Pratt Institute - Prattonia Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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SHELDON J. STREISAND GLADYS HOLLANDER ELLEN J. LONNER DONALD G. TYPOND DR. GEORGE A. FINCH prattonia staff “The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves of pictured faces.” The following people are responsible for the 1956 edition of Prattonia: GLADYS HOLLANDER FRANK R. JONES STANLEY R. SLUDIKOFF BERNICE T. BRIGANDO SHIRLEY A. PFAFF DAISY E. TAUBER WALTER D USSEAUX ALAN A. BOHLINGER DEANE W. RICHARDSON KARL LUDVIGSEN ALISON KNOWLES INTER-CLUB COUNCIL co-editor co-editor business manager chief photographer faculty advisor literary editor activities sports honors home economics sophomore year student government R.O.T.C. industrial design dedication illustration clubs

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How does Pratt Institute reflect its changing times? It was the assignment of this year’s staff to answer and interpret this question in more than mere copy. It was not a hard question to answer, for the answer lay all around us and had only to be recorded. Buildings were being leveled daily. Whole blocks have already disappeared. Landmarks familiar to students of other years have been cut from view. Even with the reminders of these changes about us, we perhaps were likely to forget how much we were involved with them. New students enter modern dormitories, with perhaps only a passing shudder for the old brownstones that housed the labors of last year’s seniors. prattonia The Prattonia staff decided that this book should interpret these changes, not with a postcard representation but with the effort to capture the emotional impact of this year, and, as it is essentially a memory book, we felt that students would like to look back on it and be reminded of the many details that made this year memorable rather than the more obvious aspects. Because this was more than a senior yearbook, no one had to search for strenuous methods of embellishing a singular senior class. We had only the task of putting together an enormous supply of material that was created unknowingly by every student who attends Pratt.

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SHELDON J. STREISAND DONALD G. TYPOND RICHARD A. BAIO ROBERT V. MALLORY DONALD M. HOLMAN MYRON M. SHIFFRIN IRA MAZER ELLEN J. LONNER CURTIS D. LOWEY DAISY E. TAUBER EVE RUSKIN KEN M. MIERS art director photography photography photography photography photography photography production production production production production