McKinley Junior High School - McKinleyan Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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OUR PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE Dear McKinleyans: This has been a year of dissent replete with protest activ- ities, some peaceful and some violent, some with positive programs and some with no programs. These activities bring to mind two relevant quotations. Voltaire, the noted French philosopher, wrote, '7 disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. And just recently, Joseph Monserrat, President of the New York City Board of Education, stated on November 9th, The right to dissent does not sanction violence. The freedom to move one 's arm stops where another person 's nose begins. I heartily subscribe to the above quotations. Democracy thrives on dissent, peaceable and constructive, but violence to people and property, or protest for the sake of protest seriously threaten the very existence of democracy, and points the way to its replacement by anarchy or totalitari- anism. Our democracy is our most precious possession even if it at times is an imperfect instrument. Let us guard its institutions zealously, while at the same time working to improve the very inadequacies and ills of our society. Truly yours, 6 Mbgzgi , si 5 o

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ADMINISTRATION

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OUR ASSISTANTS TO THE PRINCIPAL The purpose of education is to produce reative personalities - makers in art, in love, home, in society. Gerald Vann THE PROGRAM COMMITTEE The Management Mr. Quinn and Mr. Luzjegv in the busy program office. Seated left to right: Mr. Shephard Hack - Ninth Grade Supervisorg Mr. Joseph White - Eighth Grade Supervisory and Mr. Jerry Schaefer, who is in charge of the Seventh Grade. Freedom honors law, not force. We don 't get ulcers from what we eat, but from what's eating us! Tex McCrary