Tilden High School - Classic Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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MSW .... LUCILLE BUDNER leaving Alma Mater singing praises to her name . . as we sing these praises. memories ot happy hours Tilden go through our minds. Some will think ot others may think oi tavorite teachers: and still others, periods, but tor a tew. thoughts are ot those pleasant times had in the gym. on the athletic tielcl and splashing around in the pool. Evelyn Zittrer will have thoughts ot P. S. A. L. swimming pins and Basketball num-erals. ior in her tour years at Tilden she has acquired a large collection. Pearl Hiller. girl athlete, will think oi her gym suit and all the ditterent colored numerals she has sewed on it. Sophie Licht will think oi a baseball diamond and home- runs and strike-outs. Betty Kleila's thoughts will turn. to Badminton. as she won much tame keeping the shuttle-cock up over the net Iuclith Abrahams and Mariorie Konklin will have thoughts oi Basket- ball ancl Handball and the hoarse throats that the shouting gave them. Badminton, Volleyball. Swimming. Tennis, Basketball and Base- ball-that's what these girls and many more will think ot as they ame. raises to her n sing p U-A sort-uf. ucr-rr svsixrl zmm-an PE ABL HILLER BETTY KLE

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rom tlme 1mmemor1al fthey tell mel It has been the custom for the r III Ch1ef to wnte some ph1losoph1cal gem 1n presentmg the Senlors 1n rbook Frankly I have rarely rndulged m the luxury of ph1losoph1cal hat s not my lme But even 1f I dxd never 1n my l1fe d1d I feel less e phl sophlzmg than I do at thls part1cular moment For today IS Sunday yes th1s copy IS very very latel and Regents beg1n tomorrow ffdawlfffif lt o o you wonder that I am completely at a loss for words surrounded asl am by HISIOIY rev1ew books Engl1sh volumes and such What shall I say? Shall I cry out aga1r1st the cold cruel world we are about to enter? Shall I call down the wrath of the Gods upon d1c tators totahtanarusm fasclsm commumsm and the hke'-' Shall I use honeyed words and softly sugar coat t.l1e future? In short shall I do ex actly the same tlung as so many have done before me? No! I shall not do that' And anyway how could I wnte on such a plateau when I see before me Englxsh regents queshons l1ke Wr1te a 300 word composxtzon on A Black Cat or A Sunday at the Beach or Culture m Amenca Lets see How would I answer that queshon on Culture 1n ARIBIICGQ Wheres my H1story book? M mmm! U huh' Why yes! FIISI I could say that Amenca has come a long way smce those 13 l1ttle colon1es declared the1r mdependence almost 166 years ago Then I could pomt out that 1t IS becomlng more and more ev1dent that our dependence upon European thought and culture IS lessemng almost to the pomt of non ex1stence We are beguunng to do our own work 1n art plulosophy lrterature and scxence Only begrnmng of course for we are young and we have not yet learned to walk ent1rely w1thout the asslstance of our European ancestry But 1f we sometnnes fmd 1t dlthcult to advance qu1ckly enough and we are some t1mes d1scouraged w1th our own superf1c1al1ty our prov1nc1al1sm our nar rowness and our b1gotry our rmmature mtolerance and our llmld vlolence agamst mnovatlon and expenment let us remember that England needed some 800 years between her foundatron and her Shakespeare and that France needed as many years between her ioundatxon and her Montangne We have not had suff1c1ent t1me to brmg forth a truly nat1ve lxterature and a mature phalosophy and art But we have expended all our energ1es 1n clearmg our great forests tappmg the wealth of our so1l and bu1ld1ng up our tremendous mdustr1es . , l I I I ne , , , , . I I ' I - . , - . , , . . - , , - ' . . . . , . I ' ll I C II . . . ' ' ' 1 1 . ' a I I I ' n , - I 1 ' I ' 1 . . . . , . . . .