East Brunswick High School - Emerald Yearbook (East Brunswick, NJ)

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Thomas R. Bowman SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS B.S.. Ball State College M.A.. Ball State College Ph.D, University of Chicago The Superintendent’s Message The notion that learning goes on inside school and living goes on outside school is all too common in our society. This misleading notion is often combined with the equally misleading one that learning is preparation for life. I say these state- ments are misleading because each is true but each is also a gross over-simplification of a complex situation. For example, to say that a nuclear explosion is hot is a true statement but it also grossly understates the extreme heat of the reaction. Learning, rather than preparation for life, is one of the major concerns of living men. Recent statistics with respect to occupations suggest that most of the young citizens graduating from high school at the present time will be forced by obsolescence of practices of techniques or materials to make at least one major change in occupa- tion during their lifetimes. This means that learning is a must if these people are to survive as functioning citizens. But man cannot stop living while he is learning. He must constantly learn new patterns of responses even while he is still using the old, for the world about him changes and no man can know what he may need to know. And if no man can know what he may need to know, then he cannot arrange to do all his learning in the relatively safe confines of the school. In fact, it may well be that the most important “thing that can be learned in school is how to continue learning from the living of life itself. If we abide with the notion that the saying “live and learn” is a challenge that all of us can meet in our own way and at our own pace, we will not be dismayed by the immensity of the task of knowing all that is worth while in our expanding sea of knowledge. A “little bit of knowledge” is not a dangerous thing if the man who holds it knows that it is a little bit and is willing to seek more. Be a seeker for more! 20

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Ahead of us lay college and pro- fessional training, military service and employment, marriage and the family. Yet part of us would always remain “on the hill” . . . faithful, proud, and loyal.

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These Men Established Policies . . . The Principal’s Message The world in 1965—the world we know today—is a much smaller one than the world our fathers knew. The great expanses of distance and space have been shrunk considerably during the last fifty years, and Science promises greater progress in that direction. The peoples of the worlds and the planets of outer space—for pur- poses of peace or of war—have been drawn closer together in time via the new methods of transportation. Yet, we find that neither the peoples of the varied na- tions of the world nor the people of our United States nor even neighbors who live side by side in a community have made nearly as good progress in lessening the psychological distances between man and man. The challenges of science, medicine, and transportation are being met: the details of diplomacy and government arc being dealt with; yet the individual’s right to be free, to be “friend,” to be successful have few standard bearers. It is in this area of human relationships and human relations that each man has the opportunity to promote progress which will help secure peace at home and abroad. Let each man help his brother find personal liberty and he will preserve his own. Let each man live in the spirit of freedom, by the precepts of freedom, and freedom shall survive. If we are a world whose people arc being brought closer together, let us also be a world bound in friendship, respect, and understanding, rather than one of hate, fear, and suspicion. Let all people cease working country against country to build bombs, and commence working country with country, man with man, to build Broth- erhood. Anthony J. Navickas PRINCIPAL B.S, Oklahoma State M.A., Columbia 21