The Park School - Spark Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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PROLOGUE Llttle bungalows, big houses, blgger gyms, and a red barn are scattered among trees, fields and a qulet pond The great expanse of land provldes freedom to roam 1nd learn All day long at th1s wonderful school, students don and doff coats as they thrlve 1n fresh alr between classes 1n various bulldmgs Two new bulldmgs frame the outdoors and br1ng the panorama of nature IHIO the classroom by means of whole glass walls In a hlstory lecture It s posslble to be diverted by the sweeplng clouds wlth their mystic changes -Xnd this IS not forbldden Awareness and observatlon come from Park s lnsplratlon The ldeals of Park loom before lts students as goals to be attained Each success ln the art of frlendllness, co operatlon, or lndependence gives the students en couragement to contlnue strlvlng for maturlty 'Ihe constant struggle to find oneself as an lndlvldual xs furthered by self expresslon and accompllshment IH varlous act1v1t1es They present opportunlty for crea t1v1ty and lmaglnatlon The mixture of classes and constant reshuffllng of people lead to a valuable unlty Lmty makes Park unlque There IS healthy competn the mdlvldual IS more lmportant than hls standing IH class lntrlnslc to the unity of Park IS non conformlty Purposeful 1nd1v1duals are lmked together 1D a loyalty to Park The student IS an Independent, worthwhile being The government asserts thrs ln 1ts prlnclples of common sense rullng Park s unlty fuses teachers and students together -X hlstory teacher and Headmaster may try to find a sewer or get a horse out of mud whlle a student may be conductmg a class Students teach each other through semlnars and actlvxtles valuable lessons for l1v1ng The medlcme doesn t have to taste bitter to work The splrlt of Park bmds ltS commumtv together Stxrrlng words at the dedlcatlon of new bulldlngs send prlde to team members who wrlng vlctory from their opponents On Productlon night a lusty roar ofsong comes from all the school From nowhere 1 group appears and calls ltself the corps lt proposes to take on the responslblllty of waltmg up IDHCIIVC students The SOCICKY must run Itself not be manlpulated from above Self crltlclsm leads to progress whlch 15 bas1c to thls progresslve school our mzmcles and reveal new ones TABLE OF CONTENTS Dedxcatlon Trxbute Senxors Classes Faculty Actxvntles Productlon Sports A s EDITORS 11- 'i' Page Page page page page page page Page page raphy Standxng Sue W omer, Art Board, Mlrlam Tannhauser, Literary Board, Burton Salt, Business Board, Margie lumball, Llterary Board r ' s. K a ' Y. l . . ' n ' - - . . . . , . . . . B . H . ' I H l V . - . . , . tion, but the incentive is not material reward, because Tim bggk gxi,-fgfgr ug, pgrfhgmg, whifh will explain . . . . . . . . ' H . . 2 g 4 5 31 . . . 45 , 51 65 73 Cl 87 . 1 5 If ffl W.. 1 1 A I vga, my -1 L Q p gt, .,s. p E 3 ' we is P eff , ' E E T T . 1 'V l A H 5 Q n 3

