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

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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

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GRADUATES The gifted painter is able to balance and blend contrasting elements into a mean- ingful work of art. Each element of the masterpiece is in delicate equilibrium with the other components with which it is associated. Thus has the brush of the Master united eighty-eight discrete persons into a great work of art-the class of '63. To- gether we are something more than the sum of our parts. Individually we are ....