Fieldston School - Fieldglass Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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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.

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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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Disregarding the fact that College Board Achievement Tests were only a few weeks away, two-thirds of the Sixth Form forewent several days of vacation cram time to participate in the traditional Washington trip. Since First Form, the class of '59 had been famed as a group possessing the desir- able quality of togetherness, and this spirit persuaded a record number of seniors Cboth numerically and percentagewisej to brave the long bus ride. Visiting the nation's capital, of course, demanded a fair share of the groups time in the role of tourists. The usual peregrina- tions, in addition to a fifty flight climb of the Washington Monument, were taken to the Capitol, the Lincoln and jefferson Memo- rials, Mt. Vernon, et all Although this is all mandatory procedure, the most exhilarating moments were spent in hot, crowded rooms, listening to a group of fatigued and harried men and women expound on various issues. First, there was New Yorlc's senior senator, Jacob javits, who came from a series of seemingly interminable committee debates to give fhoughtful and concise answers to a wide range of student questions. CAfore- mentioned students were quite breathless, having stormed the Capitol stairs on the run after the escape of the buses with only half the form.J And there was Senator Keating on civil rights, reporters Alan and Nancy Emory, who expounded on local integration problems and the business of covering Washington, and even the President himself, whose press conference was attended by the ubiquitous Neufr editors. The ultra-prudent chaperones for the adventure made up a perfectly delightful sextet of Rosenthal, Norris, juka, Scott, Darby, and Nomer.