Dyer Central High School - Echo Yearbook (Dyer, IN)

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3 3113 01188 6308 Patterns Of ’63 Students come and students go, and each is sub¬ ject to that immutable force that underlies all schools, the constancy in the patterns of social, scholastic, and economic growth. It is no different at Dyer Central. All of us harbor our dreams, both secret and professed. Each of us strives for his goal within the limits defined by the school-customs and conventions established by preceding classes- patterns of adolescent development that retain the widom of past experience, but still bend and yield to the demands of our modern age. Our curriculum changes, but it still embraces the funda-

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THE 1963 ECHO Volume XXV Dyer Central High School Dyer, Indiana LAKE COUNTY PUBUC JJMAKT - 1 -

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mental courses that challenged the minds of the past; our social whirl has been enlarged with a myriad of activities, but the vital moments of school life still oc¬ cur during those unguarded moments in class or during the exchange of lively pleasantries in the corridor; students eat different foods, wear different clothes, may drive to school in cars, take I. Q. tests, college board tests, but they still remain that eternal adoles¬ cent, humbled by the knowledge of the debt they owe to the past - courageous as they face that moment of truth when they stand, diploma in hand, and realize the awesome task that confronts them - determined and resolute to make their world the best of all possible worlds - and echoing the conscience of all humanity when they realize that the more things change, the more they remain the same for each of us at Dyer Central is subject to that fixed framework of school life that guides us to our destination - a framework that is the pattern - the pattern of educational growth - the pattern of social growth - the pattern of physical growth.