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

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FQREWQRD Mosaic once again makes its annual bow to bespeak the role of Wingate in the light of the young hopefuls committed to its care. Though the manifold advantages of a Wingate education would appear obvious to the student reader, it will bear detail- ing for the benefit of all. Wingate trains a student in every essential and vital aspect -his mind, his personality, his body and finally his future as a useful citizen in the community. A student is familiarized and made to feel thoroughly at home with the wide range of academic subjects that make up a high school curriculum. Thus, the earnest student is pre- pared for any academic or commercial course he may enter upon graduation. Our Wingate man is encouraged to create and express his inborn leanings through the medium of many artistic outlets. The classes he can attend in literary composition, painting, drama and industrial arts, afford these opportunities for crea- tive originality. One cannot hope for success in life if one is not socially adjusted and cannot make and hold friends. Wingate's con- genial class associations based on common study or hobby interests, stimulate group effort and social adaptation. An advantage that cannot be stressed too strongly is the cultivation of the student's sense of service. All useful, worth- while functions of a socially adjusted citizen in the com- munity of men, are those based on service. The tradesman, professional, employee, and government official are giving a service. The Wingater is guided in the path of service to his school, his classmates, and his community. This sense is heightened in the Junior Red Cross, Human Relations Club, the school paper, and other activities. By participation in the latter as voluntary assistants, aids, helpers and contributors, the vital lesson of service is brought home to the young boy or girl. Let us join in a well earned salute to Wingate where raw youngsters are moulded into men and women who will make this an even better America-a light for the nations and an ideal of liberty and democracy. M 1 1 MM 1 Bunn' 1 Q 'Q IM g'2 gay... 'lvl ze gg ,Wt 'fi 'G 1 4 Alia' I ii in :W I2 -frr 1 . if l,, 1 . ' 'ff Q , 'Egan in f A 7 j 'Alf 'FAS'- qm C ,f Z-SY'-rf' 4 V . I ...'. ki. ' 55451 n j ll' fn

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PRINCIPAIJS MESSA The equipment the taxpayers of our city and state have given you are repre- sented in the pattern of our mosaic. You take, too, the values- intellectual, economic, cultural-which make us civilized beings. We read these values in your faces and your record, in this lVlosaic. The object of our teaching has been to make you independent of us, your teachers. The appetite for learning and the inquiring mind, have been yours for developing. You have learned how to learn, how to sift information from many sources, how to distinguish fact from opinion and how to set out on many-sided searches for causes so that you may solve problems. Whatever your course, you have moved in the direction of self-support. You know pride in a job well done. You have been made a better consumer, while we produce for a limited number of years, we are consumers all life long. For cultural values you have belief in principles that have met the test of time. You have aesthetic values, the freedom to choose the best in good taste. You have experienced a taste for the beautiful, not merely the expensive. You have engaged in activities for the creative use of spare time. You have ethical values, signifying self-respect and respect for others. You respect sportsmanship. You feel the claims of worthy causes on your time. You have learned that there is more to life than a paying job, security, and social position. You have begun to find yourselves as individuals, and to lose yourselves in interests, causes and ideals more enduring than you your- selves are. You have been searching for things more meaningful to believe in in our world today. Yours is the scientific value: freedom to seek the truth. You have learned of a unity in nature, that the orbits of electrons, man-made satellites, and the heavenly bodies are the same. You have become aware of the order- liness of nature. As Spinoza believed, the laws of nature are the mathematical thoughts of God. At Wingate you have experienced and shared a freedom which, as else- where, is not perfect, but which is fuller in realization here in the U.S.A. than in any other place in the world. HWith the sky in your head symbolizes the free man with vision and opportunity less limited than ever before. lVlay you, dear graduates, so extend the power and promise of your own, of Wingate values. Cordially yours, 'Wm Dr. Colvin relaxes with his grand- 5 daughters, Rachel and Debbie. ff' GE '