Divine Redeemer Academy - Pinetum Yearbook (Elizabeth, PA)

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Salutatorian Perhaps it was four years or four days or four centuries ago when twenty-seven fresh- men stumbled through a door and became Di- vine Redeemer Academy. At any rate, there immediately followed periods of violence, apa- thy, love, confusion, concern, conflict and boredom. We laughed and cried and rebelled and yawned as a class in apprehension of the day when we would graduate-the class of 1968. Strangely enough as graduation grew near we began to realize that the greatest day in the life of our class was going to mark its death. Graduation-a major goal-marks Susan Memaut only the beginning of the individual and twelve years of education becomes a foundation upon which the individual is built. Most of us see something glimmering very bright and real in the distance. We are stupid enough to believe that we might be able to transform the world overnight. We are silly enough to question authority-oftentimes biting the hand that feeds us. We aren't realistic enough to realize that the person who goes through life smiling is going to get hurt again and again and again. We are youth-idealistic individuals who dream of beautiful tomorrows and without these dreams our tomorrows would not be as beautiful as they are. The idealism felt by millions of youth for millions of years is very aptly expressed by Yevgeny Yevtushenko in a very few words: Suppose someone with illusions in his eyes flashes past pursuing some distant gleam, then it doesn't seem to us that he is blind- it seems to us that we ourselves are blind. We graduate-the youth of today-blinded by our own idealism and striving to affect the vision of those around us.

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