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

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ltmxnx HT!-QIX, lIl.,uRi: Liucn ,xxn Jrsrv ZL'l'lClCH !A FOIQLLKCLCQ 5 four corner of the second floor his next stop. He entered a cuhlvyhole of confusion with Nlr. lfeingold in the center. lfveryone was talking to Nlr. lfeingold and each thought Nlr. Feingold was listening. Harried candidates for 5.0. olhces Ulartv Xleltzer, Lee lieichman. Ken Steinhaus. Jerry Stollert were calculating on their fingers the votes they could he sure of. Com- mittee leaders Pat Cooper. lfllie lireitel. Stan Shulster. and Don Alter forced their way into the room with a long shoe-horn which was kept hanging on the door for that purpose. Their committees. Dance and Ticket Sales. kept the recreation-happy students happy and the 5.0. kept the refreshment-halipy dancers happy at such occasions as the lfall lfrolic. Wvinter Frolic. Spring Frolic. Slimmer Frolic. Pre-Regents Frolic. Post- lfndterm Frolic. and assorted holiday Frolics. Ricks eyes passed over a list of joh opportunities swinging precariously on an ancient thumhtack. Offered to amhitious students were such positions as test-tuhe washer for Dow' Chemical with opportunities for advancement tto washing delivery tuhes. perhaps ?t. Rick noted a form crawling among the filing cahinets. The form. Martin Levine. emerged triumphantly waving a piece of carhon paper he had hidden there for emergencies. Another student. Jerry Stoller. was systematically opening and closing cahinet drawers until he hit upon one in the lower left hand corner. Thrusting his hand inside. he pulled out a jacket. Feeling that he had seen enough. Rick crawled through the forest of legs in the general direction of the exit and emerged through the envelope-encrusted door. He was immediately pounced upon and dragged oil' to an 5.0. meeting hy lloli l,evine. who had just been eluded hy lleps Naomi Forman and Mike Sklarin and therefore collared Rick as a reasonahle suhstitute. At the meeting in the music cham- lver. Steve Helman was engrossed in an intense game of tic-tac-toe with Ronnie Schreiher while Martin Levine pointed out the advantages of a new amendment to the llonstitution. llefore Nlarty had finished his oratory. he was drowned out hy the impatient Ayes ol' a group lliose Klein. Sheila Nlyers. and Marilyn Seifl which was trying to focus its attention on the latest rumor ahout . . . The second the iron grip on his arm was released Rick made a dash for the door. He slowed down as he reached the comparative safety of the staircase. the unusual sights of the day whirling through his mind. He paused to look back at the painted letters on the arch ahove the doorway: Bronx lnlellecluul Trades High Schoolf '- his school! 19

