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

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CUM!! ln These Trying maTerialisTic Times oT dicTaTorship versus democracy, oT prejudice versus clear Thinking, oT haTe versus love, we Tind ourselves Taced wiTh a problem in which Two courses are visible: To escape by enTer- ing our ciTadel oT selT-conTenTmenT, or To Tace TacTs by plunging inTo The sTruggle lilce a SainT PaTriclc ouT To slay The snalces oT lnTolerance and Murder. Which parh shall we underTal4e To Tollow? No longer is iT True ThaT we youngsTers, Tor we are young in years, are unThinl4ingg ThaT we are so myopic ThaT anyThing TurTher away Trom us Than our noses goes unnoTiced. Nor do The lines Ours noT To reason why, Ours buT To do or die! hold True Today. For we are noTicing Things around us: we are using Those powers ThaT youThs oT earlier days have reTused To recognize: we are raising our voices To guesTion acTions oT which we don'T approve. We are using our mighT oT numbers To propose legislarian Tavorable To us, we are using our educaTion Tor The beneTiT oT The people. Should we, ThereTore, Talce all our educaTion, all our weighT oT num- bers, all our glorious aTTribuTes and bundle Them inTo a ciTadel oT selT- assuredness, bolT The doors, deaf To The cries oT The oppressed and un- TorTunaTe wiThouT? There are some who say we should, buT There are people who would lciclc an unsuspecTing dog and laugh as iT grovels cough- ing in The dusT. We, high school seniors, musT decide now, Tor ahead oT us is The Torlc in The road. Which Turn shall we Take? Self-service or service Tor oThers? None oT us can honesTly say ThaT we would sacriTice all Tor The salce oT oThers. We would be wrong if we did so, Tor man musT loolc To his own needs TirsT. BuT man, aT The same Time, can help alleviaTe his broTh- er's disTress, by oTTering To share whaT he can wiTh him. ln This world, we are all neighbors, we are all one people, Though our slcins be whiTe, yellow or blaclc, Though our noses diTTer in size, our hair in TexTure. l.eT us scaTTer The clouds oT ignorance blinding us, and leT us Try sincerely To love our neighbor. This spiriT shall be The bugle call ThaT will sound The downTall oT The walls oT our Jericho oT aloofness, and Trom iTs ruins we shall build a Tower oT TaiTh, TruTh and liberTy ThaT shall reach To The sky-a New CiTadel oT peace ThaT shall wiThsTand The ravages oT Time! ArTurus Felinus 6

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March 2I. l94O Dear GraduaTes, One aTTer anoTher, The lighTs oT civilizaTion, as someone said recenTly, are going ouT and a conTusing murlci-ness obligaTes us To seek a ciTadel inTo which we may reTreaT. During The dark ages, culTure and civilizaTion, belles leTTres and The Tine arTs survived Through The inTluence oT The church. ln monasTeries, ciTadels oT enlighTenmenT, manuscripTs were gaThered and lovingly pre- served. The process oT learning wiThin Those shelTering walls wenT on sTeadily wiThouT inTerrupTion. Where shall we reTreaT as The enemies oT civilizaTion press harder and harder? WhaT eTernal values musT we preserve and how? The penalTy Tor Tailure is compleTe chaos. To begin wiTh, we musT conTinue To lceep our counTry saTe Trom The inroads oT ToTaliTarian pracTices, be They communisT, nazi or TascisT. We musT worlc wiTh ciTizens oT every race, color and creed To proTecT The Treedom granTed us in our consTiTuTion. The enemy wiThouT may be recognized easily. lT is much more diTTiculT To idenTiTy The enemy wiThin. Generally speaking, The person who inciTes race againsT race, creed againsT creed, naTion againsT naTion, class againsT class may iusTly be suspecTed oT Treachery To our democraTic insTiTuTions. Our TirsT ciTadel, ThereTore. is our counTry, a Tree democracy, by The grace oT God, under a consTiTuTion ThaT has survived over one hundred and TiTTy years. Our nexT ciTadel is The moral sancTion which comes Trom The noblesT Teachings oT The propheTs and sages oT all Times. Every religion known To man, unlilce The Neo-Paganism oT Nazi Germany, is based upon a code oT eThics which in Turn resTs upon The Golden Rule. More Than ever, because The world is so disTurbed, we should Try To pracTice neighborli- ness, kindliness and iusTice. Perhaps one day, we shall wake inTo a beTTer world. ln The meanTime, leT us wiThouT Tlinching hold The ciTadels oT democracy and moraliTy. T Sincerely yours, AY -1,-ca er S I