Abraham Lincoln High School - Landmark Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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MR. S. J. WILSON MISS B. COHEN f MR. B. LEVINE SA I ,I MR. D. KRANE Lincoln HigI1's Aglmiwigfrabrs I LINCOLN

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Dear Gradualesz lf, in a reminiscenl mood, you +hink back lo Jrhe lasl lerm you spenr al' Lincoln, you may recall 'rhar a+ one of +he assemblies l was privileged lo speak lo you on Whal' we expecf Lincoln graduales lo be. ln +ha+ lalk fhere were four hopes 'ro which l gave expression. l hoped, in +he firsl place, lhal as a resull of all your sludies in science, mafhemalics, languages and hislory, you had learned +o lhink slraighl. Second, having for many years seen success come 'ro lhe induslrious and failure +0 The lazy, +ha'l' you had learned To work hard. Thirdly, having engaged in various alhlelic and exfra-curricular con- 'resls wherein sporlsmanship and honesl'y counled far more 'l'han hollow viclories won Through chicanery, 'rhal you had learned 'l'o play fair. And lasrly, since rhroughouf your schooling +he imporlance of show- ing apprecialion, loyally and reverence has been sfressed, 'rhal you had learned +0 love much. If your Alma Maier has 'raughl you lo lhink s+raigh'r, +o work hard, +o play fair and love much, if has given you a wonderful foundalion for a supers'rruc'rure of successful living. GABRIEL R. MASON

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VALEDICTORY ' When voices of ofhers sing Alma Mafer and laughfer of ofhers resound in Lincoln's halls, we will look back, wifhouf regref, on our high school days. They have nof only been days of sfudy buf days of pleasure. Who can ever be forgefful of fhe fhree mosf momenfous occasions in our school career? Remember class nighf, fhe fhrill of our Senior Prom, and how, wifh hearfs beafing high and heads liffed proudly, we marched, for fhe lasf fime as a class, af our graduafion. Many of us will relive fhose momenfs again and again. While we are fhinking of all Lincoln has. meanf fo us we musf nof forgef fo include our friends. Friendships are made and friendships are severed: buf fhere is no friendship as fine or as lasfing as fhaf one made af school. Our inferesfs may change buf fhere always will be a common bond of fellowship befween classmafes. We are all sfarfing ouf on devious iourneys wifh fhe expecfafions of affaining some disfanf goal. Some of us will find fhe fask more difficulf fhan we anficipafed, buf fhose, who by courage and deferminafion, will have persevered will ever be grafe- ful fo Lincoln High School for an excellenf sfarf in life and will look up fo Lincoln, fhe man, as an inspirafion. As fhe sun sefs on our high school days we climb fo fhe pinnacle of 'rhe mounfain of hope and sorrowfully gaze down af fhe pasf. Slowly, we look up and wifh shining eyes awaif fhe birfh of a new day. 57 ix LANDMARK