Lake Stevens High School - Pilchuck Yearbook (Lake Stevens, WA)

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The individual leaving high school is faced with an entirely new set of cir- cumstances. The days of knowing every- one by his first name quickly disappear. Everything in today's society seems to revolve around speed , cars are made faster, freeways are made longer and airplanes are made to travel faster than the speed of sound. The entire country seems to be involved in a wild chase to the end of some imaginary rainbow. Our many ways of cataloguing people show the desire to turn individuals into numbers: social security numbers, draft status, number allowed in a parti- 6

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around him. This feeling goes beyond people to mere things—from the remem- brance of a locker used during sophomore year, to the ruts in the stairways which my feet helped to create. But when the graduating senior puts on his cap and gown, he leaves the high school world behind him forever. To the countless individuals who follow him he is a name used in the past tense, or a tiny picture in the main hall, each quite insignificant to those students of the future. 5

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cular bomb shelter, credit card numbers, telephone numbers, bank account num- bers, and on and on. The advent of the computer has created a new slogan for all men to heed: Do not bend, spindle, fold, or mutilate. The average person today is in a head long rush toward tomorrow, and never gives a thought to that which is happening today, this moment, this sec- ond. Nearly every day of his productive life, from the time he leaves his prefab- ricated home in the morning until he crawls back into bed at night, a pattern is followed which rarely alters. The 7