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S HOOLMembers of the faculty ande police continued to searc h the,tire building, and when theyid uncovered no trace of atmb, at 11:18, the n ormal schooly resumed.This is not the first t ime thatFi has had a sca re of this type.During one of the late-nightmeetings Mr. Smith attended, as i m i l a r ' ca l l w as p l aced .precaut ionary measures wnicnar e required by the Sta te of NewYork. This, however, was not ther ea s on f o r t he bu i l d i ng ' sevacuation.At 10:50 the same morning,Mr s . D or o t hea A nde r s on , amember of the office staff atschool, received a telephone call

facul ty. Many s tudents becameanxious because of the bombingof the Capitol and th e New Schoolbuilding of the previous night.H a l f - hea r t ed j okes abou tex t ended Spr i ng V aca t i ons ,books and no t e s w i t h i n t hebui lding, and other i r replaceablepersonal belongings began toc i r c u l a t e a s t h e s c h o o l

However, on that occaafion thecaller continuously annoyed them ee t i ng un t i l t he pe r s onsevacua t ed t he bu i l d i ng andsearched for possible explosives.A s w i t h t h i s m os t r e cen to c c u r r e n c e , t h a t s e a r c h w a sfutile.air A Triumph from an unidentified man, whohad said, in what Mrs . Andersondescr ibed as , "somewhat of amuffled tone," "There is a bombplanted in your building." Mrs.Anderson quickly transferred thecall to Mr. Longley's telephonecom m uni t y w a i t ed onSchermerhorn St .During this waiting period,t w o ne i ghbor hood po l i c em enwere found, and they, along withMr. Smith, Mr. Martin, Mr.Dwight, Mr. Longley, and Mr.Vuoso, searche d the en tire schoolbuilding for evidence of a bomb.At 11:07 all mem bers of theSchool were ushered into the

For Social Action Motivesby Wendy Grabel Many reasons have beengiven for possible motives of thefal se alarm. One facul ty mem berwas heard to remark, "You

ex t ens i on . H ow eve r , a t t ha tmoment, the Head of the MiddleSchool was not in his office.Mr. Asch, whose office isdirectly in back of Mr. Longley's,said to Mrs. Anderson, "He's nothe r e . " W her eupon Mr s .Anderson urged M r. Asch to pickup on his extension. As the UpperSchool Head did this, a heavybreathing noise was al l he heard

In order to rai se money for the Pake stani rel ief fund, "Save theSurvivors," the Sixth Grad e held a "fair" in the gym on Friday ,Febr ua r y 26 The event had been universally declared the ch ar i table ,financial, and social highlight of the year.The class had been working and planning for the fair since Oc-tober . Publ ici ty campaigns began in ear ly Feb ruary when a few gi r l sstood up in meeting an d yelled, "Ba " (for bazaa r). After thismyst i fying incident only posters an d coherent announcem ents wereemployed.

know, the guy jus t may havewanted to have the power ofgym. The reason for thi s movewas that its floor was easilychecked for parc els of explosives,and the s turdy surroundings ofthe gym provide a natural shel tera r ea .

seeing so many people evacuate abuilding at his order." Otherslinked the call to the man 's beingi n f l uenced by t he po l i t i c a lbombing in Washington of thepreceding night.he class a s a whole decided T he Fa i r w as de s t ruc t ive a sto make this kind of financial well a s rewarding. Mr. Knies whocontribution at one of the ir arrive d with a calm , objective, Schoolc h e d u l e d c l a s s m e e t i n g s .Pakis tan was chosen to receivethe proceeds because i t was , asone boy puts it , ". . .in the newsand in more t rouble than theyearbook." Mr. Begleman, theS i x t h G r a d e ' s h o m e r o o mteacher , di sclaims any credi t .The students planned, organized,and "made" the Fai r a lmost

"It looks a li t t le wild," wa s laterseen grat ing his t eeth over aplaying board and mut ter ing, " Iam going to s tay here t i l l I win."A t t he end of t he Fa i r he an -nounced, "I won three coupons.I 'm proud of myself .

Hitchcock Introduced inHappenings Film Coursethe winter f i lm fes t ival was ma deup of 3 comedies, 3 westerns , andmyster ies . Each category wasexplored and each movie in eachcategory was compared. Therewere more requi rements thanThe film course, taught byM r . Knies, will again be offered,due to a remarkable response int h e p r e v i o u s t r i m e s t e r s .However, unlike the first ands econd t r i m es t e r s , t he f i l mcourse will entail a concentrated

study of only on9 director -Alfred Hitchcock.In the first trimester, the filmcourse, being a newly establishedcourse, floundered in a series ofproblems: it was scheduled foronly once a week, lacked aclassroom, and only had the backof the meet ing house as a habi tat .T h e c o u r s e g i v e n w a s a nintroduction to film and to thev a r i o u s m e t h o d s d i f f e r e n tdirectors employ in their films.The only real requi rements forthe course were viewing themovies and at tending at l eas t onediscussion group per week. Thesediscuss ions were rew arding andcertainly enjoyable, however, theex t r em e i n f o r m a l i t y w h i chprevailed, (th at of wanderingd i s c u s s i o n s a n d n o r e a lclassroom,) prompted Mr. Kniesto look for a m ore planned , if notf o r m a l c l a s s i n t he s econdt r imester .In the second t r imester , thef ilm clas s was scheduled to meeto n M o n d a y , T u e s d a y , a n dWednesday at eighth period in aclassroom. Tuesday was set as anoptional day for those studentswho wished to learn how tooperate a movie camera, andlearn how to run the school 'sprojector . Monday was set a i sdeto di scuss the previous movie andWednesday was set aside for theupcoming movie. The secondt r imester c lass was more formal ,a r igid ci rcle was the desi redformation of seating by Mr.Knies , but the not - too-wel l -coordinated film students foundthis hard to achieve. Actually, thef i lm course was more planned;

