Stuyvesant High School - Indicator Yearbook (New York, NY)

Page 18 text:

Hyman W. Moslow Uvun of Sa-ninr Class Frank C. Pzmuska lfllninislrnlirw' .-lssislllrll Dr. ,lose-ph T. Slliplvy l ru'l11ly .1111'i.w'r of Svnior Class John P. Clark ,lfllrlillislrrliilwf pissistnnl

Page 17 text:

fit... sfmff ra W., mt! TO THE CLASS OF JUNE 1941: It is truly inspiring to see the reactions of recent graduates of Stuyvesant and of some of your classmates to the actualities of military and naval service. Virtually all of them whom I have met have volunteered. They look upon the call to the colors as the natural expectation of a young patriot who is entering upon manhood in a nation whose destiny is determined by the will and the actions of the whole people. They accept their responsibility to carry a share of the burden of their country's trials with the most gratifying cheerfulness. I am confident that these examples of the patriot's love for his country will. when the need arises, find their counterparts in you. In that service you will find great personal satisfaction. even though there be no glory or no material reward in store for you. Do you have glorious dreams of great dramatic moments in your lifeg of performing acts of untold heroismg of extraordinary self-sacrificeg or of glorious service to your fellows? On such occasions. the leading roles are always played by men who have schooled themselves through self-control, who have assumed responsibility, and who have a broad understanding of their place in society and a real sympathy for their fellows. Such scenes cannot be staged, nor can they be planned for: they take place unexpectedly while you are present. What you do with them is up to you. This you may be sure of - that you will find yourself awfully alone when fortune requires desperate courage of her heroes. The longer you live the more you will realize that life is a pretty tough proposition. The more you live and share your life with others, the more you will realize how truly grand and noble people can be, regardless of race or creed. Because of the joy in this realization, I would not wish any of you an easy time of life, although I do pray that each of you will have a full measure of success. Prepare to take your place in society by studying our political, social, and economic structure. not only nationally but also locally. Take part in the adult affairs of your neighborhood, and later on join a political club and do everything in your power to improve its civic worth. Learn the lesson of sustained disciplined effort either at study, at the counting desk, or in the shop. For man, life is more than the mere living, it is not toil and sweat aloneg it is also the activity of the spirit. Search within yourselves for understanding of forbearance, of truth, and of justice and from this search you will gain that fortitude and unselfish- ness which begets patriots and heroes. I could not say goodbye to you in a better way than to pray that you will be En- fiamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtueg stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages. 13

Page 19 text:

t we 9 2 None of the experiences of our four years' stay in Stuyvesant have been more pleasant than those in which our beloved faculty have figured, and they will remain with us the longest-long after most of our other memories fade into the mists of time. Our appreciation of the extra aid they have rendered us. over and above the requirements of the regular school courses, is not usually expressed to them by us. The Indicator is therefore proud of the chance now offered to thank the members of the faculty of Stuyvesant High School for having shown exemplary zeal in the pursuit of their duties, for having been thoroughgoing and patient, and for having lightened our scholastic burdens with an occasional sparkle of wit, to prove that even teachers can be human. It is inevitable that as we go through the different stages of life, as we meet the many different types of people that make up this world, we will compare these people with the instructors whom we have grown to know and like here at Stuyvesant. Thus these new acquaintances will take on a semblance of familiarity. while our remembrance of those good old days in Stuyvesant will be refreshed. Most of us can remember faintly our first few terms at Stuyvesant, when our new official and subject teachers were introduced to us for the first time. Some of these first instructors have been transferred to other shools, but for the most part they are still teaching at Stuyvesant. If we should visit them or their classes now, no doubt we should express amazement at the size of the students. lt would be rather hard for most of us to visualize ourselves that size. But even if we do not admit it to ourselves. the case is actually that we have grown so imperceptibly that only our old teachers would be able to notice the marked differences wrought in us during our saunter through Stuyvesant's halls. It was a distinct shock to us to find that an average-sized class at Stuyvesant consisted of forty boys, which would have been a distinctly oversize class in elementary school. The subjects that were taught us that term included such strange ones as civics, algebra, and a very new one called elementary biology. Well. we were getting up in the world. VVe actually were taking the same subjects that had been taken by those high and mighty seniors, whom we saw sometimes coming home as we went to school. The truth is we did not appreciate afternoon session then. An extra three hours sleep in the mornings seemed very unimportant. Hut we know better now! As we became part of the school, we learned to like the teachers who struggled so hard trying to inculcate a little knowledge into our unwilling brains. For instance. there was Mr. Roslow, and Mr. Leventhal, and those other teachers of the dreaded mathematics, who would sometimes struggle for what seemed like hours to make certain members of our class understand just what the different x's and yis were intended to represent. But. like every teacher in Stuyvesant. they finally succeeded in their object. ' Another really delightful group of teachers who we met for the first time upon our entrance to the school were those comprising the three science departments- chemistry, physics, and biology. Stuyvesant being a technical school, with the 15