Greenwich Country Day School - Spire Yearbook (Greenwich, CT)

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Pr1nt Shop throbs w1th constant activity The Print Shop constantly throbs with the steady pulses of aspiring printers. It is quite a job for Mr. Fricke to keep a shop as large as ours in order, but the young printers are ready to help out when they are not printing pads, blotters, bookmarks, short selections for Impressions, which is put out annually by the Print Shop, or setting up one of Mr. Bliss's ideas from his Idea File. Once a week this steady beat is quickened when the Spire staff invades the Print Shop. The linotype is constantly clacking and the Little Giant goes to work. Mr. Nicholson, the staff ad- viser, tries to keep The Spire, which is nearly always two weeks behind, up to date. The Print Shop has an important role in the school besides that of teaching. Among countless other jobs, it prints up office forms, reports and announcements sent home to parents, and pro- grams for inter-school activities. In the fifth grade, students have their first opportunity to take printing. They begin with simple exercises such as note pads and book- marks. In sixth and seventh they go on to Impressions, hand setting and printing inspira- tional poems or prose which they select. Ninth graders are mainly concerned with pub- lications, and eighth graders look forward to the day when they, too, may grace the staff of The Spire, Ex Multis or Alumni Bulletin. Shortly after mid-year the school received some photographic equipment for the darkroom, located in the Print Shop. Several enthusiasts, under the direction of Mr. Cooper, found work in photography very rewarding and enjoyable. Not only did they learn the mechanics of devel- oping and printing, but they also delved into the chemical processes involved.

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Industrious sixth graders work in earnest. Shop Stresses Value and Variety With the addition of more new students to the school, this year the shop was busier than ever. During practically every hour of the day the shop was teeming with students working on many dif- ferent kinds of projects. In most of the Middle School classes, Mr. Forscher advised the students do class projects, such as key racks, shoe shine boxes, bowls and tables. They also had a chance to use the time and muscle-saving power tools, The other students engaged in more compli- cated projects. Among the more popular were tables, shelves, stools, lamps. Some imaginative students created such projects as rocking horses, kites, desks, sailboats, and sleds. Other hearty students also helped create scenery for the plays. The silver department was invariably crowded with students waiting to take their turn at using the torch, and many fine works of art, which in- cluded rings, necklaces, identification bracelets, and tie clips, were produced. The shop students certainly derived great enjoyment and valuable experience from the helpful instruction of Mr. Forscher. Richard Forscher

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Spire Board Makes Needed Revisions Throughout the year the staff of The Spire strove to keep imagination and new ideas as its bywords. The general attitude was .not to advocate change for its own sake, but to revise certain aspects of the book which might be im- proved by change. Perhaps the most important of these changes was the consolidation of the class write-ups, i. e., one write-up, with the exception of the ninth grade, for each school division instead of a write- up for each class. By this revision we hoped to achieve a greater continuity and unified idea. The divider pages were splashed with color and expanded to two pages, the faculty pages were increased and given fewer group and more in- dividual pictures. In addition, two new articles were added and a third revised. GCDS goes in- ternationalv and GCDS serves community and nation were added to give a more complete pic- ture of the school year, Inside GCDS was changed to The class of '63 remembers , in which we tried not only to present more intimate facets of school life, but also to show just what aspects of GCDS the graduating class best re- members. Once these changes and revisions had been incorporated into our dummy, work was begun on the actual printing of the yearbook, in our own print shop, located in the basement of the school itself. Write-ups were linotyped by Mrs. Fricke, and pages laid out and set up by the Spire board members themselves. All was done in only one hour a week! In spite of sometimes conflicting opinions on issues of layout, captions, or general policy, the yearbook was finally published, and, although only time can tell, we feel that it will transport us back to GCDS and help us relive some of our happy experiences there, no matter how distant we may be in time or miles. ROW l: Lawrence, Nelson, i-Iornblower, Weber, Bounds. ROW 2: Fisher, S., Vanderbilt, Blair, Chisholm, Fisher, C.,Manger, Fisher, T. ROW 3: Hinton, Kitendaugh, Ley, Knowles, Willers, Mr, Nicholson.