Cincinnati Country Day School - Archive Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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THE TIMES, THEY ARE A-CHANGING, SANG BOB DYLAN. AND WITH THESE WORDS HE EMREGED AS A PROPHET OF A GENERATION, A GENERATION PROFOUNDLY DIFFERENT FROM ITS PREDECESSORS IN ITS AIMS AND ITS VALUES-A GENERA- TION CAPABLE OF WOODSTOCK; A GENERATION OF WHICH WE ARE UNAVOIDABLY A PART. WHERE DID IT ALL START? IT FIRST BECAME VISIBLE WITH A MAN NAMED JACK KEROUAC, WHOSE NOVEL, ON THE ROAD, BECAME THE BIBLE OF THE BEAT GENERATION. A PRECURSOR AND LEADER OF THE EARLY BEATNIKS AND HIPS- TERS, KEROUAC DIED THIS YEAR AT THE AGE OF FORTY-SEVEN. IT IS TO HIS SPIRIT. WHICH STILL MOVES IN US, THAT WE DEDI- CATE THE 1969 ARCHIVE. 2 KEROUAC, LIKE DYLAN, WAS A SPOKESMAN FOR HIS MOVEMENT RATHER THAN A CREATOR OF ANY SPECIFIC AIOUTH-CULT. TO QUOTE NlNETEEN-YEARnOLD JAMES SIMON KUNEN: TO SAY THAT EYOUTH i5 WHAT'S HAPPENING IS ABSURD. IT'S ALWAYS BEEN HAPPENENG. EVERYONE IS NINIt KEEN, ONLY AT DIFFERENT TIMES. MAKE NO MISTAKE. WE ARE NEETHER MORE VIRTUOUS, PURE, OR EVEN HUMANE THAN OUR FATHERS. WE ARE JUST AS CAPABLE OF STUPIDITY AND VIOLENCE. KEROUAC'S CHARACTERS REFLECTED A GROWING UNv EASINESS IN THE UNITED STATES, AN AWARENESS THAT ALL WAS NOT WELL IN THE RICHEST LAND IN THE WORLD. THEIR FRANTIC FLlGHTS ACROSS COUNTRY TESTIFJED TO THEIR SENSE OF DISSATISFACTION. AND IT IS THIS GROWING STATE OF DISCONTENT WHICH TOUCHES..U5 NOW FROM WITHIN US AS FROM WITHOUT. SAYS WALLACE ROBERTS IN THE SATURDAY REVIEW: .THOSE WHO WERE BORN DURING ORm AFTER WORLD WAR 'H WERE BORN INTO A SET OF HISTORICAL CIRCUMSTANCES THAT ALLOWED THEM, NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE BUT TO RE- NOUNCE THE OLD DREAM AND TO GROPE FOR A NEW ONE. THE NEW DREAM WOULD PROVIDE SOCIETY WITH A RATION- ALIZING COHERENCE AND BRING MEANING TO INDIVIDUAL LIVES.

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The ARCHIVE

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CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL 6905 Given Road Cincinnati, Ohio