Midwood High School - Epilog Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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PRCLOGUE Wullram Shakespeare wroTe The perTecT yearbook eduTorual when he penned ParTung us such sweeT sorrow l-le musT have known Then how we feel now When ever someone reaches a mulesTone or a goal he pauses To look back and Take sTock We can uook back very easuly To Tour years ago when we TursT enTered Mudwood s Tuled walls ATTer The f1rsT TleeTung Teelung of unsecuruTy bewuldermenT and anxueTy we found we had unheruTed more freedom Than we had ever had AT TursT we dudn T know how To use ThaT freedom BuT gradually we became accusTomed To uT Took uT for granfed By our sophomore year we had everyfhung un sTrucle and we were a real parT of Mud wood T-low dud we overcome ThaT fursT unsecuruTy so ThaT we were able To maTure so greaTly un one year'7 ParT of The answer may be un The meeTung of so many new Truends all of whom had The same doubTs we dud Also we found a few close com uades wuTh common unTeresTs and TasTes We learned whaT was expecfed of a hugh school sTudenT We learned The duTues we had To perform To earn Thus newly found freedom and hugher sTaTus OT course The Teachers helped also They had guuded cold and umpersonal when compared To our grammar school unsTrucTors who knew us by our fursT names meruTed our graTuTude by helpung us avoud The rough spoTs and by makung us assume our responsubuluTues In The long expecTed SepTember of I954 we felT we were more Than IusT a parT of The school we were The mosT vuTal parT To an exTenT Thus was True Our classmaTes ran The governmenT eduTed The newspaper and magazunes led The honor ocueTues We musT look ahead also AfTer Mudwood we wull be sTarTung over agaun Some wull be un college and oThers wull be on a uob Thus Tume however we are more pre pared Tor The exTra dose of adulfhood We wull be able To accepT our responsubuluTues fuT un To new surroundungs meeT new fruends and uT wull be easuer because of our experuence aT Mudwood Shakespeare was rughT The sweeTness and The sorrow are There YeT more us presenT The excuTemenT confudence and lessons learned The lasT Tour years are wuTh LS also, and always wull be BILLY FEIGIN many oThers who faced The same road we did. Our Teachers, who aT firsT appeared

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PRINCIPAL S MESSAGE Dear Seniors We say farewell +o you wifh pride and regrel We are proud of your achievemenls your growfh your youlh ful slrenglh and idealism Your leaving however creales an empliness or void in our hearls for we have come To know you as friends even as our children This is especially so in a school like ours where lhe facully in nfs relahonship +o s+uden+s has buil+ a fradihon of being in loco parenhs Yes we look upon you wilh lhe eyes of a proud buf worried parenf who is abou? lo ask his children +o wall alone upon pa+hs besel by many piffalls and difliculhes Conflichng ideologies and philosophies will challenge you along 'rhe way Many boys will be deloured info mlllfary service. Your inlelleclual power and moral 'Fibre will be pu+ 'ro fhe les? by lhe personal problems you will encounler in college or business. And overshadowing everyfhing will be Jrhe uneasiness of a world confused divided groping for a peace in which spirilual human and democralic values can be preserved and slrenglhened. However we 'rake comlorf in +he 'rhoughl Thar in fair measure you have been given The Tools of inlellecl and characler necessary lo meer 'rhese challenges. You have been exposed ro The inspiring and luminous ideas ol 'rhose in fhe pasl who made our nalion greaf and of lhose whose