C O M M E N T

The Belgrade Conference

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by Peter F a y

The Boy Friend" Stars

Rohde, Kent, McMillan T h i s pas t s u m m e r bma been

TWO THE SCHREIBER TIMES, Wednesday, September 20, 1961

E D I T O R I A L S

This Is Not PDSHS A pun sneaked Into the sombre "Students* Hand,

book" that was distributed to everyone on the f i i ^ day of school. We don't know how it got by the staid authors, but it did, and provided a brief grin , " L a r g e pocketbooks and the like require a look-in^ too . "

The Handbook was untortimately deemed i w c e s -sary by someone. At any rate, the review of com-mon sense and bast; social behavior provided in the booklet may be worthwhile, refreshing some-one's memory and making him realize that the school is a disciplined and oi^anized Institution, b u t . . .

The main trouble .with the Handbook Is its tonq Granted, a presentation of the srules and regula-tiona, penalities and behavior, is a difficult task to do gracefully, but perhaps it could have been more artfully accomplished than it was .

The Handbook turned out to be a cold warning, almost threatening any would-be truants, c r i m i n -a l s , and individualists that they had better conform and adhere to "the l a w , " or dire consequences would follow.

A s we said, such a book etiquette and law does serve the purpose of reminding, and does make the school appear as If it wi l l tolerate no "funny bus i -n e s s " — a n d this is as it should be. Almost no men-tion of - academic woik was made; it was assumed perhaps that the subject could be covered in other places. No mention of education was made, nor of Schreiber's purpose nor the reason for the Board of Education or the public school system existing.

No word of welcome from anyone is offered.

The Introduction is fallacious, poorly construc-ted, and ungxammatical—this Is not a fit welcome to school.

Nothing is said to the proven or potential "good c i t i zens ; " every word seems directed at those who ,drag race up Campus Drive and throw cigarette butts into the sink.

Let us not caU that a Student Handbook which is a supplement to the Motor Vehicle Bureau L-aws.

When we introduce a c lass of sophomores or an out-of-towner to Paul D. Schreiber, let us not be solely Kobert's Rules of Order, amended to fit our high school situation. Let us be more friendly, more helpful and more Instructive, letting the new students know that we not only reprimand and j a i l , we also educate.

P O S T S C R I P T : We hope that the General Organiza-tion's 1962 Etandbook Committee goes about its job with the knowledge that such a handbook can be of the greatest help in Introducing students to h i ^ school and to Paul D. Schreiber. It can be a v a l -uable source of Information, to be referred to thruugbout a student's stay at the high school.

$1^0 = S25.00 starting today, you w i l l be able to buy a PDSHS

General Organization Community Merchant and Services Discount C a r d . We just coined that name;

. w e a l l c a l l i t a G . O . Card . It is being sold for $1.50, and you should buy one. Not only can it save you at least $25. 00 in the course of the school y e a r , but G . O , Car d sales account for the greatest income of the high school G . O. This seems to us to be the most painless way of "supporting your school"—you boiefit as much as the G . O . does.

THE EDITOR'S COLUMN

m THOUGHT

Let us pose some questions. Is education Impcrtant; how did I t become considered i t i ^ x r u n t , and why? Why do Mwly-lndependent naUons create f i r s t , or almost f i rst , a departmeni of educatioD? Why do established nations place ^ e a t emjAaslS t ^ n education? What forms can education take? Should education be crganlzed; must people be made to "go to school." to listen to teachers, to recite tables and figures, to r e -port on books: is i t hypoca-ltical to go to school fcr about fifteen years, and then leave formal, c r ^ n l z e d . regular, supervised, graihial, but steady education behind, to go into business—or is it of value spend-ing one-third of a l i fetime i n school...does this t ime serve as a wasted period or as a foundadoai for the enjoyment of life? Can one get e n o u ^ out of l i te so diat be can say he has lived a valuable and meaningful and worthwhileandjus-tified existence?

What levels of education exist? Does a person ^ o w in intellectual or spir i tual ways i f he becomes SO involved with the mater ia ! and mundane that he does not appre-ciate a flower or a book or a ^ass of water? Can a man stop learning and observing and absorbing, r e -COgnizing and apfn-eclating. and settle Into a linear existence, and st i l t be called an entity with a mind and soul?

