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

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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

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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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 human being in today’s society is a frantically whirling wheel enmeshed in a huge machine of wheels, each raising a certain amount of wind but accom- plishing little toward its own fulfill- ment. And so the cold bucket of water is thrown on the fledgling who has left the high school nest. Reactions to this shock vary. Many view their new regimentation as a price which must be paid for the right to breathe. This person accepts the premise that he is but a small wheel in a great machine, and denies any right to determine his own destiny. There is a growing number in our society who react to cold water vio- lently. The college student who rebels A Planned Community 8