Retrogress onscompletely on thei r own. Th e ai r was f i l l ed wi thB a k e s a l e s a n d p r i v a t edonations provided about fiftydollars which was used to buyprizes. Winning coupons andtickets (costing five cents) werepr inted, the 'booths and ref resh-ments set up, a nd at one o 'c lockFr iday af ternoon the Fai r began.

bubb l e s and t he r i ng i ng o ft r iumphant t rumpets . Everybodylaughing about nothing. EvanThomas nodded wisely in ap-p r ova l o f t he , " n i ce l i t t l eret rogress ions .Hidden character i s t ics andfailings were harshly revealed.G u y S p a r k s m u r d e r o u s l y

that of the first trimester's:viewing the movies and attendingclass discussions. There werevarious assigned films out ofschool and each s tudent wasrequire d to see 5 other movies ineach of the three categories. TheUnwed Mother basic idea behind this was to see,for example, what makes acomedy a comedy. However, l iket he f i r s t t r i m es t e r , i t w asrewarding, enjoyable and hadce r t a i n p r ob l em s . T he t h i r dtrimester will concentrate onA l f r ed H i t chcock . D i r ec t o rHitchcock was chosen by Mr.

For two and a hal f hours , thegym looked like a scene out ofFellinni Satyricon. The schoolseemed to go wild, releasing allpent-up emotions. The result wast e r r i f y i n g c h a o s . E v e r y b o d yseemed to be having a ball .The games of "chance ands k i l l " i nc l uded s k i t t l e poo l ,racing cars. a fortune-telling

brandished a kni fe a s he moaned,"I've lost every game." Them i s e r ab l e f a i l u r e s of J un i o rVars i ty high scorer , Eddie Katz,at the "ball through the tire"game dest royed him for a ful lminute. T im Smi th, tyr ranicaloverseer of the nerf-ball game,wrung his hands and screechedinsanely, "Only six have won -

The most beloved member ofthe whole school, Norman, gavebirth to five kittens, who lookexact ly l ike thei r mother . Fo rmalannouncements were not sent outbecause the father could not bereached for comment .A nyone i n t e r e s t ed i nadopting one should get in touchwith the Seventh Grade.Knies for many reasons; onebeing, as Mr. Knies says , thatHitchcock does not waste amom ent of film by his precise useof details. Another reason for this

booth,and a very wet "douse the ou t o f f ou r hundr ed . Mr .candle. " The gym wa s burs t ing Begleman collected money.wi th ma sse s of s tu den ts , The " fantas t ic , ingenious ,teachers , and parents who al l and chal lenging" Sixth G radeseemed to be in a s ta te of per- Fai r mad e a totally unexpectedpetual motion. It also smelled 130 dollars. As one girl said , "Thelike a monkey-house. whole thing was beautiful."The Sixth Graders , in ane f f o r t t o am e l i o r a t e t helunchroom situation, staged astrike during one of their lunchperiods about three weeks ago.

choice is his popularity with bothMr. Knies and the class . Thethird trimester will differ in thatit will have a textbook, Truffau t 'sHitchcock. The third trimestercourse has th e objective of givingstudents a greater knowledge offilm all aspects, understanding,making, ordering, use of details,Others were seen desperatelypleading with their fathers to gohome and relax.Fa t he r s w ho v i s i t ed Mr .Vuoso's math classes found it ap l ea s an t r e l i e f no t t o beconfronted with a quiz in whichtheir child always did better thanthey.C of f ee w as ava i l ab l et h r oughou t t he day i n t heca f e t e r i a . T h i s p r ov i dedexcellent opportunities for thefathers to converse with eachother and with teachers. Lunchwas served to any father whodesi red i t .The purpose of this da y is toinvolve th'e f ath ers in the school,for the mothers have morelei sure t ime to come.

February 15 was no ordinaryMonday. Students ar r ived atschool very puzzled as to whynobody was on the t rain andeveryone el se in the wor ld wasasleep. It was over this Lincoln-W as h i ng t on b i r t hday ho l i dayweekend that Fr iends chose tokeep the school open and hold theL r ad i t i ona l annua l Fa t he r ' sDay. The object ive was to le t thef a t he r s obs e r ve a no r m a l day a tschool.Some fathers ar r ived ear lyenough to sit in at MorningMeet ing. Comments such as ,"What are they doing here,haven' t they graduated?" orLookWall Street is invading,"c o u l d b e h e a r d w h i s p e r e dthroughout the Meeting House.

Initiated by Erica Goldman, theprotest concerned the filth of thesilverware and trays. With thecooperation and endorsement ofsome teachers , about f ive SixthGrade girls convinced virtuallyall the Middle Schoolers to refuseto use the t rays and s i lverware.and showing.

