Roosevelt High School - L envoi Yearbook (Yonkers, NY)

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The Foreword 'l'his yearbook is the record of an eager group. Some of us will continue our education after gradua- tiong others will enter the world of business. At any rate, we are eager to find out what life is all about. I,'1'frz-mi' should be, therefore, a prophecy of the future as well as a record of the past. lt is our thesis that youth is no segregated state of existence bearing little relationship to the rest of one's life, but a period in which we form our habits, develop our interests. and establish our tastes. Nlany of us will change, for either better or worse, in the years to come. But gen- erally speaking, the child is father to the man. XYith this intimation of our purpose we give you l,'1im'oi. X

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A Tribute lt is with a feeling of pride and of regret that faculty and students join in expressing to Dr. Howard G. Burdge their sincere good wishes upon the occasion of his retirement this june from active school service. Dr. Burdge came to Roosevelt in the fall of 1930 after a long and illustrious career in the field of education. His genial personality, his wise counsel, and his emin- ent scholarship have won for him not only the esteem due a man of his attainments but the friendship of all his associates. The Class of 1934 feels it a particular honor to leave these portals in his distinguished com- pany.