New staffs of Milne’s illustrious publications were announced at the
Crimson and White-Bricks and Ivy dance Saturday.
John Philip Hiltz III, editor of the newspaper, announced that the editor-in-chief for 1961-62 will be
Clint Bourdon. Assisting Clint in his effort to maintain the high quality established by this year’s outstanding staff will be: Jane
Larrabee, news editor (page one);
Ellen Spritzer, associate editor
(page two); Bob Huff, boys’ sports editor (page three); Dave Kermani, assistant sports’ editor; Gay Sim­ mons, feature editor (page four);
Robert Henrickson, feature writer;
Merry-Go-Round, Judie Margolis
(senior high) and Sherry Press
(junior high); Carol Ricotta and
Russell LaGrange, Senior Spotlight;
Liz Eson and Joe Michaelson,
Junior Highlights; Mibs Taylor and
Martha Lowder, girls’ sports; Judy
Wilson, typing editor.
Sue Newman, taking time out from her frantic struggles to put this year’s yearbook in shape, announced that Gail Spatz will be editor-in- chief of the 1962 Bricks and Ivy.
Other staff members are: Jana
Hesser, associate editor; Maureen
Glasheen, art editor; John Bilder- see, literary editor; Robert Hen­ drickson, photography editor; Peter
Dreschler, assistant photography edi­ tor; Paul Feigenbaum, treasurer;
Dick Doling, advertising editor.
This year’s Columbia Scholastic
Press Association Conference will- be March 9-11. As in the past, a group of new editors will spend a mad three days picking up the fine points of the art of newspaper or yearbook composition. Judging from past trips, they will also manage to enjoy the experience.
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Vol. XXXV, No. 6 THE MILNE SCHOOL, ALBANY, N. Y. FEBRUARY 28, 1961
Fifteen members of the senior class have been awarded Regents’
College scholarships. These are granted on the basis of a competi­ tive examination in October. Only
120 were awarded in all of Albany
County, so this year’s seniors made an excellent showing. The fifteen winners are: Rodney Abele, Helen
Alpert, Janet Arnold, Arthur Bass,
Dave Blabey, Margie Childers, Bar­ bara Currey, Barbara Faulkner,
Dave Herres, John Hiltz III, Stu
Horn, Ellen Price, Bonnie Reed,
Ricky Stewart, and Betty Weinstein.
Tied for top score among the girls in the state was Janet Arnold.
Five students qualify as alter­ nates. They may receive awards, depending on the number of win­ ners who refuse the grants, which can only be used in a school within
New York State. Barry Rosenstock,
Judy Koblintz, Glen Simmons, Alan
Markowitz, and Joe Allison, are hoping for the demise of scholar­ ship winners.
Janet Arnold has also been awarded a science scholarship, which can be used only for specific majors. Ellen Price is on the alter­ nate list for this scholarship.
Glen Simmons is a finalist for a
Naval ROTC Scholarship.
Three seniors have ‘been named
Finalists in the 1960-61 National
Scholarship competition. Ellen Price,
Patty Cincotti, and Janet Arnold ranked in the top six-tenths of one per cent of competing seniors in the state. The seventh such program will begin in March with the Na­ tional Merit Qualifying Test given to juniors.
Whatever difficulties the Senior
Student Council may encounter in the coming year, we may be sure
Gail Spatz, B.
& I. Editor Clint Bourdon, C. & W. Editor
By CAROL RICOTTA
Among those seniors who have received word of college accept­ ance are: Joe Allison, Clarkson
University; Jan Arnold and Jon
Axelrod, Syracuse University; Art
Bass, Cornell U. School of Agri­ culture; Dave Blabey, Hamilton;
Linda Clawson, Judy Koblintz, and
Stu Horn, Albany State; Sue
Crowley, Albany Medical Center
School of Nursing; Nancy Heins,
Geneseo State; George Jenkins,
Hartwick; Joyce Johnson, Oneonta
State; Sue Unger, New Paltz State;
Betty Weinstein, University of
Iowa; Chris Wrzenski, Alfred Agri­ cultural and Technical Insititute.
Saint Patrick’s Day will see a green and white library as Milne presents its annual Card Party and
Bake Sale.
As in the past, seniors head the committees, which include senior high students. The first $250 earned at this event will go to the senior class, and the remainder will be given to the Student Council to allocate as it wishes.
