Prospect Heights High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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MESSAGE TO THE GRADUATES OF JUNE 1948 April, i948 My dear Girls : It is the Spring of the year, as l write this message to you: and time is moving along rapidly toward the day of your graduation. During the past four years of high school you have been growing up in the quiet, orderly, democratic world of high school liie. Your interests in the events in the world out oi school have varied with your own individual tastes, backgrounds, intellectual and emotional interests. Now you move out into that greater world. These past iour years have been difficult years, significant years. tragic years: they saw the end oi a great world conliict and the unavailing eilorts to establish a peace that now seems lilce a faraway dream. The years ahead look troubled. Throughout the world now, men are loclced in a confused and mighty struggle between conflicting ideas, between greed and magnanimity, ignorance and enlightenment, fear and courage, suspicion and trust, hatred and love, enslavement and freedom. it is in this world you will live and worlc. Certainly you will ot necessity line yourselves up on one side or the other oi a titanic struggle. May you have the wisdom and the courage to support the great positive, spiritual iorces. Live up to your ideals. However, to translate these ideals into right actions will talce a deal of thinlcing, oi believing, of lcnowing: it will mean a life-long accent on growing. Therefore, in these serious days that lie ahead, my hope for you is that you continue your training of mind and heart. You have not reached the end of education, every day you live will challenge you to the use of all that you have learned in high school and will demand increased and ever increasing abilities. I hope that you have established a learning habit and that you will not relax in your standards. Keep them high: insist always upon good taste, critical judgment, informed opinion. Your possession of these attributes will lift the quality oi whatever group you may be part oi. Your personal attitudes and tastes, your individual actions are, and always will be, deeply significant in the events oi the future. Act always as ii what you do will determine the course of the future, for indeed it will do just that. l lmow that your youth will malce you courageous and strong, that your dreams of justice and truth can be realized. Seelc for the strength that will malce possible right choices, and pray for the wisdom and the ability to see these through to accomplishment. As graduates oi a great public high school this is your responsibility, this is your challenge. We at Prospect Heights High School hope that you will actively participate in the establishing and in the maintaining oi a truly free, creative society of strong and good men and women. Sincerely yours, fha Principal 5

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I WAS A BRIDESMAID by Diana Yesdanian At first I thought that my brother was playing one oi his corny jokes, but when I got him to say UHonest,H l lmew that it had to be true. 1 could hardly listen when l made Mother tell me all about it, not letting her slcip a word. I was so excited and thrilled when l tound out that l was going to be a bridesmaid at my cousin's wedding. I had a million questions to aslc, the answer to which was usually, ul don't lcnowf' I couldn't sleep that night because there was so much to thinic about. What color would the gowns be? Who were the other bridesmaids? Most important of ali, who would be my usher? Morning came at iast, a truly beautiful morning, and tor the first time in my nine and a halt years ot education, I was dying to go to school to tell the girls the big news. By the end of the day, I had my best friend Anna, praying that the big day would roll around soon. The day for the gown fittings came at last, and did i teel grown up and important, going to meet the bridesmaids in Manhattan, to have dinner and a dress fitting! When the woman brought out the gowns, there was a chorus ot Oh, and Ah, how beautiful. They were ot aqua tafteta, cut very full, strapless, with a scaliopped edging. There was a lovely matching cape to wear over the shoulders. The color had been selected because it was becoming to all of us, with our darlc hair and eyes. The minute I went home I raced to my room to try on my gown. The reaction of the family was just about what l expected, very satisfactory if you lcnow my tollcs. There was a good deal ot admiration and many practical questions. My mother loolced at the hem and the seams to see whether the dress could grow both ways in case I got taller or had too many ice cream sodas. She twisted and turned me around until I was dizzy. My father frowned in that way that doesn't tool us much, and said, How much?n it he mentions money or the price ot something, we lmow that he lilies it. Then the genius ot the family, my brother, gave out with, HDO you loolc lilce a dripin I couldn't kill him with my mother and father right there, so I just told him to disinfect himself. We sneered at each other just for appearances, but he was really impressed. My father tool: me to Calvary Church to the rehearsal. it had never occurred to me to be scared, until i saw with a shoclc the length of the church aisle, and the number of people, even at the rehearsal. i was introduced to the one bridesmaid whom I had not met, and to my usher's brother. So tar, so good. Bridesmaids, usheris brother, but not my usher. With a mixture of disappointment and relief, i found out that he would 7