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

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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

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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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ginihe gardier Madame Barbier, for a number of years has had charge of the French department in our school. Her taste, her thought, and even her manner of speech is reminiscent of her native land. When one says she is French, one does not imagine or picture any one specific characteristic. But France as a nation has always been distinguished, and its people have always carried that distinction into their Own way of life. As chairman of the Summer School City Wide French Committee, she prepared the syllabi and has been writing all the examinations. Madame Barbier is also founder of our French Magazine Un Petit Coin de France, which has been published annually for the past nine years. She is now completing a French text-book, that will be of great assistance to students preparing for college entrance examinations in French, especially for those carrying an accelerated program. Madame is also an accomplished pianist and she has sung professionally in Paris. One of her pleasur- able pastimes is the collection of antiques and news- paper clippings. As a teacher she brought France into the classroom. She is sincere and conscientious and whatever she undertakes she does with an energetic and complete wholeheartedness, such as war bond drives, and campaigns to provide food and clothing for war torn countries. w..i.fsmi, Somehow it would be very difficult to picture Stevenson without Miss Silsby. Not only has she been here a long time falmost nine yearsj but if any of the girls need anything or want to ask a question fno matter how trivial or great it may bel the first person they go to is Miss Silsby. This year the school has undergone a few minor revolutions C among them a new beautiful office for Doctor Rubinsteinj. One of the most important changes was the promotion of Miss Silsby to Assistant-Principal. It doesn't really change her duties too much fexcept that she has a very able new assistantj, but it is a rather nice title that she certainly deserves. Miss Silsby went to St. johnsburg Academy in Vermont - then to Wfellesley College where she majored in Biblical History and Spanish. She tried teaching awhile, but abhored it, then she studied secretarial work in Boston. Her jobs varied from a job in a California bank to a Secretarial job inChina! She spent a few wonderful years in China then came back to the United States via the Suez Canal and traveled through Italy and France. fSomeday she hopes to go back to China for a visitj. Another thing she'd like to do is take an airplane trip fnever been up in onej. Miss Silsby has always preferred working in schools and is very fond of Stevenson. Miss Silsby, we hope you'll remain here for a long, long time.