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

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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 '

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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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