Fieldston School - Fieldglass Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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1 STUDENT GOVERNMENT, FROM EXECUTIVE TO EXECLITER

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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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THE SPIRIT EVERYTHING oT havung aTTer lunch programs IH The So cual I-Iall Don has vIce chaurman Norman and The resT oT hls commITTee really ouT dnd Themselves geTTIng varIeTy and good enTerTaInmenT InTo These programs The PublIcnTy CommITTee was noT a regular comm1TTee Thus year InsTead Co orduna Tor Terry assigned 'obs To volunTeers and The many posTers around The school were evudence oT The new sysTem s success The Gurls AThleTIc Organuzahon and The Boys SporTs CommITTee handled Gym aTTaIrs wITh unusual compeTence and In addITIon STuIe and hus commITTee worked ouT Tor The varsITIes a new man agernal sysTem based on apprenhceshups whach IS a greaT ImprovemenT I-Ierby and Roddy chaired The TIrsT STudenT FaculTy InTernal ArrangemenTs CommITTee The school has had In a long Tame and arranged an Assembly schedule ThaT was one oT The besT mosT oT us can remember Such dIversITIcaTIon as Mr McNuTT s Talk on Farm Organnzahons Mr Goodman s percussuon demonsTraTIons and The Drama Club s presenTaTIon oT My ClIenT Curley helped The Tuesday FIrsT Perrods To be so successTul The Funance CommITTee alThough small had loTs oT ImporTanT work To do I-leaded by Treas urer Bob KaTz They wenT over all requnsu Tnons maknng sure The Councul goT Them ID The besT Torm Tor all concerned Danny Paul and The STudenT OrIenTaTIon Com mITTee conTInued The work oT preparung a Freshman Buble Early In January They passed ouT a rough draTT oT The handbook and as soon aTTer ThIs as was possible They polushed The scrIpT and sTarTed arrange menTs Tor publxshung enough copues To lasT Tor abouT Tuve years One commITTee whose IurIsdIcT1on reached Tar ouTsIde oT school and whnch had parTIal charge oT whaT has come To be realuzed as an ImporTanT parT oT our cur rlculum IS The CommunITy Servlce Com mITTee Asude Trom The raTher dry Though 1mporTanT work oT collecTIng EThIcs dues Thus group suggesTed robs Tor Upper Schoolers In places where our work was really needed and apprecIaTed Each one oT us who spenT any Tame counsellorung aT Felncua or Beacon or Maduson was ex hausTed aT The end oT The work period buT everyone wIll always remember The needs oT The campers and Theur ThankTulness when They we e gnven good Tood new cloThes or lusT Companronshzp and love As hospITal workers we Tound Tew handsome InTernes and preTTy nurses InsTead we Tound Tloors ThaT needed scrubbing or supplles ThaT needed sorTIng BuT whaTever IT was ThaT we dld we rIghT Tully TelT ThaT we were conTrIbuTung To The cleanlnness and eTIIcIency oT MT Sana: Women s I-lospITal or Meducal CenTer Some oT us Tound ThaT we could lend a helpung hand un our own school We raked leaves arranged Lubrary exhrbITs helped Mnss Marcus or Took care oT Lower School chuldren and Tound The mosT menual oT 'obs could be a source oT saTIs TacTIon IT done wITh Trrencls l - - ' I ' I ' I - l - . . . r . I . . , ' ' I I - . , . . . I . . . , . - - I I I I I ' - I I . 5, . Y' I I I I I . . . I - I I . . . I I I . ,I . . . . ,, . . . . I I ' I I - I . , . . . ' I . I - , . ' I I I I - I I , ..