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

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SENIOR CLIPPER SHIP'S CREW Editors-in-Chief Judith Bressler Fern Ha uck Composing Editor Rhonda Freed Staff Paula Berkowitz Stephan Bitterman Eileen Brandes Esther Goldberg John Gucciardo Marcia Hunte Amy Kafton Caron Knauer Bill Moran Madlyn Schmuckler Jeffrey Solomon Inez Stein Jimmy Stein Arlene Stone Photography John Gucciardo Jimmy Stein Faculty Advisors Literary and Business Anthony Gallagher Art A. P. Bruni Robert Steed Photography Bob Jacobson Stowaway David Fox John Adams High School Rockaway Boulevard and 102nd Street Ozone Park, Queens, New York 11417 Lester W. Schlumpf, Principal Volume 40, Number 1 June, 1971

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A MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL Greetings to you, the first graduating class in the decade of the 70's! The decade of the 70's - in the twentieth century - may well come to be known as the age of rapid social and political change. It was in the decade of the 70's - back in the eighteenth century -that a great political change in the form of the American Revolution led to the birth of our country. Most of us tend to think of 1776 as being far back in the distant past, yet it is startling to realize that the relatively short 40 year exist- ence of John Adams High School spans a period that represents more than one out of every five years of our national life. In your youthful eighteen years or so you have already personally lived through nearly one out of ten years in which the United States of America grew from colonial status to become the greatest and most powerful nation on the face of the earth. The changes which brought our nation and our society to the state in which we find it as we enter the 70's of the twentieth century are not at an end. In fact, it appears that they are accelerating. President Nixon, in his state of the Union Message to Congress, has called for a new, but peaceful, American Revolution. The dreams of political and social equality and of equal economic and educational opportunity that were born in the first American Revolution have not yet been fully realized for all our citizens, but their achievement may be in sight in the years just ahead. Other problems, not existing or perhaps not recognized during our earlier history, will face society and demand solutions involving change in the immediate future. Our.expanding population must cause us to re-examine the once accepted notion that we are blessed with limitless capacity for growth. Our profligate use of natural resources that we once thought were boundless in supply must change in the face of our new understanding of serious ecological and pollution problems. The graduates of the 70's will have a major voice in shaping the society of the 70's3 some would even say that it will be their role to make the changes that will prevent civilization's destruction. Our Supreme Court, in ruling that eighteen-year-olds should have the right to vote in national elections, has again asserted the right to have those who would be affected by change participate in the directing of such change. The respon- sibility for doing so is an awesome one, and l wish you well in carrying it out. It has been the privilege of the faculty of John Adams High School to try to provide you with some help and direction for taking on the great responsibility you will face. Back in the days when l was a teacher of mathe- matics, I often thought of change in terms of the two great mathematical classifications of quantities with respect to change: variables and constants. I was impressed by the fact that the solution of an equation for the value of a variable is really determined by the constants involved in it. So it probably is in areas other than mathematics. The constants in your education have been the skills and the attitudes and interests that we have tried to help you build during your years here. May you use them well in seeking solutions for the variables involved in the new problems that will affect you in the decades ahead. Lester W. Schlumpf Principal 3