What fco'ms of education are valid; cr a r e they all? What Is ex-pected from education - a fuller enjoyment of life? Of what value is mathematics to a poet? Why Is l i true that poor farmers who des-perately need help w i l l send their r i g h t - h a n d help, titeir sons, or daughters, to school, declaring that this w i l l be of more benefit than t iUlng i h e soil so iherewl l lbe food to sell? What realization, cr revelation, has come to those who t o l l and sacrifice and deprive themselves in the name of educa-tion...and Is tfiis an Inevitable realization, cr a revelation? Is education a necessity?

What of cr i t i c isms and recom-memlations Involving the present system of education in America. . , does It achieve i t s goals; does i t fToduce educated people, or pet^le who benefit from having the educa-ti

THE SCHREfBERTIAAES, Wednwdoy, September 20, 1961

Dave Duffy-Traveler Returned by E l l e n Tibby

Amongthe students welcomed back to the fold of the Port Washington fichoolsystem from travels abroad is David Duffy, a sheep of many colors. Dave's fother, Dr.John Duffy, was last year sponsored by the Itaited States Department of State at the invitation of the India MedicalAssociationtoteachandhelp cure Indians with speech disorders andhearing problemsj^v^now a junior was invited, a l o i ^ with his mother and s U t e r , to a c -company the (toctor.

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Before going lo tndla. however, the family decided to seethe worid, and accordingly, on July 1, 1960. tbey boarded a [Aaoe which eventually landed them In-London, Paris, Nice, Geneva, Lucerne. Venice, Florence, Rome, and Cairo. (Cairo, in the mysterious, exciting land of Egypt, was, says Dave, "a dump, a hoi, miserable hole.'") On July 30 they arrived In Bombay, India, where iheywere to spend Oie year.

In Bombay Dave entered an En^lsh boy's school which met from nine until four o'clock three times a week; the periods were forty minutes long. The English curriculum, in his opinion, did not offer courses that would allow Mm to ccMitinue successfully In anA-merican school later on, so Dave devised a scheme that he hoped would be satisfactory. In Sep-tember 1960 he wrote to PDSHS for text books, and prepared to teach hlmselfl At the aid of the British school term In October he withdrew, and, while waiting for his books to arrive, travelled through central India.

In central India he toured a Russian-built steel ptant in which Russians filled Important engi-neering posts, and the Indians did the menial labor. During his stay in India, Dave found many examines of American aid «ylng with Soviet aid for the partiality of neutral India. Cave feels that American aid, usually In a mone-tary form Mtly, Is n-* as immed-iately able to Impress the In-dians as Is Russian aid. In the form of gargantuan engineering and construction projects, and is therefore not as effective. In Mag-pur, st i l l In central India, he saw the Ajunia and the EUora, two religious caves carved from the hillside, whldi contained, re-spectively, Buddhist and Hindu paintings and sculpture.

Studies and Recess

Back in Bombay, his books hav-ing arrived, Dave setupa schedule, for himself-8:30 In the morning until four orfiveo'clock-andbegan to study. He found It difficult to decide exactly what lessons to read and what exercises to com-plete, and eventually ended up doing more reading than writing

To break up his studies, he loured through southern India and stopped at Madras, " a colorful city on the Bay of Beopil," says rtove,'where the fisherman are primitive but happy people who live In thatched huts along the beach." The government wants to relocate these peo[4e in modem aparments. but Dave feels this action wUl only lead to slums tmless the Indians are educated to accept the change.

On a boat tr ip from Cochin, a port near Goa, to Bombay, Dave had a dunce to meet and speak with buUana from a l l over India, and then home again once more, he resumed his studies. The work for Cbve became interesting when he read for knowledge alcHie. and as he continued, the interest built up. He found he could stick to the Job be had laid out for himself but soon saw the importance of the competi-

tion and drive that one encounters In a schooL

Helps With Exams

In another respite between stud-ies Dave toured the modem city of New Delhi and then wait with his fodier to the village of Belilah hi the state of Bihar. There, Dr. Duffy was anempdng to find a correlation between goiter and deafness, both of which are prev-alent among the peo[4e of Bettlah, and have helped his father by giv-ing bearing tests wltt an audio-meter to many of the patients.

