Millbrook School - Tamarack Yearbook (Millbrook, NY)

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COMMUNITY SERVICE URING this last year, the twenty-Hrst of the school, Community Service has really come of age. With the recent addition of the fall and spring work days, plus a new schedule and a general clarification of the system of citations and blackballs, the program has greatly improved. Though it still lacks a certain amount of spirit and organization, it is an inherent and important part of school life. Many students and probably most graduates would attest to the fact that Community Service is really what keeps Millbrook from being just another prep school. 65

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Sealed-H. Van Dusen, Harris, Van Alstyne, Hood. Standing-Collins, Case, Piel, Wolcott, Hessberg. Buckminster, Temple, W. Keeler, J. Robinson. STUDENT COUNCIL LTHOUGH the 1951-52 activities of the Student Council are too varied to enumerate, two important accomplishments must be mentioned. It was felt that the standards for recommending and blackballing in Community Service had become lax in recent years. Accordingly, the requirements were stiffened. A food committee was appointed, designed to act as a clearing house for boys' suggestions about food prefer- ences. Everybody was enthusiastic about this idea and although a few of the epicures were disappointed, much was done to satisfy the tastes of the school. The assertive leadership of President Neal Harris and Vice-President Hugh Van Alstyne was important to the successful running of the council. OFFICERS Neal A. Harris, Preiidenl Hugh Van Alstyne, Vire-Prerident Hugh Van Dusen, Se4'retary Paul B. Hood Fifth Farm Fourth Form Edmonde Buckminster William Keeler James Case Anthony Piel Farnham Collins John Robinson Third Form Second Form Peter Temple David Walcott Edward Hessberg 64

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Iiiril mu'-mliutcher. Corcoran, Schreiber, Temple, Agar, Owens. Second mzwfvlforktiin. Hill, Chase, Mr. Trevor. Morris. Ratner. Tlvird mu--Mr, Williiiiiis. Nichols. P. Goodwin, Voorhees, Briggs, Foster. NATURAL SCIENCE HIS year the zoo area was the scene of many diverse activities. Perhaps one of the events best remembered by those who worked there is the ditch which had to be dug from Mr. l7ritz's house to the greenhouse, to hold the new water duct. The bird- house made tremendous strides, and arose from a bare fiooring to its present proud state, boasting walls, a shingled roof, and a partly completed interior. The greenhouse thrived, although it is said that visitors were taken aback by small placards bearing the inscription: Please do not feed the plants. The zoo had a few bad moments this fall when a monkey proved smarter than the Bens looking after it. In addition to the regular stock, we became the possessors of a polite and intelligent Talapoin monkeyg it is one ot' the few ot' its species ever exhibited in the U. S. The bird-banders had a good season this spring, The aquarium department can boast of a full collection, our first since the first of 30. 66