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

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arrports engrnes and machrnes huge and bold structures of steel and concrete may clarm our attentron as We speculate upon the changes of the next half century Questlons of slum clearance and model housmg matters of transporta tron and traffrc control the constructron of new schools hosprtals and other publrc burldrngs Wrll follow soon after as we conslder the problems of tomorrow Almost always rt IS a vrsron of materral thlngs that catches our fancy to the exclusron of any other thought as we look ahead fnto the next frfty years And yet rt would be a tragrc mrstake to concern ourselves solely wrth the creatrons of the drawrng board and the blue prmt the products of the rnrne and the mrll as We scan the future Our new trontrers may well he rn the area of human problems as we seek solutlons of the drffrcultres that seem to perplex us most lust now Age old matters of adjustment between confllctlng nghts and mterests cannot contmue to go unheeded or neglected 1n the years ahead Problems of freedom and securrty of nattonalrsm and world order of publrc health and welfare wrll demand our best thought for therr solutlon lt rs IU th1s area of human values that we shall be most heavtly en gaged 1n the 1mmed1ate future A due apprecratlon of the dtgnrty of man a proper sense of the brotherhood of all men and a realrzatfon of the msepar able connectlon between rrghts and dutres w1ll be needed now more than ever before A frrm grasp upon baslc prrncrples of lustrce and farr play and a readrness to accept these prmcrples as the frame Work of drscussron and decrston are essentral to a sane and orderly approach to the problems of rndependence and mterdependence that beset us The threats to just peaceful and frrendly relatronshlps among men and among natrons have gathered strength over the centurres and these drtftcultres are not gorng to be removed rn a day or a Week Mu h of the next half century may well have passed before our cfty sees the frults of patrent study and sympathetlc understandmg of the pornts at rssue rn a resolute attack upon the obstacles to a solutron Our school represents a mrle stone of achlevement of the frrst frfty years of our borough and our greater crty Let us hope that rn 1ts educa tronal program 1t has afforded both the mstructron and the trarnmg to help our graduates IH the conquest of these new frontlers rn human relatronshlps The next half century wrll measure our success m th1s prrmary oblectlve of all our efforts -431,11 ii A N6 tr Fill . 3 QJQZ. , , , , , , , , . , , , f l A l ' ' . c 1 - - :I-L. - ,se a -1, giffffgf klll DW 'fl ,A t : 1, . '.x. 'l ,- -QAL, ,,-,,'4h'

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,4 Messugefrvm the Skipper THROUGHOUT THE YEAR Just ended we have been asked to look back over the lrfty years that have passed srnce Greater New York was born Now as l949 makes 1ts bow to mark the begmnrng of the second halt century ot the unron ot the frve boroughs We are naturally currous as to what tate may have ln store rn that perrod lor thrs lmmense and sprawlrna As We have devoted much ol our attentron rn revrewmg the record ot the lrrst trtty years to physlcal changes rn the appearance of our c1ty so our mmds now may tend to dwell largely upon materral thmgs as We try to plerce the Ve1l ot the future Hlghways tunnels brldges subways . . , town ol ours. , ' I ANI . I I

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