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

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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

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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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the power to malce such a peace. Xve must he sure that the youth ol no nation inherit a hlanlc or barren soil. Only a land secure in itself can he secure from those external forces which would have it crumhle and fall. VVe can help them to gain the homes and farms and lactories to malce them economically stahle- the schools and hospitals to make them socially secure. Vve can give them the fruits ol our democracy - esthetic as well as material. We can give them life. And what is more. we can give them that which malces lille worth while- freedom. Freedom to thinlc. to act, to worlc. to play. Freedom to live. And in return, we shall have peace. This world may he a clream. hut l am not ashamed ol it, lor it was the dream ol a great president and 300.000 American boys. whose dreams lie buried with them lrom Bataan to Berlin. and I am not ashamed ol the ideals lor which they died. Let us make our battleground a laboratory, a classroom, and a hospital - places where we can world together- where we can win together. This is the world l want, lor it is the world in which l can helieye. It is hard to helieye that you shall exist Xvhen l am gone. You are so much a part ol me That l can not visualize Another hand on your hannister Another loot on your stair. Your lights were lit lor me, Your lcnowledge spolcen lor my ears. Your hooks. ranged side hy side. were wailing for my touch. Your song was mine to sing. It is your voice which has echoed mine Down the empty corridors And in the quiet' rooms. No. l cannot helieve that you shall exist NVhen l am gone. l shall talce too much of you with me ln my heart.