Beachwood High School - Oculus Yearbook (Beachwood, OH)

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ant Senior English And then in the third quarter, Jim Brown il We MUST set up a budget, dear. One more word against Whitman. . . EUNICE BERKO, B,A.; Western DAVID OVERBEY, B.A., M.A.; Reserve U.; Comm, Arts; Jr. Doctoral Work, Tulane U.; High Student Council Advisor. Wayne State U., Connecticut U.; Communicative Arts,

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Communicative Arts and Humanities MARY FORDING, B.A., M.A.; Western Reserve U.; John Hay Fellows Study, U. or Oregon; Humanities, Sr, English. Team teaching. ROBERT DOBER, B.A., M.A.; John Carroll U.; Humanities, Sr. English; Student Council Humanities' students and teachers assemble for a panel discussion. Nothing can be funnier, properly considered, than the fact that one's own father is a pygmy if he stands far enough off. Perspective really is the comic element in things, --G. K, Chesterton Perspective is an amazing thing; an almost often thing. It makes the butterfly larger than the eagle, the mouse weightier than the hippopotamus, my hand big enough to hide entirely the heavenly spendors of Mighty Orion, and my thumbnail greater than the moon. But we have ceased to wonder at it-- it's so commonplace! Psychological perspective, far-sightedness --may we callit wisdom. Perhaps it should do the same thing that visual perspective does: make things awesome, make them wonderful, and, when properly considered, '' make them funny. Perhaps this is man's greatest dignity: not to take the world too seriously, and to be cognizant that, in some ways, he is greater than the universe. Seek perspective. Seek wisdom. Youth is able to do so. Wisdom says in the BOOK OF PROVERBS: Love me, and thou shalt earn my love; wait early at my doors, and thou shalt gain access to me. Robert Dober 16

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Locke, Kant, Nietche Sartre, Chesterton CARL SLATER, B.S., M.A.; JOHN CULLEN, Western Re- Denison U., Ohio U.; Humani- serve U., B.A., M.A.; U. of ties, Am. Govt., Economics, S. Cal., M.A.; Johns Hopkins U., M.A.; Humanities, Am, Govt. History, English Admiral Mercer, uncomfortably land-locked, instructs the seniors in American Government. A panel of humanities teachers encourages the students to reason and analyze. 18