The film course on the wholeis very popular and is now beingoffered to the entire UpperSchool. Moreover, the film classis stil l beset by some brokene q u i p m e n t a n d e q u i p m e n tMiss Donnel ly, whointerpreted thi s act a s crudenessand as a des t ruct ive measure,sent the five girls to Mr. Longley. shor tages .A f t e r d i s cus s i ng t he i rf ee l i ngs w i t h t he g i r l s , Mr .Longley spoke to Mr. Sm ith aboutthe filth. Upon realizing thevalidity of the protest, Mr. Sm ithhad f i f ty new t rays ordered andhad Miss Donnelly return tosilverware from plasticware.

The Hitchcock Festival iso p e n t o e v e r y b o d y , p a r e n t s ,teachers , and s tudents , and theprice of admission is only 50 centsa movie. The movies will beshown on Thilrsday at 2: 30 and onFriday at 3:30 in the MeetingHouse.

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A School of the Religious Society of Friend ,New York Monthly MeetingSTUART SMITH PRINCIPAL

01. XL MARCH 1971 NO 9

Sunday Meetingbv Norma TerrinRecent ly, af ter a t tending a ~ m d a ~ m o r n i n geet ing, I changedsome of my opinions about these silent gatherings.There were c er ta in factors about the meet ing which I expected.Most of the time the Meeting House was very quiet a nd, during the onehour meeting, three people got up to speak.However , I was somewhat nor by a speech, but by thes u r p r i s e d b y t h e m e e t i n g .Surprised, not in the sense ofshocked, but in a much mildersense. I realized that I was goingto have to change some of mypr e f a b r i c a t e d i de a s ongathe rings of this nature.When I first entered theMeeting House a woman c am e upto me, shook my hand , int roducedhersel f, and welcomed me to themeeting. This gracious behaviordid not surprise me. I have beenlead to believe that people of thisr e l i g ion a r e unc om m onl yfriendly. I then proceeded up thestairs and took a seat on one ofthe benches. There were abouttwenty people were there at thet ime, and approximately twentym or e c a m e l a t e r .T h u s f a r , e v e r y t h i n ghappened a s was ant ic ipated, butaf ter about t en minutes thesilence was broken. A man stoodup and, s tar ing s t ra ight ahead ofhim, sang a hymn. I was awaret h a t d u r i n g t h e s e m e e t i n g sparticipants often spoke aboutwhat they were thinking of orread some iterature. Singing justnever occured to me.Then, after a few minutes, weheard f rom another man. Whathe said wa s more of the natu re ofwhat I expected to hear . He spokeof imprisoned monks in South

Vietnam and their efforts tode m ons t r a t e t he i r c onv i c t i onsconcerning peace.It was a long time before thesilence was broken again. Butt ime was nei ther sons

entrance of several young (agedf r o m f o u r t o e i g h t ,approximately) Sunday schools tudents . I couldn' t help but smi leat their efforts to be quiet as theytiptoed around the Meeting Houseto their parents.Just shortly before peoples t a r t e d s h a k i n g h a n d s a n dleaving, someone else spoke. Hesaid that a different way ofsaying that th ere is a li t t le bit ofGod in everyone would be to saythat there a re cer ta in things foreach person which he simp ly willnot do. If he me ans by this tha tG od i s i n t e r c ha nge a b l e w i t hres t raint , I f ind thi s s ta tements o m e w h a t u n u s u a l , b e c a u s e ,a c c o r d i n g t o m y f o r m e rstan dard s, I would not consider ita Q uaker-like belief.When the meet ing w as over ,the woman sitt ing in front of meshook my hand, invi ted me tocome back, and asked m e how Ihad heard of the Sunday m orningmeet ings . She al so asked me tosign the guest book, but Irefrained from doing so.These people gather everySunda y m or n i ng f o r s i l e n tw or s h i p a nd m e d i t a t i on .H ow e ve r , de s p i t e s e ve r a lat tempts , I was unable to engagemyself in deep thought. I spentmost of my time observingo t he r s , a c oup l e of w homappeared to be in the same boat Iwas in.Although I prefer to do mymeditating in solitude, perhaps Ishall go back sometime just tosee whether anything com es of it .

Krishna Comes to B F Sby Susan Green

T ha nks t o Sophom or eFreder ica Brown, the Middle andUpper Schools were providedwith a stimulating occuranceduring an assembly period. OnMarch 5 mem bers of the HareKrishna c ame to speak.The assembly opened whenMr. Smith introduced the fourspeakers . Pat i , who seemed to bethe spokesma n for the group, saidthat they would chant for tenminutes, and then a lecture-que s t i on a nd a ns w e r pe r i odwould follow. He tried to teachthe Hare Krishna chant to thestudents. "It 's easy," he said,"Just say Hare Kr ishna Hare

Krishna Kr ishna Kr ishna HareH a r e H a r e R a m a H a r e R a m eRama Ram a Hare Hare over andover." They then started theirchant which seemed to consist ofverses and then having the HareKrishna etc . as a chorus . Pa t iseem ed to be the most vivacious.H e a n d t h e o t h e r m a l erepresentat ive were dressed in asort of pink sari. The two girlswere also in sari-like draperiesbut these were pink and yellow.I thought there was a c l imaxreached at one point in thechant ing, and the words becamevery loud. After fifteen minutesof this chanting monotone, theaudience began to fidget. Then,jus t as abrupt ly as i t had s ta r ted,t he c ha n t i ng r e a c he d ac onc l us i on w h i c h w a s t he nfollowed by a prayer.T he d i s c us s i on s t a r t e dimmediately af ter , and a s before,it was led by Pati. The Krishnareligion was founded in Indiaabout 5,000 years ago. Kr i shnaappeared and i s recognized as thehis-

