and Thanksgiving extravaganzas. Beginning in third grade the boys also come under the direction of Maestro Gauger as well. He begins by teaching the boys to play the recorder - and giving them re- quired homework as well! Of course this doesn't always go down well with those who are totally tone deaf, but it does help generate enthusiasm and talent for the Orchestra. Lower School dramatic productions are, at least, colorful, and are long-standing favorites of Upper Schoolers, who get treated to Thanksgiving, Christ- mas and Washington's Birthday - while completing their French assignments. Of course Headmaster Mr. Cole has become a standing fixture at Christmas productions, - as Santa Claus, of course. Mr. Terrill's fourth grade class put on a play about a king who could not stop sneezing, after years of unsucessful remedies, he was cured. One day the kingdom's finest chef baked a pie which was given to a special pie thrower who threw the pie into an innocent bystander QCharley Evansj. The king had never laughed so hard, and thus his side splitting cured his sneezing. Qu

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This year's annual off-Broadway Thanksgiving pro- duction marked another fine Lower School produc- tion, chiefly performed before an audience of either mothers and proud grandparents. Consisting of some third and fourth graders, the production con- sisted of poetry readings and songs, under the direc- tion of Mr. Grassi and Mrs. Bounds, with help from Mrs. Schrade. The short poems were mostly student efforts about Thanksgiving, here's an example of one verse: Oh, how I hate this kind of year! So do me a favor Cobble, Cobble! And eat some deer. For if you don't I feel the end is near. - author unknown. Another example: Thanksgiving is the time, uh, uh, of, pfooey, I can't think of a rhyme! Well, so much for those efforts. There were several nondescript songs to soothe restless Upper Schoo- Iers and round out the program. The Christmas program was done by the second graders, and they did a fine job. The play was about a boy who was so bad that Santa didn't leave anything either in his stocking or under the Christ- mas tree. This fellow was so sad that he decided to go all the way to the North Pole and plead for forgiveness from Santa. On his journey, he met many animals and treated them all with great care. As every little boy knows, Santa scratched his head, f x Qs J