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

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Edwin Browne Wfe have been reading in the papers recently about the new fad called together, ness. It has been reported that twenty-seven college students all got together at one time in one phone booth, Fifty-six co-eds all drank together from one chocolate milk- shake fwith strawsj. Tens of thousands of high school and college students descended on certain Florida resorts at one time during the Spring vacation. Of course, if we think about this a little, we realize that most of these external manifestations of adolescent exuberance are deeply rooted in man's gregarious instinct, his instinct to belong to the herd. We are, after all, social animals. We are not birds of prey who hunt alone. However, l think a word should be said for 'alonenessfl We all have to live with other people but each of us must also live with himself. l once took a cruise on a wind- jainmeru, an old sailing vessel with very crude accommodations. My cabin mate was a young fellow full of fun, vigor, and animation. Every morning he would spring from his bunk, leap to the mirror hanging on the wall and exclaim, Hi ya handsome! Let me hasten to add that he was not the most handsome fellow in the world. However, he liked what he saw in the mirror. He was not afraid to face himself. He did not avoid a self inspection and a self evaluation, and even though he probably knew he had his faults, nevertheless he was satisfied with the general picture. There have been many definitions of happiness. A simple one might be-the ability to live comfortably with one's self. Live so that you can look into the mirror and be satisfied with the general picture. EDWIN BROWNE Administrative Assistant awww Elsa G. Becker rialism, and greed, In these days of recurring international crises we all realize how tremendous a task lies before us to effect a lasting peace. It is a task that will continue to tap stores of courage and energy equalling and far exceeding those demanded by war because it seems likely to continue as long as life lasts. Our confiict today is in political and economic theaters, against systems of ideas and practices which run counter to our free way of life. And we must prove that the free way is he bedrock of lasting peace and true progress. This we can only prove by a genuine effort to live our ideals to arm our selves with justice, truth, and brotherly love with which to combat dishonesty mate The struggle for most of us will not be spectacular because it will take place in the ordinary small circumstances of our lives, the home the office the neighborhood where no glamor accompanies our decision to maintain integrity at the price of ridicule or to defend the right side even when it is the losing side or to forego luxuries that strangers to us in foreign lands may maintain life. But, just such small expressions of democratic idealism practiced day in and day out by 180 million Americans in whatever political or economic or social situations arise can have rocket force in constructing a peaceful world. Here is a fight that demands the best efforts of the graduates of une 1959

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Kyle PRINCIPADS MESSAGE iw f, Dear Graduates: ' 9-f Scientists inforni us tbat nzan niay establisb a footbold upon tbe rnoon by 1975. Tbus nzan will attain a goal be bas drearned about since tbe Babylonian era almost 5,000 years ago. However, dreaming alone, since 3,000 B.C., would bardly bare rnade it possible for scientists to burl rocket nrissiles far beyond tbe eartb's gravitational influence and into orbit around tbe sun. Intelligence, education, deterrnination, and vision were tbe indispensable ingredients necessary to rnabe tbis dreanz realizable. Altbougb sonze adventuresorne and curious spacernen :nay reacb 240,000 rniles into outer space by 1975, bow far will you bare reacbed by tbat sarne year, sixteen years from now? Tbe goals you establisb now, tbe persistence you display in tbe years to conie, and tbe education and insigbt you bring to bear upon all of your actizrities in tbe future will contribute irnnzeasurabl y in extending your reacb far beyond your present borizons. Robert Browning expressed tbis tbougbt admirably wben be wrote: Ab! But a rnan's reacb sbould exceed bis grasp or wbat's a beauen for? EDWARD R. KOLEVZON Principal

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