Polytechnic High School - Parrot Yearbook (Fort Worth, TX)

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AT 3:40 student ' s minds turn to their individual interests as they leave school after another day of textbooks and tests. For me . . . the school year of 1968-69 was a year of involvement in which numerous events, acquaint- ances, and experiences filled my life with memories. In this day of the establishment and the generation gap, ' through mass communications I have been made aware of the happenings of the world and thusly I became concerned. Political campaigns and conventions with their new third party faction, contemporary movies such as 2001 : a space odyssey, new advancements in our space race, and the new means of registration by our own infallible IBM machine with its intricate cogs and wheels outlined this school year as it turned its cycle. Each school day began as I pulled into the student parking lot on my wheels and raced to reach homeroom by 8:40. From that moment on for seven hours my mind was in constant revolution as I sought to uncover the beauty in Shakespeare ' s sonnet cycles, the number of ions in a particular atom, or the circumference of a circle. These many hours of preparation formed the hub of my life. Each field of study in which I endeavored reached as a spoke into the future, outlining the many available paths for me to follow as I searched for my identity and niche in the outer rim of today ' s society. STUDENTS arrive at school by car, motorcycles, and some on foot, seeking knowledge and guidance to prepare themselves for the future.

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Poly Reflects Its Morrows You, all 1,365 of you, have used the facilities you see represented on this page. Those of you who are Juniors first wheeled into the student parking lot in September. And you Seniors were old hands at making it from the study hall in cottage 33 to a third floor class before the final bell. And you Exes, yes, you 1969 graduates have even more memories to recall of Poly ' s campus. You were here before the school was given its two-year revamping. You remember the chaos of the old locker room with its jammed baskets and benches. Never to be forgotten are the looks on the faces of the Homecoming visitors as they entered the newly repainted auditorium. After 30 years the pep rallies and assemblies were brightened as the faded walls gave way to the room ' s new face lifting. As one again looks at the Parrot turning on the weather vane, he is reminded that Poly is a school of warm traditions softening, yet not slowing the many turns of rapidly develop- ing educational trends.

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NATURE ' S sereneness enhances the hearts of the young, relating the true beauty of life and its riches. An epk drtmia ot cKfvvnlur orwi cnqpiotYmon 2001: q space odyssey REFERRED to by Time Magazine as the closest equivalent possible to any psychedelic experience this side of hal- lucinogens, ' 2001: a space odyssey was one of the most con- troversial pictures of the year.