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

Page 7 text:

secondary learning. IT is aT Once a symbol OT, and a response To, The crying need and The eTernal idealism OT Judaism, by oTTering Them This harmonious OuTloOlc, which prepares Them To Tace liT'e in The hard maTerialisTic world OT Today while remaining sTeadTasT in love and supporT Tor, and devOTion To, The ageelong TaiTh and TradiTiOn OT our TaThers. ln The course OT The TwenTy-Tive years OT iTs exisTence close To Tive Thousand Jewish young men have aT one Time or anOTher been sTudenTs in The Academy. OT This number, nearly TiTTeen hundred have compleTed Their sTudies and received Their diplomas enTiTling Them To go on wiTh college sTudies. AbouT ThirTy per cenT OT The graduaTes OT Talmudical Academy have gone inTo The RabbinaTe and inTo Teaching or supervisory worlc in Jewish schools OT various kinds. Hundreds are engaged as Teachers OT secular subiecTs in The elemenTary and high schools OT our ciTy, Two in The capaciTy OT assisTanT principals in public elemenlary schools, and several in colleges and UniversiTies. Several hundred are now pracTicing law, and a number are licensed and pracTicing physicians. ln general, wherever Their liTe's chosen Tields have Talcen Them, our boys have proved Themselves a crediT To Them- selves and To our school and our people. There were six sTudenTs in The graduaTing class OT l9l9g ThaT OT I94O has sevenTy-six members. YeT The Jewish sTrengTh has never been in numbers. Our sTrengTh is ThaT in our conscience and our spiriT we have Tollowed The conscience oT The Torah and The spiriT OT Universal lsrael, even againsT The prevailing opinions, againsT The mores OT The ouTer world. We Talce hearT noT Trom gaThering numbers, buT Trom The growing recogniTion and awakening consciousness OT American Jewry ThaT, greaT as The diTTiculTies are, There is an opporTuniTy Tor aT leasT a saving remnanT OT our children, OT a Tull and inTensive Jewish educaTion. You, The members OT The graduaTing class are pioneers. You have had an educaTion diTTerenT Trom The remainder OT our Jewish youTh. You have had an opporTuniTy To learn The value and signiTicance OT inTensive Jewish sTudy, Tor a deeper and Truer undersTanding oT The Jewish consciousness and soul. WiTh This greaT common bond, you are sTrengThened To wiThsTand The maTerial inTluences oT The Time, less prone To Tall prey To The sTandards oT gold and OT ease. STrengThen The bond: uniTed, asserT yourselves and your inTluence in The liTe OT our youTh, To share your unique opprTuniTies, To imparT ThaT peculiar and parTicular Jewish poinT oT view, and love OT Jewish knowledge, so ThaT by your example you may eTTecT ThaT This quarTer OT a cenTury OT Talmudical Academy shall noT have been in vain, buT ThaT The insTrucTion and inspiraTion you received shall be a blessing To you and To Those who are To be inTluenced by you. ConTinue To be one wiTh The Yeshiva, To accepT and To Teel iTs inTluence. UniTe under The banner OT The ideals OT Talmudical Academy, as an inTegral parT OT The Yeshiva, so ThaT iTs spiriT may widen and deepen, a currenT OT TaiTh and culTure in American Jewry. ELCHATTIITE Five

Page 9 text:

THE FACULTY BERNARD REVEL, M.A., Ph. D. SHELLEY R. SAFIR, M.A., Ph.D. .. NORMAN B. ABRAMS ., .. ,, .. FRANK BLUME, M.A. .. . SASCHA CHARLES, J.D., Ph.D. CHARLES FRIEDMAN, B.A. . JACK GOLDSTEIN, M.S.E. . . SIDNEY B. HOENIG, Ph.D. BENJAMIN KRONISH, B.S.S. ., JOSEPH LAUB, M.A. ..,.,.,...,,., SAMUEL H. LEBOWITZ, M.A. . . EMANUEL LEIBEL, M.A. ...,...,.... JOSEPH LICHTENBERG, M.A. JOSHUA MATZ, B.A., M.A. ..,,.. ,. ISAAC ORLEANS, B.A., M.A. , ISRAEL RENOV, B.A. ,. .,.. .. . JOSEPH SARACHEK, Ph.D. ,...,.. . IRVING SAROT, M.D. .. MAURICE SCHAIN, B.S. ..,..,. . BENJ. D. SHAPIRO JOSEPH B. STRUM, SOLOMON WIND, M.A. . M.A., J.D. .. M.A. , ELCHANITE ii E Presidenl of Eacully ., . Principal , Aclrninislralive Ass,+. . , French German ,. Physics ., French . . Bible , .. .. ,.,, I-Iislory .. Physical Training Chemislry , , English . ,... ., Malhemalics Malhemalics ., ,,.. English , Ari ., English I-leallh Educalion ,, , , , Biology Hislory, Civics, Economics , , , English, Laiin . ,. Hebrew