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THE 1981 INDIAN DEDICATED TO THE CLASS OF 1981
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when we were trying to decide to whom to dedicate this yearbook, there were many ideas and suggestions, but when it came down to the final decision, we could not think of anyone or anything more important to us than you, the class of 1981. Best wishes in the future; aim high and achieve, but also live and love. The Yearbook staff AL«3 7 1986 I remember the fall of 1 977, when I was assigned two Spanish classes made up exclusively of members of the class of 1 981 . I recall commenting at the time that this was going to be a very special class. I was wrong. The class of 1981 is not a special class ... it is an extraordinary class and you, the members of the class of ' 81 are a unique group of young people. You passed your freshman year getting to know each other. As sophomores you began to show the special quality of the class of ' 81 : your eagerness to laugh, your ability to like each other and to be happy with each other. By your junior year you were called upon to live your final two years at Arlington High School in an atmosphere difficult to describe — with the dust, the mess, the noise and escuse me, it seems that my locker as well as my entire homeroom has disappeared. We could all write a book on a high schoo l being built around us, couldn ' t wef Remember the plywood staircase and luncheon in the PIT? But not once in the past two years of hard times and tightening of rules do I ever remember a grumble. You replaced complaining with humor, inconvenience with flexibility, and discouragement with a demonstration of cooperation never before seen in our school. And all the while accomplishing all that you did academically, in art, drama, athletics, in all your endeavors. All to often the only publicity that the community hears about its high school students is negative. This makes me angry because in being with you for four years I have seen such goodness in you that I am frustrated in my inability to communicate this to others. However, as you leave us, and hopefully take a part of us with you, please know that in your years with us you have showered us with sunshine. I will miss this specialness — you the class of ' 81 . In dedicating your yearbook to you, I want to thank you for giving me the chance to know you and to share a bit of yourselves with me and I with you. But most of all, thanks for the chance to love you all. Happiness always! Nanci Ortwein EXECI MONUMENTUM AERE PERENNIUS I HAVE BUILT A MONUMENT MORE LASTING THAN BRONZE The Roman poet, Horace, wrote these words about his ability and the immortality of his writings. The Class of ' 81 has a special talent which will also be remembered. It reads; EXIGISTIS MONUMENTUM LAPIDE PERENNIUS YOU HAVE BUILT A MONUMENT MORE LASTING THAN STONE Throughout the chaos and dust and noise and confusion in stone of renovations, you have grown and advanced and studied and helped each other and us, the teachers, your sharers in learning and living here at AHS. We have been through much together. Take with you the lesson we have learned together; that with work and good will and patience and understanding and humor, good can be achieved in difficult times. You have given yourselves, and gifted us with a monument — the memory of the Class of ' 81 — more lasting, more enriching, far more important than the stones of a building. Thanks and farewell, Ralph McElearny 2
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