Fieldston School - Fieldglass Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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Tomml wore an orchld. and two weeks ot testtval were over Mr Glannon had I IS suppers at home aqarn MISS Kay locked up the costume closet the Upper School returned to the Socral Hall and Pyramus Trtama and the Wall went back to bernq Ftrst Farmers It all started rn IESUU when Shakespeare wrote A Mrdsummer N1qhts Dream By l949 the characters were the same but the end product was shqhtly drtterent Mr Smythes students had gotten to know Mrs Landrss and when December 22 came around everyone aqreed that rt had been real The next Vacatton wasnt far ort ana one Wednesday when chorus was emp ty we realrzed that the Fourth Form was about to qrve another testrval Thursday nrqht arrrved the House Commrttee took charqe and the ltqhts went out rn tl dm Iflq FOOIY1 CWh1sperD New York What IS New York? New York W at 1 N W York? A crty In dark and shadows A mold ot terror tor tt e ter rortzed t Louder 7 It rt lrves rt IS llvrnq In the belchrnq black from soot covered sntokestacks In the throb ot a motor In the thumb ot a ma ht te 111 the mtdst of an mau try The slow dull thu L ot a machlne New York What 1 New York? t Slow I a Louder D x 1 I ' ' ' , ' u . A I R 1' Y K I A1 , - - I ........ h I 's e , . 1 '1 - . . I A hole of filth for the ftlthyg I l I -t ' cry: A' ' ' ' ' . , nie - f ........ 's

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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

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After two weeks of pur1t1cat1on by hre Lzlrom emerqed The semors learned to motrvate and make semaphores whxle the teachers d1scovered that voluntary non sequent1al homework d1dn t take long to correct On Thursday mqht I1mmy's curtaln ac tually went up stralqht Mrs Muskats new organ roared and snorted to the tune ot Petrushka and even Drck Wernstern was qlad that the Male Ammal was strll hrbernatlnq But Tomm1 and the other wrllmq faculty had to keep up thewr heav enly patrence one day more untxl at last Iuhe got her hnal black and blue mark the Srxth Form qot ready for Hudson Gurld and everyone reallzed that 1t was posslble for some one to beat you and b at you and beat you and never hurt you at all 1 . , . . , 1 1 11 . 11 . . , 1 H I . . . 11 . , 1 . . 1 . . ' 1 . - , - . , . 11 , . 1 - 2 v 1 1 . . . 11 , .