Automotive High School - Headlight Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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MR. EDWARD P. O'CONNOR ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT DR. GEORGE D. PARKHILL IN CHARGE OF ANNEX

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MR GEORGE F. PIGOT T OUR IRINCIPAI. My Dear Boys: I am very happy to extend to you my congratulations on the 1940 edition of the Headlight. We have had a most successful year and are, this term, sending out into industry the largest graduating class in the history of the school. It is not only the largest class, but I think it is also one of the finest classes we have ever had. I trust that after you have left us you will retain pleasant memories of your years at Brooklyn Automotive and that the things you have learned will he helpful to you in your chosen field. I urge you to keep ever before you the ideal of gentlemanly conduct to which you have clung so steadfastly While in school. The words MlVIanhood, Service, Labor. Citizenshipw should be so deeply engraved in your hearts that they will be reflected in your actions. Practice these virtues and you will be gentlemen in whom your teachers and parents will feel justifiable pride and in whose hands the future of American Democracy will he safe. -4,- H

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EDITOR'S NOTE On behalf of the Seniors I render our farewell address. Our four years were not spent in vain, for we have acquired the goal we have long sought. Some may feel happy, some feel sad, for they have long awaited this day but now it comes too soon. To us it is a sad event. Sad indeed to leave our alma mater which we have long upheld both spiritually and physically. The parting of the students from their associates brings a true trend of friendship to a finale. Soon we will travel the broad highways of life and, in our sorrow or in our happiness, I am sincerely certain we will turn back to our high school days and continue to maintain the standards we achieved through the guidance and friendliness of both Mr. Pigott and Mr. O'Connor and the teachers who deserve complete credit for their upholding of truth and honor. As a parting gesture the Seniors leave this publication as a record of summary. lt will ever be for them an album of happy memories-one to which they will frequently refer to refresh their thoughts when the joyful and happy experience of four pleasant years are to be recalled. Thanks must be attributed to many people for the successful publication of this book. They are Mr. Pigott, our beloved principal, Mr. O'Connor, Mr. Tedford, Dr. Parkhill, Mr. Brereton of the annex, Mr. Corey, Mr. McNelis, Mr. Feiser, Mr. Nealis, Miss Buck, Mr. Ahearn, Mr. Cunningham, and Mr. Holub, our faculty advisor. Thanks for their assistance in photog- raphy are due Mr. Kasten, Dr. Parkhill, and the Arthur Studios. Also sincere appreciation must be expressed to the faculty, the student body, advertisers and all those who in any way aided in publishing this book. Vale! -6-