Brandywine Heights High School - Tracer Yearbook (Topton, PA)

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Mr. Perich. G. Wetler, R. Kunkel: A Friendly game of chess after school. S. Bankos: Calls an absent friend. B. Flannery, M. Barley: Bart helps MariKTi with captions for Yearbook.

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Introduction In the course of our lives we come into contact with many people, but with only a few of these people do we form that special, mutual bond known as friendship. Friendship is an important part of our lives. Sydn ey Smith comes close to conveying the great importance of friendship in his poem Of Friends . He said, Life is fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. The happiness of friendship comes from knowing that we have someone with whom to share our joy or misery; someone we can confide in and trust. Many people take the happiness of friendship for granted. They never realize the genuine value of friendship until by some mistake or tragedy, that friend- ship is lost, perhaps never to be found again. These people who let friendship slip away like grains of sand through their fingers are mere empty shells. They have no feeling but sorrow. Their sorrow comes from the realization that they have lost the one thing they cannot do without and that is true friendship. Many true friendships are found during our school years. It is these frierui- ships, lasting or temporary, which help us through school. For with each friend- ship, we grow in feeling, just as we grow in knowledge through books. Friend- ship in school also gives comfort and security Iffe ' cause we know that other people are experiencing the same things we are experiencing. Also, because the lar :e number of new students has caused some overcrowding, school friend- ships are almost a necessity. They are the only means of maintaining harmony in a small school with wall to wall bodies. It is because of the importance of friendship in school and life in general, that the ' 74 Tracer staff has chosen friendship as the theme of the book.

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w- i Mrs. Allmendinger. Miss Mountz. Mrs. Franz: Teachers enjoy a birthday celebration (luring their short lunch period. Senior Class Dedicates Book To Friendship The senior class has had many friends who have helped them in some way throughout their years in school. These people have given of themselves and filled a special need. It would be impos- sible to name all of them without omitting someone. It is for this reason, the senior class has chosen to dedicate the book to friendship. % -w S. Brown. B. Rauenzahn: Just a friendly chat between i W. Trexler, D. Oswald: Just a friendly game of keep-away. 5 Dedication