New Dorp High School - Argonaut Yearbook (Staten Island, NY)

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f information library . . Tom Mormino, Larry Helstern, Alan Driscoll, Edward Rose, Robert Owens watch the proper prucedure as Sam Cannilzaro stamps c book for circulation. year. Recent aclclitions to our collection include the followiiig: It Ilappens' lfrery 'liliursday fjournalisni textl, The King and I ldramcllg Iinx lfcilkcnlaurg fbiograplzyig 'llionuis Cainsborougli lartlg How to lfnjoy Balletg The Diplo- matic Corfnseg Images in a .Xlirrorg Book of Latin Verse and Oxford Book of Spunislz Verse. .X set of Colliers' lineyelopeclia lias also been aclcled to provide tlie latest data and correct factual lnaekgronncl for researeli projects. Special classes are eonclnctecl in tlie library to aeqnaint tlie stnclent liocli' witli tlie Dewey cleeiinal systein and tlie use of reference books. 'l liis systein tnnctions tlirongli tlie linglisli classes in certain terins. XYlien an oecasioii arises wliere class niaterials are neeclecl. tlie lilirary extencls its fullest eocipera' tion. .Xinong tlie nnnsnal cxliiliits on clisplay was a series of clolls clrcssecl tri represent tlie inlialiitants of varicins eonntries tlirrniglioiit tlie nnrlcl. Edwin Dunkin, Stephen Don, Ruth Letich Amelia Camuglia, Marion Gunther, ana Peter Lerta arrange books on library shelves according to the Dewey Decimal System, I -

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Judy Don, Dorothy Brophy, Teal Miller, Robert Pilkington, Rosalie La Rosa, Valerie Whelihan, Lillian Mehltrefter, and Dorothy Choida gather materials for The Americana exhibit. I6 The Librarv plavs an iinportant part in the life of a student. 'lhere he tinds unlilnited sourees of information, But libraries also supply a vast ainount of recreation and entertainment of a tvpe that has lasted over a longer period of tiine than anv other known, As earlv as -lllllll BCA the ljgvptians had libraries of papvrus rolls, reeentlv diseovered in their tonibs. 'l'he twofold ann of the librarv has alwavs been to provide the readers with inforinative inaterial as well as with eniovnient. The librarv squad. under the direetion of Xliss Leslie Xlexeill. strives to maintain the dailv routine work of the librarv as well as to prepare inaterials for students and nienibers of the faeultv. 'l'o keep the students abreast of new developinents in various fields, a nuniber of new books and additional referenee inaterials is purehased eaeh Those in quest turn to our Irene Baiiilana, Dorothy Anne MIDUCCI Barbara Choida, and Margery Abraham arrange an exhibit of dolls of all nations in the exhibit case in the library

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'lilie Pioneer staff X' seeks to record seliool history . . The Pioneer editors discuss the layout for page one of the current issue: Alberta DiBrizzi, Lillian Mehltretter, Joachim Stie- ber, Carol Garber, Barbara Monkman, Sarah Dyer, Mario Russo, William Basso, Anna Bender, Kathleen Gaida. 'llie New Dorp Pioneer statt strives to present tlie student lhodv vvitli information in a lasting forni. Our seliool nevvspaper lias inanv functions otlier tlian serving as a reeord of aetivities. It is published not onlv in an effort to introduce tlie nevv teaeliers to tlie students, but also to introduee tlie nexv students to tlie enstonis and traditions of the seliool. 'llie paper gives the students a pieture of the talents possessed bv otlier students and, in realitv, serves as a sliovvease for tlie features vvritten luv tlie students. The Editorial Staff consists of Ruth Letich, Marion Gunther, Carolyn Rosa, Beatrice Hrbacek, William Elliott, Valerie Whelihan, Stephen Don, Raymond Battilana, George Hiby, Steve Smith, Rita Snyder, Mr, Robert Stavrakas, faculty adviser. The Pioneer Business Stott: Rosalie Bellina, Joan Martini, Marie Aiello, Roseann Or- lando, Carol Ann Trachte, John Libretto, Matthew MarcoVecchio, Eleanor Anderson, Christine Camardo, Rosemarie Leonhardt, Joan Praskach, Margaret Sanders, Carmelo Camardo, Charles Simpson, Mr. Philip Greenspan, faculty business manager,