Brother Rice High School - Quest Yearbook (Bloomfield Hills, MI)

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Allan Adams Robert Aicher Dennis Anderson Thomas Meyer Michael Mayer President Vicepresident Paul Meyer Richard Tuyn Pemonoll Realization Secretary Treasurer

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URiviNG uNi'ry tmisriisiciuishes iNheReN'r TRAUEMARR or Lnsiique CLASS he somber tradition of gnidtuitiori, Heavy with the shades of lingering rememhrances, Drifts into a faction of anti-climax As fleeting reflections homharcl the vulneruhle mincl Of the Senior. He recalls with painful precision His awltwarcl initiation lnto an unimaginecl environment, Massively opposing in its impersonality. Through this wistfulness he envisions a return, A relapse into the comparative seclusion Cf what he has just anxiously left, But these dreams loom as only Himsy fabrication, And their pounding futility Goads him unwillingly into comforted melancholy. For he has effected a goal. And he issues forth crested in achievement, Yet still sensing joy as but mere consolation. seNioRs 173

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Stephen Anton Michael Badalament Dennis Barbour As Freshmen, they willfully released the iron clutch of their past, secluded world, and each capsuled himself in an air of stubborn individualism. But as they pro- gressed they realized the compound futility of developed separatism, and discovered together a new strength in unity as a class. Each year shown brilliantly with a promise that exposed to them possibilities previously considered un- attainable. The body was permeated with a continually accelerating optimism, slowing only at the impassable. Failure as well as achievement tallied up to fortify and pace the continuing process of maturing this strongly compacted unit, the Class of 1969. The class developed within itself a penetrating sense of fraternity, which fulfilled an integral reason for its unity. 'The Seniors wove strong ties that will survive long past graduation, relationships which profoundly in- fluenced personal and class philosophy. But now the smoothness with which the whole functioned must be adopted by the individual himself, for the binds of a formal class are spent. The Senior readies for his advance into a new sphere, an environ- ment in which he is intensely alone, dependent only on himself for success. He must slowly loosen his former ties and climb with growing conhdence toward his re- mote, self-appointed goal in life. Captzvated by the thought provoking aura of the sea, two seniors amble along a Long Island shore, far from concerns of a beckoning future. 175