Jamaica High School - Folio Yearbook (Jamaica, NY)

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10 'lfl-IE ORACLE To the graduates of the June Class of Nineteen-hundred Twenty-six I find it particularly ditticult to express adequately in a few sentences the many messages I should like to give. VVe have been more than congenial during the past four hectic years, dear seniors. Together we have weathered varied and unique experiences, which united us in a firm bond of genuine and lasting friendship. We share many happy, precious memories. You were my tirst class after my appointment to the Jamaica High School. I shall remember you always. In conclusion, let me quote part of the text of one of the numbers of your commencement program. The pleasant study years for us will soon be ended, By student joys and fears, our days no more attend-ed. L As loyal comrades sing, a .song of praise and greeting, These lzallowed walls shall ring alt this our fl'VlL1l IlfCCll7lg. Blessings Brighten as they Vanish-May yours never vanish, Cordially, -Louisa PHILLIPS PFEIFFER.

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THE ORACLE 9 JAMAICA HIGH SCHOOL jamaica, New York MEMBERS OF THE GRADUATIXG CLASS OF JUNE, 1926: Dear Girls and Boys: The press of work which always comes at this time of the year, added to complications arising in our new building, have made it impossible for me to attend any of your class meetings and express in person many of the things which I wish to tell you. This short letter will have to take the place of these personal contacts. You are about to leave the place where you have spent four happy, and I hope, profitable years. VVe. your teachers. are sorry to see you go, as many of you have made deep and lasting impressions on our hearts. VVe wish you all success in the work which you expect to follow after graduation. Let me force upon you one last word of advice-keep in touch with your surroundings by reading constantly the best things. The young people of these days are getting the movie habit. Everything must be presented to them in picture form, whether on the streen or by means of tabloid news- papers. The eye is trained, but the sustained effort of the mind suffers. You young people need to train the power of concentration, which can only be accomplished through reading literature which causes you to think. Although you will graduate from this old building, I w.ant you all to feel that the new Jamaica High School is your alma mater and that you will always be welcome. Come and tell us of your successes as well as your troubles. You will find in your teachers and principal sympathetic listeners. I VVISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK. Sincerely yours, CHARLES Hp VOSBURGI-I. 'T

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THE ORACLE 11 'iv My dear Boys and Girls of the Senior Class of June 1926, As you pass out of the sequestered care of Jamaica High School to face the problems of a civilization imbued with the false idea that speed, rush and stress are the elements of success, I wish to call your attention to the fact that it is the great army of patient toilers that keeps this mad and whirling old world in balance. Have you stopped to conjecture what you would do without the products of the farmer, the miner, the factory laborer, and the distributors? The get rich quick idea is all too prevalent at present, and I want to bring to your serious attention the value in economic service and in character building of hard and honest toil. To find that sort of occupation by which you can render the greatest service to your fellow-men, and one in which you find the most ready response to your individual tastes and capacities is your task. john Ruskin said of toil, If you want wealth, you must toil for itg if you want fame, you must toil for itg if you want pleasure, you must toil for it, toil is the law. Wishing you a success crowned by the dignity of service, I remain Most cordially yours, -VVARREN L. STARKEY.