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

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In Grateful Appreciation of His Untiring Efforts for the Good of the Student Body, We, Hereby, Dedfioate This Anniversary Issue of THE ELCHANITE to Our Friend cmd Principal DR. SHELLEY R. SAFIR

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CONTENTS W' DEDICATION .,.,...,....,..1..., .........,.............., .... . .......,..... - ...........,..,...,,,....,. .A -, P age 4 TWENTY YEARS TALMUDICAL ACADEMY-DT. Shelley R. Safiv' ...,......., 5 THE EXPERIMENT-DT. Pinkhos C'h1M'yi'YL ,,..,.......................-v..----..--- --f,4 9 GOVERNOR LEHMAN'S MESSAGE ..,,..... ,.,-- 1 0 FACULTY ......................,.,.,.,.... ...A...V......... ...V,. ......V7V,VY.,,,,,,, -.,.A,-- ----, 1 1 THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSAY-Dr. Benjamin D. Shupi1'0 ...A... ,EfA. 1 7 ELCHANITE BOARD .,.....,....,,.......V.... .,.7,VA....,.............,,............ --,,- 1 8 SENIORS ..,,,.7v.......,,7,,.......,,.,,7.............A.................,....Vf.......V.V,.V .-f,, 1 9 TO THE GRADUATES-Dr. Benjamin D. Shapi1'0 ....w.,.. ..,Y. 2 7 RABBI MOSES S. MARGOLIES-Charles Schlcmg ..,....... ..Y,A 3 0 DEFEAT - Herman Mendelson ,....................,............. ...Y. 3 4 TAKE YOUR BASEf-Mitchell Turoj ....... ..... 3 5 COMIC CAPERS-Harold Ribalow ,,,,,,,, AA... 4 0 MEIER DIZENGOFF-Harold Ribalow ...., 7eA,, 4 1 PEACE - Chowles Shoulson ....w...,.......,..,..,,..,.v,ee,w...,. Y ,w... 42 AND TRUTH SHALL PREVAIL-Morris Epstein ..,AY,,A,, ..,,, 4 4 E PLURIBUS UNUM-Morris Margol-ies .,.,,..,,...,,,,.., ..,.. 4 5 THE CONSTITUTION--Harold Ribalow ,A.., ...,. 4 7 POST MORTEMQSCWZ Haimm ,.A,,,,A....., v.... 4 9 ORGANIZATIONS ..... .7Y,. 5 3 LEGACY ............,...,.,. ,..,. 6 0 ADVERTISEMENTS ..... ..,,, 6 1 V-aaa, Q5-iii

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jiw ZlICl'6ZTlLTC TWENTY YEARS TALMUDICAL ACADEMY by DR. SHELLEY R. SAFIR P' ODAY, on historic Washington Heights, where the American Revolutionary Army battled for free- dom against the forces of King George the Third of England, there stands the new Yeshiva College build- ing, an edifice which for magnificence of construction and completeness of equipment will be hard to surpass anywhere in this country. When one contrasts our present home on Am- sterdam Avenue, between 186th and 187th Streets, with the succession of small, shabby, delapidated, old-fash- ioned, poorly equipped and ill-suited buildings which housed the Yeshiva on Canal, Pike, Henry, and Mont- gomery Streets, and finally on East Broadway, one cannot help seeing in it the expression of the developed rna- terial and spiritual strength of the immigrant Jews from Eastern Europe whose courage and devotion to an ideal made this possible. There are several Jewish Institu- tions of higher learning in America which can boast of imposing plants, with fine college buildings, splendid libraries , and comprehensive equip- ment. But these schools are devoted to Jewish studies exclusively. The student reports to them for part of the day, at least, for instruction in the specifically Jewish subjects of study. During the remaining hours of the day, he attends a regularly constituted high school or college in which he obtains his secular educa- tion. In the Yeshiva, however, the pupil obtains both types of training and culture, secular as Well as Jew- ish, under one and the same auspices, and in the spirit of traditional Juda- ism. The foundation, spiritual if not actual, of our institution was laid in the Eighteen-Eighties, after the flood- tide of Russo-Jewish immigration to America had set in. From Russia, Poland, and Lithuania there came to this country an element of Jewry who looked upon the study of the Torah as the highest and noblest pur- suit in man's life. Their first concerib next to that of earning some kind of livelihood, was the education of their children in the traditional manner of their forebears. Out of this urge there grew up, some fifty years ago Q1885Don the lower East Side of New York, the Machzike Yeshivath Etz Chaim, the first Jewish parochial school in America. This school, or- ganized without pretension to peda- gogic theories or systems, was de- voted to the teaching of the Hebrew language and the Hebrew Law CBible and Talrnudj, and also to the study of the English language and related studies. Ten years later C18969f another handful of Eastern European Jews founded the Yeshivath Rabbenu Yitz- chok Elchanan and incorporated it the following year as the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. This institution, conceived in the spirit, if not in the flesh, of east European Yeshivath, was dedicated to the study of the Talmud and the Torah Lish-