Jamaica High School - Folio Yearbook (Jamaica, NY)

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To the Graduates: Every year the editors of FOLIO seek a theme which will unify the Year- book of their class. For the year 1963 they have fittingly chosen the theme of Teamwork or Cooperation. This is not merely because teamwork has become a popular slogan socially, politically, even educationally, but because they feel that this idea will give unity to the variegated experiences that best express your past three years at Jamaica. While it is true that throughout history most of the creative work of the world has been the product of individual talent and thinking, cooperative effort and working together have taken on new significance in the twentieth century. ln the first place, the world no longer consists of vast masses of illiterate, primitive people governed and driven by a small and privileged ruling class. Today our western civilization at least is one of free citizens with alternatives and choice, and thus it is important that people be won over to voluntary and cooperative effort towards goals that must be envisaged and must be attractive. Where individual scientists once worked with simple tools in small laboratories, much of the research of the present era, whether in the field of cancer, rocketry, nuclear energy, engineering or foreign policy, is being planned and executed by large teams of cooperating thinkers, each contributing his own specialty towards the grand design. Hence, it becomes ever more important for each individual to develop not only his own unique talent but also his ability to work as a cooperative member of a group. While we at Jamaica do not underestimate the value of what can be learned from books and the laboratory, we hope that our students also learn much that is valuable for the future by participation in the extracurricular life of our school-our dozen teams, our four score clubs and service squads, our departmental publications, our orchestra, band and choruses, our dra- matic productions, operettas and Sings, and our major publications like HILLTOPPER, SCRIBE and FOLlO. When in future years your mood will prompt you to refer again to this Yearbook, I hope that you will, as you relive your youth, find gratifying evi- dence of the times that you worked together, played together, lived together. To all of you we bid an affectionate farewell. Louis A. Schuker THE IIETIIIITIES IIE TIIE ENTIRE SCIIDIII.. few- S-saw-1

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MR. JOSEPH LUNDARI, Ad- ministrative Assistant, is in charge of the organization and administration of the entire school. His duties include ar- ranging the calendar school term and examinations, pro- gramming of the secretarial staff, taking care of extra-cur- ricularactivities and providing substitute teachers. Nlr. Lun- dari was formerly the chairman of the program committee and a French teacher in the Lan- guage Department. DR. HOWARD HURWITZ, Vice Principal, is in charge of all student personnel activities, including both the students' educational and vocational problems. He heads student programming and the guidance office. He was instrumental in writing the Jamaica High School Handbook and is for- mer Social Studies teacher. He has held his present posi- tion for 7 years. THE HDMINISTRHTIUN