Clifton Fine Central High School - Mountain Echo Yearbook (Star Lake, NY)

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IT'S ABOUT TIME!! We have chosen the subject of time as the theme for our yearbook this year so you will notice it appearing frequently throughout the book. We feel this subject is appropriate because a yearbook signifies another year- gone-by full of memories of both good times and bad; the fun shared by all of us; and the friendships we have made that will last a lifetime. Time is very mysterious to most of us and no one can say exactly what it is—only that it passes on and takes a little of each of us along the way. We put so much of our valuable time into school and the many activities that our school has to offer. When we finally reach graduation we have already spent eighteen years of our lives. In years to come, we will look back upon our high school years and see what good years they really were— some of the best of our lives! We will always have our yearbooks for memories. j4s time goes on and we find ourselves forgetting some of our former friends and the great times that we had, we will be able to look through our old yearbooks and re- member. We have something to be proud of in our achievements we have made in school and the time we have put into them. The formation of a yearbook is one achievement that all of us will look back upon as time well spent. Man, throughout time, has had to deal with its passage. The time of day, the new moon, the sky, the seasons changing, all played an important role in developing primitive life. As man recognized the need to record history and communicate with one another, he de- veloped a language that used certain symbols to represent those needs. American Indians used pictures to represent many of the things that happened in their every-day lives. Samples of their picture works have been found in many different places from the tepees, caves, and houses they lived in, to ordinary poles and posts around their villages. A very good example of these pictures is the certain way the Indians had of symbolizing the passing of time. We used many of the same signs and symbols for our cover which was designed by Lisa Pryce. Since time is the theme of our yearbook this year, Lisa felt it fitting to use the part of our own heritage that we have in the Indians' writings for our cover design. The pictures appearing on the cover of the yearbook are the symbols the Indians in our area used to represent each month. The first is the January moon which is re- presented by the blowing snow. The February moon is re- presented by a starving wolf. March, April, and May are moons that show the coming of Summer with the green- grass moon, the planting moon, and the wild-rose moon. June and July represent Summer with the thunder and green-corn moons. September, October, and November each represent Fall in their own way with the harvest moon, the falling leaf moon, and the hunting moon. We finish up with the long-night moon of December. The Indians gave many things symbols to represent them and time is only one small aspect of the primitive language but it is an important part of our heritage that we take pride in using as a theme for our yearbook. 2 Theme