Christopher Columbus High School - Anchor Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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STAFF BLAME THEM FOR IT LITERARY STAFF Mr. Iames Brode .,.. V ..,4.,......,,.,.,,....,, . BOARD OF EDITORS Marilyn Terio Lorraine Sacks Ianet Schmidt Phyllis Podorefsky Ioan Haring Millicent Angelo Florence Barrasch Gloria Berchielli Leni Berkman Blanche Bernett Marilyn Burstein Sonia Burstein Marilyn Davis Sol Feshback Louise Fogliazza Leroy Galperin Irene Golden Eileen Grable Marilyn Iarmul Herbert Kaplan CONTRIBUTORS Claire Wieselberg BUSINESS STAFF Mr. H. Sachs .....................,.......,.... Mildred La Motta Ray Locascio Ralph Orefice PHOTO SQUAD Miss Grace Hoffman ....44,..,..,............. Frank Basilone Adele Haber Angelina Puglisi Vincent Webberly Gwen Bevers Ruth Dc-:Grazia Miss Greenson ..... Norma Collin ART STAFF Carolyn Wulff . . .Faculty Adviser Barbara Furst Norma Kull Edith Lagoze Gretta Shoten Florence Rosen Selma Gerson Molly Keiner Rachel Klonymus Arthur Lempert Rose Marie Leu Miriam Levitt Rita Mishel Lillian Porro Emily Di Paolo Fay Rubin Iacquelyn Rich Beatrice Ruggiero Anita Silverman Herbert Wener Galen White . . Faculty Adviser Florence Saltzman Iames Santelmo . . ,Faculty Adviser Eugenie Goalack Gilda Milo Corrine Romano Elaine Greenberg Bernard Horowitz Sol Feshbach . . .Faculty Adviser Edith Cohen

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.., w Elsa C. Becker In this age of uncertainties each of you may be certain of one thing-that from now on it is your task, as it is the task of every civilized person, to keep the peace. Surely you who have spent four years here in Columbus do not need to have proved to you your personal responsibility for this task. You have not lived in a free school society without realizing that its benefits may be secured for all only by the efforts of each. So that, aware of your responsibility and having accepted it, your only question is How shall I go about it? What specifically must I do? Not one of you but will attempt to Fill the prescription for peace if once it is given you. And how I should like to be able to give a prescription easy to fill, a panacea applicable to any problem at any time. But, that is the sort of push button routine that works well in emergencies like war and in other situations that respond to dictator tactics. It argues reliance on force rather than reasong it is tinged alas with power and gloryg it caters to the all-too-general tendency to let the other fellow do the thinking and the deciding. Whereas keeping the peace demands eternal vigilance, thinking as well as feeling, sacrihcing the desire for temporary victories and selhsh gain. It is humdrum, without fanfareg it does violence to our merely material selves, and is as homely as secure family life which exacts so much patience, so much compromise. The analogy I hope is clear. Your share in keeping the peace will in a sense be a daily humdrum job. because it involves carrying into all your large and small concerns of life the conviction that if you want peace you must work and sacrihce for it. It means building a solid foundation of rational thinking, of moral standards the same for all nations. This is not easy to do. because the use of one yardstick for your friends, your enemies, and yourselves requires genuine courage. It is not easy to face the fact that the country that persecutes negroes is as guilty as the one that liquidates non-Aryansg or that right is right and wrong is wrong whether Stalin or Byrnes is under consideration. In short it would seem that your contribution to the major task we all have in common is fundamentally the disciplining of your thoughts and actions to provide a solid foundation for peace. ELSA G. BECKER, Administrative' Assistant

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