Queens College - Silhouette Yearbook (Queens, NY)

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DEE. 7, l94l The isolationist illusion was broken. War had come to the secure and complacent Western Hemisphere by remote control. The Pearl Harbor attack made the United States as indisputably a part of World War II as a direct hit on the White House could have. This was the crisis toward which Queens College had planned. This Was the antici- pated threat to democracy that was to prove to the founders of Queens College that they were right in planning their curriculum about the democratic ideal. For due to their foresight a body of young men and young women were to go forth into a World shattered by a conflict of ideologies, infused with feeling for the full meaning of the democratic ideal, secure in the knowledge that it was the one true ideal, convinced that it was Worth fighting for. We, the june 1942 Class of Queens College, are part of that body of young men and young women which must face the conflict that threatens to blot out all that We hold dear. We shall be put to a test, the outcome of which will prove more than our own Worth as citizens of a democracy. The entire Worth of a system of education based on the democratic ideal will be tested. The Queens College system specifi- cally shall go through the ordeal of fire. We must prove ourselves true to our training, a training which tells us now that the enemies We fight are not mere men, that they are ideas, ideas alien to all that we feel right, just and honorable. Upon graduation we shall enter diverse fields. For the men there will be little or no choice g their job is to fight with arms. For the women there will be great choice-industry, nursing, office Workg any of a thousand and one jobs they will be asked to do, that the men may be released to fight. Some of this class may not live to see the end of the conflictg the rest of us have a clear duty.

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F7 'Q If, lisa, e M,,ig LX A33 Sociologist JOSEPH ACHTZIGER tends to the energetic in his social life, what with Football, Basketball, and Swimming as far as athletics go, and really solid rug cutting where they don't. Vice-president of Phi Eta Chi, Newman Club member, Senior Week committeeman are some of the things Joe worked at, at school. JANET AFFLERBACH is one half the bulwark of the library- completely indistinguishable from the other half, her twin sister, except for the difference in their majors. Janet's is German, but she can spiel a mean line of classical Latin when the occasion arises, and she hopes the occasion will arise in the New York teaching system. Lois is the other half of the Afflerbach combine, and intends, appropriately enough, to be a librarian and heaven knows she managed the Queens library with one hand behind her back - studied Latin too, but majored in English. Lois is president of the German Club sparetimes, but then nobody could tell if Janet took over, anyhow. MOE ALTCHEK is a competent linguist, he speaks Spanish fluently, curses effectively in Italian, and manages a polluted English. Though he is founder and president of the Dead End Boys, Moe's chief claim to fame is his classic remark, A'De Speech Department is takin' de folk element outta me speech.