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of saint s bec aus e hecam e to understand the beauty ofleading a life of devotion. His first

follower was Lord Setanya whodevoted his life to preachingabout Krishna. He compiled histeachings into a book to show thatGod is not just anything. "That 'sw hy w e s a y K r i s hna t hesupreme."Lord Setanya, he went on, "Isnot just anything-he is theservan t of the serva nt of theservant of the servant." Movingquickly from that, he added "Weare al l e ternal because we arepart of God." He then went on tosay , "In a mate rialistic world onehas to real ize death. I accept i t .But what am I after death? Whois that person who is gone? Thatis a very important question.Therefore, 1 will tell you a story."Before he told the story, heasked for the most intelligent tostand up. A ripple of sup ressedl a ugh t e r r a n t h r ough t heaudience as each t r ied to makehis neighbor stand up. "You'reall very humble," said Pati ,"Now I shall tell you the story."It seems that the re was a boyin Sunday School, who, whenasked if he were the mostintelligent, said yes. The teacherpointed to different parts of thebody and asked the boy toidentify them . The boy did so andthen the teacher stood up andsaid, "You know all of the partsof the body, but where are you?For this, the boy had no answer.Pati then repeated somethingthat Mr. Smith had said earlier"There is that of God in everyman. Within me there is soulLord Setanya said that he w as theserva nt of the serva nt of theservant of the servant an d he didnot wish things in a materialsense , but rather in a spiritualone. These," he explained "areWho, What and Where. But if wewish to become perfect we should

adicaly hari StirlingWhen you're in the Sixth Grad e, you're a schlemiel, the Seventh an.k . kid, and the Eighth Gra de a teenybopper. But when you get to theqinth Grade , you've finally made it . You're a radica l. In some schools,vhen you reach high scho ol, you get G.O. cards, but in ou r school, youoin the ranks of those warriors against oppression, those fearlessighters of evil , and those gen eral do-gooders. No, not the Boy Scoutsr the Camp Fire Girls, the B.F.S. radicals.But exactly what does being a radical entail? The casua l observernight ask. Could one be picked out on a crowded D train or perh aps, onSaturday afternoon in the Village? Well, to be perfectly honest,probably not. I m ean, ca n we help it if everybod y copies our clothingityles? What can we do when we turn around and find thatverybody's wearing flannel shirts, overalls, work shoes, and workhi r t s . I m ean, even const ruct ion workers copy us . Why do they wanto wear clothes like that for?But, let 's face it , clothes are th e least of it . You don't judge aperson by how he looks but by his thoughts and ac tions. And again tohe casual eye i t may not se em l ike there ' s much act ion. So le t' s comepack to that, and we'll go on to talk about words. Well, as far asipeci f ic words ar e concerned, again, we a t Brooklyn Fr iends mustontend with plagiarism and imitation.

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Editor-in-Chief Deborah BernsteinAssociate Edito r Shari StirlingAssistant Editor s Wendy GrabelSusan Green Norma TerrinSports Edit ors Nancy Chang Robert HonigPhotography Editors Marc ColtreraBeth Farber Mar vin SteindlerStaff: J anet Christenfeld Liz Cohen Cathy Cohen BethFarber Michael Plust Andrea Salwen.

Once dur ing a basketball gam e, the score was 65 64 when a cer ta inplayer on the Fighting Quakers was felled by a particula rlyaggre ssive opponent. The B.F.S. 'er lay on the floor in a semi-conscious state muttering "Right ar m. Right arm." (His of course,had been smashed in the scuff le .) However , everyone thought he wassaying "Right on. Right on which, as we all know, was subsequentlyadopted by B.F.S. and has now gone on to gain wide usage in theoutside world.Other well-known phras es such as "Off the pigs (Which got itsstar t in Tenth Grad e biology when a fetal pig fell on the floo r), "CoolIt" (s aid o M iss Donnelly by a Fifth Grader aft er having purchased ahalf melted ice cream cone.) and "Truckin"' (a vain attempt atcursing by a lisping mem ber of Intermedia te A) all got their sta rt atB.F.S.And now we return to actions. Well, sure we haven't c hanged theworld yet, but that 's just i t : we 're in the planning stages. I have heardmany a cr i t i c say, "Look at those hypocr i tes, on the one hand they ta lkabout pollution and doing things for the school, but when one goesdown into the rec room, all the furniture is being thrown aroun d."Silly, what will happen if the revolution comes and we'renot adept at throwing c hairs through windows? Did you ever think ofthat? There are s imi lar reasons connected wi th people s tanding ontables in the lunchroom (preparation for future inspiring speeches),nulling the buttons off the benches in the meetinghouse (makingbelieve they're stones to be collected and then flung in the faces offoes) and, leaving school immed iately afte r your last class (to go outand seek the mood of the nation).So you see, the B.F.S. radical is an original, dedicated, modest,person who is committed to what he feels is the common good ev enthough a s t ranger might think he i s a s lovenly dressed, i r responsibleslob who is only intent on having a good time. So rem emb er, the nexttime you are walking down the street with a student from BrooklynFr iends and h e casual ly throws down the cel lophane w rapper f rom apack of Marlboro's, just keep in mind that h e is no doubt practicing tobe a good citizen by giving some newly sworn-in sanitation man thepractice that he needs.