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346 U, 7l1e :rw of lflllfllllllfltl rncrmx llze ern! of orrlorrrn-v, ll c ul Science rrculetl our ou'n ,I!lI'lftll7H'lIf. Ilie 5.0. Througli X tflfx-got-cfrllllelll uf. IW. Illltf for Ifle Alllzfcltl. lu' Il't'l'f' uflfe Io llliflllllt' .Xllfll rr'-tornrx us Iflc NU. xlore. worm:-ily. tlunf rs mul our lllflifll !l1'1il'l.fI.f'N. he lmuilding presented not too unpleasant an architectural scheme. liick paused to look up at the painted lctters on the arch ahove the doorway: Hronx lrzlellecluul Trudex lligli School. He ducked a falling milk container tacceleration 32 feet per second! and dashed into the huilding for safcty . He proceeded to the Hain Ufhce to receive his program card. l ourth l'eriod-- student cafeteria . it read. llick hegan to climh the stairs and. physically exhausted. he reached the lunch room where Well-halanced meals are sold at nominal rates . As Rick gazed around our culinary ansuer to Lindy's. his eyes rested on a structure of tightly-filled lockers. This was the Student Organization Store. a hig lmrother of Such lesser institutions as Nlacyis. Masters. and Montgomery Ward. The lixecutive Man- agers of the cooperative were Marion Nleyer and Ruth Strauss. ln front of the precariously halanced steel edifice vs as a friendly group of hi-focaled customers, each craving that new super accurate slide rule or the inevitahle SSH pencil. liehind the fenced-in cnhicle vsas a group of high-pressure salesmen tflaroline liillitzer. Olga llurns. Carl Strass. Lilliane llronfman. Harry Vfulfkin. Sandy Zishlatt. Paul Sesslert and industrious managers tl,ihhy Halpern. Helen Burke. Marcia Greenberg. Judy liosenvtaldt frantically searching for the locker keys while impatient customers aug- mented the friendly hedlam that was such an integral part of the lunchroom. Here a student had the privilege of vsaiting on line for hfteen minutes suffering hunger pains or indigestion tdepending on whether or not he had eaten! only to had that the store had just sold the last pack of black paper vvith vvhite lines. Pounding at the keys of the reluctant cash register were Helen Nlargolis and Marian Levy. Doc Silver escorted lliek into the mysterious unexplored area hehind the Student Urganization store. Taped to the steel calvinets vtere signs assumedly indicating where the various items of the store's inventory vscrc to he found. These signs. liick learned. served as tests of the salesman's initiative vvhcn faced with the challenge of finding an article. A search in the locker marked It ulernlun Pens would reveal mechanical draw- ing sets. The pens were in the locker marked lies! Loved Hooks. ln the ollice a student transacted the store's lvusiness over a telephone. vtith a mutant mouthpiece held in one hand vshile he typed and ate an apple tamluidextroust vxith the other hand. Over sounds of The lieysl Who has the keys? and Does anyone vsant a tuna fish sand- vv ich ? llick heard the elank of the hell ending the period. Swept along lay the exodus. llick found himself sandvsiehed hetttecn tvto enterpris- ing politicians of the Student flovernrnent. Sara Wise and Paul l.ichtman. Since olaviously their destination was the SH. oflice. lliek was forced to make this tvvo hy I8

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DYNAHIU Those who worked on Dynamo did so out of more than mere sociability talthough. heaven knows. that too was hardly lacking! Q they came because there was in them a need. and to deny that need would have been an- noying and unwarranted. The need to write. and to read what others have written. can gnaw at some people as ni' easily as hunger or sleep can at others: it is even more demanding. because it cannot be as easily satisfied as can be a merely physical preoccupation. To give meaning to all that surrounds him is the task of the writerg he must be the conscience of all that he meets. employing his expression not only for himself. but also for the dumb and inarticulate who must of necessity depend on him. It makes little difference whether his art be that of a Poet Laureate. or whether it rests on the cruder level of a high school studentg each is speaking to his own immediate audience-to those he knows and is part of-and each is of equal importance to his audience. And that is perhaps what needs to be brought out most clearly: in all literature, the writer exposes to the reader a bit of his own inner being, leaving it smarting and unprotected. He is not interested in being ignored into martyrdom for his painsg he only wants them to be of some help to those who are in a position to benefit. Dynamo, as well as any other magazine worthy of the name. is only partly meant to be an outlet for its con- tributors. It is considerably more than thatg it is a source of understanding. a means of self-revelation to those who read it. provided it is treated accordingly. Dynamo is not an agency of extra-curricular creditg it exists because there are people strong enough. and talented enough to recreate it annually. fllodesty precluding any pretensions to greatness. the Dynunm staff is content to assume the task of weeding out the best of what is submitted from a generally excellent array of material. To accomplish this. there has arisen a committee system. Wihile decisions are often agonizingly late in coming. they are amazingly judicious in character. The cause of this accuracy can be attributed to the thirteen members of the Dynamo staff: Larry Spatz. Martha Tolpin. Marjory Mauser. Harriet liougen. Allen liischoff. Joanne Field. Tom Kabaservice. Nicky Goldman. Hillel Halkin. Clara Shapiro. liayla Schlossberg. Julius Novick and Kathy Braun. Their acquaintance could be made for a piddling sum by purchasing a copy of the current Dynamo. as good a bargain as one could get anywhere in these sorely troubled times. And finally we come to Xlr. Applebaum. Wihat can we say? flnly that it has been pleasuresome. and above pleasure. gratifying. and more than gratification to work with her. She has encouraged. demanded. rebuked. and rewritten. each in its proper season. She has given us her time. her energy, and her knowledge: we have only tried to return a little of the same. 20 l we lgrinfecl mr H1L1.r:1. Hauux. Lrzxomi RICHM.-XX. NICKX GOLDNI-XN