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

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21-.1i..1i.,-1 l1 . -1- ...ii..l..i 3 'W' l I ' s v. CQCQJVSYZSW 75 Foreword ...... 1 Messages ...... 4 Tribute ..,,.,.....4..,....,........ 6 Elchanite Editors ....... 8 Faculty ................................. ........ 1 0 SENIOR SECTION .......,.,, 4....... 1 5 l984',, a fable ,............ .,...... 1 6 The Graduates ...., ........ 2 2 ACTIVITIES .....,............ ..,...... 5 1 Scholarship Winners ...... ..,,,... 7 0 LITERATURE ........,. ......... 7 I Theatre Party .........,.,. ........ 8 2 Senior Play ........................... ......... 8 3 ADVERTISEMENTS ........ ........ 8 4 Senior Directory ..,.,,... ......,.. I 03 Afterword ................ ......... 1 04 Yeshiva University High School New York, New York

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CLASS Cl 'N- F JUNE 1958 V N si I ly. N N I 5 :M X . liliii Q .1-

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N 1' X, .., Eli I.,-f 1 v l ....wmt.,. X, ii , it A UN 1, W ty it N i W l ,K 7m l l to the t L ,-:id 21'e'VVv4-1 The educational conscience of the people of the United States has been disturbed deeply during the past decade. This uneasiness has been on all levels, from elementary to college and even to graduate schools. Many conferences on education have been held. Struggling with shortages of teachers, class- rooms and facilities, they expressed the hope for substantial federal aid to education as the only means of remedying this intolerable situation. In an age of mechanization and automation, we have been concerned with more and more gadgets like radio, television sets, air conditioners, washing and drying machines and with more than two cars in every garage, not to mention the millions parked on the streets and highways. Hence, federal funds go for a multi-billion dollar highway project rather than for education. However, the recent successful launchings of the Russian sputniks and our earlier failures with satellite launchings shook us to our very founda- tions. The resuit is a crash program to complete the revamping of our educational curriculum. The idea is to do something in a hurry, hoping for the best. Plans are now in the oliing for teaching science to children barely out of their swaddling clothes. Mathematics should be Hrammedw down the throats of all pupils and students regardless of the lack of capacity. Engineers and technicians should be 'cground out on an assembly-line basis. We should copy the Soviet educational system even though we are a democracy with democratic ideals. Those of us who have been connected with edu- cational institutions for many, many years, know only too well the folly of such a program. We know that the better schools, including our own high school, have always had a balanced curriculum in- cluding English, mathematics, science, social studies and foreign languages. Here both essential elements -science and the humanities-have been adhered to. What is even more vital is that the religious, spiritual and ethical values in life-values which give the true meaning and direction to education- should have a higher place in our studies. During the Nazi nightmare, the world sadly learned of the destructive tendencies that mere tech- nical perfection can create. Now, too, the G'Dless Russian leaders are ever boasting of their ability to annihilate any country anywhere with their modern weapons. mr: 'nb tm rwrcrn 'nv :mow nir:wn,, You graduates, who will be the leaders of the next generation, must not only prepare yourselves with knowledge and ability to counteract this latest rush', of education, but must plan to enter fields in education and religious leadership to enable you to bring to the world the Hebrew message of SHA- LOM. Make your slogan the following: LET US KEEP OUR SPIRITUAL AND ETHICAL FEET ON THE GROUND RATHER THAN OUR DESTRUCTIVE SPFTNIKS IN THE SKY. For the Jew, scientific, even military preparations must have but one aim -to prepare for peace.