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

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gait get 1-6l,7'U 'x Aff' ff Wi M572 KH 0 Y F, 09 sg From The Skipper Williziiii A. Clarke turbed to think that our boasted standard of living may have made us more than a little fat and soft and lazy in a world where other nations are intent upon becoming lean and hard and everlastingly industrious. It would be the path of folly in this situ- ation to seek comfort in recalling our past triumphs while those about us are busily engaged in preparing to dispute our su- premacy. Two world wars and a huge po- lice action with no fully satisfactory sequel have enlightened us at terrible cost, We rec- ognize higher education now as very serious business. No longer is it only at gatherings of teachers, administrators and college profes- sors that the prime importance of a sound college and university educational program is a topic of lively discussion. It has become a regularly recurring theme at meetings of business men, newspaper publishers, policy makers in government, men responsible for our national defense. our leaders in exery field. This widespread awareness of thc pressing need of our making more etfcttix e use of our educational resourtes at the higher levels should help bring an iinproxt- ment. Two specific matters are properly reteix- ing particular attention. First, we need to broaden opportunities for higher edutation to make it available to every intellettually qualified student, regardless of economit or social status. Our own state of New York has doubled its Regents scholarships in our tounty and both our state and our city hai e otherwise substantially increased opportuni- ties for higher edutation for those unable to secure it without finantial help. Colleges, industrial and fraternal organizations, labor unions and other groups are vying with one anotlier in providing tollege and proliesf sional stholarships. Never has higher edu- tation been more readily available to tliose properly clualilied. Of no less iinportante is the quality ol' edutation. We are no longer satislied with arrays ol' figures that essentially ineasure quantity alone, lt is the kind of leather, lawyer, doctor, engineer, researth stientist, clergyman and the like that inatters niost of all. We need the best possible person in each of these and similar fields. Thousands of half-trained engineers and ill-equipped research scientists will not help our national defense. Diverting our writers, creative art- ists and teachers from humanistic studies to those directly engaged in armament projects will destroy the very freedom we profess to prize so highly. Clearly, our task is to find and train for each area of higher study the persons best qualified by ability and enthusiastic interest for success in that field. We can then with better reason expect our educational product to be the best. For, nothing short of the best will serve us. For those in high school, the moral is plain. The times call for our very best effort day in and day out, for our own good and the defense of the ideals we cherish most highly. As the next college generation, we must show now by deeds, rather than by words, that for us education is most serious business. 5

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