Fieldston School - Fieldglass Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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BOYS' SPORTS COMMITTEE Besides providing us with discounts at cores we'd never heard of, the Boys' Sports Iommittee concerned itself with the be- :owal of -letters on eager and long-suffering thletes. In this realm, the committee, led by lllan Shedlin, determined letter require- ments and certified letter applicants. It was esponsible also for the famous storming of Voodmere by more Fieldstonites than had ttended such a game in fifteen years. Cover- J-cover readers of this book will find fre- uent mention of this historic event. Q- xi PUBLICITY COMMITTEE Madison Avenue has been transplanted Lx Fieldston's art room! With the slogan of Control the thumb racks and you control he school , this committee tries to coerce :udents into attending Fieldston functions. 'he two Evident Persuaders, Dottie Schmid- ret and Muriel Polich, clad in plaid 4 not rayy Hannel, teach their ad men and women :raight lettering and uses of color. Their osters are to reach the subconscious of both me unwary student and the marauding mustache-maker. 7 J A n w- at xg df? feng '52 5. v '0 nl A . 0' 1.yi'.lii'gxvA rlu ' 3 - Z Q ' I K 5 f i F ff. .Qi . A S x CHESS CLUB The huddled creatures with rapt gaze who ply wooden figures no less mobile than themselves and over whom tardy students stumble while trying to slip unobtrusively into a class are no less than out- growths of this club. If their power of concentration is great on the stairway at one minute of nine, it is greater still during regular Mon- day marathons under head wood- pusher Eric Craven. Here the club develops the tactical ingenuity that enabled it to gain an appropriation from the Student Council to join the U. S. Chess Federation.

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4.....,.,,,,A Q MODEL RAILROAD CLUB Although one might imagine that the daily bout with the subway which enhances the life of most Fieldstonites is as much contact with trains as anyone could pos- sibly desire, fifteen ambitious engi- neers have been working for three years to create an iron demon of their own. Despite cramped quar- ters in a former storage room, the club has finished the first track work. Its optimistic chairman, Sam Howell, believes that by 1965 twhen, no doubt, model sputniks will be more in fashionb, the entire system will have been completed. 'iff ' if ri 'WWII' ff-'vs 1' ess-. fi ,Min y 11, at f Q ff 1 L! is RADIO ELECTRONICS CLUB Calling KZLUI! Manned by the loya Morseians of the Radio Electronics Clul Fielclston's radio station goes on the ai Head decoder Ray Neubauer gave the clu plenty of practice in dots and dashes, whic is the basic skill of radio and necessary fc the operation of KZLUI. He also lecture on many aspects of radio theory, whic members supplemented with study of thei own. Calling cards from hams all over th world represent the international contact of the club. GIRLS' ATHLETIC ORGANIZATION Playing hostess to tired businessmen ana other fathers in its semi-annual parties, thi G.A.O. had an energetic career under Sybi Frankenthal and Rona Hirsch. The Organiza tion bounced its way through a series of gyn department decisions determining such mat ters as the election of the managers of girl: teams. Lack of middle school member threatened the committee with extinction but the existing group valiantly carried ol its work of assisting Pat and entertaining Pop.

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L. FIRST FORM FESTIVAL No sooner had the First Form- ers learned to distinguish their classmates from their second form neighbors than they donned dis- guises to confuse themselves but de- light the school with their First Form Festival. Continuing a six- year tradition, the form joined with Mr. Werthman and Miss Tomasone to transport the fancy and fantasy of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetra to Fieldston. This year, the majesty of japan was revealed to the school in The Mikado with an oriental atmosphere lent by lanterns sus- pended precariously, but none the less exotically, over the heads of the students. While those First Formers endowed with unusual musical talent portrayed the leading roles, the rest of the form became schoolgirls, noblemen, handmaid- ens, and executioners. THE FIELDGLASS In September, a naive but eager Fieldglarr staff planned great and marvelous things. In October, a Wiser, but still undaunted, bunch learned about printers' deadlines. Thereafter, work, in earnest now, was punctuated by the editors' anguished cries over missing items, the number of hours in a day, etc. Barbara laughed at Ruthie's collection of lists, Howie and Marc camera-clicked, Nancy counted and organized, Jeannie let- tered, jane sold plastic book covers to augment the dwindling photo fund, and Emmy made phone calls. March came and went, and all lived to tell about it iso there, Mr. Brown!J. In addition to its other notable achievements of preserving for pos- terity a candid faculty and a well- scrubbed class of '59, the Fieldglarr taught many of the terrible trials and the rich rewards of publication.