Bay Ridge High School - Maroon and White Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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F ashion Artist By GERALDINE NATOLI and JEANNE BRAND office of the Conde Nast Publications, Gray Bar Building, New York. Her dark brown eyes were alert and her expressive face was framed by dark brown hair, braided halo fashion. She extended a friendly hand in greeting and we suddenly realized that this was she for whom we had been waitingeCipe Pineles, former Bay Ridge Studentetoday one of the world's leading illustrators and now engaged as Assistant Art Director of Vogue Magazine. Leading the way into a glass enclosed patio, she inquired about her Alma Mater. She appeared interested to hear of the changes time had brought about in Bay Ridge High School and to learn that Miss Caccamo, a former classmate, was now teaching here. SHE was smartly dressed, this young woman who greeted us in the Finally getting down to the business at hand, we learned that she and her sister had come from Vienna to Bay Ridge in their third term. She knew very little English, but by constantly doubling in the language, she managed to gain a good knowledge of it. In her senior year she won the Atlantic Monthly prize for her story, HBolsheviki, which later appeared in the Maroon and White, June 1926. Her special talent, however, lay not in the writing field. She had always liked to draw and on graduating from Bay Ridge she received a scholar- ship to Pratt Institute. Then she was awarded a fellowship to Tiffany Foundation. Although her ambition was to become a painter, she realized its impracticability and instead went in for commercial art. As she herself said, speaking rather rapidly and with a delightfully clipped accent, uIf you wish to be a success in the business art world you must apply your talent to some immediate need, such as commercial art or photography. In her present position, Miss Pineles does some illustrating and plans the make-up and layout for llVogue. She recently illustrated two success- ful books by Marjorie Hillis: Live Alone and Like It, and Corned Beef and Caviar. Not prepared to say that her work is all a bed of roses, she put it simply by saying: llSometimes it is fun and sometimes it is very hard work. This year Miss Pineles spent ten months in London preparing the Coronation Issue of the London Vogue. uMy one difficulty, she said, laughing reminiscently, was in finding my way about the strange London streets. lust as I would get to know a street by the buildings on it they would be decorated for the Coronation and I would be lost again. When asked if she thought that the fashion field was an open one for Sixty-two

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0 THE SENIORS: Four years ago, Nature gave a frigid but unique reception to the new Freshmen when she greeted them with the heaviest snowfall since the Great Blizzard. If Nature's welcome was thrilling but unkind, we can only hope that ours, although less thrilling, was more kind. How short the years! For we are about to bid farewell to you, those Freshmen, now grown to Seniors, soon to be Graduates. You are leaving us for the great world outside. We have many happy memories of our work and play together, of our fine friendships, warm and rich in loyalty, of our genuine spirit of co- operation, of our belief in one another, and of the fun through it all. We shall miss you when you go, but we know that the world needs your youth, your eagerness, your faith. Ask little of that world, but be ready to give unsparingly of your talents and to share unselfishly your achievements and successes. Our good wishes go forth with you. We shall think of you often with pride in your accomplishments, and always with an understanding heart. Loretta Sullivan. ARISTA Sixty-one

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young women today, Miss Pineles said that she believes the fashion field ewriting, acting as a stylist or fashion adviser to smaller stores, promotion in fashion copyeis a very rich one and offers unusual opportunity for young women today. She thinks that the fashion field demands more than a high school education. College, a good writing background, much reading, foreign travel, an interest in women's clothes, an eye for elegance -all help enrich the young woman Who hopes to go into the fashion field. Consenting to give a bit of advice to the young girl who intends to enter this profession, Miss Pineless said, HI believe that the girl Who goes in for fashion illustrating would benefit by going to an art school. This is, however, not necessary so long as she remains conscious of the styles and watches leading fashion magazines. She should do lots of drawing from the nude and learn how to draw women naturally in all sorts of positions. She must learn how to draw a woman from every possible angle in every type of dress. In conclusion, Miss Pineles praised the young girl of today because she believes in looking youthful and smart and has a taste for suitable comfortable clothes. HShe does not insist on wearing high heels if she feels that low ones are more appropriate and becoming, as well as more COmfortable. SENIOR MEMBERS OF THE LANGUAGE CLUBS Sixty-three