Orme School - Hoofprints Yearbook (Mayer, AZ)

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A Desert Oasis The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematic- ally shirking any labor necessary to man, obtains but an ignoble and un- profitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful. Students should not play life, or study it merely, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Paraphrased from Walden by Henry David Thoreau The Orme School is vibrant proof of the wisdom of Thoreau’s words. A self- sufficient community of dedicated in- dividuals, faculty and students, com- mitted to the study of life in its to- tality. Rigid academic standards, an emphasis on the fine arts, complete utilization of the natural desert set- ting, and, most important, a successful experiment in harmonious co-existence. The Orme experience is a study in counterpoint. The individual melodies of each member blend into a harmon- ious whole, and the result is a sym- phonic masterpiece which could well serve as a model for all of society. i

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Let each man be justified in his own individuality