William Howard Taft High School - Senior Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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Il if WW 'I 'P 51' ' A-iww WW' MY FAIR, LADY Dear Members of the Classes of 1959, The theme you selected for your yearbook startled the faculty at first. Had we cultivated a stage-struck generation? I-lad the Traveling Players, the varsity play, or the senior show infected the yearbook staff? On the other hand, possibly your imaginations had been fired by the famous speech in As You Like It or by Thomas I-leywood's less familiar lines: The world's a theatre, the earth a stage Which God and Nature do with actors fill. poets that the world is a stage on which If you have concluded with the we play various parts, we urge you to play the parts which fall to you in life to the very best of your ability. Put your energies and your souls into the characters lines and lackadaisically going through you portray. Half-heartedly reading prescribed motions bring scant results. Wliether you find yourselves cast in stellar roles or in bit parts, portray those roles with energy and enthusiasm. VVhile everyone cannot be a star playing to the plauclits of multitudes, even the player with merely a walk-on part can enact the role with such integrity that critics appreciate the performance and, more important, that the player himself can know the satisfaction of having done an honest and thorough job. Wlicn you have achieved some success in your chosen work-whether it be in the world of the theatre like Taft's Stanley Kubrick and Eydie Gorme or in any other fields-we hope that you will keep us at school informed of your progress so that we may applaud from the side-lines and glory in your accom- plishments. Yours with all good wislzes, fd.

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9f':1J'u'ufXZrfE. p, it ' gg, 6253, ,-'V 5 'U K I. f F f ci - I A 15,45 MAN OF DESTINY KIND SIR Mr. Ilarry Shelter, Administra- tive Assistant in charge ol' boys since 1953, originally taught Eng- lish here. I Author ol' boolcs on English, he spolte ol' lilie in terms ol' the brief candlen cited by Macbeth, and said, HMay the Ilaine ol' your achieve- nients burn brightly, and shed warmth on all man Itincl. 'Ilie world is both your stage and your proving groundfl JUSTICE Mr. Benjamin Kaplan, Dean ol' Boys, has held his present position at Taft Iior three years, after teach- ing Spanish here. He said sagely, Now that the last act curtain is about to come down, let me congratulate you on a fine performance and remind you that your severest critics may also be your very best friends. Mr. Peter Solcoloff, Administra- tive Assistant and former teacher of mathematics, told us, The whole world is your stage. You will ap- pear on the proseenium ol' lille as artists, teachers, scientists, business inen, hoine-nialters, and citizens ol' our country. Ile extended ht-sl wishes I'or hap- 13111058 llllll Sllk'L'l'SS III 'XIII IIIL' IAIIICS we might play. BLITHE SPIRIT Mrs. Lillian K. -lcrome, Dean of Girls and teacher ol' English, has a word of advice. Take time, every now and then, to evaluate your life and revise the script if necessaryf' She quoted Oscar Hammerstein, who said, 1'VVhy you are born and why you are living depend entirely on what you are getting out of the world and what you are giving to it.'l She agreed heartily. BEHIND THE SCENES Mrs. Ruth Cohen has been a member of Taftls Stenography Department since February 1957 and was a counselor for one year. In February 1958 she assumed Miss Murphys duties as Assistant Dean of Girls. She told us, 1 hope that you will lead happy, useful lives, and that you will play out your parts to the satisfaction and joy of yourselves and your familiesf' - jd ':'i-X'- 33 ga if-I E'-if-. ff fs' 'V' -' t r ' .1 V A, -'1 .-3. ' ' fi M., - rates -1.52 az., 1546, -I 7m.6Q.M6-iw