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

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if as mELLH MITE june, 1948 To The Graduating Class of Talmudical Academy: I am proud of the good record which you have established in the Yeshiva, and Talmudical Academy, Our experience has shown that the graduates of our own High School are best qualified to continue their studies at the Yeshiva University. You have had a good start and upon you rests the responsibility of continuing to carry the Torch of Torah, and worldly wisdom in your future years of maturity. Above all you should remember that you are b'nei ha-Yeshiva, and the learning of Torah and living according to the tenets of our sacred traditions must be the prime movers of your life. You leave the Talmudical Academy with the education which you have garnered in this fruitful field. But with patience and courage you will discover in your future years, at the Yeshiva, even larger helds of Torah knowledge and secular learning. Let the moral and religious inspirations which you have re- ceived from your teachers bc the central points of your life. I congratulate you all on your accomplishment, and l am conhdent that in your future life and careers you will be worthy of your school, May G-d be with you. Sincerely yours, Samuel Belkin. President 194 - e ifSgQQf Fur

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U0 glze gracluaiing Clan of 1948 My dear young friends: ir i Thirty years ago, next june, a small group of young pioneers, but six in number, received their high school diplomas from the first, and for many years, the only ac- credited high school organized, managed, and supervised by people of the jewish faith - the Talmudical Academy. Since that first graduation in 1919, several thousand jewish young men have gone forth from our sacred walls to swell the ever-growing tide of young men and young women who complete their high school studies each year. To-day, you are about to join their ranks. You are the first ones of that fortunate group of young pioneers, graduates from the Brooklyn Yeshivoth K'tanos, to complete your high school studies in the Brooklyn Branch of Talmudical Academy, and to merit the award which you have so richly earned. Many were the obstacles you had to overcome. Many difficulties beset your path from the first day you set foot in our Yeshiva, but great is the achievement you have accomplished. Not only have you received a secular education which, judged by any and all standards set up by the local and state departments of education, has been proved to be at least the equal of that given in the public institutions of our city, but you have also received that rich heritage of learning and spirituality which has been handed down by our ancestors for thousands of years. Whereas your brothers and sisters in the public high schools have received only a secular education, you, the graduates of Talmudical Academy, have received, in addition, a thorough ground- ing in Talmud, Bible, Hebrew language and literature, Jewish history and cognate studies. Your lives are richer and fuller and more closely attuned to the traditions and hopes and aspirations-to the heartbeat-of our people. Even a casual examination of the roster of names that appears in our high school alumni bulletin will cause the heart of every self-respecting Jew to swell with pride and satisfaction. Among their number one finds some of the most worth-while citizens of our community and country. Every walk of life, every trade and profession is duly represented. Not only rabbis and preachers, religious leaders and teachers, but communal workers, teachers and administrators in secular schools, colleges and uni- versities, lawyers, artisans, business men, engineers, dentists, doctors, artists, and musicians received their first training in Talmudical Academy. Every part of our country, every segment of our national jewish life, is permeated and enriched by the contributions which our graduates have to olifer to make up the sum total of human experience. As we look back with justifiable pride upon the thousands who have preceded you, we can only hope and pray that you, their younger brothers, will follow in their foot-steps. Vfe pray that you will hold precious those high standards and lofty ideals of citizenship and service, of faith in, and loyalty to, our American democracy that we have tried to inculcate in you, and that you will put into living practice, and uphold in your daily lives, the sacred laws and traditions of our holy Torah. May you prove a source of pride and joy to your parents and your Alma Mater! Shelly R. Saphire, Pmzripfil Six