[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 163 (Friday, October 20, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1997]
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    TRIBUTE TO GLORY GRADS, JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1935

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                        HON. CHARLES E. SCHUMER

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, October 20, 1995

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to one of the 
most distinguished groups of students ever to attend New York City high 
schools. They are members of the Class of 1935 of James Madison High 
School in Brooklyn who are coming from all parts of this land to mark 
the 60th anniversary of their commencement. The celebration will take 
place at the Stanley Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center on November 12. 
The members of the class were named the ``Glory Grads'' by their 
teachers because of their outstanding achievements. The school was 
named after the fourth President of the United States, whose words are 
carved in stone above the entrance: ``Education is the true foundation 
for civil liberty.''
  The Glory Grads attained the highest scholastic average in New York 
State that year and fielded a football team that won the city 
championship.'' You are the cream and you will rise to the top,'' their 
grad advisor told them at graduation and they have fulfilled that 
prediction in a spectacular manner. Over the many years, they have 
achieved honors and national distinctions in the fields of medicine and 
surgery, engineering, mathematics, journalism, business and the arts. 
They were children of the Depression, who came mostly from poor 
families and had to struggle to get on the first rung of the ladder of 
achievement. But, they were inspired by family tradition to study and 
work hard and, therefore, to go on to self-made success.
  These Glory Grads never forgot the opportunities they were given by 
the country to which their parents came as immigrants. They have paid 
their dues many times over. The great majority of the male class 
members served in World War II. They then made their way up in 
professional and business careers, became leaders in community and 
civic organizations and have been unusually generous in their 
philanthropies.
  I wish to extend special congratulations and felicitations to the 
chairman of the reunion committee, Stanley H. Kaplan, a friend of long 
standing and founder of the international chain of test-prep centers 
that bears his name. I congratulate, too, the members of the reunion 
committee, including Marty Glickman, famed sportscaster and hero of the 
Madison gridiron and track oval; Martin Abramson, prize-winning author 
and war correspondent; businessmen Winn Heimer and Sidney Thomashower; 
and travel consultant Anita Forin Fine.
  I salute ``Mr. Basketball Coach,'' Jammy Moskowitz, a spry 92, who 
will be making the trip from Florida to New York to attend the reunion. 
I also salute Principal Wendy Karp and Director of Alumni Relations 
Sonya Lerner, without whose cooperation, this ``return to James 
Madison'' would not have been as successful.
  I salute the Glory Grads. May they have many years of good health, 
happiness, and continued friendship.

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