Chemical Reactions (May 1970)
Arty-facts courtesy of Janet Rhoads Leslie ('71)
▼Chemical Reactions was published annually by Jericho High School eleventh-grade chemistry students, under the guidance of faculty advisor Dr. Barbara Krahm. We couldn't reproduce the entire 57-page issue (onion-skin typing page doesn't preserve well for posterity -- who'd have guessed?), but here you'll find nearly two dozen articles, poems, and creative writings from class of '71 members editor Susan Hirsch, Janet Rhoads, Ann Roggen, Scott Agins, Steven Marksohn, Vicki Marani, Gail Murphy, Wayne Schulman, Carol Goldman, Glenn Metzner, Dean Warner, Richard Seltzer, and Martin Lee.
Some of the pieces are prophetic, warning of a forthcoming environmental crisis (and this issue was prepared even before the first Earth Day); Ann Roggen writes of women's relying on diet pills, years before the current epidemic of anorexia and bulimia among teenage girls and young women; or read Vicki Marani's "Ode to Old Age." Sometimes they're naive in the way you would expect from sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds in 1970. But they're always remarkably smart for a bunch of, well, kids, like Dean Warner's and future author Martin Lee's musings on marihuana and LSD, respectively, while Janet Rhoads's futuristic short story laments a generation that couldn't seem to function without brain-altering chemicals.
