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

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AN ADDRESS p J E HAVE been travelling together on life's highway for four years. W A conducted tour-shall We say?-in the realm of education. Q Now we approach a turning point where you take leave of the aj conductor and continue the journey independently. May He Who F4 designs the pattern of our lives, grant you continued health, increasing success and happiness. It has been a privilege to share these years with you,-years when you have been building a character which may Win the respect of all. You have learned to adapt yourselves to such life situations as you have found in the class room and in the conduct of student affairs. Here you have developed qualities of leadership, cooperation, and understanding,-habits of regularity, industry, and self-control. I hope We have fostered in you, too, a Wholesome respect for law and order, and a reverence for the higher things in life. Go forth now as loyal citizens of Erasmus Hall. Remember that our school will be judged by you. Be Worthy of its traditions and true to its ideals. Face to-dayls economic problems with courage and faith,-a Will to conquer, a grim determination to succeed. Do not dare to live Without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean With all your might to be some- thing. Be honest with yourself as Well as with your fellows. Play fair, not because you might be caught if you cheated, but because cheating is a loath- some thing. Honesty is not a policy but a right Way of living. It is difficult to address you thus, as a group. I much prefer to talk With you informally and individually. Your problems have been my problems through these years. My interest in your progress cannot cease at commence- ment. I shall expect to hear from you and about you as the years roll on. Let us, then, be up :mtl doing, Witty cz heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. FLORENCE E. DENHOLM

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A MESSAGE To the Mcmbc1's of the Class of Ill771L6l1'j1 1936: To you, the youngest of her graduates, Erasmus Hall extends her greetings and best Wishes. She is proud to Welcome you to the ranks of her alumni for she has high hopes that your Work in the World will be a full vindication of her confidence in you. The young graduate to-day goes out into an uncertain World, a World struggling to effect social, political, economic, and spiritual adjustments so sorely needed if civilization is to advance. As you have played so large a part in the life of this school for the last four years, so may you manfully meet your responsibilities as intelligent, high-minded young citizens of this great country of ours. The Old Gray School will Watch your careers with interest and pride, for in you, in what you become and do she sees her success or her failure. Si77C'61'C'ljI yours, JOHN F. MCNEILL