Garden City High School - Mast Yearbook (Garden City, NY)

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o the outsider, the class of 1982 might seem a vast, homogenous bod y,' however, in actuality, the class is composed of individuals, each with unique interests, abilities, and beliefs, and each a separate piece of the whole, be it our grade, school, town, state, country, or universe. Our lives are also composed of separate pieces. These high school years have shaped us into free-thinking, distinct individuals. Through the separate aspects of the school, the activities, sports, social events, friends, - music, art, and academics, the veil of con- formity which surrounded the earliest piece of our lives, our youth, has been shed. Our experiences and interactions during our years as students will greatly influence the latter stages of our lives, our adulthood. b something animate shifts the significance from a group to individuals. EWU we want to be remembered as one macrocosm, or as the separate entities that we really are? As the class of 1982, we have con- tinually worked together as a whole, but simultaneously each of us has developed a unique identity. Still, if we want to continue this analogy, we can allude to the title of john Knowles' novel. Like Gene and Phineas, we, too, are nearing the end of our high f school careers and must, within ourselves, find a separate peace ' that will prepare us in our inevitable transformation into adulthood. Of course, being a separate piece of

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