- - - - - - - r -go to God."He then spoke about animitation which to him is also anillusion. He then cited an analogyto being a teacher-how could hebe one when he was not trained,not cut out to be a teacher. "Toclear away the illusion is torealize that I am not God butthere is a small particle of God inme-in everyone . Our problemstem s from the fact that I think Iam God and I am more awa re ofmy mater ia l i s t i c body and lessawa re of my soul. God is sopowerful that every soul is morepowerful than the sun. LordSetanya chanted Hare Kr ishnaand chanced to pass a t iger . Heasked the tiger why it was notchanting also. The tiger thenopened its mouth and began tochant . "To prove his point he readfrom a teaching that said "Nom or e do w e s u f f e r a nytribulation. No more do we haveto decide to take birth again. Tounderstand real knowledge is lou n d e r s t a n d t h e r e a l s o u l .K now l e dge doe s no t m e a nknowing how many insects thereare. The Holy Name is really thesolid incarnation of God."After all this is attained, onereaches a state of transcendentalb l i s s . " T r a ns c e nde n t a l b l i s sb e c o m e s a h a p p y s e r e n emoment. Krishna is l ike theocean. I cannot become the w holeocean but I can taste it . It is onlytasta ble if I let go of my bodycompletely and turn my wholeself to God."He concluded with sayingthat he hoped at the next SilentMeeting, the mem bers of themeeting would chant the words ofthe Hare Kr ishna over and overto themselves. "Being lifted up toGod is the top most yoga."Before questions were asked,food and l i t erature was passedout ; Oranges , apples , and a sor tof coconut pasty without thecoconut. Upon my questioning, Iwas told that the food was for the"Sweetness of the spirit" and notfor the sweetness of life as I hadoriginally thought.There were a few questionsasked and the answers that wereg i ve n s e e m e d e va s i ve . I nresponse to one quest ion, Pat isaid that the mem bers of theHare Kr ishna shaved thei r headslo prove their sincerity in theirdevotion to God. Someone askedwhether God existed and itseemed to startle Pati but hequickly regained his composureand answered, "In the beginningit is difficult. In the beginning weha ve f a i t h i n t he s p i r i t ua lnature-we have yet to realize.But we do see his beautyeverywhere. "A s t o t he r e l a t i ons h i pbetween men and women, Patireplied that they act accordinglyin a materialistic world and thatit is simply for the purpose ofraising children. Women areexact ly the same a s men but manis the "Spiritual Mas ter of thewife."When asked what causes evil ,Pati replied , "As long as we havea materialistic world, there willalways be evil. Look around forsomething. I believe we arearc hite cts of our own destin y. If It ake my bi r th, death i s cer ta in.But while I am al ive I have achoice-what can I do? It 's Evilversus Goodness. Do I cultivatethese qualities? f I develop godlyqualities by chanting the HolyNameof God, then that is my ownchoosing."At the end of th e meeting,everyone was invited up to thefront of the M eeting House whereone could speak to the fourmem bers of the Hare Krishnaand discuss things with them on aone to one basis.

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Valerie Warm ocustValleyVisitsTeacher Wh o On Wednesday, February 10,a student faculty group fromLocust Valley Friends, LocustValley, Long Island, came toul f i l l s Go a l s Brooklyn Friends to observe atypical school day. The excursionhad been the idea of a stud ent-faculty council at Locust Valleyby Wendy GrabelShe's definitely the mostjolly teacher in this school saysone admiring Sophomore of MissWarm. Eh, she looks toohealthy, adds a nasal Junior.Miss Warm is deserving of

writing poetry. Poetry hadalways been a major interest, shehad never stopped reading. Nowwas the time to write. It wasjust something I wanted to do.Days were spent seeking aliving at an office job. Spare timewas devoted t o poetry. Anacquaintance finally asked her tosend some of her work to him anda poetry reading on radio stationWNYC resulted. Although thereading was aired at a n odd hour,due to the controversial subjectsdealt with by some other poets,People did hea r it. One manrequeste d a copy of Miss Warm' swork.Miss Warm had even anotheroccupational fling-as a criti c.For a year or so she wrote,without salary, reviewing playsfor a new magazine, Abel.Money's not always the mostimportant thing just wantedthe experience.Her first teachingassignment (also phys-ed) was a tBarnard School for Girls inWashington Squar e Heights. Miss

which is presently examiningtheir school a traditiona l,relatively conservative prepschool to see in what way itcould be improved and whatmeasures would have to beinstituted for this improvementto take place. Therefore, theydecided to visit BrooklynFriends, knowing that B.F.S. hadgone through a great deal ofchange and is now a totally

praise. Despite all, she facesscores of half-crazed, screamingjunior athletes each day with aconstant, gleaming smile. MissWarm enjoys her work, trulyenjoys it, Otherwise I wouldn'tbe doing it.''This simple credo has ledValerie Warm into unusual fields diff erent school than it was thr ee-or four years ago. Thus, theycame to see if, why, and howBrooklyn Friends is functioning.

and exciting experiences. If youwant to do something, you have todo it-so I did it. Unfortunately, they werepressed for time since theyarrived late, around 11:00, andleft before 3:00 They started outwith an indoctrination meetingwith Mr. Asch and Mr. Smith atwhich they were given the basicconcept on which both Smith andAsch felt the school ran. This tookabout an hour, and then the groupaudited a few classes. Some ofthese were Mr. Nissen'sAmerican History class, hisPresidents course, and Mr.Norregaard's Creative WritingClass.

