Edison High School - Torch Yearbook (Tulsa, OK)

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2 TIMES, ATTITUDES CHA GE Times have changed and it's more than you've come a long way baby. Today's Edison students may wear the '50's fash- ions or be caught cruising Peoria, but the main difference lies in their attitude. This is the invisible line dividing then from now. Student's minds are being opened to view new ideals and concepts. They may be seen showing affection freely to their honey, studying alone in the courtyard or catching a smoke between classes, which points out that students no longer want to do things to be crowd-pleasers, but to be self-pleasers. Edison high schoolers be- came experimenters and explorers in de- veloping individual values to such con- troversial subjects as sex, marijuana, drugs and religion. Whether it be the morals of society, parents, individuals or the church, they had to decide for themselves what works best for them and to apply those values to make them fit. The difference between then and now is the difference be- tween yours and mine. Opening o 7

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1. Before school Officer Robert Crow talks with junior Dave Smith in the smokehole. 2. Many students wander through the halls absorbed in each other. 3. A more Common sight around school, many students have begun to include this book in their studies. 4. During lunch, juniors Duana Kitch and Jimmy Letterman enjoy the quietness of the coutryard. 60 Opening

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1 STUDB TS TA EBREA School requires 7 hours out of 24 hours a day. What does an Edison student do within this time span? Some have spent their 7 hours in school figuring how to get out for seven hours. The art of skipping out was a delicate process if one wished to be successful. Students used any resource available such as forged passes, notes from home and misplaced absentee slips. Remember the day Mary went to the bathroom all hour and John took a long break over a short lunch hour? Though new faces attempted new schemes to break out, nothing had changed. Still the wrath of Mr. Miller hung over our heads, as we mumbled how the car broke down . . . For most students, they would have to wait till their senior year before they could officially label themselves free.,' 8 0 Opening