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

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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.

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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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Graduates A From the vantage-point of forty-two y-ears of con- tinuous relationship with Yeshiva Ivniversity High School lTalmudical Academyl, the last forty-two years as its principal, I have been a witness to its phenomenal growth from a mere handful of pupils and teachers in tight and squalid quarters on the lower east side of New York, to its present home in the solid granite, brick. and steel structure on the upper west side of our city. I have seen it grow from a school with fewer students than the present number of faculty members, from a few-and-twenty youngsters in their early teens to its present en- rollment of nearly four hundred young men be- tween thirteen and eighteen years of age. During that period of time I have seen over three hundred thousand young men land young women, if we include our two Brooklyn Yeshiva Ivniversity high schoolsl go forth from these sacred halls to continue their education, most of them in our own Yeshiva and its College, and some in other institu- tions of learning. What advice. what counsel, can I give you on the threshold of your young manhood? Perhaps I can put it briefly by saying that in your endeavors and strivings for the future, make sure that you will be preparing yourselves not so much for making a living, important as that may be, but for making a life. Try to separate the trees from the forest. Donlt heed slogans and do not follow blindly the leadership of the blind, Think for your- selves and try to figure out what will be best for you in the life you are planning to lead. - . '15 ' i ET I K. f 1 When you go to College, as everyone ofiyou will, try to enroll in those courses that will lead to the development of a full, a complete personality. Make your education as broad as possible. Do not load up on sciences because the present trend, what- ever the causes may be, is to worship at the feet of mathematics and sciences, Remember you will have to live in an environment in which you will come in contact with all kinds of people. You will have to learn to get along with them and to speak their language. A very wise man once said that the truly edu- cated man is one who has contact with many of the facets of one's environment. In planning your education give due place to mathematics and the sciences, for we are living in a highly scientific age, but do not neglect the humanities-the social studies, languages, English, music, art, and the others. Plan wisely and make the base of your cultural background as wide and broad as possible. Take care not to become only an efficient engin- eer, a capable physician, a well-trained teacher, an eloquent lawyer, a shrewd business man, a learned rabbi, but, with it all, a shallow and ignorant man. I wish you good luck in all your endeavors, and expect that you will so conduct yourselves in the future as to reflect honor, and glory, and happi- ness on your parents, and on all those who have had a hand in the shaping of the formative years of your lives. Shelley R. Saphire, Principal 1. E ?i ,