Lincoln High School - Quill Yearbook (Jersey City, NJ)

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Two Year Commercial Graduates Helen Ambrose Nellie Bialakiewicz Alice Carroll Sophie Demkowicz Agnes Finn Mary Forrest Madeline Georgia Ann Graham Cecelia Griffith Ann Hamill Helen Hoffman Mary Kelly Helen Kennelly Italia La Palermo Emma Lapsansky Sarah Lee Helen Longfield Robert McKenna George Miller Louise Miller Veronica Murawski Elaine Newcombe Madge Newcombe THQ Ralph Orrico Josephine Pawelka Genevieve Pawloski Dorothy Reddington Viola Radesky Ann Sieczkowska Ann Skorski Emily Stone Ruth Tullins Sabina Waliszewski Lucille Yannich Regina Zackerenko Senior Wearers of the L FOOTBALL : GYMNASIUM: Francis Conlon BASKETBALL : Clifford Baumgardner Albert Cohen Robert Schuessler BASEBALL: Harry D'Alessandro Hugh McKenna William Tatulli Morton Thaler John Whitbeck ' John Yengo John Kruthers Elon Nobles Charlie Wajszczuk Morris Wellen SWIMMING: Edward Schutt TENNIS: Milton Cohen George Cohn TRACK: Martin Clancy ' Vincent McCabe Asari Rajala

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IEDITUIRHAL Ideals We are told by Stevenson that L'To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have. It would seem that we have to have an ideal in order to sucf ceed to the best of our ability. Idealism is the quest of perfection. Being mortals, we cannot, of course, attain perfection in any field, but the desire and effort to attain perfection are spiritual foods without which we cannot live happily. The body needs food to replace and strengthen its parts, the spirit needs interests, ideals, to keep alive. He who attains his ideal, he who is completely satisfied with his work, is doomed. It is said that when a great Danish sculptor unveiled his mas' terpiece, he was seen to weep. His friends, who had come to praise and congratulate him, were surprised to hear him say: My genius is decay' ing. When asked for an explanation of this strange remark, he replied: This statue is the first of my works that I have ever felt completely satis' fied with. Till now my ideal has always been far beyond what I could execute, but it is so no longer. I can never create a great work of art again. This man realized that he was not able to climb higher, for he could not imagine a height beyond that which he had attained. Let us think of the scientist as an idealist, as an example of a man whose vision is always growing. Michael Pupin said: The worship of the eternal truth and the burning desire to seek an everfbroadening revelation of it conf stitute the mental attitude which I call 'idealism in science'. Thus, we see that the aspiration of the scientist is to interpret and understand the ideal works ofthe Divine. Everywhere the scientist looks he can observe those mysterious manifestations. At dawn, the sunrise, heralded by long white streamers spreading in the eastern sky, he feels to be the Divine command, Let there be light. Everywhere he encounters sound, which, with light, he associates with the Divine operation by means of which man communif cates with his Creator. How can there be any higher ideal than the infinite desire for understanding, which is closely linked with the relationship be' tween man and his Creator. Ideals make one spiritually rich. They keep before us visions of goals which are a little beyond attainment. If a man catches up with his ideal, he cannot imagine anything further for which he can work, and so must stand still or descend. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?