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

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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.

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HOWARD LEONARD AARON Pres. official class. bronze service pin, silver scllolarsliip pin every term: matlw, current events. biology clubs: f clismissal. lVl.M.lVl. squacls: lab. assistant. College of William G Nlary. SEYMOUR AARONSON 7 sclmolarsllip pins. liistory lionor, extemporaneous speaking contest mcclal: clebating. current events. economics, culture clubs: sec. to teaclrers. liall patrol. Antiocli Col- lege. JOSEPH ABRAlVlS Pres., vice-pres. ol official classes, 1 silver. 4 bronze scliolarsliip pins, lristory lionor soc.: Frencli, worclsters clubs: camera squacls: capt. traffic squad: swim. team: sec. to teacllers. Comell University. DAVID ACKERMAN Band, orchestra: matlu club. Cooper Union College of Engineering. NORMAN ACKERNIAN Traffic. luncli squads: room assistant. New Yorlc University. RICHARD ACKERMAN Capt. dismissal squad. University ol Pittsburglt. AMY ADELSON Library squad: sec. to teacli- ers. general office assist. University ol lvliami. JOHN AGNEVV 5 bronze scliolarslrip pins: Hi Y, airplane clubs, capt. of guards: co-capt. ol track team. Brewster Aeronautical Corporation. CLAIRE ALBERT Bronze scliolarsliip pin: sec. of official classes, sec. to tcacliers. treas. of class: late, grade advisers squads. Colgate Business Sclrool. JEROME ALEX 3 bronze scllolarsliip pins: IVl.lVl.lVl. Brooklyn College. NORNIA ALK 4 bronze, I silver scliolarslmip pins: lionor girls: Spanisli, movie, leaders. word- sters clubs: baseball. basketball teams: Spanisll ull., sec. to teacliers. College. VIILDRED ALPERT 2 silver, 5 bronze scliolar- sliip pins: German, current events, maclrigal clubs: cutting. biology, lunclr squacls: sec. to teacliers. Business Scliool. GLORIA Nl. ALTNIAN Bronze scliolarsliip pins, vice-pres. official class. sec. microscope club: economics, Nlenorali clubs: biology, trallic squads: tennis team: sec. to teacllers. Hunter College. IRVVIN ALTIWAN lVl.NI.NI., traffic, luncli squacls. St. Jol1n's University. SID ALVVEISS Class president, vice-pres.: cliem- istry. Spanisli clubs: traffic, late gym squacls: football. track, baseball teams: Army Air Corps. XVILLIAM ANDERSON Traffic, liistory office squads: ll. S. Navy.