Robert Louis Stevenson School - Circus Yearbook (New York, NY)

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SIDE SHOWS tions and. at school they collected money. What success! See how heavy the cans are. Why mine's filled, too. There's fun in the Pan-American Club, too-a trip to see Open City and visits to museums and Spanish restaurants. You can't laurels. say the Pan-American club is sleeping on its Three cheers for next year and an orchard full of apples for Miss Levy! Right here, next door is the light of classical learning! Don't worry sir, you can't blow it out. The Latin Club is new and strong! It's this term's baby. It has twelve members fthe whole Latin departmentj who put their braided heads together to wrangle a new trick from the Sibyls. They're successful all right! . -41 -' ul' IF., X .V :fix I gif sg. ' l 1. All N0 J wp :K X-.,. B' ,VI . C'mon girls we've an assembly next week. How about some rehearsing? Yes, I've. been thinking with I-Iic, Haec and Hoc and be a success. All we need is some practice. Where are the togas. Don't tell me you Six Lessons From Madame La Pollin we'll forgot the passive periphrastic conjugation! Well, we'll just trust to the Vestal Virgins, Good Luck! That's how it went and was the assembly I just simply howled! a success! Why it swept me off my seat! This way folks! Sorry you'll have to walk! The elevator stops at three o'clock. It's just a few steps down three flights of stairs. ll! That's right! just take those stairs to the second floor. Yes sir, it's 5' 7,3 the second door on your left-The French Club. ' Bonjour Madame. Comment allez-vous? Well let's get down , .N to work. Un sou dans la banque. Ici on parle francais. And so it goes. After all the money goes to the year book. But I'm not S Q' a senior yet. Study yoiir French . . . et puis . . . Dictation, s'il vous plait. Where does Madame collect those K 3 hilarious anecdotes? Why can't gym be like this? Madame, , 23 MB I've got my money for stamps. Madame Ive finally. brought those 0 C clothes for Yugoslavia that Ive been promising you since the begin- ning of the term. It's the second box we've filled already. Work goes on and on and on . . . the stories come in, the art works finished and some- one's written her article over for the eleventh time. Finally, Un Petit Coin De France is finished. Hurrah, let's celebrate! Margot, I know a swell place for French pastry. Hurry up! Depechez-vous! Vite! Vite! Folks! How about a trip to Central Park? the grass is green, the bridle path is dry and the horses are rarin' to go- and so are the Stevenson girls. Carol hurries ahead with Claire, It's almost live o'clock girls. We can't be late again. Remember that instructor last week. He was terrible-always yelling and he almost fell off his horse. I don't think he'll come with us again. I'm not staying in the rink. I didn't fall off last week, so I think I can go out. ' I ,V V I I 'tt i IS I ' :fi . F27, D f:'l ' T lx - VL, , p X ' .xx u X aff 1' 'll I l 1 I I . f I if Rn. Girls it's five to five. Here's the Claremont. Where's Bobbie's ticket, I'm broke. You lost your ticket. Did you look in all your pockets? Three good rides gone down the sewer. Oh that wind! Doris here's your crop. Oh! look over there, Claremont's Esquire Iiwish he'd take us out. Doris be good today- no jumping, no galloping. Remember that handsome cop. Girls a trot please, nice and slow. Jinx, please, we ride in two's. One more canter, then we go in. Gee, it's the first ride I didn't fall-not even once. Now I think I can ride. Why I'll go to a ranch this summer. fContinued on page 375

