Crimson and White
Vol. XXXV, No. 6
THE MILNE SCHOOL, ALBANY, N. Y.
January 22, 1962
Dr. Howes Opens Admissions Policy Radically Changed
The Present Procedure
Career Series
Music Club
By JERRY BUNKE
Starting the New Year right, the
student council began its Eighth
Annual Career Series Program on
Thursday, January 4, with a talk
by Dr. Harold Howes. Dr. Howes’
talk served as an introduction to
the series which will be presented.
He indicated what we might derive
from these lectures and raised sotne
very pertinent questions which he
felt should be answered for the studet body. With one eye fixed on
the clock, Dr. Howes asked the as­
sembly the following series of ques­
tions: “What should we aim for?”;
“What can we get out of a career?”;
“What will the career demand of
us?” In choosing a potential career,
what values mean the most to us?
We must evaluate the position of
security—prestige—income—pleasure
or service to others.
“Stumbling Blocks”
We were warned about “stumb­
ling blocks.” Dr. Howes feels that
stenographers don’t have to be
women or that only women can be
nurses. He pointed out that the
White House’s stenographer is a
man who has been serving in that
capacity for 20 years.
Further,
there is a shortage of male nurses.
It was also pointed out that one
should not be swayed to a career
just because it seems to be full of
adventure, such as an airline stew­
ardess. Many of us who go on to
higher education after graduating
from Milne and therefore will be
exposed to new courses, subjects
and ideas; we should not be afraid
to change our mind. Since we beban school (way back in Kinder­
garten), we have' been striving
towards the day when we would be
independent. We have gone through
many changes, from becoming a
fireman, a cowboy or movie actress
to modern day astronaut. But this
merely points out that even though
now that we have matured (somewnat) our present thoughts on our
choice of careers might well be
altered several times.
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The speaker told us that we
should expore the working condi­
tions, the personal qualifications, the
education requirements or other
preparations, the promotional op­
portunities, the starting earnings,
the average earnings, and the max­
imum earnings of any career in
which we are interested.
MILNE BEATS STATE
On Friday, December 15, at 7:00
p.rn. at Brubacher Hall, the Milne
Chess Club played the State Col­
lege Chess Club. The result was a
surprise for both sides. After a two
hour struggle, the State College
teams was defeated SVk-?1/^- The
victorious team consisted of Steve
Levitas, Richard Luduena, Tom Oliphant, Bob Danger, Ellen Karell, Bill
Kelsey, Jim Dunn, and Andy Mc­
Culloch.
Plans Trip
The Music Appreciation Club has
planned to go to New York City
again this year. The trip will be on
Friday, March 23, and, as in the
past, the club will atend both a
symphonic concert and an opera.
Thirty-nine members of the club,
accompanied by Dr. Roy York and
his wife, will leave Milne at 8:45
Friday to be in time for the after­
noon concert at Carnegie Hall.
They will hear Haydn’s Symphony
No. 22, Strauss’ “Don Juan,” Hinde­
mith’s “Mathis de Mahler,” and
Malcom Frager playing Beethoven’s
Second Piano Concerto. Later in
the afternoon the group will visit
the Museum of Modern Art, and,
possibly, the Museum of History
and Art. In the latter they hope to
see the recently acquired $2,300,000
Rembrandt, “Aristotle Contemplat­
ing the Bust of Homer.”
After dinner together the club
will attend the performance of
Verdi’s “Rigoletto” at the Metro­
politan Opera House.
New Club for Law
Brody Elected President
Early in December a group of
students formed Milne’s newest or­
ganization, the Law Club. It is made
up of, and is interested in having
join, all who are interested in law,
and possibly in law as a career.
The present officers of the club
were elected late in December.
They are: President, Les Brody;
Vice - President, Paul Freedman;
Secretary, Elaine Teleconski, and
Treasurer, Jeff Sperry. Mr. Gustav
Mueller, of the Business Education
Department is the Faculty Advisor
of the club. At the present the club
has twelve members; it plans to
start a membership drive after mid­
year examinations.
Weekly business meetings are
held on Tuesdays; the club plans
to hold bi-weekly meetings after
school.
Programs for the latter
will include possible trips to the
Albany Law School, observation of
mock trialls, ambulance chasing, at­
tendance at court sessions, and lec­
tures by lawyers. Other possibili­
ties, according to Les Brody, are
the institution of a law library, and
several debates on law.
