Aragon High School - El Tesoro Yearbook (San Mateo, CA)

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You asked for memories from high school. Unfortunately, memories are sometimes trite and sometimes hard to enjoy for anyone except those persons who experienced them. You asked how Aragon helped me. I would say that I might not have made it through college and might not have advanced as far in the military and civilian business Worlds if I didn't have the experience of having the teachers of Aragon for my high school education. The teachers there can relate to students a wealth of experience far beyond the minimum curric- ulum requirements. If there were one thing that I would say to high school students today, it would be that they should talk to their teachers. Teachers have a wealth of information to give to those who have the interest. - -John F. Coltart john Coltart Bryan King I I Mr. Rittenour's timeless Good morning, I your morning announcements . . . Mr. Bell's exercises in pantomime . . . Early morning Practice in verbosity at Executive Board meet- I ings . . . Yes, my memories of Aragon are vivid and my experiences were, on the whole, pleasurable. But I cannot honestly impute great I significance to my four years at the Don-dom. I think that our personalities are largely de- termined by our earlier years and our world views by our later ones. Aragon was to me as a pleasant pause in a journey: one that offered some trees to scale and some to fall from--a last resting place before We move out to find-or make-our place in the World. I As Robert Frost Wrote: The Woods are lovely dark and deep, But I have promises to keep And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. - - Bryan King 1963 1971 .,,. i'ti1i f fif . I

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If I may use the vernacular of the day, Iwould say that high school for me was a very straight experience. The highlights of the year were always the evening ball games and dances like the Grid Classic or Senior Ball. We went to class most always and listened to KYA at one hundred decibels whenever we could. Our daily routine was occasionally spiced by a class prank. I must confess however that my time was used more to prepare for college than to live and enjoy each moment. I say that somewhat regret- tably since I am sure that drinking beer with my buddies in the bushes would have been more fun than studying evenings. In fact, as a senior, I began to fear that I had thrown the four most carefree years of my life into the library and had shut the door on better things. And yet I have no real regrets. I have found since then that almost no time was ever wasted studying. I am frustrated now by being unable to learn fast enough to keep pace with my inter- ests. I appreciate Aragon now as a place where Iwas able to learn, for one reason or another, at a time when Iwas not smart enough to see myself the value of my own education. I hope that students today are taking advantage of the new scheduling to explore and develop their talents and interests. I fear however that they are revelling in newly found freedom, as I once longed to do, but fortuitously never did. - - Bruce Allen . 965W I remember once trying to describe the phenom- enon of American High School, and especially Aragon High School, to a group of Turkish stu- dents while waiting for a ferry to Rhodes from the Turkish mainland. After a bit of reflexion, I remarked that High School was for us a sort of market place of ideas and center for development in a miniature model of our particular civic culture. We readily assume roles, work with others, and even come to have an appreciation of literature and scholastical material in High Schoolg but the main function of our public high schools seems to be the development of a struc- ture within which the many segments of our society can meet, interact, compete, develop, and enjoy each other. I remember High School as four years of in- volved residence at an institution which served as a center for encounter of different elements, a sometimes stage or market place where ideas were traded and roles acted out in a structural model of our society. Aragon was a place to make friends, experience a certain amount of civic oriented life, gain an introduction to the world of learning, and develop as a person be- fore being booted out into the world to find a place in society and to begin a more specialised role. --Randy Linehan