Evander Childs High School - Oriole Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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ords of isdom from the Ma i Qn the eve of your departure you heg of your elders council on the art of living. it is a gracious trihute, im- plying that to tive iong is to garner much wisdom. Despite your naive and ati too evident fallacy, there is a kernel of truth in this. Every hte, even the shahhy and the inconsequential, shapes itsehc at iast into a de- sign which it viewed vvhoie and in perspective, may he said to present an art or a wisdom. But this art or wisdom is irrevocahiy personal like a finger-print or a signature, and incommunicahie. Each long lite, however, has also a scah, a protective crust, spawned hy tear, which is generaiiy offered to youth with grave soiemnity. it is patmed ohf as wisdom, hut it is only prudence. And prudence is precisely what you have no use for, seeing that you are the mas ter of the treasury of time. it is the pauper,s caution to the rich, replete with envy. What is prudence, indeed, it not the exchange of the iargesse of sunny days for the cramped comfort of the rainy ones? You have hut to watch the faces of many ot your eiders and catch the undertones of their words, to reaiize what tragedy may result from such a harter. it will he argued that the rainy days must come to ati-and should not one he prepared to meet them? OF Course, one shouidfhy making certain that they win he crowded with the many memories of the sunny onest Unreal, and tinseied and purposeiess, those days, it may he true, hut so are ati things, coior and shape and perfume over which the sun, Icing of Hatterers, deigns to smite. Yet, who hut the foot and the wiihfui hiind turn their hacks upon the glorious carnivai of the magic Faisehood? There are no duphcations in nature or in history, and every individual, as every generation, is unique and inimitahie. You are, therefore, not only a new creatio n, hut the worid which you are ahout to confront is also new and unparaiieted. Vxfhat spirited youth, then, two uid even for a moment contempiate distorting his per- sonality that it might tit into the grooves of another? Who would wander groping among the mazes of strange patterns? t You must, on the contrary, duck-like, shake Ott the in evitahie Hoods of warnings and dire prophecies of those who no ionger capahie of iiving, weave sad and terrifying commentaries upon hte. You have hut one need-and it puises in your veinsfcouraget Courage! So turn the Icnoh, throw the door wide open, and hait your destiny with a shout of triumphant iaughtert AVEJ VALE! PAUL ELDRIDGE