On the whole, the studentsfrom Locust Valley were veryfavorably impressed withBrooklyn Friends and envied the

Photograph by R Bellak After graduating fromFreeport High School in LongIsland, Miss Warm decided to goto school in Manhattan. I wasinfatuated with everything aboutit. She chose Hunter College

Free LancePhotographer because of its dance program andits location. I'd spend hours atthe Frick Muse um... hey ha vetwo Rembrandt's there.Richa rd Bellakby Deborah Bernstein After college, in which shemajored in English, Art, History,, ike countless other New Yorkers, had not hear d about the workof fellow New Yorker, Richard Bellak, until he received a paragraphin Smith's Scenes column in The Voice. The work that this photo-journalist does seemed interesti ng, consequently, I set up an interviewwith Mr. Bellak, wherein I hoped to ask him detailed questions abouthis work.The project which Mr. Bellak is currentl y engulfed in is aphotographic essay concerning stree t musicians in the stat e of NewYork. He is working with the financ ial aid of the New York Council onthe Arts. He was able to procure the neces sary money fr om the councilwith the help of Alan Schoner, the man who did the Harlem on MyMind exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1969. As Mr.Bellak puts it, Alan (who is on the committ ee in charge of finances )and I thought that the art was going in basically the same direction,therefor e I received the grant. This gra nt, a sum of five thousanddollars, is currently pending renewal.

great guitarist who hangs outthere. But Richard Bellak isonly interested in the musical end

freedom the students seeminglypossessed. They feel their ownprivileges are manifested by thefact that the boys still have towear ties and jackets, while thegirls are not allowed to wearpants. Since they arrived atschool at the beginning of thebreak, some thought that theschool looked like comple techaos since everyone is usuallvTaking photographs tor analbum which he will compile forthe Council, Mr. Bellak has foundit veryeasy to find material in theNew York City ar ea. Some of hiscandidates include VictorBradey who plays steel drums inthe vicinity of Bloomingdale'sand Richard Wexler, the violinistwho haunts the theater district atcurtain-time. The qualities thatthese men have in common are:playing in the street, andsoliciting for money with whichto continue their studies. Theyare also waiting to be discovered,and refuse to make their debutesin the traditional fashion.The reason that RichardBellak is doing this study of stree tmusicians is that he feels thatmusical concerts, along withother forms of arti stry, arebecoming more and morespontaneous and personal.Whereas the only music one couldhear some ten years ago was in aconcert hall or cafe, now many

park concerts, corner happeningsand festivals occur. In addition,Mr. Bellak feels that recordingsare rapidly taking the place oftraditional concerts, and soonmany more people will prefer tolisten to tapes of their favoriteworks in more intimatesurroundings, rather than attenda formal type of concert.The arti cle in the Scenescolumn requested informationabout the location of more stree tmusicians in, or preferably,outside of the c ity. When I askedMr. Bellak what sort of aresponse he had received, h e saidthat most of the calls were of thepublicity type. That is someonewould call and say, If you can beat such and such a corner at aspecific time, I know this really

of the job, a nd therefore is notequipped to sponsor aspiringamateur musicians. He simplywants to take pictures of unusualmusical occurances in the citiesand villages of New York.

running around at this time andabout twenty-five students weredisembarking on a French trip.The faculty membersexpressed what was almostdisbelief that the school wasfunctioning as well as it was.They didn't really quite knowhow to cope with some of t heaspects of school. One teacherquestioned Mr. Smith on thedrama department. He repliedthat the yearbook had neededmoney so The Glass Menageriewas presented, The Life neededmoney so The Life Benefit waspresented, and that Jane

Although he had no picturesof musicians a vailab le forreprinting, Mr. Bellak did havemany photographs which he hadtaken before this assignment. Hiswork has been mainly formagazines, when he has beengiven specific assignments, or hehas submitted his freelance workto photographic journals. His Coach V a lfirst story of gre at importancewas for the magazine Escapade,for which he did The IncrediblePlace of Tompkins SquarePark. His most recent long-range undertaking has been tolive with four di fferent families indiffe rent part s of the world, andphotograph them in their naturaldaily surroundings. This workhas brought him to the SierraMadre region, to Southernmigrant labor camps, toGuatemala, Mexico, and finallyN.Y.C.

