Hartford City High School - Retro Yearbook (Hartford City, IN)

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- - ■aV A year to recall because it was ours In retrospect, 1960-61 has been a lot like other years at Hartford City High School, but this has been our year. Someone else got his class ring last year; we got ours in March. Someone else planned last year ' s prom; we planned this year ' s flight to fancy. Someone else wore these strange black robes and cardboard hats at the 1960 graduation. We have them on now, and look at you; I ' d hardly recognize you. How many times I ' ve seen that face smiling in the locker room, across a sun-flooded classroom, at a pep session, or during a late round in the publication offices. Suddenly its so sombre. I wonder how soon I shall see it again and if I ' ll know it at all when I do? Whatever happens, we ' ve had this year — these years. k

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These ' best ' years If anytime rivals the end of fourth and seventh periods for getting tension out of our systems, it ' s the few minutes before fifth period be- gins. Cindy Pratt and Sue-Ann Mullen communicate with a scream. How often our parents, teachers, and other adults tell us, These ore the best years of your lives. Much of the time we would agree, but, as every teenager knows, our life is not always so hunky-dory. Though our problems often seem trivial or un- warranted to our parents, they can be earth- shattering to us. Boyfriends and girlfriends are causes for as much depression and emotional strain as they are causes for fun and happiness. We find love can be parallel with hate, envy, jealously, and loneliness; but when you ' re going wi th that special one the world seems rosy again. With our new freedoms in high school come new responsibilities too. Grades, tests, jobs — these are continuous reasons for anxiety and frustrations to teens. Few of us leave high school without some problems — perhaps shyness for some, inferiority feelings for others. As uncomfortable as our troubles may be, they help us to mature and to find ourselves. And once we get them solved, how often we can laugh at our past problems and see their trivialness and lightness.