Homestead High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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People, Homestead is people . . . People who dream, who care - about each other at least, looking for a place to go, to belong, a person to be. Already we have seen much of the world, good and bad . . . The racial problems and discontent of the Fort Wayne Community Schools reached Homestead in a series of incidents: flag stealing, vandalism, etc. We watched as 18 year olds voted for the first time and perhaps for a brief moment the country and community were one. Peace has come slowly but it has come. Our involvement in Vietnam ended officially on March 29, 1973. We were happy as a nation but not ecstatic. So tired of the tension and disunity it had caused, not many even marked the date. Waves of apathy swept over the nation catching Homestead in its sweep but what else could have been, after so much emotion was spent. It showed at Homestead, in the lack of involvement in clubs, in the dropping attendance at games but maybe these are only signs that the times are changing, people are more individualistic than those before them and we are searching for new ways to Express Our Existence

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Physical education teachers Mr. and Mrs. Bob Rohrbacher. Iunior Kim Gerke. Sophomore Don Wismer. Eighth grader Ieff Stearley. Iunior Barb Benckenstein, page 7. 6 Q :-ye if fx Q, X .1 ax ig. We

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2...-sg.. Sitting only close enough to remember Staring only long enough to forgive. Pausing to stir the lemon in my tea And watching as you put on your coat. Already gone as you're leaving Thanks come from lavender glasses looking nowhere. Trying to repair something always unseen And yet never reaching Now you are lost to the final violet rays of a setting sun. Dancing like a weeping willow in the wind. And the light goes out silently while my pillow cries your song - How will you know if you've reached it When you don't know where you are? Poem and Photo - P. Eberbach 'T' , 'KIL' fs-A 1 ,- ?'WT W-Life, Xa.