Dallas High School - Dragon Yearbook (Dallas, OR)

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THE GREAT ESCAPE A Light Side of Life These moments and emotions, captured by a camera and then forgotten . . . they were as much a part of the look of ’72 as classes, football games or dances. Laughter, tears and total irrelevance to the business of education sometimes scaled the cold wall of carefully cultivated apathy. M ADCAP . . . watching the world go by upside down, getting “a lift” with a little help from your friends or, The Friend, seeing the clocks race around or stop for days, IRONIC... No parking! No smoking! No littering! No loitering! - “no-ing” that defeats the knowing, dress code again, cafeteria record player volume battle, newest competitive sport cutting in the lunch line. SIGN OF THE TIMES . . . back to nature in styles and transportation, growing use of the bike rack, April blackout on the lunch line, break-ins in the canteen, biology room and recycling barn. THE LIGHTER SIDE . . . racing with yourself just because you want to, escaping in a game of nothing, 3:10 Friday scramble before vacation, eating lunch outside in the sun, doughnuts on Fridays, looking for funny shapes in the clouds. Total irrelevance ... it defined some of the most relevant attitudes towards life. 9