General chairman of the event, which has always proved enjoyable to Milne mothers and their friends, is Betty Weinstein, with Judie
Margolis as co-chairman. Other committees are headed by Steve
Rice, Penny Pritchard, Janice
Humphrey, Tim Hamilton, Stu
Horn, Penny Traver, Janet Arnold,
Scott Bunn, Judi Safranko, Jan
Mattick, and Joyce Johnson.
Tri-Hi-Y will hold its annual
Sports Night on March 18. Details of this event have not been made available to the press as yet, but judging from previous such affairs, it should prove interesting.
Milnites who have attended
Sports Night in past years will re­ member such features as these: the faculty’s dance contest, student- faculty basketball and volleyball games, junior high pie-eating con­ tests, our boys in girl’s gym uni­ forms, inter-society sports, and the faculty volleyball game with one pajama-clad, cigar-smoking super­ visor playing both sides of the net.
Whatever Tri-Hi-Y comes up with this year, they have a fine tradition of providing an evening of entertainment at reasonable cost.
that it will not lack pulchritude.
Four girls have been elected as the new officers.
Ellen Wolkin, her campaign aided by snowshoes and a chorus line, replaces Sandy Berman as Presi­ dent of the council. Vice-president, replacing Tim Hamilton, is Sue
Johnstone. Secretary and Treas­ urer Hildie Lanzetta and Jan
Surrey will inherit the jobs from
Margie Childers and Joe Allison.
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Milne’s Music Appreciation club will journey to New York City on
Friday, March 24.
Our music lovers will leave about
9 o’clock and return early Saturday morning. Their main purpose in making the trip is to hear the
Metropolitan Opera presentation of
Puccini’s Turandot. They will also attend a performance of the New
York Philharmonic, conducted by
Leonard Bernstein, which will in­ clude one of Mozart’s symphonies, a piano concerto played by B.
Weber; and a Sibelius symphony.
The club members will also at­ tend a recording session of Colum­ bia records. They hope to have the opportunity to record two of the
Milnette’s songs.
The editors and staff of the Crim­ son and White would like to take this opportunity to thank the John­ son Press for their many hours of patient labor. Without their un­ failing devotion, craftsmanship, good humor, and ink, the staff would have given up a long time ago.
Their fast work to ^neet our out- lageous deadlines and their ap­ preciation of our news policy has made possible several last-minute additions which contributed to the overall quality of our verbose rag.

CRIMSON AND WHITE FEBRUARY 28, 1961 PAGE 2
By KATIE WIRSHING
The sophomore class has expressed a practically un­ animous opinion against the proposed switch from an exclusively senior play to an all-school play. When asked what they thought, the following opinions seem to be most prevalent among this class.
Susan Weinstock: “The switch is a terrible idea.
The senior play is a Milne tradition, and we have few enough of those as it is!”
Gail Kelch: “I think that there should be two sep­ arate plays, a senior play and an all-school play, but if it comes to a choice, of course we should have a senior play.”
? ? ? : “The faculty has taken enough of
Milne’s traditions and privileges away already, with­ out doing away with the senior play. They definitely should not take this step without at least discussing it with a large number of the Milne students.”
Collectively, the sophomores feel very definitely that abolishing the play would be a mistake, and would only cause further difficulties in student-faculty rela­ tions.
Madison Avenue struck again, leaving in its olive-green wake a livid scar of materialistic gore.
The Smart Set, a dark candle-lit establishment well known to Mil- nites adopted a new policy of serv­ ing sandwiches along with their other wares. To proclaim the news the coffee shop installed a large, gaudy yellow sign in the main room, destroying the quiet, peaceful at­ mosphere which usually prevailed.
Upon seeing this carnage, David
Herres, Stuart Horn, John Hiltz be­ came enraged. This last outpost of repose in our city had become muti­ lated by the “gaudy dollar sign.”
Unable to control themselves, the three champions of candlelight com­ posed a “Poem of Social Protest,” blasting the sign in three quatrains, stating that the atmosphere had be­ come polluted with neon.
The poem was left on the table, and the three crusaders left the coffee shop. The scalding verse was found by a waitress and passed on to the owner.
The sign is gone as a direct result of that poem, proving that the pen is mightier than the sandwich.
—Parker Schaeffer
By ELLEN SPRITZER
Much controversy has arisen concerning the adop­ tion of a plan to convert the senior play into an all­ school play.
