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

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BADE US GOODBYE WITH WISE AND KINDLY WORDS DEAR GRADUATES: Since fhe beginning of fhe war, we have been receiving more leffers anol personal visifs from our gracluafes fhan ever before. The faculfy is nafurally very much grafifiecl fhaf in spife of fheir preoccupafion wifh fhe nafional emergency, fhe fhoughfs of our alumni furn back fo fheir Alma lvlafer. We hope fhaf you, foo, will feel fhis urge and will keep in fouch wifh fhe school: fhaf you will fell us of your successes: and fhaf you will reioice wifh us in fhe accomplishmenfs of fhose Jeffersonians who come affer you. ln shorf, we feel fhaf when we now say Goocl-bye, if really is Au revoir. ' Sincerely yours, LU DWIC5 KAPT-IAN 9 E i

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THCSE WHO LED US... X7 1 f M, I 41 -1 CLASS PRESIDENTS MESSAGE We are leaving JeTTerson in a period oT chaos and devasTaTion. Upon graduaTion mosT oT us will engage in some acTiviTy ThaT will conTrilauTe To The Tinal vicTory oT our counTry, which, God be Thanked, is already in sighT. Our paramounT Taslc will loe ThaT oT reconsTrucTing The world upon a peace worThy oT Those who gave Their blood on all The loaTTle-scarred Tields. A peace such as This musT be inauguraTed by raTion'al minds ThaT are Tree Trom prejudices, and iT musT sTand upon a pedesTal oT egualiTy, TruTh and reason. We The graduaTes oT Jelllerson Tace The Taslr ahead oT us conTidenT and prepared. Our Teachers have insTilled in our minds looTh reason and a love oT whaT is righT. By presenTing The pasT and presenT They have helped us perceive The TuTure wiTh a progressive aTTiTude and an open mind. We can repay Them only by TransmiTTing The. knowledge' They have given us To all parTs oT The world. SAM l-TACK IO