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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Qefgcfiona Twenty-seven years ago, on a bright brisk afternoon, a timid young man presented himself to Dr. Shelley R. Saphirc, the principal of Talmudical Academy. I hear you need a teacher in historyf' the young applicant very deferentially addressed himself to the very busy executive before him. No, he replied, not in history. But we do need a teacher in Latin. Go upstairs to the class of Mr. Lucien Lamb. Observe him teaching the subject and let me know whether you can undertake to teach it. This is how I became an instructor DL Beniamm D. 5t,apq,O in Talmudical Academy, then located in a very old, dilapidated building on Scamel Street, corner of East Broadway. Twenty-seven years have elapsed since-years replete with earth- shaking events that have tried the human soul. The world has passed through cycles of prosperity and depression, it emerged from one cata- strophic war, perched itself on the fence of an insecure peace for a period of time, and then plunged into another titanic struggle, World War H. Then a new star appeared on the horizon, the new state of Israel-small, small amends indeed of a conscience-stricken world. The growth of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary re- flected these turbulent, momentous years. Talmudical Academy graduated into a college: the college, into a university. It moved from its very inadequate building on East Broadway to its present palatial quarters on the Heights. Well do I remember the dreams of the dreamer of them all, the late Dr. Bernard Revel, the Rosh Ha-Yeshiva, the sainted man who saw a vision of a university campus with buildings on both sides of Amsterdam Avenue. But these visions, built on the un- certain shifting dunes of the 1920's, became a mirage. Then came the dawn of a new era, the era under the inspiring leadership of Dr. Samuel Belkin, our beloved President of Yeshiva. Some of the earlier dreams have now materialized. New buildings, new schools, new faculties have been added to those existant. The Yeshiva finally shook off the effects of the 1930's. It has grown. physically and spiritually. ten