John Adams High School - Clipper Yearbook (Ozone Park, NY)

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I n Memorlam KI Bl' RT NX ITSUN Teaeher o Mathematlrs Asslstant Ihre: tor o I rogrammmg. I ommlttee 0 john Adams Hugh Sehool 1 The sun shall be no more thv lught bv dav neither or brightness shall the moon gne Ilght unto thee But the lord shall be unto thee an emerlastmg lzght, and thx l od thv glorv Isamh I X XVIII He uas a quzet man strong m purpose and :rm an deed Hrs help ulness kneu no bounds For elghteen vears he labored on er our programs sparlng hlmsel no mconzemenre As a mathematlrs mstrurtor ew eould eompare ulth hum But we learned more than math an has classes, we learned the needed dlsclplme of llfe Forget ham nezer or he was the studenfs rzend 'MARGARET LOUFHLIIN I . . . l I , . I I . 193 ' ' 94-8 I Q n A D 1. V n- is . . . , . f. . . ' 9 I . I . Q . D . , . I . . 4 . , Q , I f ' . H

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Seelng Re IUPUI' RT STI' RWIAN LARE BOOTH IUCE s d 1t The sound th1nker faced wrth a problem asks only one auest1on ls 1t naht or lS 1t wrong? T e fa se or fre shallow th1nker asks ls 1t proares s1ve IS 1t reachonary lS 1t 11beral IS 1 as lSl1C commun1st1c or democrattcf Th1s DISCS of w1sdom IS only too apphcable 1n these troubled t1mes The unth1nk1ng person too Often re sorts to name call1na when faced w1th an op1n1on contrary to HIS own lt obv1ously settles all doubts when a person IS labeled corrrr1un1st fOSClSl lt IS much eas1er e Red than to thmk the problem ou we1ah1ng the aood potnts and the bad ones comtng to a conclus1on that IS rght 1n your own m1nd and not af fected by extraneous 1ntlue1 es l many cases peop1e 1ump to hasty conclus1ons They reason tnat 1f a man has a red t1nt to hrm he can hold no r1ght 1aeas Everythmg ne says everythmg he does IS wr nu Recently Pres1dent Truman rssued a ClVll R1ahts Program VffllCl'1 was armed to 1mprove cond1t1ons for the neg o 1n the South A southern Sen tor 1mmed1ately lashed out wrth a oar n a nst t e p Amo otner th ngs s d alled 1t commun1st scoerre toere pe t u ar Jrrert rot or and a1nst Pes ert Tru man s ClVll Rrghts Program fre e C m 1ur1sm ente s INTO th s p ture 15 oefond me Th1s ar urren 1 all too prevalent 1n the Un1ted St tes t Wherever a fault s porntea ut 1n erther our soc1al cord1t1uns or ur oovernrrert too many people a all t o eager to cry commumst C mu 1st hyster1a really fell 1nto th utter when a saort t1me ago a mar house was brolcen 1nto f1lS furn1ture thrown 1nto the street and h1s heme xwrecked by 1rate freedom lOV11'1J c1t1zens The man was a cornmumst lf we have to resort to these tact cs t combat Commumsm Demo racy na fa1led For that matter no man h lS ther safe and that IS Just what we have str1ven for dur1ng the past l'7 years Why not better ourselves econom1cally p l1t1cally soc1ally and 1ntellectually9 Poverty and uneduca ton are the breed1ng grounds of C m 1run1sm But we should def1n1tely ot cmbat ev1l Wllh ev1l to r1d ourselve o Commun1sm We must be careful not to lose s1ght of our own democrat1c 1aeals We should not and must not forfe1t our her1tage of freedom o speech Volta1re famous French ph lo scpher sa1d l may drsaaree w1th what you sav but l w1ll f1aht to the death for your r1ght to say 1t Democracy h s not reached 1lS peax of perfe t1on We must not srt 1a1y by content wrth what we have The 1nev1taole result of such stagnat1r1 w1ll oe a sl1d1n back We must l1ve th1nk and act democrat cally 1n order to make democracy work 0 rage cz ae unc1at1cn ag 1 H n A rc- 'l ' l ' ,- gra11.. ng 1 a1 , he ' ' N ' in ' ' C .1 11, 1 1 . ., 1 -4 .1 t Q Nor. 11 are A l n 11 1 g 1 1 e Q f 1 1 ' aa ' o re id 1 . '- 1 11 1 , CUT r o rr 1 r 111- ic ' 1 1 . 1' g 1 11 . . - - 5 A G oda,. 1 1 1 A ' 1 7 - 1 U If , . , C- O J 1 1 fv ,. . , M o 1 , . va' ' A Q 11 ,1 - F' C 5 , , 1 , 1 1,- to . Cl . c , 1 . 1 1 I e 1 , o 1, . T 4 . 41 , I 4 , , 11 V 1 . 1 o 1 1 h 1 l e t1 K 1 1 . I ,- 1 1 C . 1 . , . . .. , . , F , Q . , , , , c 11 e ,I . . . . . A . , A D :1 c , , 1 , . , 1 s , ern, . . . , A I 1 A A I A V IL: 1 , e , 11 ,, ' - 1 - N o 1 - - 11 - ff ' g ' ,,, or A - - 1- . to 1. ll V O 1 11 . t I ' I - ' 1 , - 1 xc . n f 1. , 1 - 1 A . ,. . . , 1 , , J . 1 1 4 ' ' 1 1, J . . ,, . , . A 1 1 a . F 1 A A F. . , , e J. 1 c . , 1 , 1 1 .1 , 1 . ,. , , , 1h , . e1 1 l T 1 Q 1 1 . I' . 1 Cf' , 1 .T