From BeCtiah they flew to near-by Nepal where Dave, with an American college boy he met by change, toured various museums and temples in Katmandu, the capi-tal, and inthesurroundlngcounlry, took bicycle trips and hikes upand down mountains, and even got a glimpse of Mount Everest as a "feint speck in the sunlight." Re-luming to Delhi, Dave and his tatfaer had a personal appointment with Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prjme Minister of India, and spoke for twenty minutes about the Peace Corps, instilling in Nehru a new Interest and ^tbuslasm in the Corps.

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And Home Again

in Bombay once more Dave com-pleted his school work and pre-pared to leave India, Before leov-Ing, however, his family flew to Calcutta, a city of wretched pov-erty, of beg^rs, and disease, where thousands of men, women ind children s l e ^ In the streets, wrapped wtly in a blanket as a protection from rats and insects. They then flew on to Ban^ok. Rangoon, Sin^pore, Hong Koog. Osaka, Tokyo, and Kyoto, com-pleting their picture of the East, Dave was particularly impressed with Japan as a land wtdch has greatly advanced by imitating the indentions of other countries, but whose people were notand still are not prepared to meet the sudden changes that are taking place. The Japanese, he f d t , must be polite, because to be so is traditionally part of tbeii culture, yet to him their culture seemed ironically static.

From Japan die Duffys 'flew home to the U.S., and on July 13. 1961, they arrived hi New York.

Ehve. In retrospect. Is gl«d that he went to India. He believes ttBt he now better understands the problems of the countries he has seen and the problems of theworld in genera L He thinks he under-stands the values ctf ectication more, since his tr ip gave him an o i^r lunl ty "to take time" and reflect slowly and deeply on the meaning and importance of things. However, Dave says, he Is glad to be hnne, since now he has the ofifioTtunlty to apply what he has learned.

P h o t s 8r P ' u l C a l d b l i t t

Dave Duffy of IndU

SENIORS {Continutd from front page) transcripts and send them to the colleges. We must obtain recom-mendations frcsn three teachers to accompany our records.

If you desire any College Board grades to go to your prospective colleges, either f i l l In ihecolleges in the sup^ied space on the S A T registration slip for this year's tests or write to IheColIegeBoard in Princeton, New Jersey and ask that your specific grades be sent to your frospective colleges.

The couns^ors also recom-mended that we make college trips to the schoolsttialwearedefinitely interested in new evai if we have seen them in summer so that we may see the college In Its academic and social atmosphere. They said it would be advisable for us to speak to the kids and see the dorms while they are actually in use. as well as to see some actual classes in action.

This is a general calendar for college-bound students fortfaenext few months:

1. Students who took Achievement tests during the summer should

to the Guidance Office for the results after Thursday. 2. Thursday, October 5, N.YjS. Regents Scholarship Exams all day.

Saturday, November 4, A.C.T. Exams required of apfrilcanis at certain Midwestern schools. 4. S A T registration information and slips available in Guidance QfOce. 5. Saturdays, Dec. 2. and Jan. 13, (btes of College Board Exams,

Mr. I M I S InmwH,

���� Soldier "Ballad of a Soldier" is j r e -

sently pUylng at the Cinema Tltea-ter. This story o€ a young soldte" gcdog home on furlough to see his mother Is both moving and beaioi-ful. The touching of the emotions is brought about by the stirring beauty ani slnnpllclty In the lines and story. The feci that the aud-ience had lo read the suMtles certainly did not lessen the Impact of the film.

Not once during the movie was the eneny menilooed. yet the mis-ery of war was apparent every-wta^e. The opening scene of the movie portrayed the soldlo* In a sltuatloD which almost cost him his life. The soldier disabled two tanks and emerged from the e n -couiSer as a hero. Rather than accept a deccrailon the young man asked to see his mother, to whom he had never said good-bye. A Irtp which under ntrmal circumstances would take twenty-four hours, took the boy three days. For the first t l M In the boy's life he sensed a feeling of love for someone other than his mother. His experiences were shared with a young girl he met in the cattle cars of the train. Their acquaintance was short, and when it ended, even though d»ere was no dialogue, the audience felt the loss, along with the soldier. The climax of the plctire was the most stirring scene in the movie, yet for about three minutes there was silence on the screen.

