Yeshiva University High School For Boys - Elchanite Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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. Ya, . f A s N I l ii 5 .,-p. 4'- iv I? on ' Q sr my-anal' Dear Graduates: It is with singular pride that I greet you, the lirst graduating class of the Brooklyn Branch of Talmudical Academy. Only three years have elapsed since you entered the portals of the world renowned Yeshiva Rabbi Isaac Elchanan. You were the first pioneers who made it possible to open our Branch, and today your graduation marks the successful completion of three years of work. If in the beginning the opening of our Yeshiva was only an experiment, today it is an established reality. What started out only as a branch has with your graduation become a fruit-bearing tree. It has grown during the course of your stay at Yeshiva from a student body of forty-eight to one close to two hundred, and from a faculty of a handful of men to one numbering more than two dozen. What is even more important-you have not been mere witnesses of this phenomenal growth but rather participants and the inspiration of this develop- ment. That you have given much to Yeshiva is an accepted fact-it is however of greater significance to evaluate what Yeshiva has done for you. It has been the aim of Yeshiva to provide you with more than a curriculum of prescribed and elective courses. To give you only the subjects required by State laws would not be fulfilling the purpose and goal of our institution. The establishment of a reputable and worthy school is not determined by curriculum alone. lt is rather the spirit that pervades the Yeshiva and the philosophy that governs its administration that are the basic criteria in judging its value. It is the prime objective of the Yeshiva to develop jews who are both cognizant and proud of practicing the tenets of our Torah, and at the same time to prepare them to live a wholesome life in our modern American environment. The organization of the faculty thus played a most prominent role in developing the character of our school and achieving its proposed aims. Your taculty consisted of a staff of well-qualified and competent teachers who are at the same time religious men possessing a positive attitude toward jewish values. Many ot them, graduates of our own Yeshiva University, are imbued both with the ideals of judaism and the best in secular knowledge. In your daily contacts you came face to tace with personalities who exemplified the harmonious blending and fusion ot -Iewish lore and secular learning. Yeshiva thus attempted to give you more than the routine book knowledge which any ordinary high school graduate receives. lt has given you .1 positive outlook and approach to the exigencies and complexities of 'lewish lilie. and inspired you with the zeal and enthusiasm to perpetuate the Torah way ol' lite. May you as the potential lay and rabbinic leaders ol' the tuture American 'lc-wish community, reflect in your thoughts and actions the teachings of our Torali. the inspir- ation of our Prophets, and the wisdom ot' our sages. May the brooklyn Hraiitfi always be able to point with pride to you, its hrst graduating class. its iirsl thirteei pioneers. We trust and hope that the formal links which arc- now Iiorginsj lwiwccii our llrantli and the parent institutionvYeshiva University -will bc' slrtiigtluiicil lirmn year tn year. Rabbi zibraliain N. .7iii'ntl', .Xdininistrator

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Dr. Shelly Saphire ...,.... Rabbi Abraham Zuroff Mr. Harry Allan ......... Rabbi Moshe Berenholtz Mr. Isaac Cantor .......... Rabbi Baruch Faivelson Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Charles Friedman .. Jacob Godin ..,....... Emery Grossman David Horn .......... Julius Jacobs ......... Julius Landowne .. Mr Samuel Lebowitz Dr. Jechiel Lichtenstein ..,... Mr Martin Lilker .,......... Dr. Joseph Sarachek .... Mr Mr Mr Joseph Strum ......... Morris Turetsky ...... Samuel Levine ....... Miss Marilyn Sherman .. ACULTY .............Principal ........Administrator ........Hebrew ...............Spanish .........Science X Mathematics ............French 84 Spanish .......English 8: Civics .................Hygicne ............,..Biology .........Social Science R Mathematics ...............English .......Mathewmtics .,.........Di1'ector ..........Secretary ELUHANITE si If c