Andrew Jackson High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Cambria Heights, NY)

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ll ll zioneer Staff Edilor-in-Chief-Donald Nash. Associale Edilorsee Elizabelh Howard, Sonia Larsen, Olga Lupsha, Mari- lyn Rapporr, Richard Reiner. Secrelarial Slall-Dorolhy Erlc, Elizabelh Howard. Lilerary Slaicieaalilizabelh Howard, Marilyn Rapporl, Richard Reiner, Hope Dahl, Roberra Fleck, Carol Gisledl, lvlarie Greene, Edifh Gribbon, lrene Kahill, Nancy Lubash, Alice Munz, June lvlyclc, Pauline Paguelre, Felorina Picone, Mary Slrauss. Piclure Siari-Sonia Larsen, Olga Lupsha, Augusla Curreri, Virginia Dilzel, Dororhy Erls, Belly Lawrence, Joan Mchlicholas, Beverly Nor- ris, Rulh Perrine, Rose lvlarie Riervicenli, Sara Schafer, Roberl Senay, Janel Smilh, Virginia Walsh. Business Slalll-Gloria Colosanli and Bernice Giordano, Co-Chairman: Edna Schluler, Secreiaryg Elizabelh Burns, Lenore Baylis, Dolores Cer- vino, Lillian Sax, Werner Gans, Hilde Reimann, Dorolhy Fallqen, Phyllis King, Ann Gscheidle, Room Represenlalives. Facullry Advisers-Mrs. Hall, Mr. Bradley.

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OfQWOf ln graduafing from high school each of us has complefed anofher sfep in our progress foward being a beffer person, a more useful cifi- zen in our rapidly changing world. Our four years of sfudy and play fogefher have prepared us for our years of living and working fogefher as adulfs. The knowledge of hisfory, foreign languages, science, music. and arf fhaf we have received from a capable sfaff of insfrucfors has provided us wifh a small buf firm foundafion foward a beffer undersfand- ing of our world and ifs peoples. Buf our developmenf has depended nof enfirely on fhe informafion derived from fexfbooks. Supplemenfing our culfural and scienfific knowl- edge were fhe new friendships and acquainfances we made fhrough our confacfs in fhe classroom and in our exfra-curricular acfivifies. The hap- piness and fhe benefifs fhaf were gained in fhis way cannof be assigned a maferial value for fhe imporfanf role fhey have played in molding our characfers. Our nexf sfep will be enfrance info schools of higher educafion or info fhe business world. Which pafh we choose maffers nof so much, buf rafher if is of greafer imporfance fhaf we are moving forward. Lef if nof be said of any of us fhaf our developmenf has ceased wifh fhe receiving of a diploma. Rafher lef us bear in mind fhaf we may besf serve our God. our counfry, and our world by consfanfly working foward higher goals. Wherever our pafhs may lead, lef us sfill keep learning and lef us keep working for a world fhaf knows only peace. Wifh fhese fhoughfs fhe PIONEER STAFF wishes ifs classmafes of February, l948, fhe besf of luck. DONALD NASH

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rlnczyaa S essage Since you enfered high school abouf four years ago, fhere have been many significanf changes in world sifuafions. Some social and economic Trends have come fo sfand ouf in rafher bold relief. ln fhe brief space alloffed fo me here, may I empha- size iusf one imporfanf frend which, as fhe years roll on, will gain in imporfance. l refer fo a growing fendency foward alfruism. More complefely fhan ever before, will you, as exponenfs of a new generafion, have fo abandon selfishness. You musf learn and undersfand fhaf no individual is self-sufficienfg no individual is a law unfo himself: each one is merely a parf of a greaf sociefy which we are sfill sfriving fo mainfain fhrough winning fhe peace. From fhe fime of rugged individualism in our hisfory, our American way of life has been an evolufion info fhis ever-growing, social concepf. We have climbed slowly and painfully fo our presenf sfafe of welfare. We musf confinue fhe upward sfruggle. This fheory of unselfishness is nofhing new fo you in Jackson. Your fearns have been accusfomed fo if, fhey have won vicfories fhrough feam play-nof because of a desire for an individuals aggrandizemenf. As a sfudenf body you have fiffed info rules and regulafions which were meanf fo be besf for all: and on occasions each one of you has sacrificed some sfrong, personal desire, simply because following fhe pre- ferred course for you as an individual mighf have proven defrimenfal fo fhe welfare of fhe enfire sfudenf body. More and more fhe concepf of fhe common good musf become of paramounf imporfance in our counfry and in The world. Unless you are guided by fhis social ideal, if is my opinion fhaf you can nof affain fo your full value as a member of fhe sociefy info which you are enfering. Yours will be fhe decision, fo build furfher on fhis ideal, or fo refrograde. I hope fhaf your decision will be fo confinue fhe upward pafh. RALPH W. HALLER 4