George W Wingate High School - Mosaic Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Stop now, and for one moment time itself will be stilled. Our lives will cease and then be resumed, but four years will be brought to a close, never to return. Think back and remember how you entered Wingate, the bare building with a jagged statue at front. You were probably timid and stayed close to those you knew. The change from then to now is vast. Then we were as young seedlings, frail and uncertain, trying to grow, to wrest sustenance from- the earth. Now we are as buds eager to burst, to blossom forth, to find our place in society. Underneath this external flowering, our inner self has been nourished with a knowledge and wisdom that has enabled us to develop our personalities, character traits which dis- tinguish one from the other and make each an individual within the group. We are young, but we have matured, and our energies are the dreams and hopes of a youth ready to meet the challenges of the world as adults. Now we are grown into a coherent unit, a class, and now it is come to this. We are here together for the last time-perhaps. We shall go ahead, out of Wingate, into life, and we shall change so that we never more will fit together as we now do. But there will be times when two will meet one another somewhere, and again, if for only a moment, we shall be back as we were. We, the class of June 1958, dedicate our yearbook to these ensuing years, so that when its pages are worn and yellowed, we shall recall the years of our growth and the pattern of four years of life will emerge, vivid and strong-even then. FOREWORD

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PRlNClPAL'S MESSAG To the Graduating Class: Three or four years ago you appeared at Wingate Regents week excited, insecure, and lonely. For the first time you came to a school in which you were freshmen and from a school in which you were graduates. You met fellow-students living in a larger area. Now you leave Wingate the product of four years of schooling-more poised, secure, and on your own. What has brought about this change in you during the last few years? First of all, through your courses in all subiects you have learned to read more thoughtfully and critically and to express yourself with a greater degree of correctness and power. Since your power of commu- nication is you, your personality has taken on new attractiveness. Secondly, here you have acquired new friends to whom you can speak freely and some of whom you will have for the rest of your life. They are bound to you and you to them in a bond of school loyalty which helps to make all of you feel less lonely. As a result of your experiences in Wingate some of you have acquired a glimpse of the kind of career you would like to prepare for and follow after graduation. Happy is that student who has a goal in view lwhether it be college, employment, or home-makingl around which he can center his best preparation. You have acquired a better use of your spare time. You have set up for yourselves new standards for movies, music, art, books, museums, exhibits, and sports. These are experienced on a higher level of discrimination. Experts agree that the proper use of spare time keeps all of us constructive, law-abiding, and inwardly ioyful. As an outcome of industrial and domestic arts you have acquired a greater understanding of, appreciation of, and competence in, gracious home living so that the partner you choose and the home you establish will enable you to live a rich family life. ln school you have practised the art of student government and thus have laid the founda- tion for good citizenship out of school. Your G.O. dues represent tax-paying, your student court iury-service, your G.O. Council law-making and your student patrol and service the execution of the law. Finally your whole life at Wingate has contributed to the formation of your character which the poet Tennyson has summed up as self-reverence, self knowledge, and self control. ln this new spirit you are aware of the good things you can do, appreciative of your new and growing capabilities so that you can go through life respecting the rights of others. ln these ways you are living richer and more useful lives, having grown through the tools of learning to greater maturity and greater self direction. The world is on the lookout to benefit from the skills, insights, and talents you have developed at home and at Wingate. Be prepared to give your best. I