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

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66 ' ' 99 patience and fortltude SAMUEL LEVINE EDITH SIMONS Adminis+ra+ive Assis+an+ Adminis+ra+ive Assis+an+ SAYWELL B. MULDORF JOSEPH NEWMAN Dean of BOYS Head of Hinsdale AHYIEX 4

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Q Dear GraduaTes: Your approaching commencemenT brings To our minds The speed wiTh which Time marches on. lT seems only yesTerday ThaT you enTered JeTTerson as liT+le girls and boys. Today you are young men and women, TiTTed To mee.T The new and urgenT demands oT a changing world. During your high school liTe The world. Too, has changed. We have gone Trom a war To a peace Time basis. The big Thing now is To geT along wiTh peoplep geT along wiTh Them in our Tamily, our college, our place oT business. our communiTy, sTaTe and naTion, and mosT imporTanT, inTernaTionally. We Teel conTidenT ThaT The' graduaTes oT Thomas JeTTerson l-ligh School will do more Than Their share in The cause oT harmony and world peace. In This hope The TaculTy wishes you God-speed. Sincerely yours, . 'ff Principal

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Moi' thee we sing Fellow GraduaTes: Cur high school lease has expired. fXTTer Tour years oT com- TorT and happiness in our resTive world, we musT Tind new shelTer, someThing more signiTicanT Than The addiTion oT meaninqless rooms. We are on The Threshold oT liTe on a Tull Time basis. As we enTer our new aparTmenT we are Taced by a long corridor wiTh closed doors on eiTher sideg some oT The doors closed because oT The world's hares and preiudices. Some oT The doors musT be opened cauTiously, some musT be opened wiTh deTerminaTion and some musT be Thrown down. We musT build a ramparT oT reason and iusTice. The conTlicTs and shorTcomings oT our Time loom insurmounlrable in our eyes, buT so did similar problems seem To Those who builT This qreaT ediTice oT democracy. Vxfhen These oThers leTT, They may have leTT a Tew Things awry, buT on The whole The house oT democracy has been cared Tor raTher well. Now we Tind ourselves in The posiTion oT human engineers. We musT devise, we musT build and we musT demolish. BuT more Than anyThing we musT perTecT our house in These diTTiculT Times. We musT eradicaTe any discriminaTion Towards The TenanTs, Tor They all helped To build and musT share in our co-operaTive. We musT uprooT The elemenTs ThaT inevi- Tably lead To war. Above all we musT show our neiqhbors, The world, ThaT our aparTmenT is a good one. We will have aTTained our goal when The peoples oT The world Try To dup- licaTe our way oT liTe. Only Then can we aTTord To siT ouT on The baclc lawn and baslc securely in our glory-. LeT us apply our Tools oT educaTion, reason, and conscience To The Taslc. ii? A. Very sincerely, Rhoda l-limmel MARTIN WACHTEL Vice Presidenf HELEN GLUCK Class SecreTary i l i 1 i s s T RHODA HIMMEL Class PresidenT IRMA BOXER Class Treasurer