St Johns Villa Academy - Precursor Yearbook (Staten Island, NY)

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IHI SIIHIHII 'Q-.,,, 's, w. v,,,, 'v WP D' -in, This castle hath a pleasant seatg the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. Macbeth, Act 1:6 The elementary school building pictured above, left, originally included the high school department as well. But even older memories are cherished by the convent building Qabove, centerj where the footsteps of St. John's first students echoed long ago. Dearest of all, however, is the Chapel building to the right of the convent, for there we have spent the happy days of high school.

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'ffm 'Im' J from the great writers Milton, Spencer and more important-Shakespeare, a knowledge of the world in its reality. It is the understanding of the people we are to meet, their ideas, their Hllllllllll If we do meet again, why we shall smile, If not, why then this parting was well made. Julius Caesar, V, 1 For most of us, this year will mark the end of our formal schooling, the completion of our study of the three R's and those fundamental laws by which we have been taught to reason and to evaluate, to enter upon new horizons. Science has revealed a world invisible to the naked eye, our histories have edited and re- ported all the events before our births, the arts have interpreted through a thousand different minds, the beauty of Goclis earth. In the realms of literature, particularly, we have gleaned y ,, , .t,,,f2,5,,,., of Q I emotions, and their actions that will make our journey through life with them enjoyable and successful. William Shakespeare, with unsurpassed ge- nius, created for us the tragic worlds of Ham- let, Macbeth, King Lear, the magical, airy fan- tasies that starred such characters as Puck, Bottom and Touchstone, the flippant, fiery temperaments of Kate and Petruchio that so dominate his stormy Uliaming of the Shrewf, These people, their problems, and their destin- ies have become important to our lives because, we find, if only in a single instance or for one small moment, some little piece of ourselves saying what they say, reacting as they do, feeling as they feel. The approach of a new, strange world brings us to realize the import- ance of the training and knowledge that has been so carefully afforded us for many years. Our minds and hearts, after graduation tnis June, will be subjected to a very different rou- tine, influenced by many other people, and burdened with greater responsibtlities. We are now ready to undertake new ventures, but that means we must part from all that has become dear to us, And so, as with every parting we take with us what we may, and rue that which we must leave behind. uAnd whether we shall meet again I knew not, Therefore our everlasting farewell take, Forever, and forever farewell. Dorothy Chalamonsky