By amos moscrip
Milne’s new admissions policy differs from last year’s. Because of
the small number of places available on the junior and senior high, selec­
tion of students will depend on their ability to fit into “the school’s
educational program of demonstration, practice, and research.”
This ability will be partly determined by a scholastic aptitude test
administered by the campus in March, for the seventh grade, and June,
for senior high applicants. The candidate must place in the upper twothirds of the national high school population to be eligible for admission.
He must also have completed his present grade successfully before
------------------------------------------------------- entering Milne.
Other determining factors in a
candidate’s acceptance will be a re­
quired record of at least 95%
regularity of school attendance, an
ability to adjust to 35 different
For outstanding work in science teachers in a school year, and a
studies Jane E. Larrabee, will be capability to “assume responsibility
awarded the Bausch & Lomb Honor­ for self-direction.” The candidate’s
ary Sciene Award, it is announced present teacher will determine if he
by Dr. Theodore H. Fossieck, Prin­ meets these requirements.
cipal.
All applicants who fulfill these
Selection for this award makes
Janie eligible to compete for the admission requirements will be
three or more Science scholarships placed in a “Pool of Eligible Candi­
sponsored by the University of dates,” and ranked by test score
Rochester by Bausch & Lomb Ind. marks. The compiled list will then
The stipends range and are based be divided into six equal parts and
on the need and have a total com­ an equal number of students chosen
from each part. This will insure a
bined value of $21,600.
variety in the make-up of the Milne
Bronze Medal Awarded
The Science Award itself is a student body, especially in the
bronze medal which will be pre­ seventh grade, which will be formed
sented at the annual school honors entirely from this list. Applicants
assembly held in June. This year not chosen from the “Pool of Eligible
a similar award will be given in Candidates” will be placed on a
more than 7,500 high schools over waiting list, and notified as new
vacancies appear.
Those with a
the country.
minimum test score, but below re­
Has All “A” Average
Jane Larrabee has been a student quirement in attendance, adjusabil­
in the Milne school for the past two ity, or responsibility, will make up a
years, having previously attended “Pool of Possible Candidates.”
the Windsor, Conn. High School.
If the waiting list is exhausted,
She is one of he honor students in another list will be formed from the
the class of 1962 with an all “A” “Possible Candidate Pool.”
New
average for her junior year, and a waiting lists will be formed each
Regents average of 92.
year.
LARABEE RECEIVES
SCIENCE AWARD
Varsity Practices for Coming Games
Debate Club Organized
By JB
For the first time since 1957,
Milne has once again organized a
Debate Club. The group has be­
come a member of the National
Forensic League, a national society
of high school debate teams. Thus
far, the Debate Club has been meet­
ing after school on Frid-ays in Room Tom Bennett attempts a jump shot while Dan Mancucci of Cohoes bends
228, and all students in Gi’ades 7-12 over backwards trying to stop him. Watching with interest are Cohoesians
Neil Riberty and Vic Kowalsky, and Milne’s Brian Carey.
are invited to participate.
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Foreign Student Program?
Last year a movement was afoot to bring a
foreign student to Milne. If we remember
correctly the proceeds of the card party that
year, a reasonable sum, started the fund,
which was appropriately named the Foreign
Student Exchange Fund. The project was
then put under the administration of the
Senior Student Council.
Nothing has been heard since then on the
progress of the Council towards this goal. It
is a time for re-evaluation of this entire plan.
First of all is the project still "live?" If
so, precisely what is going on? If not, what
has happened to the money?
Second, is the whole idea feasible? Has it
been pointed out that the cost of bringing a
student here, and keeping him here, for a
year, is close to ’one thousand dollars? At
the rate of two hundred dollars a year, ap­
proximately FIVE years will be needed to
reach this goal. If as much money is being
added as at present, i.e. zero dollars per year,
it will take forever. In neither case can we
wait that long.
It would be interesting to have a report
from the Council on the present status of this
fund and project. It would also be pertinent
to have a discussion of the value of such a
project. The money might be better spent
on projects with goals that are easier to reach.
—C.C.B.
By JUDY MARGOLIS and SHERRY PRESS
THE ALUMNI BALL saw quite a gathering of Milnites and Milne grads. Keeping the show going were
the hostesses — Peggy Crane, Nancy Button, Carol
Sanders and Linda Garibaldi. Russ LaGrange, Gail
Kelch, Bob Reynolds, Carol. Tougher, Pete Wilfert,
Paul Feigenbaum, Lois Goldman, Kaye Koschorrack,
Bill Leue, Beth Laraway, Sue Johnstone, Jim Roemer,
Dan Morrison, Ellen Karell, Richard Luduena, Barb
Richman, and Jon Forstenzer were but a few there.
