Pratt Institute - Prattonia Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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RE a SSS DS SS TR —e JCC Tree A Mob Appears on the Horizon “Filling the Yellow Brick Road”........ Erne RAR N.Y.C. Marathoners In a Cramped Studio Space AVANATICIERMiR CD tise tt enc cna he ter! 1a Fine Arts Students A Humble Peasant Gathering pane Metry Old iendonGod 6256) 48, hac ce Father Perry JUNIOR YEAR Security Booth “There’s No Motion Like Slow Motion”............ Elderly Security Guards Ye Olde Gym ““We’re Off to Seize the Wizard” (Reprise).......... Security Concerns Rally 20 Minutes Late, Half Asleep cl by. aE (1 ia yg al Dd Lackluster Professors Mike’s Coffee Shop TEGNCH A Ue Gane. wis se crm tata ee oa ey Angie the Firemen SENIOR YEAR Somewhere in a Humanities Class LIED SESE SSRN ASO RAE All-Nighters Choir A Gr aduate Design Survey “Blop,. LOOK amaNeaNeh ys sis. dss. Pacevaeeies oak: Undergraduates Placement Office—Company Interviews “ets Spemaneie Night Together”... 6.0.6 se oe ets sou coe Senior Engineers Commencement Exercises “bPeela smile Comin’ On’ (Reprise)... ). see ec boc kee Ensemble Grand Finale “That’s Unemployment”........... Mom, Dad, Ensemble, Loan Collectors THERE ARE ONLY TWO PLACES WE WON’T DELIVER .. AND ONE OF THEM IS RIGHT NEXT DOOR! It’s true. We'll deliver anywhere in the nation except for two places. One is Death Valley, a hardened wasteland where no one in their right mind would want to enter. The other place is the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, a place of similar description. When we absolutely, positively fear for our lives.

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SYNOPSIS OF SCENES—MUSICAL NUMBERS FRESHMAN YEAR Hometown Living Room—Acceptance Letter OL Peelia aii © OTNE AN kere: cua ack a vine ae OER G Ensemble Neighborhood Orientation Tour Sleaze'on Down the Road”. 2. 2... i. Genes cesses The Myrtle Ave. Chorus A Foundation Drawing Class “Thank fieaventor Little Gates’). os ak ek owes ees nee oe Richard Hall PT he IMpossiple SCreaMh ois S wiccee ds Gilde es tds os Richard Hall’s Students A Lonely, Dimly Lit Dorm Room “T’m Gonna Wash that Roach Right Out ORR oe Snag Che oe viene VEN wick hav Sid Willoughby-Ryerson Chorus Higgins Hall—A Critique “Anything You Can Build (I Can Build Better)”........ Architecture Students Inside a Crowded Bus PeRne POUNG OL MIUMG .y cc so estes be os as Leroy and His Magical Box SOPHOMORE YEAR From the Palace Balcony Pape ONS ine MON S DEdd cea ot Seyi oss08 ss sao ce Jerry the Wiz Picketing the Palace Gates We're Off (omeize the Wizatd’ ys e.ose ay ove ch owua x Employees Local 153 Administrative Offices GO IN Ed eu ESE AEE gods: ee is cle tn og Gas beg Seas doutev's woe la haces Registrar Td Oy AC eee ES ay fons ceed ae wine were poss bine ace ae Mv eons ws Bursar PALL Oni iae (he INGTVE (TOSLAY) 6.55 « fnkb diana sie ¥ visas bien vs Provost ‘HIERARCHY MADE ME MISERABLE... ...until I tried Preparation H. Being President doesn’t always sit well with me. I’m used as a scapegoat when things go wrong, but forgotten when Pratt is applauded. That’s why I use Preparation H. It relieves the pain and itching that goes with my job’’ EERO AEGIS RA Bex : PREPARATION Hi feopisenrttaa ™ : HIERARCHY OINTMENT ee ho JERRY PRATT wins A HIERARCHY SUFFERER A With Preparation H, everything works out in the end. i

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The Year in Review by Gary Monde Well kids, it certainly has been an event- ful year at the pride of the Western World —Pratt Institute. Good things have happened, bad things have happened, but mostly, eminently forgettable things have happened. So let’s take a little time to sort of mindlessly gloss over them ina totally random manner. Relax, take a deep breath (breathe into a paper bag if you have to), and prepare for a leisurely stag- ger down memory lane. The year started off on a roll with that wonderful tradition—orientation! This is when entering freshmen (most of whom are naive, small-town hicks) are given tours of the city, in hopes that they will become street-smart, big-city hicks. This year’s orientation went off almost without a hitch; the only problem being the disappearance of 15 new female stu- dents. However, only six months later, police found three of the missing girls working nights outside the Port Author- ity Bus Terminal. Details are still sketchy, but apparently it involves some sort of “street-vending” job. As orientation week ended, freshmen settled down to the difficult task of getting an education without actually attending too many classes. Meanwhile, many returning students faced readjusting to their inevitably crushing workloads and intolerably noisy roommates. Of course, sometime during the semester each stu- dent was also asked to take a few tests and maybe conjure up a design or two for their portfolios. On the high-tech side of things, Pratt completed purchase of a new $25 million Super Multi-Vox 9000 UltraComputer. Installation is on hold, however, until the leaking roof, crumbling walls and rotting floorboards in the new Main Building computer room can be repair- ed. Pratt is certainly in the forefront of 12 high-tech innovation! Everybody had a scare last semester when President Pratt mysteriously van- ished for five days. Seems he took a wrong exit off the Brooklyn-Queens Ex- pressway and got a little lost. The story had a happy ending though, when Mr. Pratt surfaced in Boise, Idaho. Fast- thinking Idaho authorities used the free postage on the back of his I.D. card to mail him home to New York. On the down side, there was The Wil- loughby Massacre. It happened the day after Pratt security guards were issued sidearms. 18 students were gunned down in the entrance of Willoughby Dorm after someone forgot to show their I.D. Fortunately, the security guard was as well trained in target practice as he was in other security procedures, and nobody was seriously injured (just flesh wounds). Thanks go out to the quick- witted administration for covering up the incident and preventing embarrass- ing articles in tabloids such as the Post, Daily News or the New York Times. On the lighter side, who could ever forget all those bitchin’ parties and con- certs? A stellar lineup of talent included such noteworthy bands as Sticky Fingers (Stones sound-alikes), Back Streets (Springsteen sound-alikes), and Spinal Meningitis (Spinal Tap sound-alikes). Truly something for every Jersey bar fan. So as you can see, it certainly has been a banner year! As we graduate and enter that real world often heard about, let’s all promise to distort the truth of our years on campus. When we tell our chil- dren of “those good old college days;’ let’s not have them think we were fotal clowns. And if I might add a note of per- sonal philosophy—in the words of Bucka- roo Banzai, “No matter where you go...there you are?’ a