Jamaica High School - Folio Yearbook (Jamaica, NY)

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,r z. If ' wr ' Y' .t is Q ,id BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ,A 3 JAMAICA HIGH SCHOOL A fu, Nb U if 1 1 O A f . v., 4 if :ze Nfl I I I Q , 'x I 1 I I ' l , 1. I68lh STREET AND GOTHIC DRIVE JAMAICA 32, N. Y. June, 1956 For some time you have looked forward with anticipation and happiness to your graduation from high school. Now that your last lesson is almost done and the last bell soon to sound, you will find the pain of nostalgia mingled with the promised joy. jamaica High School has probably meant different things to each of you. To many of you, it has always been a source of stimulation and inspiration, the very center of your intellectual and social life. To others, it has been a wholesome place where one followed directions, met school requirements, and spent one's time while growing up. To some few, high school may have seemed like an institution of de- tention, where one is assigned almost meaningless, nerve-racking tasks and subjected to grinding toil. Let me remind you in the words of the Roman poet, Virgil, that one day it will please us to look back on even these things. One memory all of you will take with you wherever you go, and that will be the recollection of the cordial friendships, the camaraderie and the warm sense of belonging that you ex- perienced at Jamaica. ' Every generation has to face an unknown future, fraught with dangers. Every generation knows that what lies ahead will be more complex and different from the seemingly more secure, serene days of the past. To a large extent man makes his own future-one's fate is not destined or decreed. We clutch the key to the future in our own hands. With the courage of youth, you must pronounce life good, set your sights high, and look forward hopefully. You can remold the world a little nearer to your heart's desire and turn even your dreams into reality. We hope that we have helped you develop your talents, and given you the ability to see the world around you in depth and breadth. We hope too that you will remember your teachers and the debt you owe to our great public school sys- tem. Ave atque vale.. WLQQ. PRINCIPAL

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IRA LICHT JUDY HART 5 PREFACE With feelings of joy and pride and a sense of accomplishment we come to the end of a year's work. The product of that year is FOLIO, your yearbook. We've tried to make this yearbook a souvenir of four important years. We've tried to record the events of those years and to picture the faces of those with whom you've worked and laughed. We've tried to present a full picture of your years as a Jamaican. We hope that in future years FOLIO will be taken from its shelf, laughed at, discussed, then replaced again, like the family photograph album. We hope that F OLIO will help you to remember. F OLIO, the name we have chosen for our year- book, is particularly appropriate for this issue since our theme is trees and FOLIO is derived from the Latin word for leaf. But the name has other associations too which will make it suitable for future yearbooks. It may mean a book of large size or a leaf of a manuscript. Above all, it in- evitably suggests the earliest important print- ing of Shakespeare's works, the famous FIRST FOLIO, put out by the jaggard Press in 1623. Inspired by this great tradition, we offer you our first F OLIO. Sincerely, JUDY HART, IRA LIGHT Co-Editors L i . fl -1, x me , -. 9 - iq. bl i 15 ' I It-34- ,ff - fr' vt ,, 5 fsffi . Q..-gt' ss' n