Woodmere Academy - Portfolio Yearbook (Woodmere, NY)

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Sixth Grade Our first taste of being seniors and we remember how it felt to be the little kids. Sixteen of us make it and have the smallest graduation parties in history. Y.K 6 A.H. begin their feud and invite everyone but each other to their parties Cthey finally give in and let the other come. thoughj. We finally get to pass the lamp of learning. S.M. continues to play with L.T.'s mind as he pretends not to want to go to her party. We bid farewell to Mr. Dover and Mrs. Umans. G.G. and G.L. lead the Parrots to victory at field day as S.M. and G.B. almost cry on the field. Kissing games become our favorite pastime. A few of us try our hand at teaching and hate it. A few of us are sad to bid farewell to the lower school. Barbara Barth wins the Margie Boas award and Alison Leigh is granted an award for her poise, charm, dignity. and brilliance. Both awards are well deserved. We graduate singing Mahogany and head to the beach to celebrate. Seventh Grade We enter the middle school while it is still a Jr. high. C.S.. S.S., S.H., A.J., S.A., P.A., M.B., N.M., W.C., D.C., G.G.. T.P.. G.R., and J.R.join us. Many girls swoon at their first sight of AJ., and N.M. imagines that all the boys feel the same way about her Cremember this: hi fans D. We all take the Ann Landers maturity test and lie about our scores - none of us were wild and wooly at thirteen. Bar-Mitzvahs begin as we all try our first mixed drinks. J.B. and N.M. form a couple. 6.6. and J.B. begin to fall in love. We learn to love the ancient mariner and to hate Mrs. Marcy. A.H. teaches us how not to be class president. 124

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Third Grade The first day draws mixed reactions as we are split into 3-B's and 3-A's. Mrs. Amder and Mrs. Benson never were the same: in fact, Mrs. Amder leaves us halfway through and Mrs. Marks joins in the fun. J.S. departs, but not before he leaves us a library. We all begin to make fun of C.A., and he never realizes it. We work on penmanship and to the delight of the teachers B.B., A.L. and L.T. write beautifully - L.G. and A.H. don't fair so well. L.A. breaks his collarbone three or four times. Fourth Grade Mrs. Cohen becomes Mrs. Weinberg and Mrs. Marks becomes Mrs. Dori. Every so often one of us forgets their name and calls them mommy. Spell- ing bees begin. So does Mrs. Dori's sixty-four question game and A.H. and G.L. battle it out until the last day when she wins. M.S. joins us for one year, and one year only. D.K. gets his first computer, throws a lavish birthday party Cnot to be surpassed until G.G.'s bar-mitzvahj and comes to school three or four times. S.M. begins to play with L.T.'s head. J.S. puts his fist through a win- dow and calls it quits. Fifth Grade We learn to love Mr. Dover as he teaches us our chosen science. Playground football comes into full swing as L.A. and S.M. show off their bucca- neer skills. D.K. begins to attend school fairly reg- ularly. Mr. Poles conducts a mock court and A.H. gets his first taste of defending a hopeless case. We begin to take courses with the sixth graders and they are forever sorry. Mr. Poles and Mrs. Hurwitz are informed in December that they won't be returning so she packs her bags and leaves at lunch. Mr. Goldstein soon takes her place in math and home economics and shows us why scope was invented. L.V., M.C., L.A., and D.Y. depart. David Y. shows us what a true ge- nius is as he explains computers.

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Eighth 6rade Mr. Copeland tries to teach us English and 6.L. teaches him about life. W.C. and A.H. battle it to the death in the same class. Mr. Weinbaum teaches us about alge- bra and Hawaiian dress. L.K. leaves for Florida for the first time. Where 6.6.'s bar-mitzvah awed us, .l.B.'s shocked us. We bid a fond farewell to Boot: he made an impression we never shall forget. His humor and his friendship were more than something special. We meet R.F. and teach him how to spell his name. We stop calling S.A. 'squirt'. Mrs. L. teaches us about earth science and perspiration. Ninth Grade Steve F. joins us and introduces himself slowly in Ms. Fahs' class. M.S.'s parents teach us about true hospital- ity while he teaches us about poker. N.R. joins us mid- way through the year. 5.6. opens a bank account for his winnings . . . A.H. and M.S. don't. Doc Seville and Mrs. Simon teach us nothing and call it european histo- ry. Everybody does well on the bio final except those who sit in front. We meet Mr. Ames and wonder if it is a mole or a birthmark. We welcome Sue P. and Pam F. who later become closer than the Bobsey twins. S.P. and 6.6. We hit 6reat Adventure for the first time and some of us bring back whips: M.D. has fun analyzing this. Niffer joins us and has her first taste of W.A. with J.B. R.A. shows us his moves both on and off the court. Mr. Puffer teaches us Geometry in his pre-'Billy Bumbry' days. . .from the Heckle to the N.Y. times book review. -In-1-. 5 5 -'Minis 2 Q