Fieldston School - Fieldglass Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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Wednesday aTTernoons The Social Hall sTopped being a haven Tor Tree period happy Upper Formers while wiTh good hard work and honesT sweaT The STudenT Council drew TogeTher all The commiTTees and pubIicaTions ThaT malce up our governmenT WiTh no Time Tor Roger To siT baclc and geT used To The gavel or Tor Bob To pracTise up on his very unsecreTariaI shorThand The Council plunged inTo I.eTTy and The whole clubs issue Using The ReporT wriTung machln e seT up only a w and small groups Tulhllino Their responslbil1Ty To The enTire school presenTed a compIeTe reporT on The whole clubs guesTion early in The Tall The ISC was broughT To The Tore by PresidenT Baldwin and PaTsy Koolc They lcepT us up To daTe on whaT The organizaTion was doing and Tried hard To Teach us ThaT even Though we could exisT by ourselves we were beTTer oTT learning Trom Ten oTher schools. All year long Woody and Sandy amazed everyone by puTTing The News ouT each weelc even Though once ThaT meanT loclcing Mr. Brown in Tive minuTes beTore deadline Time To geT an arTicle O.K.d. And whaTs more The enTire News Board lived Through The year aspir- ing ediTors consTanTly proving Their meTTle by shuTTling wiTh negaTives beTween school and TwenTy-sevenTh sTreeT. As Marge and Gil rushed around asking us Tor Themes They promised ThaT a Sub miT To LIT Mag did noT mean we would see our names in prinT They smiled mys Teriously when asked abouT This year s Ink lungs and Told us ThaT we could expecT Two oT The besT issues ever They promised Too ThaT They would even sTiclc To Their budgeT Alan and Ann drove seven Board members and Two advisors To various de grees oT saniTy and by eaTing a diTTerenT Tamily s supper every Wednesday n1ghT They came Through on Time CenTer oT a Should NoT Be TighT was The Pub IicaTions Comm iTTee headed This year by Gbe When noT Trying To Tigure ouT This dilemma The Com miTTee discussed The Publi caTions TormaTs and pur poses The oTher CommiT Teemen and chairmen were also involved in The show seeing ThaT grass grew sans pedesTrians all deserving varsiTy men goT leTTers and parTies wenT oTT wiThouT lasT minuTe hiTches. Jimmys noTes To All CommiTTee Chairmen really did help ATTendance Delinquency and everyone seemed To Thinlc ThaT Things were going very well. According To STudenT-FacuITy CommiTTee members and visiTors M . TaTe s oTTice isn T a iail or an ogre s casTle buT a very pleasanT place. More and more people invesTigaTed The Inner SancTum and reTurned. The I-louse CommiTTee Tol- lowed The excellenT idea sTarTed lasT year 6 THE FORM oF GOVERNMETNT IS UNIMPORTANT rTTB,nThs beTore, individxals ji X. We-Be'-Cr-Should-We: . . In 19 1 . 1 . I I . as is 3 1 . .Q ' ' I

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Le'H' 'ro Righf: Eva French, l-lawlhorne L. Smylh, Harold M. Jayson, Mar garefa Tullle, Jerome G. Disgue, Dorolhy Emerson, Kendall T. Basserlr, France Schilling, Rulh K. Landis, Theodosia Slralemeyer. We lell Jrhe securily ol lhe lvliddle School corridor and began lo mingle wilh upper lormers. Our common schedule allowed us lo ioin Jrhe Upper School in varied acliyilies - puller, lunch, and Jrhe many branches of slu- denl governmenl. The girls donned lipsliclc, and we were all deeply in- sulled when referred lo as children. l-laying lhe opporlunily lo go lo Council meelings, and realizing 'rhal sell-governmenl is impor- lanl, some ol us loolc an acliye inleresl in lhe Sludenl Council.

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1 STUDENT GOVERNMENT, FROM EXECUTIVE TO EXECLITER