AFTER THE BALL Jim Hengerer gave a very re­
laxed party for the “Junior Can.” Karen Thorsen,
Zita Hafner, Jack Baldes, Gay Simmons, Jim Lange,
Carole Huff, Curt Cosgrave, Annie Miller, Jon McClel­
land, Sandy Longe, “Sam” Huff, and Jim Vaughn
relaxed among the scads of people I was too relaxed
to remember were there.
’TWAS THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS and the
seniors were beginning to look party-happy. Ann
Riley’s nearly got out of hand every time some idiot
put on the “twist” record—Gordy Campaign, Terry
Galpin, Beth Laraway, Pat Jaros, Dick Etkin, Chris
Rourke, Carol Tougher, Jane Larrabee, Pete Wilfert,
Jim Roemer, Sandy Longe, “Sam” Huff, Jim Vaughn,
Harriet Grover, Mike Daggett and Tom Davies were
aching for days after the party—either from doing
the twist or from laughing at it.
Chery Weiner had another impromptu little gettogether. MILNITES THERE: Laurie Rainer and Dick
Doling . . . Lynn Wise, Sue Johnstone, Terry Galpin,
and Jana Hcsser were seen at the University Club
dance . . . Gay Dexter and Laurie Hyman were the
Milnites helping Jana Hesser and much of the Class
of ’61 celebrate New Year’s Eve at Jana’s.
THE SEVENTH GRADE had a terrific time over
Christmas vacation also. Barbara Sperber held a
birthday party where Bob Sinn, Judy Polen, Mark
Berlowski, Marlene Abrams, Larry Frank, Judy
Levine, Ronnie Meckler, Sue Hawenstein, Artie Cohen,
Mary Rosenstock, Barry Press, and Mike Brody
"danced the night away!
CRIMSON AND WHITE
JANUARY 22, 1962
JAYVEES SLUMP Raiders Split Last 4 Games
ALTERNATE WINS AND LOSSES
DROP LAST 2
By JIM ROEMER
By JOHN BILDERSEE
Milne’s junior varsity returned to
the basketball wars after practicing
over Christmas vacation and was
edged by Albany Academy January
5 on the winner’s court, 40-33.
Bill Burk ran up the squad lead
with a total of 9 markers while Jeff
Rider, Pete Slocum and Chuck
Shoudy added 7, 6 and 6 respectively.
Hudson’s jayvees rolled over the
Red Raiders at Milne on January 13
by the deceptive score of 59-44.
The Bluehawks won the game in the
first quarter by rampaging to a quick
24 to 7 margin. Milne recovered
somewhat in the second half but we
were never able to come back into
contention as the remaining period
scores were 43-14, 51-20, and 59-44.
Pete Slocum and Chuck Shoudy
led Milne with 15 and 11 points re­
spectively.
Raiders Drop Two
To Watervliet
Well-rounded scoring and a 8
point third period by Milne figured
decisively in Watervliet’s 53-45 win
Friday night. Although never ahead
in the game, the Raiders managed
to stay close through the first half.
But by the end of the third period
Milne saw Vliet’s meager 3 point
half-time lead grow into a ten-point
margin. The Raiders never got much
closer and lost by eight, 53 to 45.
Milne’s record is now 4 wins and 5
losses.
Accumulating 19 points for his
season’s high in one game, Mike
Daggett kept the Raiders in the ball
game throughout the first half. In
the second half Jon McClelland
helped out and ended up with 17
points for the night. Jim Roemer,
starting his first game of the sea­
son, chipped in with six.
The J.V.’s lost their third straight,
57-50 despite a fine 12 and 11 point
output by Jeff Rider and Pete
Slocum, respectively.
Crimson
and
White
The Christmas Tourney
Milne celebrated the Christmas season by playing in
its first season tournament. The tournament took place
at St. John’s School in Rensselaer. The teams that
played in the tournament included Milne, St. John’s,
St. Joseph’s, and Guilderland Central.
In the tourney’s opening game on December 28,
Milne was challenged by a scrappy St. Joseph’s which
went down to defeat by a 54-41 score. Because of a
cold shooting hand, the Raiders started slowly and
were held to a 7-7 quarter tie. Jon McClelland, Tom
Bennett, and Mike Daggett, the main cogs in Milne’s
attack got hot simultaneously in the second quarter
and pulled the Raiders out of the tie into a command­
ing 26-11 half-time margin. During the first half Jon,
Tom, and Mike combined for all of the Raider’s points.
