Stuyvesant High School - Indicator Yearbook (New York, NY)

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In the lobby, six dancers were re-1 hearsing for the show. Two of them | were seniors. We asked the choreo- grapher, who said she was too busy to reflect and went back to dancing. “No, no, no . . . you’ve got it all wrong. You grab my thigh on three and lift on four. Okay?” Her part- ner nodded. The janitor told us we would have to leave the building soon, so with nobody left, we stepped out onto 15th street and started to- wards the subway. Cletus, who de- scribed himself as a resident of Stuyvesant Park and an honorary student of Stuyvesant High School, remembers singing with other stu- dents but complained about the se- curity guards not letting him go to class. We walked down First Avenue and into the subway station. Away from the school, it occurred to us how much there was to reflect upon at Stuyvesant. We realized there would be much more once Stuyve- sant became part of our past.

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When asked for her reflections she belligerently replied, “And just what do you mean by reflections anyway?” We moved on. In front of the weight room we came upon the Stuyvesant Sports Information Director (SID). He told us he “only dealt in concrete facts” but that his friend, a booster, was good with abstractions. “I’ll always remember the diver- sity of the student body, the good times and the bad times I shared with all the dear, dear friends I’ve made here. They’ve all been so good to me, sometimes I coidd just, just . . . Oh, I’d better stop before I start to sound corny.” From the weight room it was a short walk to the Spectator office where a sign told us that Spectator was coming out shortly, but no one was inside the office to talk to us. In the S.U., we told a senior that only three percent of our grade had reflected and that it was getting dark outside. He spoke about the Students Rights Council, the blood drive, and the prom, told us the president wasn’t in and that we shouldn’t be worried, because few- er than three percent of the stu- dents had voted in the last election. Feeling better about our reflec- tion collection, we left the S.U. and walked up to the first floor. On the way, we tripped over a couple who told us that they had spent the bet- ter part of four years intertwined on the staircase. Although the dirt was a problem at times, they said they certainly had enjoyed high school. 20 I

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F A C U L T Y Don’t know much about History, Don’t know much Biology, Don’t know much about a Science Book, Don’t know much about the French I took . . . Don’t know much Geography, Don’t know much Trigonometry, Don’t know much about Algebra, Don’t know what a slide rule is for . . . I don’t claim to be an “A” student, But I’m trying to be . . . —Wonderful World (Sam Cooke) 22