East Hampton High School - Oracle Yearbook (East Hampton, CT)

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fzahyw Percexvlng an analogous relatronshlp between the culture and customs of the ancxent Greeks 1n thexr c1v1l1zat1on and the modern members of thrs graduat 1ng class appears, at fnrst, to be as 1mprobable to the contemporary world as a monothenstlc rehgxon would be to the Hellenes Not only d1d thelr relrgrons dlffer from the method of worshrp commonly accepted today, but s1m1larly, manners of educatron, ethlcal codes, and common trad1t1ons Frequent consultat1on of the gods was prevalent, and thelr advlce was sought durmg trmes of dlstress and lndeclsron Oracles, the shrrnes at whrch men could recelve counsel drrectly from the gods, were popular, here they secured the prophecres they desrred The Oracle at Delphr was the most famous of these rehgrous centers, and rt was there that Apollo revealed h1s versxon of the future to a belrevrng multrtude From these same men who worshlpped so strangely, the world has been endowed wrth an abundance of prrceless gnfts Some of the greatest phrlosophers rose durmg varlous perrods from the ascended to lofty herghts m classrcal archntecture, llkCWlSC have the words of Socrates and Ar1stotle rrsen to unsurpassed posltrons 1n all phases of thought Though other fields llke Sclence and Drama, were broadened by the lnteg r1ty of the Greeks, the most sallent detaxl of the her1tage left by them to mankmd was the 1nnovat1on of the democratrc theory of government V1s1bly devold of the features of a current democracy, It nevertheless 1nd1 cated the path toward the government mto whrch the graduates of mneteen hundred and forty erght are to enter as cmzens of the Umted States of Amerlca Countless foundatrons for the practrces and theorres that exlst today were secured from the ancnent Greeks It IS then totally fittmg to honor such an advanced people of antlqulty for therr contrrbutrons to the present epoch by featurmg throughout th1s volume a motlf of Grecran der1vat1on, the theme of wh1ch IS rnstantly 1n1t1ated by the book s ntle, ORACLE 4 Greek city states, and as the chisled grace of the columns of their structures 7 -

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0211200 cgzfzf EDITOR-IN -CHIEF DONALD JAFFE ASSISTANT EDITOR H ELENE CALIENDO PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR HARVEY ROBINSON ART EDITOR IOAN FREDERICKSON BUSINESS EDITOR ANITA AVERY ADVERTISING EDITOR DONALD PROUT The Staff gratefully acknowledges the assistance of their fellow classmates, underclassmen, faculty, and friends. Business and Advertising Editorial Work Theodore Vlillerford Vlilliam O N eill joan Cobley Ann Walsh Mary Carrier Mary Ann Allen Kenneth Anderson Jack Taylor ,.l..11---1--1 6