Divine Child High School - Clarion Yearbook (Dearborn, MI)

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Touch Reaches Out To Beauty Everyday Divine Child 1969. To some people Divine Child is an architectural feat of brick and stone, a labyrinth of halls and classrooms. To them it is simply the one story structure making the interection of Silvery Lane and Wilson, the building that can be vaguely seen through the trees of Levagood Park. But to other people Divine Child is something more. It is the acrid smell of a chemistry experiment, the sharp clang of a slammed locker, the dry scratch of a Bic Pen on a final exam, the billowing wave of shine on freshly buffed Poors. It is the thick smell of chalk dust, the Pickering rePection of early morning sunlight off the trophy case, the sharp contrast of white chalk on a black board. To these people the school is a veritable collage of smells and sounds and impressions that last long after the original sight has faded. Two views of D.C. . . . two opposing D.C. forces at work. . . . two types of D.C. people . . . THOSE WHO SEE: THOSE WHO TOUCH.

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To Sense and To Share The Moods of Others Is Really To Touch Life Divine Child students . . . Some never stop to think about their fellow students. They think of them only in terms of the mob of students that spills in from Silvery Lane every morning to fill the classroom seats in front and behind them. These people are so involved in their own meager cluster of friends that they never bother to think about anyone else. To the rest, however, classmates are more important. They see them as real people, each important in himself, people who laugh and shout and feel and touch and live every single moment as if it were the most special moment in the entire history of the world. They see other people this way because this is how they, themselves, are. These people aren’t necessarily the class leaders or joiners, they are simply the people who know what it is to feel for and with other people. These people live life more fully than THOSE WHO SEE. They are THOSE WHO TOUCH. 4