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

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against a society he had no hand in creating often reacts violently in places like Columbia and Berkeley. The young Negro who senses his loss of identity during three hundred years of white supremacy often reacts violently in places like Harlem and Watts. Some- thing important is being said in all this: My life is worthless because to society I am worthless. I will not stand for it. The high school graduate should first look within himself and discover who he is. He must tell himself that this es- sence of individuality, whatever its im- portance to society, will never be des- troyed by that society. The times in which we live are frus- trating, slightly awesome, and yet very 9

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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

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much exciting. It is a time when we are raising questions which no one has ever dared to ask before. Society is being reevaluated clear to its foundations; to do this requires individuals who are willing to know themselves. The under- lying hope for this annual is that it will help to fulfill this necessity by recalling to the mind of the reader those days which were simpler, and much less hectic. That is our hope.