Kennedy High School - Maze Yearbook (Bellmore, NY)

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FACULTY Teochers ore considered The obsTocles in our lives. They ore The people who bring unTo us dll of our grief: homework, TesTs, Term popers, ond someTirnes foiling grodes. We ore deioured from The Television seT, Tele- phone, ond cdr keys To reod d book of re- seorch o hisToricol evenT. Some Teochers even hove enough nerve To give o surprise quiz on moTeridl we should hove leorned Two weeks ogo. WheTher we reolize iT or noT, Tedchers ore noT olwoys The hindronce in our lives. On oc- cdsion, They con be The rnenTors To dd- voncemenT, ond They do hove on influence on our lives. Coreful ThoughT ond plonnlng go inTo eoch lesson, for They know ThdT ev- ery word ond ideo hos on irnpocT on our impressionoole young minds. Teochers ossisT us in finding our wdy dlong The winding rodd To odulThood. YeT, pecouse oT This poinT in The lobyrinTh of life iT is difficulT To see whoT will occur oT The end, we rnusT evdluoTe whoT we hove leorned ond whoT we should Toke wiTh us on our journey. Okoy, so moybe sorne of The lessons ledrned will only be useful on o gome show, buT oThers will help us To find our woy Through The mdze, To reolize our dreorns, ond To solve The puzzle.

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Principdl y 5 K 4 fs A mdze . . . defined os o sTrucTure of winding dnd inTerconnecTed pdThs dnd pdssoges drrdnged in bewildering complexiTy, so ThdT wiThouT guiddnce if is difficulT To find one's pdTh in iT. WhdT o perfecf meTdphor To describe Kennedy High School. AT firsT gldnce The descripTion is quife liferdl. To d new sTudenT drriving for ThdT firsT orienTdTion progrdm preceding TenTh grdde, Kennedy High School dnd iTs hdllwdys dnd dedd ends musf hove seemed quife liTerolly o mdze To be negoTioTed wiTh core ond difficulTy. Guidonce come in The form of d complex diogrom dT The end of d sTudenT hondbook dnd hopefully some friendly ddvice from d sTdff member or dn older sTudenT. BuT on o deeper level, Kennedy High School hos been on even more inTricdTe mdze. Edch of you hos hod To choose from d lobyrinTh of course selecTions dnd levels of difficulTy. Socidl pressures ond decisions wdifed of every Turn, ond eC1chTec1cher presenTed d differenf drrdy of chdllenges dnd responsibiliTies. Here Too The mdze could noT be complefed wiThouT The help ond guidonce of oThers. Tedchers, counselors, oides, pdrenTs, odminisTrdTors ond even The cusfodidl dnd clericol sfoffs offered The necessory direcTion To help you find your wdy. And now you Think you ore dpprooching The end of This mdze. As you will leorn in The nexT few monThs, however, you hove merely come To d new beginning. WhdT seems df firsf To be on drrivdl of d findl gool is reolly The opening of dnoTher doorwdy jusT GS in The compufer gdmes where The resoluTion of one screen merely produces dnoTher more complex one. During This lifelong ddvenTure, I hope you will conTinue To hove sound guiddnce dnd good forTune. l wish you The besT of luck negoTioTing The incredsingly complex mdze ThdT dwciiTs you. Those of us who remdin of Kennedy High School will be wdfching dnd cheering you on.