One viewpoint is that it should remain a senior play. Students feel that Milne seniors would take more pride in the play if it were all their own. A play strictly for the seniors would give underclassmen something to look forward to. Ann Riley expressed the argument that, had enough lower classmen been interested in dramatics to warrant this change, they would have kept Hams Inc. alive. But since there was this lack of interest in Hams, why should the younger grades be so interested in an all-chool play?
There was a great deal of support voiced for chang­ ing the play to an all-school play. The heads of various committees woul dstill be seniors and the committees would be open to any and all seniors and also to lower classroom. This would provide the future seniors who would still have the full responsi­ bility for handling the play with the experience they would need to do a good job. The major parts in the plays would go to seniors, but the minor parts v/ould be open to any younger students. Thus Milne could produce larger variety of plays but lessen the strain on the seniors. Dick Doling, president of the junior class, in speaking for many of his fellow stu­ dents, said that he felt the idea was a good one but was very disappointed in the communications between the faculty and the junior class since they are the first to be affected. Laurie Hyman and Ruth Scherer agree that an all-school play would give more students an opportunity to take part, though the bulk of the responsibility should lie with the seniors. -
j -U trcd in this
W orld ,
February 10, 1961
Dear Mr. Fossieck:
I have just been advised that
Janet Arnold, a student in your school, has won the highest score among the girl candidates for the
Regents College Scholarships this year.
I have written a letter of con­ gratulations to Janet and now wish to commend you and the faculty of your school.
Would you please convey to your colleagues my greetings and respect.
You and they have our enthusiastic,
“Well done!”
Sincerely,
James E. Allen, Jr.
Anxiously awaiting the arrival of Jim McClelland,
’60 on an Air Force plane is dizzy Sue Unger.
Seen at Jimmy Gewirtzman’s bar mitzvah service were Ronnie Koven, Stephen Harris, Elaine Rosen­ thal, Ira Certner, Ricky Gould, Sue Krimsky, Linda
Paul and Phyllis Levine. These guests also attended a record hop with Bill Pope as disc jockey.
Did you notice Jan Mattick, Barry Rosenstock, Barb
Currey, and Butch Hildebrandt reading such poetry as “How Do I Love Thee?” at Helen Alpert’s Valen­ tine party?
Valentine’s Day found Penny Pritchard the recipient of two dogs (dead and, stuffed) from GUESS WHO.
Judie Fisher’s thoughts are in New Jersey—wonder why? ,
Say, does anyone remember seeing a very promin­ ent ninth grader, M.L.P. running around in diapers three years ago? WOW!
Miss Murray, Joanie Kallenbach, Grant Perry, Karen
Ungerman, and Mo Glasheen all look real keen on skiis—especially when there’s no snow on them rare occasions.
Looks like Jan Arnold is giving the Bronx School of Science tough competition. Congratulations.
Randy Hatt, Barbara Leach, Karen Hoffman, Kathy
Le Fevre, Pete Dreschler, and about twenty-five other thespians showed up at the first meeting of the new
Dramatics Club. The club meets Monday afternoons in the Little Theater, and anyone interested is wel­ come!
Rodney Abele broke his skiis—if he doesn’t like the sport why doesn’t he just say so?
Mr. De Long likes tea parties (and this is the
INSIDE DOPE). It’s a shame Mr. Kraus stepped on his hand—now it’s in a casting. MISSING—one won­ derful secretary—NAME—Mrs. Scully.
Kris Korman is now the proud aunt of a red-headed nephew.
C rimson and W hite
Vol. XXXV. Feb. 28, 1961 No. 6
Published every three weeks by the Crimson and White Board, The
Milne School, Albany,
New York. Address exchanges to the Ex­ change Editor and other correspondence to the
Editor.
MEMBER
Columbia Scholastic Press Ass'n.
