Fenster Ranch School - Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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GRADUATION The graduation exercises are over. I've been congratulated, patted on the back by my father, kissed by my mother, and thrown many admiring glances by the younger classmen, who are long- ing f6r'?he day when they will be the ones in the black robes. I've thrown away the notes from my speech and taken off the cap that I'd taken so much trouble to adjust just a few hours before. Now I feel the urge to be away from the people, to wander over the campus I've walked on during the past and see it once more and recall memories which soon will be lost with my youth. I stand on the field looking at the dormitories, thinking of many things. My thinking isn't centered around the school now. It is focused on the present and what is to come: my college life, my marriage, and my children. Next fall I will be walking through new portals that open a world to me that is different from anything I've seen or experienced. I am frightened a little and even surprised that .I can admit it to myself. I am exuberant with delight, though, because opportunity is mine. If only my past has been worthy of it. This is what frightens me. I feel a surge of power, for at last I am a part of the adult world. My opinion will now be accepted as an adult expression, not the fantasies of a child. I have looked forward to this day for at long last-I am a free, independent human being. Now I am ready to go back to the scene of this change.. The noise and frolic have meaning to me now. I must go back to my parents and wish my friends good-luck. I must go back and take my place in the world. D. Leslie

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NAS Time Goes Byn Con't. I looked out of the plane window. I saw Niagra Falls. I could feel the water on my face. I heard a loud voice say, nyou'11 be late for classesn. Then she poured more water on my face. Here I was 'back again, being rudely awakened by my dormmother, and on my way to classes.

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Last Will and Testament I, Arlyne Moskowitz, leave NW Chemistry Book to anyone who plans to have a bonfire, but watch out for the chemical reaction. Tucson to the Indians One mad happy Guernsey cow to Richard Schaub To Don lhKnight - a membership card to Bugs Bunny's fanclub To Mr. Quick - Future hopes for a wet-back' To Mrs. Fenster - all my broken pointed stenc- graphy pencils. Fifty cents to Henry Steinman And as for Fenster-I leave! I, Rowena Wallace leave LW Positive Values in life to Fenster Ranch School I leave the pins in the ceiling where they belong. I leave my ugood time stuffn to those who like good times. Little pieces of adobe that fall into my bed to anyone who sleeps here next year. And fifty cents to Henry Steinman To Lindy, I leave something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue. I, Chris Swenson, leave My third and fourth helpings to Gorky. A year's supply of cheese and sugar to Diane Leslie A bottle of red ink to Chez Harding I won't bother to leave binoculars to Milton in hopes that he won't be here next year. 6,297 corrected corrections to Mr. Williams And fifty cents to Henry Steinman I, Milton Burr, leave The food to the dogs My pills to Mrs. lhller My corrections on corrections on corrections on. corrections to Mr. Williams My grades to David Schroder my sports equipment to Mike Liss My troubles to Marilyn Grossman