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

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GRADUATION YESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL AMSTERDAM AVENUE AND 186:11 STREET NEW YORK. N.Y. 10035 Dear Graduates, The graduation exercises, which will take place in June, will mark the official termination of your high school course of studies. As a class, you have distinguished yourselves scholastically in local, state, and national competition, and it is our hope that you will continue to be a source of pride to our institution. I should like to think that you are now leaving these hallowed halls of learning as Torah true young men, instilled with religious, ethical, and moral principles ready to carry on our Torah way of life wherever you have chosen to continue your college education. At Yeshiva University High School, we have given you a strong foundation on which to build your educational future, and look upon you as our next generation of Rabbis, teachers, and religious and communal leaders. May you all continue to be a source of pride and joy to your parents and to your Alma Mater. Sincerely yours, fl m Xi 'jj A 7fQf'f M if -154 ff Rabbi David L. weinbach Administrator

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-s Mil li-.ar w , i t s tt s 4 f v r 'T -T X , Q ', . y lid? 'I V at f is , r ' ef lt Q ri get-.Q .i . gp . y - .V , r r Q gi K X, xg r, nf 4 Q i Y S KQ X Y i t 1 .. T6 X 'D F i- Q O .J , 9s 'fx' f fg-t t f N. 5 t c N , ' , f A ' 57 C -- - . ., Qlfxii ax, ff a ' A fx Q-wg-w ..' Now we stand before yet another closed door. The gates of higher education are about to open, and we feel somewhat hesitant, unsure, even afraid. The portals of adult life loom before us, soon to reveal our destinies. That which lies beyond will soon be reality, and we fervently hope that we are prepared for this reality. We also stand at the threshold of a new age of mankind's achievement and growth. This door to advancement, to which knowledge is the key, pre- sents a formidable challenge. Whether mankind is going to benefit or perish because of its opening will soon become apparent. We must see that the door to knowledge, which is in the process of being opened, is opened carefully and with discretion. The door to the understanding of others, on the other hand, is for us to throw open. For too many years it has stood shut and locked, and men have suffered because of their reluctance to open it. Beyond this gate lies the path to ultimate peace. If it remains barred, then the opening of the door to human achievement will become meaningless. Perhaps the most mysterious portal of all is the door to one's self. As the shallow conformity of his high school years gives way to adult maturity, a young man must discover the unknown within him- self. It will take more than self-evaluation for us to open this door, it will take sincerity and will. Many have failed to achieve this self-discovery, and their lives have lacked purpose and meaning. As each day passes, we grow more conscious of the unknown that is soon to become known. We approach the new, fascinating gates to the future. New challenges, joys, hopes, and fears will be re- vealed with their opening. This is also the time for the closing of doors. Our graduation is a finite action. It is the symbol of an end. We have closed the door to our high school years. No matter how much we may desire to leave it ajar, the force of new challenges and responsibil- ities slams it shut. The echo of our footsteps in the familiar corridors of school can never sound the same. Only in fond memories can we recall these days of development and fraternity. Many of us will be forced to close the door on old friendships. Amidst all our promises to remem- ber and keep in touch, we can already sense the move- ment of the slowly closing door. Miles, interests, and ideals will separate us, and we will spread the curtains of new friendships. It is on this most awesome threshold of life that we must ask ourselves some very basic questions to determine whether our four high school years have really prepared us to open the new doors confront- ing us. Have our virtues been strengthened in these four years? Have our morals been reinforced? Has our sense of values been molded to stress truth and up- rightness? Our answers to these questions should be affirmative, since our teachers, the guardians of the classroom portals, have sincerely endeavored to in- still in us high ideals to live by. And these ideals, ideals taught by the Torah, the Jewish religion, and the great personalities of past and present genera- tions, can help us to overcome the trials we shall encounter in the time to come. As we stand on the threshold of the future, we realize that there is one door which, if we have de- veloped any sense of true values, we can never allow to be closed. This is the door to our spiritual heritage. It is a door which others have for centuries attempted to shut, and great shame would be placed upon us and our generation if we were to permit such glory and wisdom to be locked forever from the future. This portal is the guardian of our faith, it has been our shelter in past years of persecution. Our goal must be to see that the door to Torah be eternally open. The door to the future looms before us. Let us open it wide and walk through it proudly into the greatest chamber in the palace of life, which in itself serves as a mere foyer to the grand ballroom of the next world. Let us strengthen our virtues and morals, our ties with man and G-d. Let us work towards the goal of universal and eternal brotherhood and peace, guided by the Torah and the living precepts of religious Judaism,

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