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

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193 C50 the Glass of ianuar Y first impulse in reply to the editors request was to beg to be excused.-Have you not had to listen to me for the past four years? What more need I say? Then it occurred to me that after a few days we shall not meet in the same way again, for the time has come for us to sever our paths. Therefore, beforei our parting, it is fitting and proper for me to express a word of farewell, accompanied by a benevolent benediction. I rejoice with you because you have succeeded in attaining a goal, and I pray God's blessing may attend your future. Together we have begun to scan that new horizon with expectant hopes-hopes that the experiences, the associations, and the train- ing you have received in the Old Gray School may be stepping stones to greater things. As achievements of men written down in human history and estimated by the world, your contribution may as yet be insignificant. Entering a great institution in a great city, living in a period of great financial stress, you have devoted four years of your time and energy to acquiring that bit of parchment intrinsically, of little value, but for the customary inscription and time-honored seal. A few of you have attained honors and fame in the school family. May these beginnings be the buds of promise that shall blossom in due time. Those of you who may describe yourselves in negative terms will find before you an open road, where you will be sure to find opportunities for conquest and glory. I shall be keenly interested in the future of each one of you. And to each let me say, Forget those successes or those failures that are behind and press on to the marl-1 of a higher calling . Harriet Berg

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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