Martin Van Buren High School - Futura Yearbook (Queens Village, NY)

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furpo c Some years ago, when first I saw the distant sturdy wall, I hung my head, I failed to see the purpose of it all, So far away, so much to learn across the empty plain, Eternally, forever more my task it was to gain. But inch by inch l made my way and traveled down the road, The dust flew, it stung my eyes, I stumbled with my load. Recovering, I kept my track, progressing ever on, And then one day, I raised my eyes and saw the road was gone. The massive wall that once had loomed impassable ahead Had shrunk in size, was now so close, no longer sight to dread. I marveled long, and ioyously I lumped upon the wall, And then I knew, 'twas then I saw the purpose of it all, For there ahead lay maiesty, the forest pure and fine, In which to grow, my seeds to sow, the world, all was mine. JUDITH MORRISON

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B O A.R D O F E D U C A T I O N C I T Y O F N E VV Y O R K MARTIN VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL HILLSIDE AVENUE AND 232ND STREET ' QUEENS VILLAGE, 27, N. Y. PAUL DENN, PRINCIPAL TELEPHONE SPRUCE 6-4728 Miss Bonnee Wexler Co-Editor, Senior Dear Bonnee: Yearbook Thank you very much for your invitation to contribute to the 1959 issue of Futura. As you have reminded me, the close of the academic year 1959 marks for all of us the end of an important decade, one which you have chosen to endow with the epithet of Hthe fabulous fifties.H How well I remember those years! While you were growing up in them, I and those of my generation lived through them. For some, life in was asked what he NI survived.N For parable with that the fabulous fifties was like that of the French citizen who had done during the French Revolution and whose reply was, most, living in that exciting decade was an experience com- of Ulysses in Tennyson's poem: HMuch have I seen and known: cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments: And much delight of battle with my peers Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.u The fabulous fifties may best be recalled in the future as a decade which centered the attention of man on production: a decade when we produced more goods, employed more people, and created more material wealth than ever before in the history of our nation: a decade in which our motor cars were bulkier, our suburbs burgeoning, our school corridors and university campuses overcrowded, and our shopping centers proliferating. John Kenneth Galbraith in HThe Affluent Societyu summarizes the decade in these words: NBoth the ancient preoccupation with production and the pervasive modern search for security have culminated in our time in a concern for production... A high level of production has become the keystone of effective economic security.H If there is anything disquieting in this picture of the fabulous fifties, it is that other nations, particularly the dictatorships, have also set production as their goal. And sometime in the late fifties we learned that while we were producing far in excess of the rest of the world an abundance of motor cars, television sets, hi-fi's, and gadgets for the Hman who has everythingnq the monolithic states were producing engineers, nuclear physicists, mathematicians, and research biologists and chemists in the ratio of three for every one of ours. However, it was an interesting decade, one which will be fondly recalled by both of us as having as its golden links our school and the pleasant haze that memory draws over our youthful past. The fond backward glance that we cast upon the fabulous fifties must inevitably be replaced by the Nforward lookn that sends its powerful Nsealed beamu into the more exciting, more abundant years that I trust lie ahead for you and your fellow graduates of the Class of 1959. Principal