Bronx High School of Science - Observatory Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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L l'lCl.lfl'l0 .'fQl UClf0I J ? lflflfeg 0lflI I'lCl 0 aa, SURIPTS Our term has lmeen particularly successful in harassing the faculty advisers of school publica- tions. Plagued hy a series ot' liroken deadlines. misplaced copy. and reporters vvho mistook the Surrey ollice for the lunchrooni vv as Adviser Miss Dorothy Frank. Chief culprits vvere Leon Prochnick. editor of Surrey' and his stahl-sSam Klein. manag- ing editor. Peter Schapiro and Howard Pechefsky. page editors. and Fred Sohn. Jim Rlier. George .-Xnsell and Stan Luhman. Nevertheless. in past terms. rain or shine Surrey came out. Last term it also came outfthe only publication in the city that douhled as vsall paperf as a dummied vvall copy. Miss Hachel Povereny received her chief annoy- ances from a hunch of future Nlenckens and loyces who sat around afternoons attempting to understand some ahstruse story. Among these literati vvere Henry Strage. managing editor. llernard Siskind. husiness editor. Michael Hollander. art editor. lim Blier. David Katz. Margaret Gottschalk. Helen Lurie. Marilyn Kushin. Herhert Harder. Hovsard Pechefsky. and .-Xnnette Della Penna. Menasha Tausner. Stanley Nathanson and Melvyn Humstein. last seen hoarding a llying saucer for Mars. vs rote ahout their scientific and fictional ex- periences in Eflliilill Shrdlu. Jim Blier and Henry Strage helped to puhlish the Guide Book. vvhich de- tined such terms as cutting and udetentionu for eyeryhodyis convenience. Vlihat you're fingering novv is the Observatory' and has heen produced over the half-dead bodies of Adviser Hr. Nathan fllicksman and Editors Henry Strage and Peter Schapiro. Their hodies. covered vvith printers' ink. may for long he viewed in the Cigelman lounge vvith a long list of items entitled Things still to he done hefore the slop- page endsii clutched in Mr. Clicksmans hand. All in all our term helped produce a lot of read- ing matter. If reading maketh a full man all those mentioned have certainly added to the fullness. faoin gpuirfe KOUL 7Wafl. 0 llfll CL lo

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l a confused and frightened world. Somr ol' them hroke down and saifl H Udl'Y' with a sentiment they had kept Ullfllfl control for four years. They spoke wist- fully of their dances. The famous fifth term Sfunoo Hull. the sixth term .Shou- fmul. and the climax, the llffllll held HI tht' Park Sheraton. The term council. wl'10 had worked so hard. finally came in for its share ol' praise. 'lihey spoke of .llldl Deutsch. who formed it. and of lioh Feig- enson. Harris Fuller and Stan l,ulfman. who had led il to its present stature. They sadly recalled lVlrs. liirschner. pro- pounder ol' lfuclid. who had passed away early in their eighth term. They spoke nostalgically ahout their lost extra-cur ricular activities. Theirs was a class without Senior Nigfzl, without a Senior Dance. and without teams and cluhs. They were graduating at a time when the high school teachers of New York had hoycotted these activities until their salaries would he raised. The class also joked ahout the Air Raid Drills which had heen reinstated during their last term in school. still realizing that the disordered world which had caused this was nothing to joke ahout. And as they walked out to face this changing life. Alice knew she was leaving fhenz to un end and to a ,IVZ2'l'flfII'Hg. lfimim Niiwivux Comxnz Snxmzs FRED SUI-IN REFRESHMENTS Lllrlf lt is a paradox - lfleeing. like a disolmedient snow llake from the sky. Lingering. like a water drop upon a leal s edge. Vl hivh supplicates release hut shyly awaits the delicate hour. lilCARl'i'lvlil'i SlNlUKl'i Crow. young vine till you reach the threads of air. Then twist into ringlets of calmness. tttxinrvx Knsnix lst

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day at Science was that for most students it sel- The most characteristic thing ahout a school dom ended with the final hell. lnstead. they prohalrly went up and worked on a project in the liiology lalroratory. discussed plans for a prom in the term council. sweated over a hard math prohlem on the math team or discussed Goethe in the German cluli. Foremost among tl1e extra-curricular activities was Arista. the school honor society. Any student with an over eighty-five average and good service and character gained admission. and was thereupon asked to devote his time to tutoring weaker students. Over one-third of our classmates. one hundred and sixteen in numher. met these requirements and helped carry on the high Arista traditions. Chief assistants to Mr. Edmund Lepowsky. Arista facility adviser were the olhcers. Peter Schapiro. President. lsomi Kishi. Vice President. and Irene Strelzolli. the Secretary. The term activities such as the Shmoo Hall. the term picnics and the term news- papers tPentagons. Hexagons et al.l were planned lay the term councils. where Stan Luhman. President of the senior year. Bill Angelos. Vice President. Jerry Vogel. Secretary. Ruth Daniels. lioh Feigenson. Harris Fuller and Lila Cohen played promi- nent roles. Prohahly the crowning achievement of their planning was the senior prom. held at the Hotel Park Sheraton. and attended hy over 90 couples. The danceis groundwork was laid lay Myrna Cenzer. Lila Cohen. Augusta lmperato and Marjorie Pimstein who comprised the prom committee. Students in our term also took a large part in school alicairs. the Student Organiza- tion in particular. Chairman of the 5.0. Office Squad was Dorothy Berlin. while Don Brody. in his role as head of SU. Publicity assisted in puhlishing the weekly hulletins. The assemhly planning. which was particularly top notch during our tinal term. was helped along lay the excellent emceeing of Maestro Bill Angelos and his talented vocal chords. lane Ahelson and lgloh Ackerman also were among the many who did their part. selling school supplies at the SU. store. Irene Strelzotli was active in the council meetings. The Math Team. led hy Samuel .l. Klein. also included numerous memhers from our class. Sam. incidentally. achieved one of the most hrilliant records in the team's history hy making the starting five in his sixth term. and placing hrst in the city in interscholastic competition that very same year. His average. which was over .900 in all contests. was also good enough to place him third in the country in tl1eAn1e1-ic-an Mathematic-al Association contest. Uther memlrers ot' the l7 cluh ta math team BAG STAGE