Kennedy High School - Gryphon Yearbook (Willingboro, NJ)

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Summons Keep me from going to sleep too soon Or if I go to sleep too soon Come wake me up. Come any hour Ofnight. Come whistling up the road. Stomp on the porch. Bang on the door Make me get out of bed and come And let you in and light a light. Tell me the northern lights are on And make me look. Or tell me clouds Are doing something to the moon They never did before, and show me. See that I see. Talk to me till Ilm half as wide awake as you And start to dress wondering why I ever went to bed at all. Tell me the walking is superb. Not only tell me but persuade me. You know I'm not too hard persuaded. Absolutes black on white crow in snow hunched wet lump on brittle branch remembering warmth remembering corn miserable as life is black on white Earth HA planet doesn't explode of itself, said drily The Martian astronomer, gazing off into the air- That they were able to do it is proof that highly Intelligent beings must have been living there. Earth If this little world tonight Suddenly should fall through space In a hissing, headlong flight, Shrivelling from off its face, As it falls into the sun, In an instant every trace Of the little crawling things- Ants, philosophers, and lice, Cattle, cockroaches, and kings, Beggars, millionaires, and mice, Men and maggots all as one As it falls into the sum . . . Who can say but at the same Instant from some planet far A child may watch us and exclaim: See the pretty shooting star!

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The first year of the new decade proved to be one of both promise and problems, here are some of the triumphs and tragedies that made it memorable: here was the year of the revolution, in fashion, in morals, in politics . . . campus unrest climaxed by four deaths at Kent State followed by two more at Jackson State . . . accidents or murder? depends upon your point of view . . . and youth marches on . . . Kate Millet writes Sexual Politics and founds Womenis Liberation spotlight moves from boys to girls as burning draft cards are replaced by burning bras . . . everyone's protesting, the construction workers' mobilization of the Hardhats . . . Vietnam was not enough, so add Cambodia . . . meanwhile, back in America, we all woke up one morning and wondered where all this pollution came from . . . does anyone remember when fresh water stream was more than an euphemism . . . suddenly ecology is a household word . . . to conceive or not to conceive, that is the population dilemma . . . and through the smog emerge the youth heroes-Elliot Gould, hung-up middle class pathos for the unhung generation . . . Bernadette Devlin Crusades her way into an Irish jail, while Protestant- Catholic riots flare . . . in fact, riots were everywhereg in Paris, in Georgia, and even very close to home, destroying Asbury Park Black Panthers raided by police, later to rally at Temple .. . frightening graffiti of Off the Pigsf' heralds the underground was against police . . . the Weathermen, masters of arson and sabotage, leave their stamp of violence . . . from somewhere in the confusion the voice of Agnew rises, backed by the voiceless cheers of the silent majority? People talking without speaking! people hearing without listening . . . Simon and Garfunkel's ode to our times Jerry Rubin, yippie leader, entreats the young with Do It Britains Skinheads , shaved bald, and in workpants and boots, at the other end of the pendulum swing from shoulder-length locks . . . prices rise while the stock market falls . . . the auto workers mourn the loss of Walter Ruther . . . radical Angela Davis moves from a controversial black teacher to a most- wanted criminal in a few short weeks Mia Farrow has Andre Previn's twins, but only 6 months later do they marry . . . would you believe a Spiro Agnew wristwatch? . . . Speaker of House McCormick retires . . . and still the draft continues and still the young men die Does anybody really know what time it is?', . . . Sukarno dies . , . the controversy of the flag . . . Middle America's car windows sprout flags, while the young people emblazon stars and stripes on cars and clothes . . . the protesfs the thing, and here comes Gay Liberation, with placards, poodles and protest signs . . .letters requesting prisoners release flood Hanoi, while anxious, desperate families wait and hope Thor Heyerdahl tries again in Rall, and makes it . . . married priests? . . . reports of nursing home and mental institution abuses horrify the public . . . plane hijackers infest the skies . . . Muhammed Ali makes a comeback, quieter now than Cassius Clay . . . Nasser dies . . . people listen with horrified fascination to the bizarre tales from the trial of Charles Mansonis drug-sex murder cult . . . Easy Rider tells it like it is . . . the young world mourns the tragic deaths of Jimi Hendrix, and then too soon the loss of Janis Joplin the Pope makes a world tour, asking for peace, and almost loses his life . . . is nothing sacred anymore? . . . cries of campus reform rise from a chant to a shout . . . the Powder Ridge Music Festival draws thousands, despite the lack of music, and the jitter of officials . . . Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles win the World Series . . . Broadway Joe is big headline material the tragedy of natural disaster ravages Pakistan the world moves in to pick up the pieces only in this, the era of protest, oould American Indians bury Plymouth Rock on Thanksgiving . . . a magical force in music dissolves with the final break-up of the Beatles meanwhile, back here at Kennedy, students take a stand . . . saluting the flag becomes a major issue . . . students and administrators take sides . . . this is a year marked by the raising of voices, and sometimes the raising of arms . . . a year of realizations-somethingis got to be done . . . and yet a year of promise and change . . . the initiation of a new decade, with better things to come.

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