Thomas Jefferson High School - Aurora Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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SOUNDJNGS To flu' Seniors: OR three and one-half years I have been watching you grow up from mere children to young men and women. I have learned to understand some of your ambitions and ideals as well as many of your special problems. The decisions I have been called upon to make I have arrived at with the individual personality of each one of you as tl 011IClI110' factor. MV urpose has been to respect your hopes and Ie -Q s , P aims and to try to make possible for you the fullest self-realization. In this connection, the best gift that I can wish for you in the years to come is that of making line friendships in many spheres of lifeg friendships that rise higher than the selfg friendships that imply a decent respect for the likes and dislikes of others: friendships that will evoke the best in you and will ever lead you out into a wider range of interest and aspirations. Edgar Guest has well said: Life is sweet just because of friends we have made And things which in common we share , I NVe want to live, not because of ourselves, I But because of the people who carey It is giving and doing for somebody elseg Cn that all our life's splendor depends And the joy of this world, when you've summed it all up Is found in the making of friends. In our joint elforts to comprehend and solve your difficulties it could not be otherwise than that we should achieve more than the mere teacher and pupil relationship, and in many cases I have come to think of you as my friends. I SAMUEL LEVINE, G rad U .-1 dt '1'.':cr. rr I l1 lImEUH IIILIHIUEImhHHmMmI EUIEEIZLIIEEEIIIIIEIIIUIIIIHEIIIHIIHIIIJILEIIWHH-HlllllMmUIHE hIIlII il QCD?ifuEIlfixIl11xrli1ii'imnmIIEli1I2TnfuE1f1i1ii1iMim1mi iiiiizimuimmqmfmff-Swim FA 'rr' r '-'mfr' r- - ' 'f-' f rx.-:xfn V-if ' 5' W in -, , X -M -s - Umm H

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I j 5, mmnumnmmmulniunmmumu mmunnnnnmulmuum S O LVAILPIIV G S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT 5 ET all men know that the bodily exist- ence of the Class of January, 1928, of the Thomas Jefferson I-Iigh School is legally passing out of this sphere. Therefore, being in full possession of our faculties, and our minds crammed with nonsensical curricula, effervescing with scholastic escapades, and of a super- human sophisticated intellect, we do here- by make and declare the last Wlill and Testament. NVe do hereby direct that our obsequies shall be conducted, and our remains cre- mated and interred by our over-competent faculty with all due pomp, dignity, and respect, due our exalted position as Seniors. As to our vast, material possessions, which have accumulated with the passage of painful years in the Domain of our Il- lustrious Institute, we do dispose of tlrem as follows: to wit: ITEM l: The poor harassed desks we give and bequeath to the class of june, 1928. NVe give them full leave to carve and imprint their names into the furniture at their leisure moments. ITEM Z: VVe leave to the succeeding senior class, also, those precious and rare spaces of sidewalk outside the school which we seniors utilized for the purpose of looking pretty and selling all sorts and conditions of tickets. ITEM 3: We extend also to you who are about to become seniors the prerogative to bob your hair, part it in the center, and clean your fingernails-for from now on you become ladies and gentlemen. ITEM 4: To Dr. Crossley, we leave full possession of that notorious rogue's gal- lery in which are found the tainted rec- ords of those highly honored and respected seniors who considered it their business to make life miserable for those dear, dear profs. ITEM 5: VVe leave for the approval of the next seniors the absolute right to keep their heads up in pride, skip periods, and do no homework, whatsoever. Further- more, to reveal our kindness, we give to the new seniors the right to fail all exami- nations, English, Math, Home Economics. Social Forms, not to mention regents. ITEM 6: Those delicious, lucious and highly perfumed, elastic relics, which we have hidden underneath our former seats, and which reside in cozy nooks, and cor- ners, we do also bequeath to the next sen- iors. May they chew upon them with due relish, and then in the same dignified manner restore them to their resting places for future seniors to come and masticate. ITEM 7: So that our dear beloved fac- ulty may see us off without tinge of re- morse, we do hereby forgive them all their sins, and their jokes. May they be blessed and given ,added strength and impetus to fulfill their duty. ITEM 8: Gui' most treasured possession -the ivy-we leave to the seniors to pro- tect and cherish forevermore. ITEM 9: To seniors we leave the pre- cious privilege of bequeathing sums of money for various and sundry reasons. ITEM 10: To the Freshmen, we leave our pink ties, and our fear of service leaguers. ITEM ll: To all, we leave our best wishes. Therefore, we, the Senior Class of .lan- uary, l92S, do alhx our signatures on this the 31st day of january, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and twenty- eight. i CL.-xss or 'llxNUARv, 1928. ug-SIQSIQ -csc,-., - -- A, -