Division Avenue High School - Perspectum Yearbook (Levittown, NY)

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MR. LOUIS BLUMBERG

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ADMINISTRATION

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DIVISION AVENUE HIGH SCHOOL James R. Reilly. Principal Dear Graduates of 1963: We are inclined in our modern day society of technological superiority to often confuse progress with change; our descriptive vocabulary bubbles with cheaper- less work—faster—more comfort—farther. In our press forward it is imperative that we match our achievements against the touchstone of true progress—the en- noblement of mankind, universal justice, reverence for truth. Your intellectual development at this period must be viewed as a nurturing of values and an inculcation of standards, both moral and spiritual. To define your success today in terms of your familiarity with facts and adroitness of manipulative skills is to be blind to the meaning of existence and deaf to the echoes of the past. Our nation is today powerful and wealthy and comfortable because of our in- ventors, our financiers, our scientists; but its soul and its being have evolved from faith in the Almighty, from the wisdom of Jefferson and Lincoln, from the sacrifice of Hale and Warren, from the voice of Longfellow and Frost. To jet the length and breadth of our land is awesome; but to rise so high that the land and its people fade to nothing is disaster. May the progress you make in your time bring man closer to his heritage of happiness, of truth, of honor and justice. Sincerely yours, 13 -• LEVITTOWN PUBLIC SCHOOLS- LEVITTOWN, N . Y.