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

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Dear Graduates, From the vantage-point of forty-eight years of continuous relationship with Yeshiva University and its high schools, nearly all of which have been spent in an administrative and directive capacity. I have been a witness of the phenomenal growth of the original high school lTalmudical Academy, now Yeshiva University High School for Boys, Manhattanl, 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 half as many students as we now have faculty members, from a few-and-twenty youngsters in their early teens to its present enroll- ment of nearly six hundred young men between thirteen and eighteen years of age. During that period of time I have seen over four thousand young men land young women, if we include our Brooklyn and Manhattan Yeshiva University high schoolsl go forth from Yeshiva's sacred halls to continue their education, most of them in our own Yeshiva and its colleges, and some in other institutions of learning. What advice, what counsel can I give you on the threshold of 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. Don't heed to slogans. and do not follow blindly the leadership of the blind. Think for yourselves and try to figure out what will be best for you in the life you are planning to lead. When you go to college, as nearly everyone of you 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, whatever the causes may be, is to worship at the feet of mathematics and the 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 educated man is one who has contact with ftouchesl many of the facets of one's environment. In planning your educa- tion 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. 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 happiness on your parents, and on all those who have had a hand in the shaping of the formative years of your lives. GRADUATION

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MESSAGES Dear Graduates, in the occa- Graduation 1963! What thoughts arise on contemplating these vital events life of a student! In my association with Yeshiva, there have been many such sions, yet each one is a new experience, with new feelings, new thoughts. You are unique in that all of your four years of schooling have been spent here during the so-called space age. In that time you have joined in cheering man's successes in the realm of the unknown. You have also been disappointed at times, by his failures. While this age of space and the exploration of the unknown have generated excitement and unprecedented interest on your part, it is imperative that you recognize the responsibility this new era imposes upon you. You must not allow the scientific purposes of these thrusts to become merely tools in our international political wars. You must not think that because man has been able to do so much, he has become his own master. You must not allow your essential purpose in life to be deterred by these headline-making events. We live now in a world divided-divided geometrically into two opposite ideological camps, with intense, almost mortal, strife between them, and engulfing all nations, great and small, threatening us with fatal annihilation. We Jews, in particular, are in the very midst of this struggle, and, unfortun- ately, we find ourselves in both camps. Diaspora saw to that. Because we are scat- tered all over the world, in all lands, we are ever engaged in fight- brother against brother. The Jew, at best, has found from age-long experience that, even in peace, he can survive only in a democratic world where liberty, freedom, and tolerance are the rule. We of the present generation have failed to make the world usafe for democracy. It must, therefore, be your duty and aim, in the years ahead, to remember all that you have learned here, you must carry these teachings into the new world you are about to explore. Whether or not you enter the Rabbinate in later life, you must carry from this institution of Torah, a message of faith to all men. It is your future, but you rriust never lose sight of your responsibilities. You have performed well and we are very proud of your achievement. We hope that you will re-visit your Alma Mater as often as possible. WE. G Registrar