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

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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

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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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f I AFTER HOURS memberis favorite number is seventeenl included Peter Schapiro. Ulric Dennis. Albert Kammerman. Ronald Rieder. Helen Paisner. Bernard Schweitzer and Helen Paisner. Dr. Julius Hlavaty. chairman of the mathematics department. also served as faculty adviser of the team. The Picassos and Peter Arnos of our term could usually be found around the art office either plastering up the walls or else showing Mr. Toby Kurzband some motley design. Organizer and chairman of the Cartoon Squad aside from his duties as Art Editor of practically every school publication was Jim Blier. Michael Hollander. whose distinctive style won him several honors in the ,lunior Scholastic Art Awards. beaded the Art Club. Bernard Siskind captained the Poster Squad while Mel Tiger and Michael Horowitz saw service on the Art Squad. Among the most interesting squads in the school were the biology ones. where students have a chance to perform individual experiments in coordination with their duties of assisting teachers. Captains Norton German. lienita Levine. Milton Leiten- berg and Burton Saltzburg took advantage of these opportunities liy working on the Plant Squads. Drosophilia Squads. Cancer Squads and Bacteriology Squads respec- tively. Many of the personal investigations initiated in these squads have led later to Westinghouse Awards and college success. Wie also had a lot of music makers in our term. ln the school orchestra. capalily supervised by Mr. Hyman Rensin. Arnold Mazie. Leon liuth. Stuart Buddy Tell. Herman Lerner. Gerald Spector and Sondra Kosowsky distinguished themselves. The Blue Notes. a professional dance band consisted mainly of term members. with Allan Buzzy Kohan. the man who plays the piano like Hoagy Carmichael without ever having taken a lesson. accompanying Arnold Mazie. Walter Perner and Leon Guth. Practicing to be librarians were Captain Maxine llosenstock and her alile stall' under Lieutenants Dorothy Berlin and Angelica Pindley. flther term members who showed unusual service on squads were Howard llailin. Stuart lilumner and Hohert Wolfson on the Public Address Squad. Irwin Findling. captain of the Hall Squad. Yvonne Payne on the Administration Squad. Donald Klein on the lligelman Lounge Squad. Jerry Vlieigler on the Mimeograph Squad. and lilileen Newman. Constance Shames and Marilyn Kushin flirting with Dr. Patil Schweitzer on the lfnglish Squad. Many students also participated in the various clubs. George Ansell headed the Radio liluli where students discussed various circuit proli- lems. Michael Wolfson led the German Cluli. typical of all the language squads. where stu- dents discussed various aspects of fierman cul- ture in addition to reading such advanced w orlts as Goethe and Schiller. Utilizing the gym for the az' jirst the infant mezt'l1'ng f1ndpul.'1'ng li f X 3 f T .. Jwff- iss.. 'f , iii..-.'-.533-.,-ur6.g , i,,.'wf.11,s -. .- iw- ss .'.- :tv ' -i'- 'f' t it TI 1117? 1- 14. 55:6-11--P .5 '-my eo W- 1 . ik' 3 9 :AV-fl' fir-. 'ff 5, 'fs -,Q .... -. gm-:Mi , , 2 . ' - ..... ,Q .. ' xx.,-gy lf! A P Q,r1i - . V T' M V ' ...j rs.. cf I ,- f I . . -. V. X .i T ' , ,rsf..ffifj2li'iiHaf We -s ma - l' tE'-xref' , ., 3 f -..-,'. milfs' .1 at s.a5fv.f9.sw-. Q