Brooklyn Technical High School - Blueprint Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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BLUEPRINT Dr. Colston 2 The Making Of America Edited by LEONARD HIRSCH, SOLOMON TEPFER, MILTON WILNER 4 Ode to Peace CALMAN AMBROSY 10 The American WILLIAM A. LYONS 11 Cosmic Rays JOHN SCHEPP 12 Challenge Accepted HERBERT F. LOWE 14 Discourse on Gravity HOWARD BERNSTEIN 15 Machine Shop Monologue JERRY GREENBERG 15 Memoirs of a Lathe HARRY BROWN 16 Blind Man RICHARD THORPE 17 Flanders, ra poem FRED OEss 20 That Time Is Best, u poem KENNETH HOLDEN 21 In Step with the Theme Compiled by JOHN SCHEPP 22 A Day in Tech STANLEY ROSENELUM 25 The Spirit in the Man STUART H. GESCHEIDT 26 The Prayer, rt mdio Jcripl ALLAN DROSSIN and HOWARD BROWNSTEIN 27 Penny Wise, Dollar Foolish ROBERT KUDLICH 28 My Mothers Face, a poem GEORGE KIRSCH 29 Mathematics HARRY BLUM 30 The Immense Universe VIRGIL FICARRA 32 His Decision, a play CHARLES CRONIN 53 Squirrels EDWARD DWYER 34 Experience: Te-ch's Courses IRWIN BRODELL 35 A Day in Tech, a cartoon CHRISTOPHER LUPIA 40 A Time and Place for Everything KENNETH HOLDEN 42 A Dog's Life CHARLES JONES 44 For You, 4 poem FRANCIS THOMPSON 44 The Three Words EPHRAIM SCHAEFFER 45 Science in Sports WM. G. MCCORMICK 46 Tech Sports Edited by MEL POSIN 47 Editorials 52 Mr. Sjogren, Honorary President Of January '42 55 Class of January 1942 56 BROOKLYN TECHNICAL H. S. ALBERT L. COLSTON, Principal 29 Fort Greene Pl., Brooklyn, New York

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scum OF EDUCATION OF 'rr-as CITY OF NEW YORK BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOI1 TWENTY-NINE FORT GREENE PLACE 1 BROOKLYN, NEW YORK TELEPHONE: STKILINU S-DI!! ALBERT L COLSTON January 5, 1942. To the Seniors: The theme this year, I am told, is to be 'Experience'. Now, I am not going to impersonate the 'Voice of ExperienceW,that well-known radio personality, who advises how to adjust nearly all human difficulties. If I could give you some canned experience from which you could dip when your trail got very rough, I would gladly do it, but I do not know enough to do that. I have not had enough experience. Just because one man has lived longer than another does not mean that he has accumulated a larger and better store of experience. It depends on the training and quality of the man. Some acquire wisdom and understanding more easily and more rapidly than others. If one has followed a given interest he will pick up and assimilate quickly everything related to that interest. His observations in that field will store ideas and habits of thought very quickly. There are sometimes unhappy associations with the word experience. I go to look for a job. The prospective employer says he would prefer to have a man with experience. I wonder how I am going to get what he calls 'experience' in a given line if I cannot get a job in that line. Finally, becoming quite humble, I ask if I may show him what I can do, - and then, if he is a bit hard up for men, he gives me that chance and I Wstrut my stuffn. Being properly trained or educated, I have that stuff. I do not worry about your getting employment. This is the time when the technical man is needed both in the armed forces and in civilian life. It looks as if that rather modest looking technical high school founded about twenty years ago had a real mission to perform. The apathy which tended to freeze its development then has largely disappeared. The skies look much brighter as we take our rightful place in the scheme of things, educational and industrial. Sincerely yours,