Central Commercial High School - Hour Glass Yearbook (New York, NY)

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I v ji 1 1 Toward A Better World

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Co' mencement Though M l Looking toward tomorrow, preparatory to stepping into the business world, we hesitate somewhat. We enter a world which is still undergoing a period of readjustment, a world which seems not to be one. With our technical skill and knowledge we seem adequately prepared to face this world. We eagerly await the day when we shall venture forth, for we shall direct our efforts toward social improvement, economic advancement, and Democracy for all! So, with high ideals and enthusiasm we are prepared to serve as Citizens, U. S. A., and Citizens, One World! MARY LEE looking Wrward In September 1944 a group of young boys and girls entered a world that was strange to them. They were on the doorstep to an almost-adult world. They looked upon their teachers as leaders who would lead them into a new cycle of their lives. Their teachers taught them many things, all the lessons making them better people and citizens of today and tomorrow. Now that they are going into a different world, a puzzled world, a world of the atomic bomb. They will have to be well-prepared in order to cope with elements as dangerous as these. The world belongs to us, the citizens of today, to do with as we and all the other young boys and girls of the world see fit. We hope that we will make such a world that the future generations will live in peace, in security, and without fear. PHYLLIS SIGMUND 46

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In Hppreciation Our three years in Central Commercial have been an unforgettable experience. We have enjoyed the thrill of Red Letter Day, and the glovv of graduation. The association we have had with our teachers has taught us tolerance, cooperation, and living in today's democratic World. They have taught us to guard against smugness, and irresponsibility. We have been given an opportunity to practice democracy in our classes and in our school organizations, and we are now ready to take our place in the great democracy, the United States of America. Now We better understand the right and privileges We enjoy under our Constitution, and we realize the extent of our obligations to our country. We would like to grant to future classes the privileges we have enjoyed in Central Commercial, for here Mr. Massell, our principal, and our teachers have taught lessons that will last forever. PHYLLIS SIGIXIUND Parting id .auch Sweet Sorrow Romeo and ju1iet -Shakespeare As june 1947 is left farther and farther behind, we'll recall our days at Central Commercial with mixed sentiments. No longer will We think of the petty annoyances of the classroom, of the regulations we once thought so irksome, nor of the too frequently unexpected tests that once irritated us so. All these will fade into the background of our richly colored high school memories. Before we glide past the portals of today into the future, a good many of us will hesitate and look back with a Warm surging emotion as vve recall the fine friends and events, some enjoyable, some difficult. Probably as 1947 becomes 1957 and 1967 and even 1977, as the graduates of Central Com- mercial of june 1947 take their various places in different walks of life and gradually lose the youthful characteristics of Central Commercial's Seniors, we will stop a moment or two and reminisce, sometimes chuckling, some- times serious, remembering our days at Central. MATILDA COHEN 48