Gift ideas from teens at East Syracuse Minoa High
Mary Cate Srokose and Wendy Fenner, both 16, suggest thoughtful gifts for classmates who have everything. Mary Cate recommends experiences like magazine subscriptions or meal tickets to local restaurants, emphasizing the sentiment behind the gift. Wendy believes a book aligned with the recipient’s interests works well, or explore topics like astrology or ESP for broad appeal.
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Mary Cate Srokose
Wendy Fenner
Teen-age Lament poem echoes outcry over new morality
Betsy in Oregon requests a rerun of Ann Landers column Dead at 17. Nancy Curtis’s Teen-age Lament portrays a teen’s plea against parental control, homework, and church, declaring newfound freedom after one hour of love and the cost of youth fading. The speaker pleads for relief from crying and the desire to dance again.
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Ann Landers
Bear Bryant
Alabama
Betsy
Oregon
Nancy Curtis
Cliques Good and Bad Across Teen Life
Kevin Hyland reports on teen cliques and their mixed effects. Students from multiple towns discuss exclusivity, peer pressure, and the balance between belonging and novelty. Psychologist Bruce Carter notes cliques mirror society and can offer safe forums while risking conformity. his advice is to join multiple groups to broaden horizons and ease transitions.
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Carter
Careering Toward the Corner Office A CEO Path Study
A Conference Board study titled Who Is Top Management finds the climb to chief executive is brief, with an average five or six years. It identifies a small group of four or five top officers and notes shadowy figures close to the president who participate in top management. The piece cites Rodman Drake on traits like vision, simple values, adaptability, and people skills as keys to successful leadership.
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Hope Lafferty
Marcellus
Chris Bernard
Pompey
Bernard
Manlius Pebble Hill School
Cazenovia High School
Conference Board
New York Stock Exchange
American Stock Exchange
Amex
Rodman Drake
Cresap, McCormick & Paget Inc
Walter B. Wriston
Citicorp
Wriston
Tom
Drake
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William Robinson
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SAT. & Sun
State Fairgrounds
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Theatte Jae
Kevin Hyland
Jane Norman
Myron Harris
Bruce Carter
Syracuse University
Elizabeth M. Fowler
New York Times Service
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International Business Machines Corp
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