John Carroll University - Carillon Yearbook (University Heights, OH)

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entirety of the human experience, you are invited with rather ambivalent check, to partake with those of this book. Guard it carefully though, and better yet, hide it well. For perhaps the most difficult thing for the mind to com- prehend is the paradox contained within each being, who is as he is today and yet comprises the totality of persons he has been throughout his passage of the eph- emeral present. It is very difficult to acknowledge to yourself, let alone con- vey to someone who was not of that world, and stands out of context holding the banister, that the soul's joys and sorrows, its meanings and dreams, were as bright and clear and warm as the sun this day and tomorrow more. But to those scorners, you too, as will we all, have a time of shuffling through our dusty attics of broken toys and rot- ting stuffed animals, where you may stumble as an old man sitting quietly in the dining room over his scrapbook. And then we've got you. Ted Hoobler

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vffafwqfs fQ 4 v? li Q sw ti' N00 K. 'il ,1 1 . INTRODUCTION I remember walking downstairs from my third floor room where I was living that year, and as I was about to reach the first floor landing, I looked into the dining room. There, sitting behind the table was my landlord, an old man, who once was an architect, and who now would get up very early in the morning to sweep off the porch steps before the wind would blow away whatever inch or two of snow had fallen the night before. He was sitting very still, as old men do, though with a particularly intense look on his face, a kind I'd never seen before on him, as he was usually in the other room vicariously living the vacuum tube life absorbed from the television. What I had stumbled upon was an old man leafing through his scrapbook of the times that were, and who knew of the terribly personal realization of the so few more to come. This is in part why it is my contention that yearbooks are a pain in the ass - though perhaps a tragic pain in the ass. For how many of us in later years will be drawn to the scrapbooks and wretched yearbooks, hidden away from the chil- dren's snickers, and bending silently over dining room tables, attempt to partake again in the essences once experienced years gone by. This is the blatant secret of all yearbook publishers - they deal in the tremendously marketable commodity of sentimentality. And are highly suc- cessful. So it goes. But this mystical attraction of why the human heart holds its past dreams so dear, is not mine to delve into here, nor perhaps is it really anyone else's to put it to question. At this point though, one might find it rather odd why anyone would want to document a particular year, binding its pages between a cover to sell to the general public at Sl0.00 a throw, knowing full well of its somewhat sadofmasochistic side effects. It was a year not unlike any other as far as years go. The rain was wet, fell in 6 crystalline heaps in winter, was colder in fall than in spring. And rising from the east to set in the west, whether held in the mind of man to be Apollo riding the skies in his chariot, or a ball of blazing gases, its way choreographed by Ptolemy or Copernicus. And as one year blends into another, there is a point of demarca- tion usually celebrated as New Year's eve or a birthday. It is the celebrants who quantitatively, quite commonly, re- fer to the sum total of these events as a life time. What you now hold is the attempt to capture a few moments of the qualitative of life vs. the horizontal. It is a collage of the experiences of those who chose to express something which at one time was meaningful to themselves - found some- where in the unfolding matrix of the universe, where its multiplicity of facets was as numerous as those who beheld that universe. And if one may expose a basic presupposition for writing any book, that a solipsism does not cloak the

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