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

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D701 i 1 dministration Dr. Samuel Belkin, President, Yeshiva University Charles H. Bendheim, Chairman, Yeshiva University High Schools Board of Directors Rabbi Abraham N. Zuroff, Supervisor, Yeshiva Uni- versity High Schools Samuel Levine, Executive Director, Yeshiva University High Schools Sheldon Socol, Director, Student Finances Yeshiva University High School for Boys of Manhattan Rabbi David L. Weinbach, Administrator Yeshiva University High School for Boys of Brooklyn Rabbi Abraham N. Zuroff, Principal Yeshiva University High School for Girls of Manhattan Dr. Isaac Lewin, Principal, Jewish Studies Department Martin Lilker, Administrator Yeshiva University High School for Girls of Brooklyn Rabbi Meir Fulda, Administrator

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Dedication Thirty-six years ago, a young man began teaching freshmen in Y.U.H.S.M.B. Today, this same man maintains his respected position on our faculty, now teaching Latin, French, and Spanish with equal and unparalleled competence. These years have been re- warding ones for our Alma Mater and its most ex- perienced and venerated teacher, Dr. Sascha Charles. - A true scholar, Dr. Charles studied for many years in his native Vienna. The University of Vienna awarded him his ID. in 1924 and his Ph.D, in his- tory three years later. However, his teaching career in the United States, here and at Ramaz, has always involved languages. He also speaks Hebrew fluently, but has left that for the rabbis to teach, he had already demonstrated his versatility. The ever-loyal and popular Dr. Charles now de- votes all his teaching elforts to Y.U.H.S. He freely gives of his time in the mornings and helps the ad- ministrationg he is always available and eager to counsel his admiring students. For these manifestations of his shining character which has been an example to all of us, we are proud and honored to dedicate this year's issue of the El- chanite to . . . DR. SASCHA CHARLES Cordes Studentrum et Magistroum Vicit -He has conquered the hearts of students and teachers alike.

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ZS X ffl TRADITIO Tradition-to the rebellious and superficial, a stricture and a shackle, binding a people to archaic customs. But to the discerning, the basic threads in the tapestry of life. Tradition is the link between generations, the sum total of the follcways and cus- toms passed from father to son, the rituals of which no one knows the origins, and the methodologies and practices developed in earlier and different environments. But tradi- tions in a society are not merely group history, they are the common bonds within the community, the shared experiences which fuse individuals into a unit. Tradition acts not only in the larger sense, on nations and races, but even on smaller groups, such as schools. And so it is here at Y.U.H.S. Here we have the time proven traditions of our religion, the ancient customs still alive and vibrant. Here we have the distilled wisdom of generations of jewish thinkers, codified into the learning we absorb. And here we have ourselves as an entity, seniors of Yeshiva High School. For the last four years, we have not only received tradition, not only perpetuated tradition, but created it ourselves. We have received the fruits of 50 years of this school's existence, and have enlarged upon it. We have questioned, e ore , nd sought, and in the process, we have made and continued traditions for t ose followin tradi ' ns that have roots in time-misted past and ter ' als in orse future. et u e we have used our powers well. Leona mr Xx '