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

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jim gl 8Cl,f6l CACl,!8l'lgQ ROBERT HoRoWrrz AND ARTHUR SANDLER Our school was built as a showplace. However, there is one place that we donlt show - the Guidance Office. This is our secret weapon against Russia, Brooklyn Tech, Harvard, and creeping socialism. Located in the depths of the Campus Level, this secluded office is the habitat of the mysterious Grade Guides. Having located the Guidance Office with the aid of a floor plan and four Hall Squad members, and having passed the initial obstacle of being mistaken for a mem- ber of the Guidance Squad and being sent up to the third floor with a message, we found most of the Grade Guides ready and willing to dispense advice to anyone who wanted it, and to a few who didnlt, on such matters as college, scholarships, and how-to-make-sure-you-donlt-stay-at-Science-for-a-fifth-year. We found our Grade Guide, however, sitting comfortably underneath his desk and partaking of his usual morning meal - aspirin and a bowl of lumpy oatmeal. 4fCare to join me? he asked. We declined his offer. Hlust one minutef, he said, downing his fourth aspirin. uSquadl7' he called in mellifluous tones. uSquad. SQUAD! SQUAAADl ISN7T THERE ANYBODY ON SQUAD HERETW' He was about to launch into his customary speech about what the new generation was coming to when a squad member meekly appeared. acWere you calling me?'7 asked the Mercurian-Arista-point-accumulating-messenger carefully dodging the Grade Guidels flying paperweight. . Er . . . yes. Just wanted you to pick up that paperweightfl And then to us: Canlt do everything around here myself, you know. SNOW, what can l do for you?', asked the Grade Guide displaying his first smile in days. 'fCollege? Scholarship? Failing Physics? Headache? Neuritis? Neuralgia? We started to explain that we had traded our headache for an upset stomach, and our hopes for some disillusionments, but decided on: 'fWe need a sure third choice if City wonlt accept usfl p The Grade Guide obviously did see. . 'fWhat7s your averageflw he asked. 4599734218 - approximately, that isfl 'fHmm. This might be difficult. Well, letls see what I can find for youf' he said, as he pulled out his ouija board, cleverly disguised as L011ej0y's College Guide. He made a few mystical passes. mAh-ha! Here we are. How about Swahili A and MP7, A pallor came over our faces. Our visions 15

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of Harvard, Yale and Princeton had been shattered. All we could do was stammer: UB-but we don't speak Swahilif, 4'That,s all rightf' he cheerfully assured us. MThey speak A and M. Discussion now turned to the fact that if we were accepted at Swahili, we could not afford to pay the exorbitant tuition rates which Swahili was charging in a vain effort to keep up with M.f.T., in at least one category - price. The Grade Guide was about to explain that if our father was a member of Local 707 of the Pretzel Benders' Union, we would be eligible to take a competitive exam for a full scholarship. Fortun- ately for all concerned, the bell rang at this moment. Only rarely does the Guidance Office resort to ouija boards, or even dice, in selecting colleges. This is proved indirectly by the fact that the guidance staff manages to get everyone into a college, usually one which the student wants to attend, and one that is suited to his needs and abilities. Our Grade Guides have also aided us in other matters. Time and time again, students have sought their Guidance Counselors' advice on problems relating to their school work, extra- curricular activities, and personal affai.rs. With their help, the Senior Class of 1960 has met and successfully faced the great challenges that are presented to every class at Bronx Science. After graduation, the members of the 1960 class will be facing, individually, a greater challenge, that of college and a career. Thanks to the untiring efforts of the dedicated faculty members of the guidance staff during our stay at Science, we can go out to meet this new challenge with a little more confidence than many high school graduates. So, at graduation, it is fitting that we thank Mr. Bernard Manson, Director of Guidance, Mr. Benjamin Sellinger, Chairman of the Scholarship Committee, and our Grade Guides: Mr. Abraham Baumel, Mr. Emanuel Bloom, Dr. Louis Cohen, Mrs. Esther Dichter, and Mr. Milton Kopelman. rom ur aghnior O icem The end of the senior year has dawned upon us, and with it a challenge to the future. As lower termers, we spent three years enviously admiring the senioris pride in his hat and button, his joy in the festive atmosphere of Senior Day, and even his sorrow in graduation and in bidding his last farewells. Now that ou.r time has come, we know how it feels to be the envied, admired, joyous, sorrowful Senior. The members of the class of ,60 were fortunate to have had the opportunity to spend their senior year in the new building. As officers, we feel that the privilege of being first in that category could not have gone to a more deserving class. Even as sophomores our class showed unmistakable signs of its future greatness. As seniors, our class led the school scholastically, athletically, socially and Hschool spiritlyn. We continued to break tradition with our offset newspaper, The Fourth Year Scratch, whose predecessor,The Second Year Itch, had unequalled success. Senior Day will be remembered as the happiest of school days. To us, it was a great privilege, perhaps the greatest in our lives, to have been chosen as officers of the senior class of a great school. To those whose cooperation made it possible for us to function, especially Mr. Jacobson our faculty advisor, and to every individual senior, - Thank you, and good luck! Vic MARRERO, Pres, DANNY FERMAGLICH, V.P.g and JUDY GURLAND, Sec. 16