Pratt Institute - Prattonia Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Donald Murray Irene Murray John Naso Tobias O'Mara JoAnne Osborne Vincent Pelosi ‘Fa William Larson Homer Letikort Jess Leichter Gloria LoCurcio Herman McCray Francis McLaughlin Orrey Rosen Willie Ryall Harvey Sibley Albert Siringo Michael Smollin Jack Stokes Edward Wallant James Watt Franklyn Webber Holman Weed Robert Westervelt Morris Wyszogrod

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Shirley Hamm Jeremy Handler Albert Heighington Robert Hines Thomas Hynd David Johnson baw) Robert MacPherson Fred Maksche Adelyn Mazzotti Cornelia Mueller Sarah Murgia Lester Murphy Arne Peterson Joseph Petrino Robert Platts Henry Quell Matthew Roberts Robert Roche Rufus Sumrall Philip Swift Asdur Takakjian Jonathan Trout George Tscherny Rodolfo Urias

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Architecture Out of four long years of careful planning, out of the chaos and pettiness of disorder and confusion, a blueprint emerges from which beauty, order, and grandeur are inevitable. After four long years of ripping away stereo- typed timbers of the juvenile mind, the ar- chaic is cleanly brushed aside and the fertile land of creation is bared. Then the plans are laid. Methodically the blueprint is organized. Careful and detailed instruction in the arts, design and mathematics is sifted in. Scale drawings are made. Models‘ are constructed, revised and constructed again. The plans are approved and the final blueprints are com- pleted. During this process of development, the veteran members of the class found welcome refuge in the office of Mrs. Kay on the archi- tect’s third floor. Exchanging a few words with her helped to relieve the tension of a long day’s work and acted as a tonic for the architects. One of the major projects was an archi- tectural exhibit designed and constructed by the class supervised by Professor Olindo Grossi. The exhibit was prepared to acquaint high school students with the importance and possibilities of good community planning. It was under the sponsorship of the New York Chapter of the American Intsitute of Archi- tects and the New York City Board of Edu- cation. With this enriched background, we can at last set out upon the causeway of life with an inborn sense of plastic beauty. As Aldous Huxley wrote, “A good architect must be a man of sense, a man who knows how to think and to profit by experience.” Robert Neblung Theodore Ogonowski