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SIDE SHOWS Bea tries to fit the giant comic strip to the small stencil and someone else runs for. the book on how to do it. It seems hopeless--but it only seems so. The first issue of the Lamplighter came out! Now, Cora's working at a tradition of monthly Lamplighters - always on time. Monday afternoon, the show goes up to the gym. A group of prospective Pavlovas are ready. Miss Broughton says cheer- N ..- ily, All right girls-and over, one, two, three, and up, and over, one, two, three . . After the creaking of rarely used ,C jf aff! ii' I back bones subsides, Miss Broughton, not a hair out of place, 'V V. fgllf SX smiles at our accompanist and says, Plieses Beckie-appro- Ml N, xxx I 'gl ll, . priate music, please. Groans are quickly hushed up, and one -, I ,, , i by one, eyes now bleary, hair mussed, clothes coming apart, f px the girls Cpoor thingsb go through the rigamarole of the If .gk me successful prospective dancers. Finally floor work is over, and ag 'Sy everyone is free to perfect the dance, to be presented at the end of the term. The dancers gather together, the music starts and they're off. But instead of a well danced, equally danced ballet, we are having a mad race to see who can finish first. Miss Broughton, with a wild glare in her eyes, breathes heavily. Once again, and this time perfect . . Again the girls gather together, ring an imagi- nary gong and are off. This time jean controls herself, Marilyn keeps her toes pointed and Barbara doesn't forget that it is a pirouette at the end not a grand jetee. The club goes through it a couple of times more and at last with satisfaction gleam- ing all over her, Miss Broughton bids us farewell until next week. GLA ' Y ' ' a h d life! But think muscles!!! Lots of new bi stron Q , , es its ar , , g, g x' ., muscles for the dance club. Ji ' The year book- ple-ese let's start the year book . . . Let's go sketching in the park. F '-l There's an exhibition at the Modern Museum. I ' What about a bazaar. Il l That was a lovely tea. T The Spanish club needs a series of water colors for their as- ' ya-'X' sembly. Dr, Rubinstein wants a few more posters. The Latin Club loved those caricatures we did. P1ease! the Year Book! The art room hidden behind the glorious efforts of past classes, the tables cluttered with embryo masterpieces of the present classes. The art room-council chamber for most of the school assemblies, plus the all important Cand slightly hecticj Year Book staff. This is Mrs. Smith's kingdom - every Tuesday afternoon she holds Court - Art Club is in session. In two hours she tries to carry out all the plans and responsibilities that have been left in the art room during the past week. This year a peak was reached with a fashion show-the whole school fincluding the Art Club who spent days decorating, and practising their Gait J agree it was a super- SUPER event!!! Yes, there's a lot to see in Stevenson. Up stairs in the Spanish room, the most beautiful room in Stevenson Qof course, except for Dr. Rubinstein's new office! the Pan- s,,,.- American Club meets. Yes sir, you're right! that's the current events forum, emphasis on Spain and Pan-America. 16 fad! WJ? gil l 114, m '.,-5,i'- ' 9. ff ,.-lg: ' ' , - .' g,M. For weeks and weeks the whole Spanish department W X a. x worked. Deedie, I really think you should try those il- ff' ll 5:2 lustrations again. joan, did you write the narrative. .31 ll What! Someone can't dance? She sprained her ankle! Can we dance in long dresses? Did everybody read ' z 5yEu.r' the letters? We really ought to do something to help Spain get rid of Franco. Yes, I know, atter that Pan-American tribute to Gatcia'Lorca, we've really got to do something. Okay give me a can, too. So Stevenson pitched in, on corners, at subway sta-

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-DR. ANNETIE RUBINSTEI Dr. Rubinstein, our English teacher and principal, also holds many other important jobs. She's chairman of the West Side Child Care Council of'Greater New York, lecturer, and one of the founders of the Anti- Fascist Refugee Committee. She studied at home until the seventh grade, and one of her earliest tragedies was being qualified to enter the eighth grade, and being too young, was refused on the trumped up charge of not knowing French. But to this day she maintains that it was unforgivably unjust since most of the other children didn't know French either. This was two strikes against the school already. She ,entered the Woodmere Academy-stayed there until her senior year, then went to Lawrence High for one year-N. Y. U. for four years. While working towards her Doctor's at Columbia, she was a philosophy instructor at N. Y. U. She was only nineteen when she was called on to substitute in a philosophy class, where the average student's age was about twenty-four. She was terribly afraid that they wouldn't take her seriously and when anxiously asked the outcome, she modestly answered, But they did. She considers. her outstanding incident of this period, the time when she wrote a term paper in Limericks after having dreamed through a course in History of Philosophy! Next followed a job in the Department of Welfare-but after one year she decided to go back to teaching and in 1954 she became principal of R. L. S. She has one tremendous passion-Shakespeare. After being in her English classes for many, many months and hearing her quote profusely from Shake- speare, Browning, Dickinson, Keats, and almost every other, even half way decent writer, we are aghast, if she doesn't remember some remote line. But that's her fault-she trained us wrong. Our amazing Dr. Rubinstein has, however, one serious incompetency, she can't carry a tune. Z Mn? WLlJf0I' . lf' - ,rf . -M - WJ E l Q tvgpiiwymgm It .1 'lim' .W 'U'll1l7 i r 5 flaw, ' Y 4 C W it p at I ...ll . 'vi . 1-M lwvlwm uuluu fli XA X A 4 1 Y' 3 nUl7'3FTTIl'Mi:'t11iN1ff2'?YifiNntP .uiilinLcil1llllll