Yavneh Hebrew Academy - Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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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

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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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To the Eighth Grade, Learning science can become The Bridge to a happier and more productive life. I sincerely hope that many of you will continue to study science not only in high school, but for the rest of your lives. Whether you enter one of the fields of basic sci- ence or medicine, the rewards you will discover will be tremendous in terms of human improve- ment. All my best for this graduating class of 1979. May you be successful in whatever you choose as your field of endeavor. Sheila Hoffman Dear Graduates, It is said that a human being ' s personality is well formed by the age of five. Afterwards, there fol- lows a period and process of continous discovery, exploration, modification, and refinement . . . and all of this happens by simply living your life and working on yourself. We also understand that certain things enrich or enhance our living, how- ever the tools we use to discover this enrichment is left up to each of us. Education awakens you to some of these tools. All life is a learning experi- ence. Learn to use everything to work on yourself ... for working on yourself will allow you to value the things you do. If you don ' t value the things you do, you may wind up doing the things you don ' t value . . . which means that you waste time, which is the way some of us must learn how to do it right. . . Love and Freedom, Alan Rosen 60