The Raiders continued the run-away into the 3rd
quarter and came up on the plus side of a 39-19
margin. St. Joseph’s got hot in the 4th quarter and
outscored the Raiders 22-15. Despite their hot hand,
they could but dent the Raider’s margin as Milne came
home riding the crest of a 54-41 score.
McClelland, Bennett, and Daggett ended up as our
top point getters with 23, 17, 11 points each respective­
ly. Jon pulled down 14 rebounds while Tom hauled
in 11 rebounds. The top men for St. Joseph’s were
Ricky Van Hoesen with 14 points and Steve Rice with
13 points. As a result of this game and the second
game of the evening where Guilderland beat St. John’s
61-52, Milne and Guilderland met in the championship '
game on December 29.
In the championship game at St. John’s Milne was
defeated by a hustling Guilderland squad, 61-43. The
Raiders fell right behind at the gun and the team was
never able to head off the flying Dutchmen. Milne
started slowly but the squad wasn’t as lucky as the
pervious night as the Dutchmen were off and winging
to a 14-5 quarter lead. We were able to hold our own
against the Dutchmen in the 2nd quarter and at the
half our Raiders were only trailing by 8, 26-18. Jon
McClelland came through with 12 points in the first
half to keep us in the game.
The 3rd quarter was a stand off as the bulge re­
mained at 8 points in Guilderland’s favor 39-31. The
Dutchmen started flying again in the last quarter and
won pulling away to make the final margin 61-43. As
a result Milne placed 2nd in the tourney.
Jon McClelland with 24 points and Tom Bennett
with 11 combined to lead the Raiders off the boards,
it was Bennett with 14 rebounds and McClelland with
12 rebounds. Corky Wells and Dick Hart led the
Dutchmen with 18 and 16 points respectively. Jon
McClelland ended up as the tournament’s leading
scorer with 47 points for 2 games and won a place on
the all-star team of the tournament as a reward.
Milne Breaks Academy Hex, 52-42
This time the victim was our city “cousin” Albany
No. 6 Academy. The Raiders moved in to a twelve point
lead before halftime and started to take a few careless
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every two shots. This proved to be costly, and caused the Raiders
weeks by the Crimson to miss quite frequently, enabling the Academy to get
and White Board, The their hands on the ball. They took careful shots and
Milne School, Albany, bounced back within three points of the Raiders by
New
York.
Address halftime. This score was 24-21.
exchanges to the Ex­
Academy began to hit in the second half and things
change Editor and other looked dim when they knotted the score at 32-32. The
correspondence to the future “profs” then pulled ahead at 42-38, and never
Editor.
fell behind. The final score was 52-42.
MEMBER
Jon McClelland led the Raiders with 18 points. He
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was backed up by Mike Daggett who tallied 15. Jon’s
efforts earned him a berth on the weekly all-star team
The Editorial Staff
in the Knickerbocker News.
Editor-in-Chief ^Clinton Bourdon, '62
Assoc. Editor ____ Ellen Spritzer, '62 Milne Downed by Hawks, 55-43
News Editor ____ Jane Larrabee, '62
Rampaging Hudson High School handed Milne its
Feature Editor ___ Gay Simmons, '63 fourth setback against four wins. The Hawks played
Sports Editor _____ Robert Huff, '62 a very impressive game, especially in the second half.
Asst. Sports Ed. , John Bildersee, '62 The Red Raiders got off to a slow start and at one
Asst. Sports Ed. James Roemer, '62 point were down by 12 in the first half. However, a
Typing Editor
.....Judy Wilson, '62 hard fought second quarter brought Milne to within
Treasurer ______ Paul Freedman, '62 3 points at half time. The score was 24-21.
Photographer . _ Bob Henrickson, '62
It seems as though half time was too long because
Faculty Adviser ___ Mr. David Martin when the Raiders took the floor in the third quarter
The Staff
they managed to hoop only five points in the eight
Harriet Grover, Lynn Wise, John minute round. Hudson got hot as the game progressed
Bildersee, Sue Gorman, Bill Barr, and at one time held a 23 point lead. A late streak
cut Hudson’s lead to 12 and the final score was 55-43.
Sue Weinstock.
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Jan. 22, 1962