Midwood High School - Epilog Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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I could feel my face turning ghastly white and I clenched my Fists. She had told us that perhaps it was a rumor, and I swore if it was I'd kill her. But it was true and I walked around with my eyes saying, Why did you do it? to each person who passed and they stared at me the same way. We all killed him-with every time we said we hated or that we were angry enough to kill, and he was perhaps iust a little angrier than I was or you once were and I shivered. Lincoln had been shot in a textbook. I kept saying 'tWhy, and the funny part is that nobody an- swered me. I thought of what Nietzsche said about God being dead; and then, as I'd always thought that since Nietzsche was dead too, maybe God had the Iast Iaugh-but now maybe God was dead. and if He was alive he must have been a pretty sadistic oId man but it was more probable that He died, as Schopenhauer said, of a broken heart. But that still didn't answer my question. Why did everyone feel like getting beaten up and WM did we feel we had to run or break loose or hold on to each other or iust burst? There was a group of kids standing around in black leather iackets and one of them said, ItThis kidts gonna come 00 : see, and hes gonna say 'I wanna FIght' and everyone's 90 0 fight. And I shivered and grabbed someone's hand and we went runnlng through the streets crying. Two days later there was a sign on every neWSS Life and Time are sold out. Several thousand years ago Socrates said, stands all, forgives all. I don't understand anythin forgive. tand saying HHe who under- 9 and I can'f ,

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EPILOG EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-chief-Judith Stein Ari Editor-Joan Mottingley Literary Editor-Niro Reiss Senior Section Editor-Mady Amreich Advertising Editor-Charles Matoys Business Manager-lra Eisenstadf Associate Editor in charge of Photography -Joel Fried Associate Edifor in charge of Sports- Louis Morris 1 1 Associate Editor in charge of Caph'ons- Emily Greene Associafe Edifors in charge of Index- Evelyn Ellis and Allen Ascher 7 STAFF: Johnny Abrahams, Judy Aronow, s Fran Cassler, Joel Cohen, Alan Englebert, Candy Folk, Steven Frank, Eleanor Glass- man, Bonnie Gordon, Hazel Heynick, Judy Hoffman, Marsha Lax, Renee LeWinter, Janice Marksheid, Laurie Nadel, Kaila . Obstfeld, Natalie Posner, Ellen Rubenstein, Elaine Schechter, Stephen Senreich, Saul Silvierstein, Linda Sollow, Richard Thorner, Diane Zizmor. faculty Advisor-Norman Shapiro 1 Art Chairman-Daniel Lefkowitz PrincipaL-Dr. Jacob Bernstein --.--- Vol. No. 33 , Yearbook for graduates of January and June 1964 Midwood High School V Bedforcl Avenue and Glenwood Road Brooklyn 10, New York Printed by Eastern Press . COVER DESIGN AND FORMAT ', 1 By Joan Mottingly TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial $ection-p. 2.3 Administration and Guudance--p. 4-8 - Faculty and Curriculum--p. 9-62 Senior Section--p. 63-156 - Ads-p. 157-165 lndex-p. 165-1'67 Concluding Page-p. 168 f

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I call upon all at you to join us in u ioumey to the new trontier. The voyage is u long and hazardous one but we are all l1 partners in a great and historic journey. LEI. -..--.-A A John F. Kennedy had a special meaning and a special message to the young. His was an image of youth, energy and life, and we felt a personal pride when we read his speeches, watched him on television, or observed him in person-a pride in his appearance, his brilliance, his elegance and humor, There was a rapport which he had with young people and with stu- dents. We felt that he represented us and our aspirations, and therefore were proud of his youth and leadership, and were grateful for his interest and faith in us. He symbolized this generation's search for faith and for moral renewal and responsibility. He was concerned with the quality and betterment of our education, emphasizing the role and necessity of education in furthering mutual understanding and progress. He reintroduced in the United States re- spect for scholarship and culture, for poetry and art as well as for science. He was concerned about our physical well being, and established a physical fitness program for maintaining a healthy nation. But most of all he cared . about our moral well being and purpose in government, in culture, and in world unity and human relations. By creating the Peace Corps and by pro- posing the Youth Conservation Corps he brought to us a new idealism, a policy of action instead of dogmas, giving youth an active role in creating our ideal of a better world. Iohn F. Kennedy personified our quest for what we could be, what we would become, what we could achieve. His fight for civil rights, brotherhood, and freedom was a desire we shared. He represented our belief that with more sincerity, more faith and more justice and rationalism, we could make a world of tolerance and peace. It was perhaps for this reason, the fundamental contrast between Pres- ident Kennedy's philosophy of peace and his violent death, that we reacted so profoundly to Etis assassination, His death was more than the personally felt loss of a beloved Ieaa'er- it signzfzed the danger of lawlessness, the danger of bigotry and irrationalisrn nzcn he strived to erase. John F. Kennedy had said, 'Let us begin. We say: Let us continue towards a better world, towar newer frontiers of learning and understanding. JJH-gnv ,1- g... V 1.. Vi; . ' Pu..- k-$-..