East Rockaway High School - Rock Yearbook (East Rockaway, NY)

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The administrators of our school merit high praise for the fine job they have done in inaugurating many new ideas and systems. Mr. Berg, principal of East Rockaway High School, has brought to his office and to the school added respect and higher standards. His goal in setting up various new rules, with which we are all familiar, is to create a school in which we can justly take pride. Mr. Sackman, East Rockaway’s Director of Pupil Personnel, is a veritable, “jack of all trades.” Having had personal acquaintance with many areas of endeavor, he qualifies as an expert administrator and an authority on the problems, organization and inner workings of E.R.H.S. BOARD OF EDUCATION Mr. Bunting, Mr. Brown, Mr. Klockc, Mr. Mott, Dr. Scimeca President, Mr. Smith, Dr. Studwcll, Mr. Lodge (not present).

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As advisor to the Class of 1963, Mr. Frank Schmidt has served in many diverse capacities — as a volleyball coach, a snowman architect, a wood hauler, but primarily, as a friend. His sincere interest in each of us as individuals coupled with his enthusiastic participation in all class activities have made him a trusted confident, a popular personality, and a respected advisor. Through pleasure and pains, through success and failure, Mr. Schmidt has been our faithful mentor. In every situation his witticisms and puns, each with its own core of truth, have taught us valuable lessons in sportsmanship and cooperation. Mr. Schmidt, we the members of the Class of 1963, your class, dedicate THE ROCK, the sum of our energies and talents, to you, in appreciation of your unfailing devotion and friendship. The Schmidts 5

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EAST ROCKAWAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EAST ROCKAWAY. N. Y. NEVIN L. JUDD Principal - Rhame Avenue School HAROLD F. STUDWELL Superintendent WILLIAM A. BERG Principal - High School JOHN A. RUCKDESCHEL Principal • Centre Avenue School M. DOUGLAS SACKMAN Director - Pupil Personnel High School Dear Seniors, Most of us have learned in history courses that our founding fathers were God- fortunate as to have so many brilliant men in public office at the same time and when they were needed most. What we don’t often realize is that the majority of these leaders were also young folks — not much older than you who arc now gradu- community. The same is also true of Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas JefTerson, James Madison, and many others. These Americans did not wait for opportunity, they made it. Our times are not much unlike the times that tried the souls of early American patriots. Now, as then, we need the finest brains, the clearest thinking and the deepest spiritual conviction to cope with the challenges our country faces. You are going out into the world to do your part in helping to fulfill your nation’s destiny. You must face conditions as they are; apply what you have learned to the solution of the problems that lie ahead of you. You must have abounding faith in your own ability and in the intelligent and creative thinking of those whom you recognize as leaders. Not all of us are near-geniuses at age eighteen, but your class, by its record over the years, has demonstrated, individually and collectively, that American youth, like our youthful founding fathers, can meet the awesome challenges of our own day. Those you leave behind in East Rockaway High School have confidence that you have been well trained and that you too will make opportunity for yourselves. fearing men of unusual intellectual ability. In fact, very few countries have been so ating. George Washington, at age eighteen, was an outstanding member of his With best wishes, William A. Berg Principal