Warm was not very pleased withthe job. It was very rigid...heywore uniforms... t was morepretensious than mostschools ... nd it's just good to beco-ed About Friend s, MissWarm has no complaint s.Yet despite her contentment,Miss Warm's interests have notflagged. Next trimester she willteach an English course,Freedom in Literature. It'ssomething you don't thinkabout. Miss Warm would like toremain at Friends for a while, butnot 7 years . To be in one place

and Dance, Miss Warm tooksome time off to think... waslooking for a job, but I didn't wantto sit at a desk doing nothing... oone I knew who had jobs like th atwere happy. o she decided toteach dance, continue herlessons, and perhaps makeprofessional dancing her career.Miss Warm smiles happily asshe remembers what to somewould seem a futile and difficultperiod. I wasn't going out, Iwasn't eating, I wasn't seeing myfriends, and teaching boileddown to a part time job.Dancing was not her care er. Ineed a much more balanced typeof life .. ancing took too much.I just couldn't go onanymore. I almost burned myleotards. But Miss Warmregrets nothing, nor is it at all apainful memory . It's notunusual to go through a time to

Schweitzer is currently trying toput together a play. Yes, saidthe man, but what about yourdrama department? Anotherfaculty member had wanted toknow how many religion coursesar e offered. When she was told byMr. Asch that there are nonebecause the students have shownno desire for one, she was greatlyshocked.

But the day ended with goodfeelings on all sides andsometime in the future, B.F.S.will orobablv return the visit.hotographing under thephilosophy of Whatever movesme is art. Mr. Bellak's mostrecent single assignment hastoo long is to give up ... here aresome ideas that have to change.Present outside interestsinclude sewing, painting, and ofcourse dance and poetry. MissWarm does not find it unusualthat she has done so many thingsin such a short space of time (sheis twenty-five). You hear peoplesaying that they wish they were

For the exorbitant price ofcents students will be able to seeanother presentation directed bySenior, Jane Schweitzer. For herindependent study project, Janeis directing Under Milkwood, APlay for Voices, written byDylan Thomas.She is commencing work onthe play during the two weeksallotted for the Seniorindependent study project butwill employ much of her timeduring the third trimester for it.

been coverage of th e YouthConference held in WashingtonD.C. in December. Here, asMr. Bellak terms it, There werethree thousand people:p o l i t i c i a n s , n e w s m e n ,photographers, administratorsand analysists, and not a single find out whether you'rededicated .. t takes time to seestill love dancing. The lessonsstill continue.After I stopped dancing andstarted to eat again I began

twenty again so they could do soand so. That's a cop-out. Attwenty I was doing it There areno limitations to anyone. I had toget it all out of my system.

young person.''Such is the extent of the workof the thirtyish Heights-dwellingphoto-journalist, Richard Bellak.

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P AG E 4 THE LIFE MAR CH 97

T h i r d Q u a r t e r J u m p vs. F r a n k l i nB a s k e tb a l l S e a s o nD r a w s to Closeby Robert Honig

On January 26, after a poor first period, the varsity cam e back todefeat Walden 50-38. Walden w as outscored 20-2 in the third quarter.The varsity suffered their second loss of the season three dayslater, when they played Baldwin. BFS was outplayed for the balanceof the game and lost 72-56. Baldwin is expected to win the league title.The team then won two close games at home. First they came frombehind to defeat Elizabeth-Irwin 81-77. Roger Antin scored 52 pointsand m ade a 4-point play by scoring a field goal and putting in two foulshots after an intentional foul. Next they defeated Browning for thesecond time this year by the score of 71-64.

On February 18, afte r a tough on the bench until the secondfirst quarter, the Varsity cam e quarter , but in spite of thisawa y with an ea sy victor3' Over chanc es for a BFS win looked dimBirch-Wathen. Richard Kaplan's after one pe ri d, and they werehot hand early in the first quarter completely out of the gam e byhelped BFS open UP a quick ka d. halftime. BFS could only musterBut Birch-Wathen came back to 7 points (to Seminary's 23) in theCut the sco re to 17-13 at the end of first period, and they did littlethe period, and they went ahead better in the second. E ighteenearly in the second qua rter. After BFS turnovers in the first halfthat, BFS totally dominated the also helped Seminary build theircontest. They led 34-27 at the half, large lead, which stood at 25 atand 56-41 afte r three quarters, on halftime. The debacle continuedthe strength of Robert Ekrn- through the second half, and onlystein's rebounding, Roger Antin's a strong fourth quarter (agains ts ho ot in g, a nd g oo d t e am p la y. S e m i n a r y ' s s u b s t i t u t e s )With the reserves p laying most of prev ente d Semin ary fro mthe fourth period, Birch-Wathen doubling the BFS point total. Thecut the lead to a respec table gam e ended with Semin arymargin, one which made the leading by 35, 94-59.gam e seem closer than it actuallywas. The final: BFS 70; Birch- Three ameWathen 57.The next evening the varsity Streakwent to New York Frien ds to play On February 26 and 7 thein the third same of a BFS- BFS varsity played their secondSeminary triple-header. The BFSMiddle School and Junio r Varsityteams had lost in the first twogames, and the varsity hoped tobeat the odds to g et one win forthe day. However, this was not tohappen. The game was simply acase of a ta ller and bettershooting Seminary team runningBFS off the court. Seminary w asforced to keep their best player

and th ird games in a row againstsu p e r i o r t e a m s . Wh e n t h etwo games were over BFS had athree game losing streak. Thefirst gam e was against Franklin,a n d w a s p l a y e d a t F r i e n d sSeminary. BFS has always hadtrouble in large gymnasiums,such as that of Seminary, so thatFranklin jumped to an early leadand held it throughout the game .

