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

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MR. MARTIN ACIQERMAN V, Dean of Senyior Class f f f ,f 1- 'Wm f, 'Wi-3yr?Qf5'wQR,m-f' DR. JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Faculty Advisor of Senior C ldss MR. IDRANIC C, PANUSKA Administrative Assistant fidministrative 4ssista,nt , 4 - XI , A Nw MR. JACOB WORTMA.N 1 1 I, 1 , f xf

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ORDER of the DAY... TO THE SENIOR CLASS OF JUNE 1943: You go from a school heavy with grief into a heavy world. The pressures of war, which through rationing and other ways have come into your homes, are drawing nearer to each one of you, many of you, indeed, left school during this final term to enter the armed forces of our country. And you left a school sorrowing at the death of a beloved principal, borne off by personal illness aggravated by his many extra war duties, freely assumed through his concern for his pupils and for his country. He fought for it, winning honors, in the last warg and truly he died in its service. I I wish I could open to you more fully the spirit of Mr. Wilson, so that your days ahead would be lighted by the fervent glow of his faith. For he would say that the world is heavy, but the burden is ours to lift, and to bear unfaltering toward brighter years. He knew too-as his own life clearly showed-that even the highest ideals have little meaning until transformed into the humblest acts: the common daily cheerfulness and helpfulness and tolerance. It is such commonplace, matter-of-fact performance of whatever comes along to do-only lighted with the spirit of liberty and mutual service-that makes our ideals real. There are no lengthy words I have to speak to you. Nor is there any message I can give you in these times, to brighten your world. Live fearlessly and honestly, with consideration for others, and your world will be bright. JOHN P. CLARK Acting Principal

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Q4t,.lwffl?WlT WW7 TX 3+ H FACULTY... Any Stuyvesantian will tell you, ill no uncertain language, that Stuyvesant's position at the top of New York High Schools is almost undisputed. Too seldom, however, does he give due credit to the body most responsible for bringing this situation about. This group is the Stuyvesant Faculty which, as far as we are concerned, has no equal anywhere. More than just a teaching organiza- tion, its members have given us help and advice over and above the requirements of the regular school courses, have guided us over many a rocky path and have shown us that teachers are as good friends as any student can hope to have. Most of us, when we first entered Stuyvesant, were thoroughly bewildered, for we entered a world quite unlike any that we may have been in before. Guiding us on our way then, were our official class teachers. As time went on, these were the teachers that we came to know best. They are probably the ones we shall remember the longest, for they have come to symbolize Stuyvesant to us. Another group of teachers that we knew throughout our high school careers are those of the English department. A few that we remember easily are the precise Mr. Astrachan, with his special writing courses, bond-selling Mr. Hoag- land, popular Mr. Pause, a11d literature-conscious Mr. Hart. Others who spring to mind immediately are Mr. Brant, Mr. Seligman, Mr. Robbins, Miss Lobsenz and Mr. Davidoff, with his amazing memory. In our second term we began to study languages. More than in any other subject our paths separated here. Those of us who took French came to know teachers like Miss Popo, Dr. Moore, and Mr. Vlfindman. Some had Mr. Wein- stock, sharing that estimable instructor with the students of Spanish. These boys also came to know Mr. Pittaro, Mr. Kissane and other expounders of the language of our neighbors to the South. Mr. Laguardia, chairman of the French Department, also heads the Italian Department and teaches that subject to interested students. Representing the classics is the Latin Department. It con- sists of only three teachers-Mr. Shabacker, Mrs. Conahey and Miss Lewin- but any lack- of size is more than made up by quality. Except for a term of civics, few of us came in contact with the Social Studies Department until we started the second half of our years at Stuyvesant. Our long wait was rewarded when we came to know History teachers like Dr. Ross, the chairman of the department, Miss Tallman, Dr. Smith and Mr. Neumaker. Our Social Studies were divided into three parts-European History, American History, and Economics. It was Mr. Shaw and Mr. Zukerman who carried the greaterpart of the load in teaching the latter. These popuar teachers had that quality of the real pedagogue which allowed them to put interest into a subject that most of us would probably have considered dull otherwise. All of the above teachers are certainly of the highest quality found in any school of mathematics and science' The teachers of these subjects form the bulk of the faculty.