Yavneh Hebrew Academy - Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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jLa±t WlLL and £.6,tam£,nt To Rabbi Holland, we leave the teachers, With all their great, fantastic features. Now it ' s summer and he must rest, For all the year round, he was the best! To Rabbi Amster, who is so tall. We know his knowledge is not so small. We really think that he was great. Leaving him will be a fate! To Rabbi Ribiat, who taught us all he knew. We very gratefully leave to you, A Chumash test to correct and understand. For your teaching and help, has been just grand. We hope Mrs. Katz will never go. She knows her business like a pro! We leave her memories of all our fun. Because to us, she ' s number one! To Mrs. Kin, a friend indeed. Because without her we could not succeed. She taught us Chumash and Parsha too. Every lesson was something new! To Alan Rosen, a fantastic guy, We dread the thought of saying goodbye. We leave him a pair of new tennis shoes. To win the games that he plays and does not lose. To Chaya Zamel, we leave her a pair of shorts. Because she has helped us in all sorts of sports! She was new to us this year. Our feelings towards her are very dear. To IVlrs. Hoffman, we leave to you, with thought- ful wishes. Our bunsen burners and Petri dishes. When next you need an A. Einstein, Remember your class of ' 79! To Mrs. Goldman, who is really great. We hate to say our tests came back late. But seriously, she was one of the best. Now please Mrs. Goldman, can we have back our test?! To Mrs. Sass, our math teacher. We were always happy and glad to see her. We leave to her a 10-question surprise math quiz. It should be very easy for her because she ' s the math whiz! And to all the teachers who have helped us through. From the bottom of our hearts, we ' d like to say THANK YOU!!! 58

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SPORTS SUMMARIES OUR PH YSICA L ED UCA TION PROGRA M P.E. at Yavneh can also stand for personal equation, an equation whose oneness is both complex and simplicity itself. Many factors combine for each human beings equation including our individual differ- ences, preferences, abilities and mind spaces. Yet we share a common denominator . . . our willingness to communicate and work on solutions together. Our games, activities, and sports challenge us and ask us to risk, attempt, participate, discover dream and accomplish. We are our own experiment of one. Experi- ence and trial and error are amongst our methods. Awareness leads to conscious and intentional inspection. We learn to see by not doing as well as doing. We use our programs to work on our own equation. Each personal equation is beautiful like you. By: Alan Rosen SPORTS SEASONS It ' s all a continuing unending process, where we involve ourselves, work, practice and play with aware- ness, unity, passion, and intensity. It doesn ' t matter what sport it is. We get to look at who we think we are and what is seen is not always satisfactory, but it is honest and real and we go on. We face our own fears, expectations, and performances and learn. If we go behind the surface, we can listen to a deeper place from within — we listen for our own unfolding seasons. We can use sports as a tool for beginning to see our own inner spaces. Sport provides us with the opportunity to express ourselves and to be here now. By: Alan Rosen Football is a game which every- one contributes to! This year we came in 1st. place. We called the right plays at the right time. Our whole team played with much enthusiasm against our opponents. When we lost we didn ' t mind that much because we knew that there is always another game to look for- ward to. We would like to thank our coach and friend Mr. Alan Rosen. By: Sam Baly This year in basketball we started our season tremendously well. We won our first three games. Our key to the season was that we executed our plays with precision, and got alot of rebounds. We had tough compe- tition from Hillel and Torat Emeth. Our team consists of Marc Chroman, David Bomstein, Arye Blank, Mark Kroh, Sam Baly, Gerry Corn, and Peter Trenk. The seventh grade team is: David Wachtenheim, Michael Lax, Ilya Zack, Glenn Marshak, and Jeff Remer. BY: SAM BALY 57

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Dear Graduates of ' 79 During the past two years, we have related to each other in so many ways! You have been my Enghsh and Social Studies stu- dents, my C.I.T. ' s at Camp Simcha and my lunchroom helpers when we were between cooks. You have developed a deep sense of responsibility which will serve you as you work towards your future goals. I hope I have instilled in you the desire to seek knowledge from all of life ' s various experiences. My hopes for your future also include a continued commit- ment, on your parts, towards attaining a comprehensive Jewish education. The seed of your Torah education has been planted at Yavneh. I hope you will nurture this seed by furthering your Torah education in the years to come. I wish you much success and happiness in the future. Fondly, Mrs. Jeanne Litvin Goldman Instead of writing some fancy farewell words, I have decided to use this space to review some mathematics instead! At the beginning of the school year we learned to recognize the absolute value symbol. We said that the symbol had a non-nega- tivizing effect on the number within. For example if the number was -18, its absolute value would be 18, and if the number was 18, its absolute value would also be 18. In other words, regardless of what our input, the output can never be negative. Permit me to diverge from our lesson. Attitude in life is so important. When we think positive we usually get positive results. If we want to succeed in hfe and our attitude is non-neg- ative, we will. And this brings us back to our lesson again. Always have the absolute value symbol in mind. This is to make certain your out- put in life will always be positive! The very best in life to all of you, Evelyn Sass 59