Belleville Township High School East - Yearbook (Belleville, IL)

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I firmly believe that if ' we do not meet the problem of environmental pollution with all the creativity and ingenuity of our age, then within a very shott time nothing else will matter for there will be nothing else to worry about. Mark O. Hatfield

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DBdCIrf ' 72 year--whether they concern a basketball game or an atomic test--and in this way, not only provide a memory book, but also en¬ courage change. Bringing about change means we have to show some of the not-so-great things about East and the world at large. The staff is convin¬ ced however, that a book that only reveals the RAH- RAH side of life makes no effort to insure that there will still be things to RAH- RAH about in the future. We want to put you--the reader--in the shoes of the debater who just finished a match with a perfect record and the student who has been suspended for too many tardies. We hope this book has a little of what all 3000 [approximately] of us have felt sometime throughout the year. No doubt some of what we have to say will infuriate some readers while another part of the book will be what somebody has wanted said for a long time. If you have an open mind, you ' re ready to digest Feedback ' 72 . ♦From John Keltner ' s Interpersonal Speech-Communication: Elements structures, 1970, Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc. page 97

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Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them. John Ruskin