Forest Hills High School - Forester Yearbook (Forest Hills, NY)

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The last great year.. . Joan O'l..eary's ul..ile Vvith lwlotlieru ...senior officers Franken, lxleierdierclcs, LaGuardia, Jung, and Grayson . . . Prom co-chairmen Rea and Palew . . . the nBeacon managing hoard including Rosalind Reydel, Bernie Krisher. and Eugenia Pisani . . . the French nation's grateful nlwlerci, America train: Ruth Nathanson saying uthanlc-you via short wave for the students of our country to those of France . . . Got a pass, or are you a senior?',. . . lxlilce Teitler, Beacon man-about-town, writing 'Put This On Your List ...A 'The Royal Family starring Ruth Nathanson, Rosemary Bristow, Charles Goldman, lxlyron lwlandel, Fred Cuinther. and Al Rea . . . Arista's quota raised . . . Arnie Goodman and Ursula Victor as hoy and girl leaders, with Harvey Blass and Penny Tulexis as treasurer and secretary . . . lwlargy Schneider and lxliss Stedman hringing out a swell issue of Forest Leaves . . . the Herald Tribune Youth Forum again: Peter lyrom Switzerland. Kiki from France. and Fred from Turkey . . .did you ever lind out their real names or did you thinlc that nFred sounded Turkish all along? . . . Rosemary Bristow, NYC winner, spealcing in person at the Forum on Ml-he World We Want . . . ten percent ol' VVestinghouse's lorty winners coming from FHHS...to say nothing ol' seven honorahle mentions . . . Richman's Beacon caricatures . . . And we remember lots of other things loo . . . the death of lVlay0r LaGuardia, New York City's beloved alittle flowery' . . . the man from lxlissouri tighting, cussing mad, causing one ol the most terrific upsets in political history, hy winning in November, 1948 . . . uplxln fading to a mere Ustarn. and then that too sinlcing into oblivion . , . the advent of the New Loolc . . . television coming into power. and showing the world everything lrom Milton Berle to Othello . . . movies lilce Hamlet and uHenry V . . . or The Xvell-Diggers Daughter and Shoeshinen . . . Remember the Bikini blasts? . . . and the time New Yorker printed John Her- sey's Hiroshima ? . . . the lron Curtain descended . . . and the Voice ol America was heard around the world . . . Life With Father closed, and an ex-member ol the cast sent a telegram ol' sympathy: uHear that the Statue of Liberty goes nextln . . . Com- peting with the last war's All Quiet on the Vvestern Frontn and Journey's End came such hooks as ucrusade in Europe and The Young Lions . . . 'The Times and Ul..il'e printed the first two volumes of Winston Churchilts war memoirs: The Gathering Storm and Their Finest Hour . . . the Berlin air-lift came into lacing. and succeeded beyond anyone's expectations . . . a cold war grew more deadly . . . while a plane circled the glohe non-stop ...people spolce casually ol' a third world war . . . never of it can't happen here . . . Yes, we remember these things . . . and you?

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Cfcm .Maier i943 ,- ull was the best ol' times: it was the worst ol times. Xve were living with eternity. iwlany were confident in the belief that this was the beginning ol a thousand years ol peace, and there were those who feared what lay ahead. There were the words of a great man, spolcen twelve years before, and still fitting the present situation: uVVe have nothing to lear but lear itself. A new world lay before us: it was ours for the talcing. Vvhat will you remember from the confusion and order, grief and joy which made up these four years? VVe can recall . . . the rites held lor the Forest Hills alumni who died in the war: a somber note in those first lew weelcs . . . the small stone near the llagpole: Don Perry, Anzio, I0-44 . . . the Competition for the Brandwein special science classes . . . those three one-act plays and the guy who came out covered only by a barrel during one ol them . . . bliss Fulton as principal . . . X'Ve can recall . . . the next three years ol hearing the PA bells heralding the approach ol This is Nlr. Ryan speaking . . . the Tuzza marshal system in the halls and at the exits . . . Out ol the Frying Pan a howling success .. .the old jolce about how you can teach a sophomore. but you can't teach him much . . . the disappearance ol the two-minute bell . . . Hy IQ47, our class was moving into the limelight . . . Phil Barash and Dell Polcart became the new G.O. vice-president and treasurer respectively . . . VVhat D'Ya Say? under the new management of Vvhilzl 'll Pool -- some people lcnew them as llse Opton and Elizabeth Engellcing . . . the appointment ol lxliss Fulton to a post in UNESCO , . . Buy a Baseball Booster . . . the big snow, which they say rivaled '88 . . . You Can'l Talce It Xvith You including Ruth Nathanson, Steve Franken, Joan O'Leary, Dave Richman. and two ol' the most docile cats we've ever seen . . . the rising costs ol living rellected in the special going up from eighteen to twenty-three cents . . . the U.O. dues upped a dime . . . the Herald Tribune Youth Forum landing Australian peter Ewing right in Nliles Schel:ler's lap . . . remember his classic: uln Australian the bell is a signal lor the teacher to finish the class, not lor the class to finish the teacher . . . one ol' those faculty-varsity games where the faculty produced a ladder to score a baslcet and win the game . . . Upower or Peditionn the FH home-made lilm which tool: honors in the city-wide contest sponsored by the Nluseum of Natural History . . . the days when Forest Leaves was the size of New Yorker and the Beacon bore a lleeting resemblance to the Herald Tribune . .