The Editorial Staff
Editor-in-Chief_________ J. Hiltz,'61
News Editor _________ J. Arnold, '61
Assoc. Editor _________ B. Reed, '61
Boys' Sports Editors,
D. Blabey, S. Rice, '61
Girls' Sports Editor G. Simmons, '63
Chief Typist_________ J. Mattick, '61
Assoc. Editor R. Stewart, '61
Feature Editor ___T. Hamilton, '61
Photographer _ J. Axelrod, '61
Faculty Adviser Mr. David Martin
The Staff
P. Allen, H. Alpert, L. Clawson, B.
Faulkner, D. Herres, J. Humphrey,
D. Kermani, J. Koblintz, M. Lowder, •
B. Rogler, B. Rosenstock, J. Siegfried,
G. Simmons, E. Steitz, M. Taylor,
B. Weinstein.
Contributors
J. Donikian, G. Krichner, C. Ricotta

FEBRUARY 28, 1961 CRIMSON AND WHITE PAGE 3
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Student-Teacher Tea
Milne vs. Watervliet
In the second meeting between the two teams, Milne’s Junior
Varsity dropped its closest game of the season to a scrapping Water­ vliet J.V. 39-37 on the opponent’s court. Hurt by a low shooting per­ centage, the future profs could not cope with the greatly improved
’Vliet team. The game was closely fought all the way as proven by the quarter scores of 11-7, 21-19, 28-23, and 39-37.
Brian Carey, “Cody Nuchols, and Jim Roemer were high for
Milne with respective scores of 9,
8, and 7. High for the victors was
Walko with 22 points.
It has long been a tradition of the Milne School to hold a Student-
Teacher Tea for the year’s student- teachers and the Milne faculty for this year’s tea. The Home Eco­ nomics Department provided the re­ freshments, while the M.G.A.A.
Council made the decorations. Both organizations helped serve. Weeks of preparation went into this tea.
Along about Christmastime 1960, the M.G.A.A. Council held a mass invasion of Joan Kallenbach’s house. (Joan is the Council’s presi­ dent.) There, and from then on, the council busied themselves mak­ ing the white daisies and yellow- brown-eyed susans. These flowers were strung on green ribbons and hung from the lamps and on the book cases in the library, where the tea was held. The Home Economics
Department also put forth grand efforts at producing the numerous tasty cookies.
RAIDERS RACKED
On January 27, Watervliet High, still in contention for the Capital
District League title, leveled Milne’s
Red Raiders, 56-50. The game was typical of the Raider’s previous en­ gagements with our famous quintet dropping the decision in the last two minutes.
The first quarter began with both teams matching each other hoop for hoop. It was then, with one minute remaining that Water- vliet’s Bill Voland hooped three baskets in succession to push the
“Vliet” advantage to 27-10. Dur­ ing the second quarter Milne’s defi­ cit remained the same. The half time score being 38-23. The big half time rest was of to ho avail for
Milne and “Vliet” quickly scored
6 points at the outset of the third quarter. From then on “Vliet” sat back and watched a desperate Milne five strive for more points, but with bad passes and missed shots the boys couldn’t do a thing. The final score showed “Vliet” in front 56-50.
High for Watervliet were S.
Mardigan, V. Bowden, and B.
Voland who collected 15, 14, and 13 points respectively. Accounting for
Milne, who showed surprising uni­ form scoring were S. Rice, M. Dag­ gett, T. Thorsen, T. Bennett, and
J. McClelland.
SHENS OUTLAST MILNE
The Shenendehowa “Plainsmen” fought off a Milne rally in the clos­ ing minutes of the game to edge the Red Raiders 52-48 in a thrill packed exhibition on Friday, Feb­ ruary 3 at Elnora.
The game was very close in all four quarters with Milne holding a half-time lead of 22- 0 and Shenen­ dehowa rallying to a final score of
52-48. After trailing 3-2, Milne moved into the lead but was tied
12-12 at the end of the first quarter.
The second quarter remained dead­ locked and only a quick hoop by
MILNE LOSES IN OVERTIME
Friday night, February 10, proved to be a black night for all Raider rooters, as the Milne High cagers lost to Cohoes High and thereby definitely eliminated themselves for a chance at the Capital District league crown. Now, to even go to the sectionals Milne must win her last three games to remain ahead of
Van Rensselaer.
The Cohoes quintet pulled in front of the Raiders in the first quarter and remained ahead at the half 21-19. However, the Raiders were not giving up.
Early in the third period, Milne taking the advantage of the incon­ sistency of Cohoes’ shooting and rebounding passed the visiting five.
But Cohoes came back with three quick hoops to stay in front at the end of the third quarter, 32-29. The final quarter was very close all the way, and excitement rose as the score drew even with only 40 .sec­ onds to go. 35 seconds later a quick hoop by Milne evened the score
40-40. Then desperate playing dom­ inated both teams, and the final score stood 40-40.
