Pratt Institute - Prattonia Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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From the dusty Streets of Chihuahua, Mexico, he rose to become leader of New York's most powerful Art and Design family. It is an organization built on ego and intimida- tion, where students must kneel and kiss his ring to be granted favors. This is the Story of one man's little corner of the world. Gerry Contreras irl sn nd GATES RUTH uy GEDA KLAUGER JAC MORGAN, HERB YOUNG - RICH MARAN - JOMN WATERS secu enue ay JOEL MITNICK iti PRODUCED BY ALBERT ‘. RUDDY DIRECTED BY f RANCIS FORD Allg POLA MUSIC BY NINO HOTU RESTRICTED Read the Bantam Novel (J [oousy stereo | COLOR bill rs a rrr | SOUNDTRACK ALBUM ON CAPTOL RECORDS AND TAPES] pe |: WNW:

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WHO’S WHO in the CAST ART EDUCATION. Shari Nash, Amy August. December graduates: Peter Palumbo, Fern Perkal-Seinuk, Lee Ann Thompson. Senior memories: “Walking to Kum Kau at midnight” ¢ “San Filipo’s preten- tious hand gestures during a critique” ¢ “The spring semester when the bridge sculptures were displayed on campus’? ¢ “Needing xeroxes, and the library being closed” ¢ “Wishing that my roommate’s noisy TV would blow up!” ¢ “Being told that my last time sheet was late, so my work-study check won’t be ready for two more weeks” ¢ “Dr. Eckhard’s tech- niques for humiliating students” e “Junior’s Strawberry Cheesecake” e “Thosetwo hour waits fortheGG?” () Former student Don Nardo confesses: “AN OVERDUE LIBRARY BOOK RUINED MY LIFE” “It started innocently enough whenI financial aid. I pleaded for mercy, but tried toskipoutonadO¢ fine. But... it wasnouse. They forced me to leave © but they were waiting for me. school and disgrace my family! “Tt was horrible! Their methods... “Daun TsHOULD HAVE PAID sad INE” . so ruthless. . .so efficient! My Sates PAY on TIME OR YOU'RE NEXT 7 identity was reduced to a blinking © ved light on the computer. They can- Pra tt Coi mput ta taCorp . valled my Pinceniae neat 18

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i ART DIRECTION. Front: Maureen Moltzen. Row J: Tris Gates, Robin London, Lisa Schneider, Art Mszanski, Garrett Burke, Mary Ann Hagan, Alex Nunez. Row 2: Marcus Klim, Nicholas Aparicio, Lori Knafel, Ab Genese. Not pictured: Paul Cook, Laura Flauto, Ernest Neira, Antoinette Phillips, Darlene Ridgeway, Dorothy Rosenberg. “a December graduates: Joy Jackson, Leonard Peters-Smith. Senior memories: “Gerry Contreras and his ties” ¢ “Pratt should put some of their profit back into the school” ¢ “Being able to say that I lived in New York” ¢ “David Lee Brown and his neon purple and green sneakers’ ¢ (Continued on page 48) -y 20 “After all I’ve done, people still seem to confuse me with that other guy!” Lee Epstein, Warren and Epstein Advertising Advertisement A message from