Atlantic High School - Javelin Yearbook (Atlantic, IA)

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V- as 5 A 'M-.M While concern over ecology and our physical World grows, our social environment formed by people and events also needs to receive attention. ln school we find a laboratory for our relationships with others, a testing ground for experiences which will be the foundations for our ideals in life. Here, now, as in every other location or time in the future, we, the individuals, have the choices to make, the actions to take, the questions to answer. 'What should We do about our social environment? How will we extend ourselves to other people?

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Much concern over the environment was evident this year with emphasis placed on ecology, Concern was shown in the paper drive as students gathered as much newspaper as they could get their hands on and pooled it for recycling. The school's science club, along with clubs from other area schools, constructed an air sampler and collected information concerning the impurities in our air. Even the masses of students showed concern. for the environment by riding bicycles, walking, or riding motorcycles to school rather than driving the number one polluter, their cars. Earth Day was not only successful in the sense that fewer people drove cars, but it also made many realize that it should be more than just a one day affair. Today's youth is REACHING OUT, trying to grasp answers to questions of the future. Not just questions related to ecology, but questions concerning the social and political structures of our society. With the eighteen year-old vote and the nineteen year-old majority rights, youth has the power to help change the outdated laws and old-fashioned traditions of an earlier day. The real question might be-can the youth of today cope with the power that's been given them and the responsibility which accompanies it?