Highland Park High School - Albadome Yearbook (Highland Park, NJ)

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,X S NF' Wfhese are the people who run the sch 1-th oo e teachers, the maintenance, the adminis- tration, the office personnel-each has his job. The teacher enables the student to understand his subject and to fit it into the jig-saw puzzle of knowledge. Many of the teachers will be remembered for what they taught, others will be forgotten. But whether or not the teacher as a person is remembered, a part of him will remain always to help shape the future. The faculty is not the only group that helps shape the future. All the students are affected indirectly by the decision of the administration. Then, too, so many of them will remember for years the uHowdy's and 4'Mornin' Professors' of the school personnel. Together, this large group works constantly on im rovi ff d p ng an re- gulating the plasma and heartbeat of the school. is

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and the information that report cards were coming out this afternoon. As I returned to the hall, a stream of students all seemed to he rushing towards a single desti- nation, so l followed along. We turned down a side hall and l soon found myself in a cafeteria, which was also fitted up as a classroom. I found I was on the wrong track. The big question in their minds was: 'What's for lunch?' I was pretty hungry myself by this time so I got in line. Nobody seemed to notice me until I sat down among the students. A few of them kept looking at me, so I asked the usual question. They all said the same thing prac- tically at once: 'The College Boards are in less than a monthf After I finished my meal, I walked into the hall, up a few steps, and through a curtained door into an auditorium. About fifty students were studying in the seats or in desks at t.he front. As I walked by, I heard two students talking. One of them, reading from a preference test, asked the other: 'Would you rather grow peas, shell peas, or eat peas?' I walked on and out the opposite door. The next stop was down the hall in the boys' locker room. An interesting notice on the bulletin board was the first thing that caught my eye: 'The Marines will begin using this room as an ob- stacle course during periods seven and eight next weekf One glance around the crowded room was all I needed to get the point. A scale on the other side of the room reminded me of the lunch I had T C Home work, day dreams, or what? just eaten. I decided to try it. 210 pounds! How could I have gained 4-0 pounds in one day? Could it have been that the scale was off? A door next to the scale led into a small gym where an enthu- siastic f?j class was learning the fine points of wrestling. From the other side of a partition, girlish laughter could occasionally be heard amid loud music. A moment of indecision and then I decided to abandon any attempt to discover the happenings on the other side. 4'My investigation continued in this manner until 3:15. At that time the majority of the stu- dents left. School was over, but each room was still filled with activity. Staffs, committees, and clubs were working overtime and the 'Late Late Show' was in progress. The cooking room seemed empty so I walked in. I looked around the room and then out the window. There it was! This must be the Big Story. A new addition was being erected in back of thc school. The students I spoke to must have been so accustomed to seeing it that it meant nothing to them. A dream come truei' But after a day in the school, this story was overshadowed in my mind by another one . . . the story of the workings of the school . . . the per- sonal incidents that make Highland Park High School different from any other high school. 'LThis publication is my attempt to fold back Highland Park High School's outer covering in order to reveal its heartbeat of activity and the plasma of knowledge that courses through its veins, carrying along with it the people that comprise the school.

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