Phillips Exeter Academy - PEAN Yearbook (Exeter, NH)

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Publications lTH three returning from the '57 Pean board and six highly trained heelers filling in the vacancies for the '58 board, the outlook for this year's Pean was promising. Although the spring Supplement was late in arriving lthe fault was not entirely that of the board as all the material was in the printer's hands on timel, the experience gained in handling a publication was invaluable. As a result of an expected rise in costs, the board decided last spring to put out a career guide to help Exeter students and others like them select their school courses, college, and college maior. But this undertaking seriously handi- capped the progress towards the board's main objective-a yearbook. Never- theless the career guide gave the Pean the satisfaction of having created something of value in addition to the yearbook. Rumors, however, began to fly about the school that there would be no Peans to sign at graduation. U X f r l qu-o fl' PEAN-First raw: Limbocker J. Walker, Mason, Arkush Chairman, Noble, Clapp Second row: M. Howard Sexton, Gunther, T. Nichols Wilkinson, lazarus, E. Fox Third row: Mr. Molloy, Smith Miller, McAvily, R. Kendall Kilchel, Norton.

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The first constructive project initiated by the Council was the old radio issue. The Council felt that the rule was no longer practical, since radios have shrunk to virtual invisibility. They decided to cooperate with the faculty without arousing any student pressure. This approach received initial success, as the heads of dormi- tories greeted the petition with unanimous approval. After an involved series of meetings with faculty committees and numerous misunderstandings, the entire faculty considered the issue. They then reversed their decision, and the proposal was de- feated by an almost unanimous vote. A discouraged Council met and tried to analyze the mistakes it had made throughout the whole affair. The loss of respect from the school made the Council's position seem hopeless, and the Council's intellects di- rected their energy towards discovering the fiaws in the structure of the organization itself. When the Exeter housing system was revised, class unity was, in effect, destroy- ed. Now students have unconsciously be- gun to think in terms of dorms rather than classes. The Council, however, is still elected from classes, and consequently does not adequately represent the student body. The members of last year's Council were grouped in five out of the thirteen dormitories and assorted wooden houses. To correct this weakness, it was decided to fit next year's Council to the new housing system. The organization envisioned by the planning group will be a school-wide body, headed by an augmented Council lone member from each dormitory, and representatives from the houses and town boysl, and kept in close contact with stu- dent feelings by a network of dorm com- mittees and interhouse committees. This should be invaluable in fund drives, dorm dances, intramural athletics, and in sound- ing out opinions on such issues as radios, The Council will then fulfill its primary purpose-to be a link between the student body and the faculty. 'I STUDENT COUNCIL-First row: P. Jones, Angle, W. Davis, B. R. Thomas, President, Laur- ence, Thurman, Woods. Second row: J. Bissell, Tinker, Fogg, Finney, Arensberg, Barlow, Third row: Burbank, Ohly, Hogan, deMenil. 1'

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EXONIAN-First row: Kniz nick, Loomis, W. Taylor, H. Smith, President, Mc- Guire, Freidin, Wreden Second row: Butcher, Grad Postley, Davison, Vachon Light, Daum, Lilley, MacRae Curtiss, Third row: Barker: Bush, Connor, Imes, lydgale, S. S. Roberts, Hallowell, W. Riley, Thurston, R. Reynolds Fourth row: J. K. Hall B. Reynolds, J. Anderson Greene, Enos, Conant. f 1 1 1 The new layout, moreover, tended to create even more confusion. Since the entire book was organized around the photographic board and their pictures, any delay in the production of good pictures was magnified as the creative process passed on through the art board and finally to the editorial board. Although the fall term was mainly devoted to the career guide and the Pean was left in the office dust, the arrival of January brought a sudden shock. The ever-iovial public relations man, Chairman Dave Arkush, met the threat first and was sporadically ioined by a maior- ity of the other board members and an encouraging number of enthusiastic and working heelers. Soon the board was, in part at least, working as a unit for the first time since the Supplement. The pictures flowed in from Roger Clapp and Peter Hutchinson. Art Editor Chris George reioined the Pean after his second resignation, and began to organize the layout production. Editors Rip Noble and Bob Thurman looked at the first layout and realized that the '58 Pean was not a picture book. Johnny Walker and Ben Mason struggled to keep the book in the black, even if it appeared that the Pean would be a non-profit organization this year. Derek Limbocker was perhaps the most advanced, but even he had a number of worries about the senior portraits and group formals. The progress under this sudden burst of effort affected the board in several ways. Some grew confident and began to think less of the still-pressing concern of a year- book. They began to spend less time in the Pean office and more on other activities and the pressing demands of college acceptance. But a core of six still saw the situation clear and, led on by the example of Arkush, they continued the grind. And as you see .... HREE years ago, the Exonian appeared to be a radical and rather destructive paper, dominated by an erratically brilliant president. Although his extreme methods were somewhat modified by the '55-'56 Exonian board, the Exy still retained its abolishing craze which continued to affect the editorial page. In the fall of 1956, a new, fresh atmosphere swept into the stale office. A positive board, headed by Peter Sobol, rearranged everything and set out to produce an efficient paper. This new look was carried over this year, but the '58 Exy was less dynamic than last year's. However, it was still solid in most departments, news coverage has been full, accurate, and timely, the make-up, featuring an effective change in front page head-line style, has also been quite good. Unfortunately, the paper begins to fiounder after the second page. Finding them