The overtime period began even with no team scoring in the first minute, and then, Cohoes High’s
Warren Mannix let loose with 3 quick hoops to all but smash the
Raider’s chances. The remaining minute was merely a chance for
Cohoes to put the icing on the cake and the final score stood Cohoes,
51 and Milne, 40.
Milne had only one man in double figures; Mike Dagget who pumped in 21 points. Cohoes was paced by hot shot, Warren Mannix, and also
Gary Heroux, who turned in a fine performance off the boards.
Steve Rice pushed Milne to a half­ time lead of 22-20. The third quar­ ter saw Shenendehowa fight back to within one point of the Raiders and the fourth quarter was merely routine for a Milne team playing away from home.
High for the Shen’s was Don
Shafts and Bill Scanlon with 20 and
13 respectively. Tom Bennett and
Steve Rice contributed to the Milne cause with 16 and 13.
Milne vs. Lansingburgh
Returning from the mid-term exams, the J.V. faced a rugged
Lansingburgh team which defeated the hoop-scholars 38-22. Having no practice and little sleep, the hustling ’Burgh team ran around
Milne for the second time this season. They posted quarter scores of 10-7, 18-10, 24-14, and 38-22.
Jim Hengerer, Curt Cosgrave, and Jim Lang with four points each were the high men for Milne.
Milne vs. Schenendehowa
With an exceptionally late scor­ ing burst, the Milne Jayvees could not recover from the large point deficit that had befallen them in time to take a victory from a red- hot Shenendehowa squad. The galant scoring of Brian Carey with
14 points, Jim Roemer with 8, and
“Sam” Huff with 4, was not enough to overcome the Shens’ Krawiecki,
Pingleski, and Heinen scoring re­ spectively 14, 12, and 12 points.
Shenendehowa took period leads of
8-5, 25-15, 41-28, and 60-38 to earn thei rsecond win over Milne this season.
Milne vs. Cohoes t The Milne team was again out­ lasted by a sharpshooting Cohoes team as they were defeated 38-24 on the Page gym court. Although the first quarter ended in a 7-7 tie,
Cohoes pushed ahead 14-11 at the half and stayed there. The remain­ ing quarter scores were 25-17 and
38-24.
Brian Carey was high for the
Raiders with 8 points, followed by
Jim Roemer with 7.
Milne vs. Rensselaer
In one of Milne’s best played games of the season, the Jayvees managed to keep Van Rensselaer on their toes before being defeated by the accurate jump-shooting of
Rensselaer’s Shultz, Harris, and
Singleton. Milne kept close to
Rensselaer all the way, but could not quite cut the Ram lead down and keep it down. The Rams led quarterly 18-12, 31-24, 46-37 and
56-43. The high scoring of Brian
Carey, Jim Roemer, and “Sam”
Huff with respective scores of 14,
12, and 10 was not enough to over­ come the well balanced Ram attack.
The end result? Another success­ ful Student-Teacher Tea.
Trampoline
The trampoline is again destined to give Milne girls their share of
“Life’s ups and downs.”—a pun in­ tended. At an opportune moment, they may fall flat on their faces.
Presently though, providing they possess the ability, they may grace­ fully bounce back to the standing position. (This is called a face drop.)
Trampoline for a senior high ac­ tivity in M.G.A.A. will begin Febru­ ary 28th, for Junior High, it will start March 1st.
Bowling Tournaments
This year Miss Murray staged three M.G.A.A. Bowling tourna­ ments to end the year’s bowling intramurals. Those girls who had gone to M.G.A.A. bowling on Tues­ days, Wednesdays or Thursdays with M.G.A.A. previously. To make things fair, all those competing were given handicaps ranging from 80 to
0 points according to their individ­ ual average and the average of the high bowler on their particular day.
Girls who held the high averages for the three days were Peggy
Crane, Tuesday, 126 average; Cheryl
Weiner, Wednesday, 109 average; and Beth Laraway, Thursday, 125 average.
The Test
I hate to bring to mind the topic of mid-year exams now, but it does seem to me that something has to be done about Miss Murray’s in­ fallible gym tests. Never once has a Milne girl received a 100% on one of her gym tests in all the years that Miss Murray has been here.
Did you hear Miss Murray say that we never will either?
The recently formed Senior High basketball intramural program is running iy high gear. Games are played every Tuesday morning from
8:00 to 8:45, and at the present four rugged teams are participating in the league.

