Jamaica High School - Folio Yearbook (Jamaica, NY)

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TO THE GRADUATES OF JUNE, i936 Dear Girls and Boys: Perhaps you may have heard that this June I shall com' plete the fortieth year of teaching in Jamaica High School. In that time I have watched the school grow in registration from less than one hundred pupils to over nine thousand, its graduf ating class from five a year to over twelve hundred a year, its teaching staff from four to three hundred. This phenomenal growth has had its advantages and dis' advantages. Keeping pace with increasing numbers came im' proved facilities for education, varied courses, more specialized teachers, but with these advantages came also the disadvantages of large classes, a shorter school day, less personal instruction, less individual contacts between teacher and pupil. With all these changes there has been one constant factor -the student. You boys and girls of today are essentially the same as they were forty years ago. You dress differently, some of you apply a little color to help nature, you are more sophisf ticated, and you may smoke occasionally, but at heart you are the same simple, wholesome, fun loving, cooperative students as were those of a quarter a century ago. My most fervent wishvis that you develop into as good, loyal, upstanding, courf ageous citizens as those who graduated before you. ,f i,.sMYou are leaving your Alma Mater at a difficult time, a tiineof Hnancial stress and social readjustment, and it may not be easy for you to find your particular niche, but there is such a place, as there always has been, if you will only have the courage and perseverance to find it. If at any time you are in need of a little encouragement or the advice of an older person, do not hesitate to come to me. I feel that my responsibility does not end with the granting of your diploma. My office door will open to you just as freely as it has for the past four years and I shall be glad to help you at any time. I congratulate you on your graduation and wish you all success and the best of luck. Sincerely your friend, CHARLES H. VOSBURGH, Principal, jamaica High School.

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CHARLES I-I. VOSBURGH Principal, jamaica High School

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Samoa YEAR Book My dear friends: SENIOR ADVISERS To the Graduates of June 1036: To each of you as you leave us to follow so many widely varied careers, I suggest that you adopt and follow a definite philosophy of life. To do so is to have the advantage of a guide that enables you to know whereffand why-nyou stand on all those important ethical, social and economic problems that have to be faced by you and your generation in the very near future. Sincerely, AN NE B. MCCiI.INCIHY. Graduation has a way of ending, all too abruptly, four happy years, but it cannot take away from you the pleasant memories of your high school career. In the future you will think of jamaica High School as a place where you made many friends, and I will remember the Class of june 1936 because I have come to know many of you as my friends. Every commencement is an occasion for giving advice to the mem' bers of the graduating class. Volumes have been written, many words spoken, all with the purpose of offering guidance to those on the threshold of an uncertain future. Anything I might say has already been saidg furthermore, it seems to me that your success and happif ness will be influenced not by what I say, but upon what you dofso do your best. My very best wishes to all of you in whatever you may choose to do. IK Most sincerely, ALBERT L. MoRR1soN. To the Graduates of June 1936: You are signally honored in being the largest Class ever graduated from Jamaica High School. My heartiest good wishes for your future go with you. You have done big things this term and I desire to thank each and every one of you for your kind cooperation in what has become a gigantic task. Yours sincerely, Haimorn A. BROWN.