Weldon E Howitt High School - Hi Life Yearbook (Farmingdale, NY)

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PRINCIPALS Mr. Peter J. Tedesco Mr. Edword P. Powers Junior High School Albany Avenue School Miss M. Genevieve Douglass Woodward Parkway School 11 Mr. Harold Swifts Main Street School Mr. Hugh E. McGuigan Parkway Oaks School

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 Mr . Marion P. Wait Administrativi Assistant 10

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PRINCIPAL To Members of the Clou of '60 and all other Students who will follow: All young people at the Weldon E. Howitt High School have benefited this year from a full time session. The total quantity of time available for high school education in Farmingdale hos been longer this year than in the preceding three years of crowded, double session. For this welcome improvement, students, parents ond faculty are appreciative. Time, it has been said, is money and I hope all high school young people, ond particularly Seniors, have learned to use their time wisely since time lost or time wasted can never be regained. Time wosted is like water going over Niagara Falls that is not put to useful work. Once over the brink , water nor time can be put back or regained. It is true that water over the brink serves the fleeting purpose of being beautiful and interesting to see. Now I concede that a certain amount of water used this way is justifiable. However, the bulk of the water can be put to the more useful purpose of generating power to serve mankind and later still flow over the brink ond be a beautiful sight. Similarly, the time of young people should be spent or rather invested wisely for the betterment of the individual and society instead of being wasted by being allowed to go over the brink without serving a useful purpose. Time is also life and no thoughtful person would think of wast- ing or destroying life. Thus it can be understood that a great number of things con be done with time and it is fundamentally important that time, a precious thing, deserves to be used for quality work, activities and recreation. In the finol analysis, IT'S QUALITY THAT COUNTS in any effort or endeavor of young people or adults. This period in which we live hos been called by many different names—for example, it has been called the Jet Age , the Atomic Age , the Age of Space Exploration , the Industrial Age , the Scientific Era , etc. Right at present I believe we should call it the age or period where IT'S THE QUALITY THAT COUNTS! The quantity of effort is, of course, important. However, quantity without quality being emphasized makes for blundering, waste, and inefficiency. If young people are to reach their full potential of achievement, success ond happiness, they must be alert to the needs of our times for QUALITY and EXCELLENCE OF PERFORMANCE in every endeavor. This is vital for students going on to college, other additional training, or the world of work ofter high school. It is my heart-felt wish and my privilege of encouragement for high school students and graduates to dedicate themselves to the pursuit of quality and excellence in their every endeavor at work or ploy or service. I believe that all who would meet the test of the sixties must strive to qualify for membership in the National Honor Society of Life in Americo. This society, I believe, has the some basic objects os our own high school National Honor Society which stresses the four cardinal virtues of: CHARACTER, SCHOLARSHIP, LEADERSHIP, and SERVICE! Each human is created with certain abilities, potential and capac- ity and these features vary with each individual. People are not born equal in the sense that they all hove the same potential abilities. However, it is the responsibility of the individual to develop eoch of his abilities to the fullest extent possible and here ogain, I empha- size IT'S THE QUALITY THAT COUNTS! Each individual deserves respect and assistance for full development of whatever abilities he has. In Science, in Medicine, in Law, in Plumbing, in Retailing, in Industry, in Research, in Homemaking, in raising families, in service to God ond to our fellow men and to self, IT'S THE QUALITY THAT COUNTS every time. And so my young friends as your High School Principal, I charge you with the responsibility in school and out of school to a life of the highest quality that you con achieve—in character develop- ment, in scholarship, in leadership, as well as followship and service to your God, your fellow man and to yourself— If there is to be freedom and decency on our earth in the future, the sixties, the seventies—if there is to be our kind of America and life-YOU DARE NOT FAIL TO STRIVE FOR AND ACHIEVE QUALITY! With every good wish, DR. R. C. BURAU HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL 12