CRIMSON AND WHITE PAGE 4 February 28, 1961
By TIM HAMILTON
By MARTHA LOWDER
Dante—If I flame upon thee in the heat of love, beyond the meas­ ure that is seen on earth, so that
I vanquish the valor of thine eyes, marvel not, for it proceeds from perfect vision, which according as it apprehends, so does it move its feat to the apprehended good.
Decca—1,000 stars in the night know the reason why, you are the one love that I am dreaming of!
Oh, oh, oh, oh. I am with you to­ night, I am captured by your charms! Please pretty baby wont you take me in your arms?
Dante—Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself in a dark wood, where the right way was lost.
Ah, how hard a thing it is to tell whatt his wild and rough and diiii- cult world was. So bitter is it that death is little more.
Decca—I want to go home, where
I belong! I am just a lonely teenager. , . t
The above examples are certainly extremes in so for as being repre­ sentative of what people are inter­ ested in and enjoy. The excerpts from Dante’s Divine Comedy were written by a master, an accepted genius; a man whose work has vived the weathering of time. The lyrics from two songs, which have currently been receiving a good deal of “air play,” are ill-con­ structed and are already beginning to fade. Yet, somewhere between these two extremes lies the taste of the average teen - age youth.
Many feel that it lies closer to the lonely young man who wants to go home than to the Italian poet in the
“dark wood of error.’1
It has traditionally been the role of the adult to find fault with the tastes and fads of the younger gen­ eration. The eternal question in the minds of a good many people concerning youth is “what is the world coming to?” Let us think for a moment, just what the world has come to. Despite rock and roil, chewing gum and yoyos have we not made tremendous strides? the advancements in science, and par­ ticularly in the world -of the atom, do not seem to be greatly ham­ pered by the “top 10.” It must be accepted then, that the'world will not cease to rotate on its axis, hot will the admirable institutions of our civilization crumble because
American youth exhibits an interest in items other than the classics.
There is no immediate need for our elders ,to press the proverbial panic button.
Yet, we cannot deny that a good deal of the music and other enter­ tainment which seems to infatuate today’s youth is pure trash. Greasy- haired morons with electric guitars and mobile mid-sections cannot be termed pillars of good taste. Per­ haps Dante best summed up the situation when he said, “abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”
A reason often cited for the will­ ingness of American youth to ac­ cept this sort of thing is their will­ ingness to conform. But the answer to such a problem cannot lie in non­ conformity as this itself eventually turns out to be a beared form of conformity.
It seems then that two large groups exist; those who would be herded onto dance floors to move with the beat as inwardly chuckling disk jockeys hurl sticks of chew­ ing gum at them, and those who
Have you ever wondered how on earth people decide what to write about in a newspaper column?
Actually it isn’t too difficult if you follow a few basic rules. First of all, always wait until the night be­ fore the deadline. This never fails to create absolute panic, and you can write twice as well, or at least twice as fast—when you’re desper­ ate. This, you will notice, is the same rule that applies to term papers and long-range homework assignments. Next, be sure to start over at least three times. This makes it sound so much more ef­ fective when you recount your sob story later on. Having thus far,
I assume, gotten nowhere, by all means call a friend. If you are a gossip columnist call at least four of them. In other cases, one should prove enough for some form of in­ spiration. Here is one way of ap­ proaching the problem.
“Hi! Have you done your home­ work yet?” . . . “Me neither. Have you written your article yet?” . . .
“Me neither, and I’m desperate. Do you have any ideas?” . . . “No, I promise that I won’t laugh. Please tell me.” ... “Holy cow. You’re crazy. They’d never print it” . . .
“I’m sorry. Wait a minute. Why don’t we trade columns this week?”
. . . “Allright. Now, what can I write for the paper? There must be some everyday problem that I could . . . are you thinking the same thing I’m thinking? . . . Telep­ athy, no less. Okay. I’ll write on the problem of picking a topic for newspaper article. Now let’s think of something for your article!”
And so it continues. The next process it to write the article.
Figure on making it twice too long so that it can be cut in half. Now it is ready to be torn apart. In some cases I mean this literally. Next with luck, it is printed and you be­ gin again with step number one.
“Hmmm. What can I use for a topic.” prefer to isolate themselves from the world in attempting to find it.
What may a person say to himself in attempting to avoid either of these stereotyped images? I must be one of the gang? This is not wise unless you have a pretty good idea of who comprises “the gang.”
