Julia Richman High School - Spotlight Yearbook (New York, NY)

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c!itoM'alfCy Cgpea ing The newspaper world is a world of its owng yet it plays a vital part in the affairs of the world at the Mid-Century. Un a smaller scale, Julia Richman, like many a newspaper, has made for itself an important place in the life of our community. Throughout the world, the spotlight is focussed on events ol international significance. National elections, lahor disputes, the Cold War, rehabilitation oi devastated areas, the future of the U. N. and control of atomic energy are matters of foremost importance. ln its news stories and editorials a newspaper mirrors the happenings in the world. The yearhoolc also reflects the happenings in our high school world. For this reason, the Staff has chosen as the theme of the June 1950 Spot- light, HlVlid-Century Newsf' ln the following pages are recorded events of special importance to the seniors of this Mid-Century class. You will find in words and pictures information aloout the principal memloers of the administration and faculty, yourwclassmates, the various organizations to which you have belonged and momentous and trivial happenings around the school. As you turn the pages, you will read loetween the lines to recall a thousand details characteristic of your life in 1950: the short hair cut, straight slcirts, Capezio slippers, :Some Enchanted Eveningf, the water shortage, the coal strilce, history Regents, the Red Letter Day show and the Senior Prom. You will rememloer how in l.950 television antennae sprouted from the roots of apartment louildings. You will rememloer your husy days as a senior. According to a Spot- light poll of J.R.H.S. seniors, the typical school day for the Mid-Century girl is as follows: six hours attending classes, twenty minutes standing in line for lunch, ten minutes eating, one hour and a half travelling hacli and forth hy lous and suhway, two hours extra-curricular activities, thirty min- utes eating supper, half an hour washing dishes, four hours history home- worlc, two hours answering telephone calls, one hour studying Hamlet, trigonometry, first aid, chemistry and all other suhjects, one hour watching television, one hour setting hair and talfing a shower and finally four hours of uninterrupted slumher. Qur memories of high school include many happy days as well as serious ones. We have even experienced some tragedies which at the time loomed very large. Nevertheless, all of us are aware of the fact that as school-girls in the United States of America we are among the most for- tunate young people in the world of today. We are grateful for the oppor- tunity of attending a fine, democratic high school where the faculty share our worlc and our play and where we may develop into responsihle' citizens. 3.

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ynlcf- Genturiy News 2

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rcbuollslzer Miss MARION D. JEWELL, Principal Miss Marion D. Jewell, Pulnlislier ol HlVlid-Century Newsf, came to Julia Richman in 1941. A graduate ol Schenectady High School and Cornell University, witll graduate worlc in social studies and pulnlic law at Columbia University, she taught in Cambridge, New Yorlqg Uticag Atlantic City, New Jerseyg and Boys High School, Brooklyn and served as head of tlle social studies department at Vvasliington lrving. Miss Jewell enjoys music, is interested in antiques and has travelled extensively aloroad. Keenly interested in world affairs, Miss Jewell lias faith in tlle proc- esses of Democracy and in the aloility of liuman loeings to solve tlie prololems confronting us. Slne says: The riglit lcind ol education in our Democracy will send out young people witli tlie training and qualities tllat will speed tlle approacli ol: tlie world we Wantf, 4 ' m l