Erasmus Hall High School - Arch Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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-eeee,.W,.e ., . we SENIOR YEAR Booic. JANUARY 1935 TO THE SENIOR CLASS: YEAR and a half have passed since I gave up control of Erasmus Hall and it is pleasant to get your request for a few words and to realize that in spite of the whirl of life, I have not yet been forgotten. I shall never lose my memory of our days together and the interest I took in your development from callow Fresh- men to the maturity of Seniors. The Old Gray School is going on to higher things as the years pass and I cannot find words to express my satis- faction that Dr. McNeill was chosen to succeed me. He has so rare a combina- tion of high breeding and courage, of intellect and sympathy, that his inliuence is going to be felt in the best of all pos- l sible ways, without himself being con- i scious of it. You are very fortunate people to have him as your leader. When I left the school, the realization that he was to follow me eased my good-bye. I hated to give up my close association and my friendships with youg but the present age demands youth at the helm, and very rightly so. A thing a man learns as he grows older, is that he is never indispensable. I shall always keep my affection fort you and my memories. All the rest is in Dr. McNeill's able hands. Ave Atque Vale. J. HERBERT LOW Nine

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ERASMUS HALL HIGH SCHOOL TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF JANUARY 1935: O-DAY my mind goes back to a day just four years ago, when Dr. Low was enjoying his well-earned sab- batical leisure on the beach at Wzlikiki and when you were still in the elemen- tary schools, a day when Miss Berg con- sented to be the grade adviser of your class. Both she and I remember vividly how young and how timid, yet how eager and alert you looked on your first appearance here. It is difficult to-day to believe that four years have passed since then, that our inspiring friend and leader, Dr. Low, has left us, and that you, no longer children but young men and women, are going on. We hope that your four years here have meant growth and development of mind, of personality, and of spirit. You have been fortunate indeed in having as your principal for so long a part of your course so distinguished a leader as Dr. Low. In the years to come may you live up to all that he expects of you individually as loyal Erasmians, true to the Hnest traditions of scholarship, character, and lservice. Both Dr. Low and your teachers will follow your future work with interest, for your success means, in part, that Erasmus Hall has done her job well. For the faculty as well as for myself, may I wish for you in the years to come the fullest development of all the powers and gifts that you possess, the richest ful- Hllment of your ambitions and dreams, and lives full of service to your fellowmen? Sincerely yours, JOHN F. McNEILL Eighf

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qorewotd HIS year book has been edited with the idea in mind of Lest we forget, lest we forget . Therefore, whatever value it may possess is not for today but for that inevitable tomorrow, when the present will have faded into the dim past and the future will have become the living present. If, in that too soon tomorrow, these few pictures and pages can form echoes in your memory- echoes, perhaps, of a friend half forgotten, or of an incident half remembered, then this aggregation of ink and parchment will have served its purpose.