BFS managed only four fieldgoals in the first period as theywere outscored 22-8. The secondquarter was the only strongperiod in the game for Friends,o u t sc o r i n g F ra n k l i n 16-14.However BFS was outscored 35-30 in the second half, losing 71-54.

The next, BFS played anafternoon game against Oakwoodin Poughkeepsie. Oakwood is avery well drilled team that relieson speed and ou tside shooting onoffense. Defensively they em-ployed three different setups , oneof which was a three man ha lf-court trap which forced manyBFS turnovers. Also, Oakwood's6'2 center clogged the foul lineand helped Oakwood out-reboundBFS t h ro u g h o u t t h e g a m e .Because of these factors, BFSfound itself down 49-32 after threeperiods, and only made the finalscore respectable (64-52) in thefo u r t h q u a r t e r a g a i n s t t h eOakwood subs titutes.vs. Frankl in (a t Seminary)FG F Pts. PFKaplan 1 3 - 5 5 2Bernstein 3 0-1 6 3Antin 8 3-7 19 2Branche 5 1-3 11 4Goodman 3 1-1 7 3Lovett 0 0-0 0 1Magagnini 1 3 - 4 5 0Safdeye 0 1-1 1 0Levy 0 0-0 0 1at OakwoodFG F P t s . PFKaplan 1 1 - 2 3 4Antin 6 2-5 14 2Goodman 3 3-4 9Lovett 0 0-2 0 1Bernstein 2 2-5 6 4Magagnini 0 1-2 1 0

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BasketballBlundersb y N a n c y Ch a n g

Where have all the cheerleaders gone? Ah, 'tis the Gre at Mystery.A ob for Sherlock Holmes It was reported that they were last seen atthe gam e with St. Hugh's on the evening of J an. 19. It was thought thatthey had seen their sins and decided to repent, but would a conventtake Jewish girls? It has also been said that after the game againstNew Lincoln on Jan. 11, they went on a murderous rampage anddecap itated all of the New Lincoln cheerlea ders. They a re nowheading the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list and a reward of 5000 is of-fered for each ead or alive. Yet, other testimonies contradict theseLevy 0 0-0 0 0 stories.Safdeye 0-0 The intentions of a susp iciousBranche 5-7 l9 char acter known as "Big Al"iddle Schoolb y Bi l l Pe r ryThe Middle School basketballteam is on a streak, un-fortunately a losing one. Theteam, coached by Ken Lightell,has lost its last four games toDowntown Community , St .Anne's, Walden, and St. Luke's.

The team is hoping to make astrong comeback and win the restof the ir games. High scorers inthe last four games were JoelBerg with 18 and 11, and BillPerry with 6 and 14.February 26 was the finalgame played by the MiddleSchool basketball team this year.

They ended the season againstWalden, who had beaten them by12 points earlier this year. Thistime the game was closer. AfterBFS had led for most of th e firstthree quarter s, Walden cam e outwith a height attack. Walden's 6-foot center, ineffective for thefi rst three quarte rs, led the a t -tack. With three minutes left,BFS led by six; but Walden fedthe ball to the big man and endedup winning by one point, 40-39.

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Ring BellsSing Songs

Disguised as a referee, h e is saidt o h a v e k i d n a p p e d t h echeerleaders and is holding themfor a rans om of 2847 basketballs.A less heartbreaking version ist h a t t h e y a r e n o w a tCh e e r l e a d i n g Cl i n i c a n d a r evigorously competing for the titleof "Cheerleader of the Year."When Miss Warm was questionedabout their disappearance, shebroke down in tear s and said thatshe believed that they had beenabducted by agents of Joe's Pim pPalace an d had then been sold toa sheik who wished to add them tohis harem. Will they ever be seenagain? Until more is known,people can only pray and think(tearful ly)of the days when theyc o u l d h e a r t h e Ch e e r l e a d e r sshouting, "Marx, Lenin, Stalin,Trotsky, Brooklyn Friends isreally Hotsky "The Girls' Basketball Teamhas been having a, well, not-qui te -so-vic torious season. OnFeb. 8, we went out to StatenIsland were driven to StatenIsland This was indeed thehighlight of the da y. And so wehad a very pleasant trip eatingTootsie Roll Lollipops and talkin gto the driver who we had thoughtwas Ricky Ricardo. Un-fortunately this bliss came to asudden halt. The end was near

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The gym, the fiberglass back-boards, their height, the gamewhat can be said? We tried. Butalas. We tried everything, eventap dancing out; all we got wa s apunch in the stomach. And soafter a long hard day. we cameback to Brooklyn. Yes they hadbeaten us, 71-8.On Feh. 10, we met KewForest determined to win. Andwe were winning until the thirdquar ter. During the third quarterwe furiously tried to regain the

lead but to no avail. By the fourthquarter even though exhausted,we set out to at least decreas e thegap in the score and ended thegame with a score of 8. And soa f t e r t h e t e a r s h a d c e a se dflowing, we decided that wewould win the next game or die.And die we did when it washeard through secret sources thatBerkley had lost to Staten Islandby "about ten points." But westill set out with confidence onFeb. 24. In the first quarter wegot off to an early lead a nd by theend of the first quarte r, the scorestood at 4-0. Then Berkley gainedthe lead as "The Midget" and"The Muzzled Canis Familiaris"went in. The second quarterBerkley had a clear lead. Ouroffense was tired and the game

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