Apponequet High School - Polarion Yearbook (Lakeville, MA)

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riOT in THE CLAMOUR OF THE CROWDED STREET, MOT in THE SHOUTS AHD PLAUDITS OF THE THROnO, BUT in OURSELVES, ARE TRIUMPH AHD DEFEAT. — HEnRY WADSWORTH LOnGFELLOW— OURSELVES

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OniY THROUGH UHITY WITH OTHERS CAH OHE DISCOVER HIMSELF ' —AHOHYMOUS Friends are funny things. They come in all shapes, sizes, forms. A ted- dy bear can be a friend. So can a favorite comer. Human beings. Yeah, they can be friends too. They ' re tricky though. They talk too much. I think that ' s the problem. Your teddy has only one mind, one opinion — yours. People, on the other hand, have their own opinions, and they ' re not afraid to voice them. You can ' t just nod their heads back and forth, expecting glassy eyed agreement. Human friends can hurt you with the truth, teddy can ' t — he knows no truth other than yours. But what really makes human friends unique is that with the same words that hurt you, a friend can heal you. The same person, the same words. 1 guess that ' s what makes friends so funny. And so special.

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We’ve finally made it. After twelve years of endless classes and moun- tains of homework were finally free to go out into the real world. But just what kind of world is it? 1987 saw its share of the political power plays, sports triumphs and entertainment block busters that mark every year, but there was something else, something stronger, that made this time special. This has been a time of social awakening, a time when the musicians of the world formed Live Aid to help the starving people of Africa, when thousands of West Germans formed a human chain to protest nuclear weapons, and the first time in nearly a decade that the world ' s two super powers met to improve relations. Ironically, this type of social activism hasn ' t been as widewpread in America since the 1960 ' s, the decade in which we were born. Though there will probably never be a time as painful or as profound as the Sixties, its interesting to see Just how much of what was old is new again . . . . . . THEM ... ... MOW . . . . . . Meil Armstrong ' s one small step on the moon sent America into the forefront of technology and put be- hind the ghosts of the Gemini trad- gedy ... ... the Space Shuttle series keeps making leaps in space technology that will hopefully overcome its trad- gedy and continue to fly high . . . ... it was Hippies ... ... it ' s Yuppies . . . . . . Viet Mam brought home the hor- rors of war . . . situations in [Nicaragua and El Salvador threaten to do the same . . . . . the Boston Celtics were the sports dynasty of the Decade, win- ning seven world championships the Boston Celtics are one of the most dominant teams in profession- al sports, . . . participating in four world championships, winning three . . . Martin Luther King marched to attain black equality in America Bishop Desmond Tutu is trying to repeat King ' s success in his native South Africa . . . . . . the 1967 Red Sox were that year ' s dream team, going to the World Series, only to lose the 1987 Red Sox led the Ameri- can League since May but still lost in the World Series . . . . . . Bob Dylan described his genera- tion through his music ... ... Bruce Springsteen continues Dy- lan ' s quest for social conscience . . . Many things have changed in twenty years. The Brady kids have become the Cosby kids and Joe Mamath has become Jim McMahon, but when one really takes a close look, they realize that people never change, only the names do. Let ' s Just hope that, twenty years from now, we can still see progress that existed in the Sixties and still exists today. i