East Brunswick High School - Emerald Yearbook (East Brunswick, NJ)

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Ahead of us lay college and pro- fessional training, military service and employment, marriage and the family. Yet part of us would always remain “on the hill” . . . faithful, proud, and loyal.

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... And Suddenly the Year Was Gone It ended in a flash, gone in a whirl of proms and parties, cramming for finals and signing of yearbooks. It vanished in the fun of Culvermere, the formality of the Senior Prom, the nervousness of Awards Night, and the solemnity of Commencement. 18

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Thomas R. Bowman SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS B.S.. Ball State College M.A.. Ball State College Ph.D, University of Chicago The Superintendent’s Message The notion that learning goes on inside school and living goes on outside school is all too common in our society. This misleading notion is often combined with the equally misleading one that learning is preparation for life. I say these state- ments are misleading because each is true but each is also a gross over-simplification of a complex situation. For example, to say that a nuclear explosion is hot is a true statement but it also grossly understates the extreme heat of the reaction. Learning, rather than preparation for life, is one of the major concerns of living men. Recent statistics with respect to occupations suggest that most of the young citizens graduating from high school at the present time will be forced by obsolescence of practices of techniques or materials to make at least one major change in occupa- tion during their lifetimes. This means that learning is a must if these people are to survive as functioning citizens. But man cannot stop living while he is learning. He must constantly learn new patterns of responses even while he is still using the old, for the world about him changes and no man can know what he may need to know. And if no man can know what he may need to know, then he cannot arrange to do all his learning in the relatively safe confines of the school. In fact, it may well be that the most important “thing that can be learned in school is how to continue learning from the living of life itself. If we abide with the notion that the saying “live and learn” is a challenge that all of us can meet in our own way and at our own pace, we will not be dismayed by the immensity of the task of knowing all that is worth while in our expanding sea of knowledge. A “little bit of knowledge” is not a dangerous thing if the man who holds it knows that it is a little bit and is willing to seek more. Be a seeker for more! 20