Then should one say, I must be strikingly different? This too seems a very poor creed; it tends to lead to a lot of complaining and very little accomplishment. Perhaps the safest thing to say, and the only thing which really makes any sense is, “I must try to be myself.” True, being oneself may eventually lead to television and dance floors, or to beatnik cafes, but the road which leads us there will be the only one which we can travel and still see the land on either side.
Robert Frost has written a poem entitled “The Road not Taken” which may have been written after deep consideration of the problem which I have discussed. It lends some light to the problem of taste, which is basically one of decision.
I shall be telling this with a sigh,
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood and
I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the differ­ ence!
Going clockwise: Top, Art Bass, Barb Faulkner, Penny Traver, and
Dave Herres.
By JANE and BARRY
PENNY TRAVER
Guess “witch” Milne senior was born on Halloween way back in
1943? You’re right! It’s Penny
Traver!
Ever since she came to Milne,
Penny has been active in numerous activities. She was a member of the Senior Play Props Committee, is chairman of the Card Party
Tallies and Prizes Committee, is the senior representative on GAA
Council, and has been a homeroom officer for three years. Penny has also been taking piano lessons for eight years—I’ll be she could give
Van Cliburn some very serious competition!
Penny has a genuine fondness for children and has had a good deal of experience working with them. She is one of her neighbor­ hood’s most popular babysitters, and last summer she was a coun­ selor at a day camp operated by the Shelley Players.
Next year Penny hopes to major in early childhood education at either Wheelock, Syracuse, or Tufts
University. She certainly will be a welcome addition to any school she attends.
ARTHUR BASS
In this issue your roving cor­ respondent visted the home of that famous veterinarian Art Bass. Art has just completed a successful liver transplant on a 300 pound rhinoceros. The first operation of its kind ever attempted.
When asked about his early years in school, Art replied that he is in­ debted to Milne for everything it gave to him. Further questioning revealed that Art had been a mem­ ber of Hi-Y, Theta Nu, Math Club and Hams during his stay in Milne.
Art also mentioned that he showed scholastic promise at an early age by winning a Regents scholarship and Letter of Commendation.
I was very interested in how Art became a veterinarian, in the first place. Art said that he became in­ terested in animals at an early age.
For instance, one of his first hob­ bies was horseback riding. Art also was an avid reader; especially of animal stories. From this humble beginning, he has built himself up to a world-renowned veterinarian.
You readers have been privileged to visit the house of Arthur Bass.
BARBARA FAULKNER
Barb Faulkner has a distinction that no other member of the Senior
Class can claim. She was born in
Pulaski, Virginia. At the ripe old age of 5 she migrated to Albany, and in her sophomore year entered
Milne.
This year Barb is treasurer of
Tri-Hi-Y, and is a hard-working member of Sigma and the C&W typing staff. She was also on the small props committee of the Senior
Play. Just recently, Barb won a
Regents Scholarship which should come in quite handy next year.
An active Girl Scout, Barb has been treasurer of the Senior Girl
Scout Planning Board for two years, and in 1959 she attended the Girl
Scout Senior Roundup in Colorado.
This is an honor which few girls attain!
Next year will find Barb travel­ ing through Europe during the sum­ mer months, but next fall—it’s back to school. She would like to take a pre-med course, or a biology ma­ jor at the University of Rochester.
, DAVE HERRES
Dave Herres was born under un­ usual conditions, to say the least.
He was born in a bomb shelter in
London during the height of the blitz. A few years later, Dave mi­ grated to the U. S.
In the tenth grade Dave decided to give Milne a try. Needless to say in the few short years that
Dave has been here, he has made quite an impression on Milnites.
For one thing, Dave has distin­ guished himself as a man of many talents. He is currently engrossed in writing a parody on Lewis Carroll entitled “Alice in Wonderland Re­ visited.” In cast you don’t recog­ nize the book, Dave’s distinguished pen-name, Alexander Fabishum, will be on the cover. Scholastically,
Dave has distinguished himself by winning a Regents Scholarship and a Letter of Commendation. Dave is also proud of the fact that he has a perfect record as a campaign manager.
Dave attributes his success in
Milne to two things. First of all, he races snails in his bedroom, and secondly, he has no vices, now that he has given up smoking. After leaving Milne, Dave hopes to attend
Hobart College.