Framingham North High School - Archon Yearbook (Framingham, MA)

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jAls we, the Class of 1989, look back on our four years at Framingham North High School, we reflect on the influences, cir- cumstances, and ideas that have caused us to change our thinking or to re-establish our values. We recall the decisions we have made — academic and nonacademic, good and bad — and we see how all the choices we have made in the last four years have affected our standing here — on the brink of a new horizon. We can see in our- selves the shadows of who we were when, back on the very first day of our freshman year, we stood on the last threshold of public education. Since then, we have been exposed to the ideas and insights of many people, and perhaps this has caused us to change our perspective on life — and on things in general. Perhaps we have learned the lesson of needing to be unique, different, or even just plain weird in order to get to know ourselves better. Hopefully, this is one lesson we will never forget, because whether we will go on to college or directly into the work force, we will be freshmen again. We stand at this crossroad called Graduation, and we are both scared and over- whelmed. However, there is one difference to be found in what we were as freshmen and what we are now, and that is four years — of learning, growing, thinking, decid- ing, and changing. Today we share that common bond, and even if that fear of the future begins to take hold, we know, somewhere in the back of our minds and the bottom of our hearts, that we will succeed in whatever choice we make at this crossroad. Up until now, we have all been on the same road, but now we shall each decide our own conclusion to, Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one ...