Arlington High School - Indian Yearbook (Arlington, MA)

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Send the Art Club to Greenwich Village! I. Spaneas, J. Gariepy, L. Lanza, G. Young, D. Curran. Still life with violin and Indian corn. First meeting of the “revised Art Club” . . . every- body staring silently at the new officers . . . “Is this for real?” . . . posing on desks for pencil sketches . . . “Well, don’t just stand there — poseV . . . waiting on the steps of AHS on a Saturday morning . . . feet freezing to the pavement ... off to Walden Pond! . . . “We’ve been drivin’ for seven hours” . . . “Irene, did you really think you could make a left turn from the right lane on Concord Turnpike?” . . . “How can I sketch the trees when my fingers are frozen together?” . . . the history of bananas . . . polluting the Pond with potato chips . . . Bob quacking at the seagull, (or was it a duck?) . . . Diane quacking at the fish . . . Jeanne quacking at everybody . . . the sun comes out and we thaw out . . . more trees . . . “Since when do palm trees grow at Walden Pond?” . . . Phil discovers a railroad . . . “Are those oil pastels?” . . . “No, they’re regular pastels” . . . Peggy discovers a sailor . . . “Are you children really drawing?” . . . next meeting: cutting up magazines for fun and profit . . . “What will your plants eat today?” . . . answer; your Dodge dealer ... the question is: “Does Queen Eliza- beth have a glass jaw?” . . . “Amy, you can’t make a ballerina from melted wax crayons; it will look as if her limbs are rotting away” ... “I think I just singed off my eyelashes!” . . . “Mr. Robinson, please stay calm, but there is a paraffin fire raging in that bucket and it WON’T GO C)UT!” . . . 5:00 P.M.: “Haven’t you kids left yet?” . . . “What shall we do in the spring? Go to the Common and sketch the pigeons?” . . . and we did just that . . . Living sculpture. 24

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President Arlene Dannenberg opened the year with enthusiastically attended council meetings at her hum- ble abode. We missed our loyal, true-blue Miss Hutch- inson; but we need not have worried. We never lost sight of her for the rest of the year! (Who else but Miss H. could tell us the mathematical probability of the success of a dance and be right?) Of course we always had Mr. D’Antona, and that was enough for most of the girls. His lovely dancing charmed them at the International Conference in Nova Scotia! That i ' brings to mind a classic remark. When a lowly sopho- . more asked where the Conference was to be held, one ( of our illustrious senior council-members replied; “Go 1 to Halifax!” We all know what she really meant . . . The Regional Representative, who complains that 1 his name is never in the secretary’s report, specializes 1 in “Tales of the Convention”: “God save the Green Queen! . . . LEWD . . . I’m Chenery the Eighth I am! ... Is this the orgy? . . . : When you’re in Canada, do as the Atkinsons do! . . . . LEWD . . . Chenza trying on some glasses, and Paul putting his hand in front of her: ‘Hey, move your foot!’ . . . LEWD . . . Are you going to feel strange when ' I you fly? . . . This is cool, (after touchdown) . . . ( stop. Stop, STOP!” That usually stopped him, and we turned to the Questionnaire Chairman, who discovered that pupils at Arlington High prefer stag dances to any other kind. I The Vice-President of Projects and Finances would ! often supplement these reports with the astounding ( news that the treasury was in good shape, plus or 1: minus about fifty dollars. He was accurate in planning Christmas caroling routes and candy sales. During the i time of the candy sale, the council-members all gained • weight. Could it be they never even got the candy home? Qur welfare project was constructive, with much “Ho ho-ing” and the response of pupils to help the unfortunate was very heartening. The Vice-Presi- f dent of Membership could boast 400 members — most of them active — which makes one wonder how they could sit still long enough to be counted. The secretary usually handed out her report, because she was too busy trying to remember the date to be able to give it : orally. If you could read the notebook, you would see she kept detailed accounts of the meetings. With ; speakers like Mrs. Marge Dunton, and a panel with f Brud Faulkner, Father Casey, and Mrs. Lanigan, the r meetings were successful, even if the council gatherings 1 ! were catastrophic. The year ended in June, but A.Y. stayed on to attend the International Conference in 1 Dallas. Oh, those sumptuous (?) dinners! What goes on after those AY meetings? Our Christmas welfare project. 23

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Science for fun and profit Of all the extracurricular activities at A.H.S., being a laboratory assistant is probably the best, for the sin- gle reason that it is the only work for which you can be paid. Join any other club, and you pay dues. Become a lab assistant, and the school pays you. Actually, the lab assistants are not so mercenary. Although their help is worth money, the practical sci- entific knowledge they acquire is even more valuable. These students like to learn by doing in different fields of science: chemistry, physics, and biology. The Sci- ence Department has many complex and delicate de- vices, and there is a right way to handle each of them. Add to this the fact that science itself demands preci- sion, especially in the use of chemicals and electricity, and you can see that lab assistants n;ust work care- fully. They do such things as making up and standard- izing solutions, preparing microscopic slides, and meas- uring the wave length of a beam of light. These pro- cedures will be useful in college science courses, so that being a lab assistant is really a headstart. It is the ideal job for students who enjoy science and don’t mind being paid to learn a little more about it. Check! “Well, what are you waiting for?” First Row: . DeVries, JV. Moran, T. Prato, S. Vozella, L. Contos, H. Stockman. Second Row: S. Steele, S. Stefanidakis, P. Shoenheiter. Game of strategy This boy plays chess in the tradi- tional manner — all alone. Any day, in room 14B, you can see members of the Chess Club laughing, talking, jumping up and down, and occasionally pushing little plastic pieces around on chess boards. The Chess Club is founded on the opti- mistic idea that anyone can be taught the principles of this fascinating royal game. One of the first skills mem- bers learn is that of debating, for at Chess Club meet- ings discussions on any topic can be heard. The Club’s best players participate as a team in an inter-scholastic Chess League. Through the years, the team has had an excellent record of championships. To continue the tradition, fearless leader Jack Marshall organized a relentless drive to win. Since battling fiercely with other teams did not exhaust the members’ energy, the Chess Club expanded its interests this year. A Bridge Club was added, and now there is a game for almost everybody. 25