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

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To MISS LGUISE SMITH, friend and adviser, we dedicalre Jrhis, our las+ achievement The Ciess Book of June, I933.

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To The Members oT The GraduaTing Class: For you who are abouT To be graduaTed Trom Jeihlerson, we who are older and more experienced cannoT buT wonder whaT The TuTure is holding in sTore. We are living in Troubled buT wonderTul Times. There are so many l4noTTy problems To be solved, so many conTroversies To be seTTled, so many wounds To be healed. IT is Taxing The ingenuiTy oT our greaTesT sTaTesmen To malce suiTable adiusTmenTs To some oT our mosT pressing problems. Time will bring new perplexiTies and iT may be seen ThaT presenT meThods oT dealing wiTh some oT our diTTiculTies have been inadeguaTe. ln These TuTure deliberaTions you, as educaTed American ciTizens, will have To bear your parT and assume your responsibiliTies. You will noT be able To ignore or evade Them. CriTicism is easy buT worlcable sugges- Tions are noT always readily Tound. Your own experiences here in school have surely TaughT you ThaT de- cisions hasTily reached are seldom eiTher valid or pracTical. Judicious adiusTmenTs reguire careTul consideraTion. You musT also have learned here ThaT diTTerences oT opinion are bound To be meT, buT inTolerance oT The opinions oT oThers should never Tind a place. ThaT characTerisTic never helped anyone To a useTul soluTion oT a l4noTTy problem. You have been reminded oTTen enough ThaT The educaTional oppor- TuniTies you have enioyed carry wiTh Them grave responsibiliTies. To many people These words convey liTTle more Than The pleasing noTion oT The digniTy and presTige oT high posiTion. The plain TacT is, Though, ThaT There is much hard and inconspicuous worlc To be done-worlc which will bring neiTher Tinancial proTiT nor personal preTermenT. And iT is you who musT do much oT This worlc, oTTen aT The sacriTice oT your own personal desires and inTeresTs. You are going ouT Trom JeTTerson wiTh The besT wishes oT all whom you are leaving behind and l exTend my warmesT personal greeTing To you all. Sincerely your Triend, LOUISE SMITH

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OT-Tice oT The Principal lvlarch 29, I933 Dear GraduaTes: ln The aggregaTe The poTenTial brain power oT The graduaTes oT The class oT June, IQ33 should be suTTicienTly greaT To modiTy The exisTing order oT Things. This sTaTemenT is noT meanT To be TaceTious or To TlaTTer you or make you vainglorious. We are living on The Threshold oT new ideas, oT new modes oT be- havior and oT enTirely new problems ThaT awaiT soluTion. You are The pioneers in This expanding universe. Yours is The opporTuniTy To bring The world ouT oT The chaos inTo which iT has been plunged. Only amongsT large groups, such as yours, which emerge Trom our high schools, can This sorely Tried old world oT ours secure The Type oT leadership which no longer will remain in bondage To TradiTional, ineTTecTive meThods. Success may or may noT mean The acguisiTion oT maTerial beneTiTs. Rarely, however, does any success come unless The vocaTion selecTed is based upon The possession oT Those abiliTies ThaT The chosen vocaTion demands. Again, success in liTe is uncerTain unless a diversiTy oT inTeresTs leads To an enriched liTe unhampered by The inTolerance and narrow- mindedness which undue specializaTion alone is apT To induce. CompleTe living-a liTe Tilled wiTh maior inTeresTs-a liTe in which unbounded happiness resulTs because The vocaTion selecTed brings con- sTanT, inner saTisTacTion-ThaT is The Type oT liTe which l wish Tor all oT you. May God will iT Tor you. Cordially, MARTIN MENDEL AcTing Principal