The sirmllclty atxJ realism erf the movie did not attempt to cam-ouflage the hardships the people were subjected to. There was no glamour cr Hollywood atmosphere [x-eseni. The scena-y was perfect foe the movie and the phoiop-aphy was both excellent and unusual. Even the background music blend-ed with the mood of the picture. Nodilng could have been added to make the presentation more mov-ing-

Gale Washton

p h o t o By P a u l H M k a r t

WHO AND WHAT?

ItefVniS f r « ftOCft'lf who is in the photo above?

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B y C h r i s t i n e J o r d a n

What is the person doing ?

The first student to bring the correct answers to Room9wiUwinthis contest, and wil l receive a free lunch in school.

FOUR THE SCHREI6ER TIMES, Wednesday^ Septamber 20, 1961

Bob Verdi's Sports One o( tbe lesser known but aevertbeless i ^ a n d - c o m l n g sports , Crties Country, will open its sc tedule

a week from tomorrow (September 28), under B new coach, Mr. Joe Zel t ler . AH marches will be contested on a revamped two-BDd-a-half' mile course that has been se t up behind the high school.

Mr. Ze ide r , who will also coach Indoor and outdoor track. Is currently the gym teacher at Flower Hill ElementBry SchooL He has always been Interested In track, and a handful of records liKludli^ National High School half-mile winner and a member of the winning 2-mIle relay team in the Penn Relays while attending Manhattan indicate that Mr. Zei t ler was a fine athlete. In acklltlon to coach. He coached track for eight y e a n at St. Ann's, now Nhilloy, and he was very successful at St. Mary's of Manhasset for six year«.

Mr. Zeit ler s t r e s s e s tliat the success the Cross Country team d^Jends iq>on the number that come out and a r e willing to work hanj in this sport, where desire matters as much as ability. C r t e s com try is also U taterestlng sport to watch, and students a r e invited to anend the meets .

Highly respected, well-llked, and well-versed on football is the Vikings' new line coKh , Mr. Joe Marra . He playied center on the same team with head coach Dan Biro while at P o n , and he received honors as one of the top linemen in Nassau County, For the past four years , he has been assistant football coach at Plain-edge High School, while also serving as a physical education instructor. Mr. Marra knows all t t e angles d line play, and based on the in^rovement shown by the varsi ty 's forward wall. Mr. Marra's coachl i^ is one of the best shots- In- the-arm Port football has exper leKed.

• • • The football team has had a lew pre-season non-league scr immages . The V O d i ^ looked only mediocre

against Levitiown Memorial, but last Saturday, In a five team scr immage at Bethpage, they were mich liiqiroved and showed plenty of drive. This Saturday Is the opener ~ the VUdngs will face a Manhassei team that is hardly what It was last year , but rough nevertheless. A victory here would be a step In tlM right direction in a season that will have Port pitted against some ffaie loocball teams. Next Saturday - PORT at Garden City

Division at Mineola New Hyde Park at Herr icks Great Neck South at Great Neck North

PIGSKIN PREDICTIONS This Saturday - GLEN COVE over MINEOLA

GREAT NECK SOUTH over FARMINGDALE HERRKKS over HEWLETT GREAT NECK SOUTH over ISLAND TREES

• • • MR. WHITNEY yiHESSES PHYSICAL FFTNESS

In accordance with the Pres ident ' s call tor physical fitness among American youth, Mr, Al Whitney, the new athletic director for Schrelber High, has announced several new plans concerning the sports program for the high school. Included In the expanded set -up for boy's gym classes a re atklltional testing apparatus, a weight-training program for all Interested, and an enlarged Intra murals program that will Include w r e s l -llng, volley-ball, and possibly a tennis tournament. EvoiCually, golf, bowlliig, and temtls instiu:ticKi wfll be featured In twelfth grade gym c la s ses .

Mr. Whitney succeeds Mr. Car i Seeber, who re t i red last year after directing the athletic program In the h ^ h school for many successful seasons. Bom ]n Floral Park, N.Y„ Mr. Whitney became Interested in s p a n s thmigb his lather, who both playedandcoached in high school. After playii^ baseball, track, and ice hockey in a New York City high school, Mr, Whitney became an athletic specialist In Navy