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

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TRIBUTE In sincere appreciation of one who has won undying respect and admiration in the hearts of all T. A. students by his untiring efforts, inimitable sincerity, and everlasting interest. we pay tribute to . . . MR. NORMAN B. ABRAMS eight

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DEDICATION Currently observing his 30th anniversary as Principal of Talmudical Academy is Dr. Shelley R. Saphire, whose association with Yeshiva dates back to 1916. He is numbered among the true veterans of Yeshiva who have played vital roles in guiding its development and growth. A native New Yorker, he received his B.A. degree in 1912 from the City College of New York, M.A. degree from Columbia in 1913, and his Ph.D. in 1920. He has specialized in the biological sciences, a field in which he achieved an excellent reputation as a teacher and student. Included in his vast experience is an assistantship in the United States Bureau of Fisheries, a thirteen year tenure as a teacher in the New York City High School System and lecturer in the School of Education of the City College of New York. At the request of the late Dr. Bernard Revel, then President of Yeshiva, he resigned from the New York City school system in 1926 and took up full duties with Yeshiva for the purpose of founding the first college under Jewish auspices in the United States. An organizer of Yeshiva College, he became its first Dean and held also the rank of Professor of Biology. Besides ' being Principal of Talmudical Academy, he founded its Brooklyn branch and is currently supervising the Far Rockaway Branch. He is the author of a multitude of scholarly works in biology and related sciences and a member of many important scientific and communal organ- izations. Among his memberships he counts a fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. As a token of appreciation of his long assiduous service in the Yeshiva and of his unflinching duty to the students. the editors respectfully dedicate this issuv of the Elchanite to their guiding spirit, friend and benefactor DR. SI-IELLEY R. SAPHIRE LXEI1

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