For most high school students, field trips are an inalienable right of spring.
Few prospects are as appealing as a temporary escape from the school grounds in balmy weather.
But when the destination is the archives of a historical library the classroom might not look so dull after all. Such seemed the case recently for the 27 junior class students from Blind Brook High School in Rye Brook, who on a recent sunny morning were fidgeting on the hard plastic chairs in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library's auditorium here. As they watched a silent newsreel of Eleanor Roosevelt's travels during World War 11, several could barely conceal their boredom, yawning, stretching, even putting their heads down on the tables. The library seemed to be confirming the students' worst preconceptions. But as Mr. Ferris began describing the types of documents they would be handling during the next two hours, the students perked-up.