New Hyde Park Memorial High School - Lance Yearbook (New Hyde Park, NY)

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Forewor This june our school marks the conclusion of its second academic year. It is the privilege of this yearbook to trace the steps leading up to this event. Taking our cue from the Latin phrase, ab initio, we shall start at the beginning, when, on a bright, June day, ground was broken in a ceremony attended by members of the Board of Education. Soon afterward, work began on the building itself. On September 10, 1956, the school threw open its doors to admit its first student body. Since that day, our school has developed into a harmonious organization of students and faculty rivaling the unity of ancient Rome. In the following pages you will read about this evolvement. It is our wish that doing so will widen your insight into the student body of New Hyde Park Memorial High School. 1 COUNCIL PATRICIANS XXV FORUM I-XVII CIRCUS MAXIMUS XCIII TAXES ............................................-..---- ----A-- C V Table of Contents

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O18 X b Q, , -5 0933 Si Ng es' GX 'it xx C9 2967- 4 od ,J-gi ' Q ,122 Y fs YN 1'0llr-vw-, 0vCe 3 O' -iz C- S N? 1 GUI Dedication On September 10, 1956, the doors of New Hyde Park Memorial High School opened to admit well over one thousand students. A new era was in the making. Previously we had been students in an old and established school with its own traditions and customs. Now that we are in a new school it is only natural that we should want to set prece- dents and initiate customs for it, as well as to mold the tra- ditions that will make others look upon this school with reverence and pride. Whenexfer any group of young people undertakes such l4l a task as this, it is necessary to have competent adult guid- ance, and in a school it is usually to the principal that this job falls. So it was in our school. However, in the light of what had to be done, and the fact that it had to be done under circumstances as unorganized as ours, we the students feel very fortunate that we had a man such as this to guide us. It is to his lasting credit that the success of our school is a reality. That man is . . . John S. Randolph

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f fi if Mr. Clyde M. Alston Distric! 5 - 'U f ' ' In -I Mr. H. Frank Carey Diflricl 17 K .. K , Mr. John j. Doyle Dirlrifl 17 ' 'T r V 'lf x ' f if 1, 1 as n.'. Mrs. Anne M. Boeckmann Dirzrirz 22 Mr. Russell F. Thomas Dirfrici 22 p N , .4423 'N Mr. William E. Ryder Dirtrirl 1 6 B061 O ' Q ECluCdt1OH A rr Y' . +95 i t ' li, I Mrs. Viola S. Southern Preridenl, Dirzrirl 5 The education of every child in America should be everybody's business. The evolutionary processes contained in education are not something reserved solely for the educators, but a trust which must be shared by Americans in all walks of life. As High School Graduates, you too will be asked to share this serious responsibility. The new and spacious schools you have recently occupied are the result of much preparation and planning on the part of school administrators, and, of much sacrifice on the part of the taxpayers of our community. We know that you are grateful to your parents and neighbors who have so unstintingly expressed their trust in our public school system by authorizing construction of our beautiful high schools. K As you approach adulthood, however, you will soon realize that in order for America to have the most excellently trained minds in the world, it will be necessary to continually appraise and evaluate the educational system in your community. It would be the height of folly to assume that any school, regardless of its academic reputation, is performing perfectly and without problems. Therefore, it will be your solemn duty to take an active interest in all school matters so that you may be better qualihed to evaluate and to offer constructive criticism, when necessary. By supporting your public school system you will be performing one of the highest functions of citizenshipq and by honest and unbiased evaluation of your schools you are assuring a system of education which truly reflects the integrity of this nation. Daniel Webster wrote, If we work upon marble, it will perish, if we work upon brass, time will efface it, if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust, but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God, and love of our fellow man, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten to all eternity. Congratulations to each of you and may God bless you. VIOLA S. SOUTHERN President, Board of Education Central High School District No. 2 1: 4 ,r 1 urn!! , t 4-1 Mr. Samuel Nacllcr Mr. J. Edwin Russell Mr. Alfred G. Kiefer Mr. Alfred Loew Diflricl 16 Dirzrifr Clerk Difzrirl Treasurer Allorney