Wayne High School - Sentry Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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I 12 Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts

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1 Hooked For Life Much is made of experience — the school of hard knocks. There are endless cliches about experi- ence being the best teacher, the proof being in the pudding, about not telling but showing. But still and all there is something to be said for our formal education. It gives us what it ' s called, a form, a pattern — hooks to hang our experience on. We ' ll never remember everything — the names and dates, the difference between a restrictive and non- restrictive clause, how to factor a binomial, the periodic table, how you say I learned a great deal. auf deutsch, the difference between acrylic and oil as a medium of artistic expression, what exactly a debit is, which saw to use with the grain, how to make meringue, how to sing or dance or act. But we will have some histori- cal sense; our language will take some form; sheer quantity will make some sense; we will retain some skills and be better able to learn new ones; we will have a sense of the beautiful and be able to express ourselves creatively. We will be educated, or rather educable, because high school is only the beginning — hence com- mencement. But it is an end too. There is a light at the end of the seemingly endless tunnel of courses and years, and if you look closely, you can see it. It ' s in the eyes of our seniors. 11

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We ' ve been a part of some- thing for so long. Individuality is now a part of a whole. To be an outsider is to lack purpose. Day to day we move from mass to mass; the only true driving force is that which undulates along the oceans of faces. In this way we see through windows — our windows. We see through the eyes of some- thing larger than ourselves, yet we are a part of it. The strong drag us along in their wakes. This is Wayne High School. It contains all the elations and pitfalls of high school exist- ence. It has the vitality of its people restlessly pacing its halls, waiting. It holds the potential for a new world, the potential of its anxious chil- dren. With a cadence thumping in our ears, we slide from room to room. All but oblivious to our surroundings, we gaze out the window in English; math is interesting during history. Chemical equations balance only during French. Again English. The transfor- mation of last year ' s founda- tion to this year ' s knowledge. We do fulfill the textbooks ' purposes as we crease their precious pages, a quarter a tear, finally deriving the mean- ing of the stanza, the direct object, the written word. Again Math. Again the transformation. Scrawling in a naked notebook. Can we cal- (Right to left) Mr Baker Richard Moore Claude KipnlsMime Rita Fish culate our beating hearts, our ashes to dust? Yes, we can. And we will. Mortality is cheaper than we think, it ' s only numbers that cost. Again Science. Once we have seen a pig ' s cerebellum, we achieve a kind of solace. Look for a soul, it ' s there in the formaldehyde. Not only has Science all the answers, but it has all the questions too. 13