Long Beach High School - Echo Yearbook (Long Beach, NY)

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forum club Today when sTress on science and Tec seriously compeTes wiTh inTeresT in The hu and human relaTlons an organlzahon which To promoTe an undersTandlng of oTher nahons an nnsughT inTo The currenT poliTical or social problems is making a valuable conTribuTion To socieTy The Forum Club a group which has This end as :Ts goal TuncTions Through discussion and debaTe. Topics such as SEGREGRATION THE MIDDLE EAST and CAPITOL PUNISHMENT are among Those analyzed by iTs members. Thus This orqanizaTion aTTempTs To balance Todays Technically inclined civilizaTion and helps To mold a well-inTormed and culTured individual. FORUM CLUB DEBATTNG SOCIETY l debating

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ig il',x 1,47 ll I MR. DEPRETORE X9 MR. GREENBERG MR ,ip- mfs. . MR. ANDREWS IHS? i MRS G MR. MARK MRS. RASSIG-A 9 i n H 3 ff' MR. WALRATH Chairman ocial ludiew 7 Through fhe ages men, rulers. and conquerors. have soughf +o upsef +he balance of +he scales of lushce fo gain accepfance and weighl' for unprin- cipled and democraiic ideals. Yef fhere has been a binding force, an inexorable spiri'r which has sacrificed fyranny and conlinually reborn liberry and freedom in many counfries . . . a force of peas- anis and workers, of businessmen and school chil- ren a deep roofed necessify of life-equalify before 'rhe law. l-lislory records This binding force. Fairhfully if also records The power crazed dicfafor, +he war frodden nalion, +he reborn people. 'rhe anhquafed ideals: for fhese records help us develop our own inlrinsic sirengih, sfrenglh lo view 'rhe whole, unbiased and unpreiudiced . . . sfrengfh 'lo hold our heads high and +o bofh sfumble and grow

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languages Fi' DR- PIZZINGER MR. AMATRIAIN Chairman 2 Y S1 as a- . , Miss JURAN ,f'6,'fN'2::g , are '12 .1 , 4 , .Max L if 'ti' il , .E .V Mas. Lsvov 11.5 X MRS. RISKIN va - g 12. 1:-r ,,,. W xv 'il' DR. SAMUELS MR, RlTACClO Language is more fhan iusf verbal communication, if represenfs an enfire people-fheir way of life, and fheir confribufions +0 Civili- zafion. In fhis manner, each language is a sign posf and a means of confacf wifh a new world. We are sfrangers fo fhis world if our knowledge of ifs culfure is resfricfed fo franslafionsq a simple example of fhis is fhe facf fhaf an idiom peculiar fo one fongue cannof be exacfly reproduced in anofher. To one who has never heard fhe expression. if will, of course. malce no sense af all. Alice found herself in a similar posifion upon firsf hearing fhe words of Carroll's famous Jabberwoclcy poem. Affer her inifial bewildermenf fhey seemed so ridiculous, fhaf she found if difficulf fo resfrain her laughfer. However, if is possible fhaf fhe aufhor infended fo provoke more fhan iusf amusemenf--perhaps a parallel can be drawn in our failure fo respecf fhe iabberwoclcy of currenf immigranf groups, or on a larger scale, reconcile our differences af fhe Geneva summif conference. Having had fhe opporfunify fo explore differenf culfures in our language classes. we are now much beffer equipped fo cope wifh fhe challenge which human relafions always presenf, whelher on a local or infernafional level.