James Madison High School - Log Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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as! 3- Wyse- 1 . -iff' Dear Girls and Boys of the E Class of June 1941: Four years ago you came to Madison as Freshmen. These years have stolen rapidly away into the past and you are now seniors looking forward to graduation and to the changes in your lives that will come with it. We who remain at Madison wish to con- gratulate you upon the Fine records you have made here and to wish you an success in the endeavors that lie before you. The same habits of industry and perse- verance which you have shown here wilt, if persisted in, carry you far on the road to worthwhile achievement in the future. Xve hope you win return often to Pimli- son. Vxfe want to see you. We want to know what you are doing in the busy world of human affairs. We want to help you if there is anything that we can do to con- tribute to the successes that we are sure you are going to attain. 'W Wfglw e ale Chat

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90 ewo J GAY, hitter words are spoken ahout Promise and Hope, They are derogatory words, scorntui and laugh- ing. Yet they cannot remove promise or deaden hope. Remembering this, we can regard radio progress with a hopeful eye. The advances in this field are taken almost com- ptacently, as if we feel that it is destiny that they must come. There danger liesg We should not he smugly satis- tied, for advance springs only from effort. We must have a conscious realization of the factors that constitute the advances which are made,-'offering a promise, granting a hope. Human endeavor then will not he directed towards ridding the world of other human beings who want to remain. We are lowly mortals, yet we lift our eyes to the stars .-without presumption. For it we can harness the air, re- ducing the omnipotent mystery of its parts and properties, we can surely explore other seemingly inexplicable prob- lems that have presented themselves, so that their solu- tions may guide and assist us. This hook is a remembrance of four years of our tives. It is more. It is the reminder th at it is now our turn for ven- turing the rise to the stars.