Midwood High School - Epilog Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Dear Seniors: This book is very appropriately dedicated to our late President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and to his dream and struggle for a better America. But the best memorial must really be one which you Will build into your hearts and minds. Our young President told us repeatedly that this is a time to move forwardeto eliminate the hate, the discrimination, the lack of under- standing and appreciation for the democratic ideal and process, Which in effect caused an assassin to inflict a cruel blow upon our nation and upon the world. With great vision he started to lead us toward new frontiers in civil rights, in economic progress and opportunity, and in world peace. You who are about to leave us might well keep in mind his conception of the educational frontier as expressed in a recent message to Congress: nNo task before our nation is more im- portant than expanding and improving the educational opportunities of all our people. The concept that every American deserves the opportunity to attain the highest level of education of which he is capable is . . . a traditional ideal of democracy. But it is time that we moved toward the fulfillment of this ideal With more vigor and less delay. For education is both the foundation and the unifying force of our democratic way of life. It is the mainspring of our economic and social progress. It is the highest expression of achievement in our society ennobling and enriching human life. In short, it is at the same time the most profitable investment society can make and the richest reward it can confer. I trust that you will all enlist your best ef- forts in the realization of the goals for which he lived and died. Godspeed! DR. I. L. BERNSTEIN Principal

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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-$-..

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