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DEDICATION A httle car bu71es down the hull, Clutch pressed hrmlw to the Hoot -X stu dent, struggllng Wlth 1 dlfhcult VvOI'd1I1 class tr 1I1SlIl'10I1 is suddenlx alded hx tn eflectlxe lmltatlon of the Cilmllo or the Hund 111 questlon we are mox ed to our gre ltest Slllglllg ZLCll1CXCIT1CIlfS bs 21 human Wl1lI'lVNl!1d xx ho can plfu the pmno, conduct our slnglng t1p out the rhs thm ind see the fqrthest slaelsers incl gum chewers 'all Qt the stme txme T he huslest m III we know he IQ 'ilu us III x olx ed m OI1C0f-l11SlOllI'll11lX tl lsses or x lQOI'OllSlN le ullnu one lem ltx or mother IH his clp 1ClIW of I1lllSlLdl mentor of our school Xxlfllilllf h1m there could he no XOICCS lor our wearlv eflort He hrmgs out the best rn 111 of us, w1th the p ltlenee of a teficher and the slslll of 1 born INUQICIAII He IS an irtlst and lY1Cl1VldL1dl who IS a longhmr 1dI1IltfCCllX possesslng Gemuet, or sensltlwtx ln place ol am atfected LlL1lI'lxS He can Communlclte h1s ldeqs IH German, Qpfmlsh, French or Pngllsh but he 19 most expresslve IH muslc Ihe P lrls gCl1IJKllHNIT1ll resouncls IH our eqrs IS we th znk hxm for teftchmg us to loxe ITHIQIC and rejolce ln lts song Xxlfll these thoughts md 1 deep ipprecmtlon for 1ll th it he h 1s Qu en us, we, the cl lss ol 1958 dedlmte our Spark to M1 Rudolph Doblln 11 ho fha! has heard a flmm 0 mufzf fared fhen fer! he ff10Zlfrl'5p6l1k exlrava ganffx ans moreforever? 2 . . , 1 j 1 3 . X t ' 3 1 - ' 5, 1 . fl . . . 1 ' ' ', , . '1 - ' ' 5 1 I' ' f, 'L 3 U' 1 H 1 ' U' 1 production, he is a one-man combination music-director, orchestra, trainer-ofl .x 1 L 1 1 - 1 Y -N t . , I . V it 11. : J 1 1 . b A 1 1 if ' ' 5 ln.: ' , ' -1 LV' , Y - f 1 f , . . .- -

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A TRIBUTE TO DR. STOCKTON KIMBALL 'I he Kimball famlly has had a very real and lastlng influence on both the phys lcal and 1deal1st1c development of Pxrk Qchool There has always been a Klm ball lnxolved w1th the school, from the vear of lts Oflglllal charter, tlll todav For us lf was Dr Klmball who had the deepest eHect on our l1ves He was al wus there, lendlng h1s agxle mmd to every nnportant school functlon IH hrs capacity as a member of the Bo1rd of lrustees and lts President, as parent, or is a leadxng c1t17en ofthe COYTIHHIUITW, Interested ln the welhre of Park We dld not alwavs know the thlngs he dld, some of us dld not even know hlm personallw Occaslonally he would appear, to spelk it the Dedlcatlon of the new bUlldlDgQ, to take part 1n a P T -X -X meetlng, or to su hello it one of the mans partles it the Krmballs Those of us who dld not know hlm well would return h1s greetlng, sensmg somehow the rlchness of mlnd and splrlt that len behlnd the face The num who h1d come to know h1m somewhat better, felt for hlm the sort of re spect and lrlectlon engendered bs 1 m U1 of absolute lntegrltw ind low altv Because of h1s long and frultful relationship wlth Pirk we feel that ln mam wus h1s sp1r1t and the Splflf of Park are one and the same We are proud of our school and proud to know that mto the 1ncept1on of xts xdeals and the completxon of lts goals there went the UUIQUCHCQS of person1l1tw and the generos1ty of mind of 1 person, such as Stockton Klmball To be a phzloxopher I5 no! merelj lo have .vublfe lhoughlx nor even to found a rrhool, bu! so to lone uzzsdom as to hae arcordmq lo 115 dzrlaler, a fy? of .vunplzrzlg zndependenff, magnammzfx, and lrusl 4 ' 1 4 4 .- I Y x . 'S ' 1 1 ' 1' I I Q 4 . ' . 4 4. 4 . . . . . 4 , . , 4. , 4 . 4 . I . .T .c .T V - l Y- V , - . . . 4 4 . - . Y -. 1 1. 4. . .K Y L - K ,T 4 - L 4 l K V 4 4 v ' c Y . ' 4 f - , . Y . . . , v . 4 4 4 4 4 . 4 I. . . - V y 4 . . 4 4 . . . . . . , . 4'. . . . 4 4 .4 . 4 - V Y . , . 4 4 . L . - Y - 44, - . Y 9 V FY , . . . . v K 3 ' V YY