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

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Dear Class oT June I937: We are abouT To separaTe, you and l, aTTer Tour years oT earnesT work and Tellowship. You are leaving our beloved Alma lVlaTer To enTer upon new paThways oT experience and advenTure. May The paThs lead To happiness and worTh-while achievemenTs. EarnesTly worlc ouT your own desTiny. Give TorTh The besT ThaT is in you, and have TaiTh To believe ThaT The besT will come back To you. Thus you will help To malce The world a Tiner place because you have lived in iT. WiTh TaiTh and pride in you, one and all, KurT A. Zimmermann

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DEDICATION WE, TT-IE CLASS OE JUNE, IQ37, MOST ORATEEULLY DEDICATE TI-IIS BOOK TO KURT A. ZIMMERMANN, WHO I-IAS UNRESERVEDLY EARNED OUR EVER- LASTINO ADMIRATION AND FRIEND- SHIP TI-IROUOI-I I-IIS UNTIRINO EN- COURAOEMENT, LOYALTY, AND IN- SPIRATION.

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ff aw- O TO Tl-TE MEMBERS OE Tl-IE SESQUI- CENTENNIAL CLASS OE ERASMUS l-IALL: l'learTiesT greeTings To you all and congraTulaTions upon your success. As you are graduaTed This June, Erasmus l-lall compleTes one cenTury and a halT oT service Tor The youTh oT our land. The TaiTh, The vision, and The sacriTices oT Those who in 1786 esTablished This school and oT Those who Through The years have supporTed iT have been iusTiTied in iTs long record oT use- Tul service. We hope ThaT your Tour years here have developed your powers oT mind, ThaT you have come To a Tuller knowledge oT people and To a greaTer maTuriTy oT personaliTy and oT characTer. You Tace a world uncerTain oT iTs purpose, scep- Tical oT many belieTs ThaT guided our TaThers, Torn by conTlicTing ideas, TearTul oT impending disasTer. Unable or unwilling To Thinlc Tor Them- selves, Too rnany men are swepT along in mass Thinking and in mass acTion. The abdicaTion oT personal responsibiliTy and The TlighT Tor reTuge To The auThoriTarian dicTaTorship oT Tyrannical in- dividuals or oT groups consTiTuTe a danger To ThaT democracy which we believe To be The besT way oT liTe. As you go ouT Trom school, may I impress upon you individually your responsibiliTy To Thinlc Tor yourselves and To worlc Tearlessly Tor The righT. IT democracy is To survive and iT civilizaTion is To advance, The good ciTizen musT be prepared and willing To do his parT in solving The problems Tacing us Today. John E. McNeill