Brooklyn Friends School - Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Class of l i lt is indeed a pleasure to write this message to the Seniors and-in a wider sense,-to the students ol Brooklyn Friends School. You have had thirteen years ol schooling, and you are ahout to begin four years more. Do not thinlc, however, that seventeen years ends your schooling. Education is continuous. Only a very small part ol what We lcnow is gained in school. Knowledge comes to you through eye and nostril, through taste and touch, through experiences bright and darlc, through surprise and accident and disappointment, through success and failure. Perhaps in l960, you will recall this message as you have your rih- honed diploma in hand. Then you will malce plans for your further educa- tion. Some alumni stagnate and hecome reactionaries. Plato in his Republic suggested that all magistrates have a course ol study lasting until they were fifty years old. Life has now loecome more complex than when the Greek philosopher lived. Positions in the modern world demand steady growth. Businesses demand the industrial virtues of promptness, accuracy, fidelity, and truth. Administrative positions require increasing knowledge ol psy- chology and the power to understand human motives. Every doctor's diagnosis is a process ol inductive reasoning. Every lawyer must gather together all information learned in school and outside. Throughout life, your joh hecomes your school. So today. you are ready for college, and alter college may you com- mence the process of continuous education. Throughout these Commence- ments, the good wishes of the Brooklyn Friends School will he with you. Sincerely yours, WILLIAM J. MEENEGHAN Principal

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OULD it he possihle that at last we were seniors? This was the Big Year. It was a dream that we had waited for and expected: hut when we really had it hetween our hands, and our dreams had come true, it seemed unreal and impossible. We had waited far too long to receive the dream so suddenly. We had to grit our teeth and try to fill the patterns our imaginations had built years before. lt wasn't easy at lirst. But we got the lcnaclc ol' it. Xve led the teams. Glory weighed on one side ol the scales. hut they were tipped the other way hy hard playing and leadership. Xve found that editing school publications was a harder jolo than we had thought. and afterwards our pleasure at the results was deeper. too, than we had expected. Vve organized and worlced together on shows'-and laughed louder than ever hefore as we sang the finale and listened to applause roar over our heads. Vve found that there was more to running committees and the student council than anyone had warned us about. We cut, twisted, and stapled decora- tions: we co-ordinated various school committees and boards under the Council: we planned assembly pro- grams and worlced at the hospital alter school-and we loved it all. We loecame the leaders ol the school. It was an ifn- pressive title at First. But we lcnuclcled down and earned it. We realize now that we have not just fulfilled our dream--we have passed and outdone it. For now a hazy anticipation has heen replaced hy concrete reality. Soon it will mist over again and drift away to become only a memory. Here we have tried to consolidate the present so that we can preserve it lor the future. Sometimes. then, when Friends comes hack to us, this is what we will remember .... A YEARBOOK PUBLISHED BY BROOKLY FRIENDS I956 II2 Schermerhorn Street Brooklyn I, New York

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