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6171.8 'UMWLI M! 'IXUMF' ffurs is a weary worlcl. A worltl torn limi: lrom lilllll liy almost feast-less stril-e sinre llu- lu-ginning ol time. Too many peoples are llomeless. Too many are rolml mul lnungry. Tlu- worlrl lor wliieli so many ol our lmrotlu-rs dit-tt llas vome to very lmle. Only tlnree slxort years ago linen- was lxrotlierliootl among tlu- virlorious peoples: ilu-re was a lirm lu-liel in tlu- Unitecl Nations: a steacllasl lrusl in tlu- peace to rome. Azul lociay? VVQ- lu-ecl only recall tlle names ol ixlazarylc ancl Benes to iuulerstand tlie meaning ol failure. Surely llxis is not tlu- worlcl ol wliirli we clreamecli Tlu-re is sulii-ring in tllis worlci. Tllere is tile Cold war. Xvar in a worlcl at peaeel Xve still lirul nu-n will: a lrrutal lust lor power. willing to use any rim-vice to gain aiul main- tain supremacy. xvllill slloulcl lu- tile answer ol' tlle peace loving peoples ol tlu- worlcl? Flusl we plare a lxlinci ancl unreasoning laitli in Ameriran supremary in laattle tllrouglx our possession ol atomic' lcnowlecige? lnevitalmly. tlle atomic' lmomlm? No. sueln is not llne worlcl ol wliirll we clreamecl--a worlcl tliat lias failed to aclmieve tlu- common lxeliels on wllirlu one worlcl miglit lie lounrleci. Can we. as a nation, as a worlci, limi ilu- way lu-lore it is too late? peace lies in tlle mintl ol ilu- incliviclual. Our lirst prolmlem is to educate all youtli to uncierstaruiing. sympatlly. ancl lcnowleclge ol earl: otlu-r. Xve must lu- sure tlnere are no potential usupermenn to lulilfl Burlu-nwalils ancl prartire genoeicle. Tlu- Unite-cl Nations lnas organized an lfcluralional. Scientific. anal Cultural lromly to eneourage exrlnange among nations. But tlmis is only a lu-ginning. XVe must lm-als clown tlu- lzarriers of lear and prejudice wliicli rise lmeeause ol ignorance. Xve must llave a complete inlelleetual uncierstancling witll tlne peoples ol' otlxer nations: plan lor tlu- maintenance ol seliools in tllose places wliere eclucation would otlierwise lu- laclcing: arrange a lxroauler system ol stucient and teaclu-r exeliange: and clistrilxule intelleetual information ol' all lcincls to all nations. Anti we must start tlnis program witli ilu- cliilciren. Eavln nations future lies in ller youtli, and tliat future will be only as sourui as tlney are sound. ll we can give tllese Cllilclren tlxe LllldCl'Sii.lllLiiIlQ' of otlu-rs tllrougln rommon interests anti common experience witln tlneir lmrotlmers arul sisters tlxrougliout tlu- worlcl - if we van teaell tllem time prinriples ol international eooperation - tlu-y will lu- preparecl as no otlier generation lu-lore llu-m lias lmeen prepare-cl - tliey will ire eclueatecl lor peace. Tllis is tlle l'0tlIlKlilti0I1 lor tlu- worlcl l want. llut llu- lourulation is only tile lxeginning. alul we must lruilcl. l lrelieve it is Anu-rira's cluty to assist in tlle I't'llillJililtlli0ll ol ilu- tlevastatetl areas ol tlle eartll. ll is not enouglx to win a war. lxlen lmve lmeen winning wars lor tlmousancls ol' years, lml no nation, great or small. llas ever lxeen almie to win a cienumrratii' px-an-. Toclay, we lmve witliin our lcnowleclge arul our material assets