Freeport High School - Polaris Yearbook (Freeport, IL)

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PFD! ATION Though opinions diTTer, iT has oTTen been noTed ThaT The mosT imporTanT invenTion recorded in The annals oT hisTory was ThaT of The wheel. YeT The man whose ingenuiTy conTrived This crude beginning, The TirsT sTep in The deparTure from The STone Age. em- ployed no Tools oTher Than his own brain and hands. AlThough we, The youTh oT Today, compeTe in This push-buTTon era Through complex machines, roclceTs, and saTelliTes, iT can sTill be said ThaT The world is aT our TingerTips, ThaT our TuTure lies in our hands. In The pasT Tew years oT our advancing world we, The 1959 Polaris sTaTT, have viewed The hands oT The FHS sTudenTs as They assembled Term papers, experimenTed in chemisTry, piTched baseballs, cheered The PreTzel Teams onward, played musical in- sTrumenTs, applied grease painT To Tellow sTudenTs, decoraTed Tor school dances, and aT lasf grasped Those Treasured diplomas. The hands oT oThers, Through guidance, have assisTed us Through opporTuniTies which have broughT us along The road Trom childhood Towards maTuriTy. Now They are inTrusTing our TuTure To us as we begin our liTe as adulTs. Though perhaps some will see This bool: as depicTing iusT The Tun in liTe, oThers will realize ThaT now The ToundaTion Tor achievemenT has been Tormed The TuTure lies in our hands.

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