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

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School starts on crisp autumn days with the foliage around us changing from green to flaming reds and yellows. We enter new grades and classes with teachers new to us. Brand-new notebooks and pencils, freshly waxed floors, and shining tro- phy cases all add up to make the freshness of that first-day-of-school smell. School clothes are new and sometimes in larger sizes than last year's, showing how much we've grown and changed. On the playing fields our attention is on our soccer teams. Halloween and Thanksgiving give us a chance to have parties and wear cos- tumes. Winter brings sparking ice and snow which offer the fun of sliding, skiing, skating and hockey; but also hazards. Sometimes the weather is so bad we have a snow day. Inside school we keep warm and enjoy basketball, wrestling, dances, and activ- ity nights. Giving flowers to each other on Valentine's Day gives us a chance to express our caring. When the days of chilling cold are over we gratefully discard our boots and heavy coats to bask in the warming sun of spring as we watch the buds unfold on the trees. Track practice begins inside school even before the snow is off the track. Soon there are baseball and softball games as well as track meets, and elementary students are seen on the playgrounds again. It is hard on beautiful days in May or June to think about studying for final tests or Regents exams, but they are part of school too, helping us to see how much we've learned and changed. With the end of the school year comes summer which means no school for many wonderful weeks, summer jobs, travel, leisure days at the beach, canoeing and camping in the wilderness. For June graduates, one of the biggest changes of their lives is before them - leaving home to start college or a first job. For the rest of us, it is time to go back to school and start a new round of changing seasons and activities. This yearly cycle is only the beginning of change in our lives. We will continue to grow and mature physically, mentally, emotionally, socially. The world around us will probably continue to change rapidly so it is important here in school to gain knowl- edge and skills, and to learn how to learn to enable us to deal with such changes without being overwhelmed by them in a future that may be quite different from the present.

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Every year the yearbook is dedicated to someone who has been instrumental in the lives that surround him; this year Mr. John F. LaDuc has been chosen for this honor. Mr. LaDuc has been teaching at Clifton-Fine Central School for 13 years. In that time, he has taught eleventh grade Regents Social Studies, Psychology, Sociology, and Criminal Law. He has coached Boys' Varsity Soccer for a great number of years along with our golf team. This year he has also taken on the duties of disciplinarian for our school. Besides his duties at school, he has been a Lewis County deputy for 16 years. Mr. LaDuc grew up in Harrisville, where he now lives with his wife and two sons. Because he grew up around here, he understands the area and its people. He is able to keep a friendly atmosphere in the classroom while still holding the respect of all. Above all, Mr. LaDuc is Mr. LaDuc, and none could or would ever want to change him. Few people hold the love of both colleagues and students, but fewer still hold the respect of them too. DEDICATION 2 Dedication

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