Fieldston School - Fieldglass Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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Educatlon 1S a process to prepare us tor demo racy m F1GlClSlOIT democracy rs me process DY W lch WO are eoucated The new constrtut on wo ur mterpretatlon ot de nocracv a d wort' mg under rt was our process ot ducatron Thts year tlne Councrl was sr all enougr to ht mto Mr Hellers room out tue argu ments were as brg as ever and tae bua gets Leo wrote h1s proposals and by laws on the board as Gerda cop ed every thmg down consctentrously mcludmg tht soellmg errors and Pres dent Dave Lagu notf mtroduced the drscussron ot the l S to It vou mrssed hearrng the pros and cons at the Councrl meetmg you went to the Forum heard a few th1ngs more a tsl add d a thought ot your own Marty had more seethmg SOITITS to assuage wrth tls roundmg ot hrs gavel than Dave had but the sum total commotron was always loud trong and ht enough to be prmtea page of the Freldston News The edrtors work d hard to make the paper a mouth DISCS tor student optmon and even though some of the controversy contamed tascl natmg personal touches they succeeded n oroducmg a aper ot by and tor tne people CODIGS ot the News were kept tn notebooks to be saved and the students lad to resort to usmg math homework to paper arrplanes ln keepmg wxth the new constltutron the publrcatrons were more autonomous than before whlch meant that the prmt shop had a busy year producmg Newses F1eldglasses artd two rssues ot the Lrt Mag Lmda Gertz played loan ot Arc tor the Pubhcatrons Commlttee whlch won Us hght tor survrval and gave 1ts advrce o the varrous edrtorral boards The re mcarnated G A Q lad a dr! terent k nd o trght for hte as Barbara on 1 onme trred t prove the worth ot the ommrttees ev torm ot xstence The glrls ot the cormmlttee seemed to have a recurrtng theme whrch dealt mth the grave tragedy ot the Upper Schoo female who when patr1ot1cally savmg water m advert ntly vrolated the shower honor C 7 l l , 1 ' 1 Y , l ps A rt T ' V Q fn , . A O o Q ' A r , U lf A ' A e ' . , ' f ...xl 1 4 - ,, . . . T V e . ,t ' ' ' T le , S , ' ' T in Qresmans deathly style on the second 9 - , A . . . I I 1 1 ' YN Y 1 'v f 1 1 ' A l l I f V H tw ' ' ' ' 4 'I . . . ll Y - . t tj It ' , , . ' C Q ' o A C ' ' K e 1 . -, 9 A

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track to walk around and even s ttrna taloles can b tun prov dtnq t e Cont any s qood tte company rs always qoo as any Fourth Former w1ll hasten to tell you 'llhetr party down at M1dlOWH was tm but all are agreed that the barn dance was one o those tarnous loest evers As tor Forms Frve and Srx tterrs was a cooperatrve attarr much to tn dtsrnay or the Srxth Form q1rls and the Fltth Porn boys Nobody ot Course Could t1nd the r1qht roorn at Mtdtown and everythlna threatened to end tn the street but trnally thrnas qot settled and a prermer showrna ot Med a saved the day tron the eaqnoa and alumnr at Cnrrstrna to the srnarnq and corned beef sand wrches rn February And nearly every upper form student can tell you Marty Rablan s address There was a band dance m the wrnter a farewell party rn the sprrnq and ther as the Frith Form boys started et erna the Fourth Form qtrls we knew that the encr ot the l95U soc1al season was rn stqht 7 W, if 'lf : ' e , A i l h .A ' ' ' 1 p ' . e . . Wttlt tollc dancing, on the other hand Open houses, too, played their part Hr ' d, 1 ' ' s A t ' , . he ' - ' ' , . I V 1 z

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system and had therr moral vrctory hamp ered by a moral defeat How to reconcrle patr1ot sm and personal honor or two con flrctrng commandments perhaps rs problem that only Mr Black can deal wrth Another burnmg lssue what to do abot t rnoney pledges was brought up trme and agam by the Communtty Servlce f'omm1t tee They trled drrves they trted sellmg ookles and ftnally they decrded to trv ratsma money Not long arter the1r assem bly Mrmr and Barbara found themselves arrangrng Ethrcs collect ons agam The Communrty Servrce Forum meetrna took up one Tuesday 'nornmg but the Internal Arrangements Commrttee had harder assemblres to plan Thev had budget to strck to but speakers co t money so the Scots of the commrttee sug gested faculty explortatron and Mr Kotlcr gave one of the most entoyable assem bl1es of the year as he showed movres o Camp Fehcta and fasctnated us wtth h s runnmg commentary lf you were late that Tuesday mornmg you got your name 1nscr1bed on Pete Slegels httle hst unless Pete was lat too and maybe you rememb red the fol lowmg week that the House Commrtte could b effrcrent Mary presented the Norsy Corrldor problem and as buffet got more ccmpltcated d1scuss1on on the hoa or system was forsaken The uma re work tngs of Rtchard s and Irmmy s mr ds trans formed Fleldston 1nto a Western Unron offtce and a balloon factory and as the Pubhctty Commrttee rtself manufactured mustc notes commg out of a trumpet th Revxsrons Commtttee evaluated stude t government and the new constrtutton un t1l at last Barry presented to the Councrl a set of proposed changes The school took the problem tn hand then and a frscal years work was put to the test No matter what the vote of the student body had been the new constrtutton would have been worthwhrle for t'1e workrnas of student government under any demc cratrc constrtutton gave us tl at ex enero e whrch IS the process by whrch we are educat d , . M A 1 . . r , , Y CI 1 . , 4 L I .1 ' - 1 A . , . V . , . , r - 1 . . i . .J F . 1 I ' N . A A ' Q , 5 .J I . . . Y , . , 1 , t . , in , r , . f Q .. 9 . . . 3 9 . . A 1 , V A . ' 1 . . . I . I , Tl ' , ., -. ' Q , - H , . , - -1 . I I , - w , 1 A , cr rs ' ,- , fy 1- ' A . - V 9