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

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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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own singularity. Counselors advise us, teachers enlighten us, administrators punish us, and all the attention seems to create the illusion of importance. In high school everyone is an individual. You walk down hallways, go to football games, or just sit in the classroom, and everyone seems to be doing his own thing. A person may not win at a single thing in high school, but at least he is recognized for having tried. The quest for individuality is to some a contest, or feat of endurance. Each act we perform in high school finds its signifi- cance in the will to be seen by others as a separate entity, whether we be a fast track man, a student leader, or a top scholar. The graduating senior strongly senses his own individuality, and that of the people 4

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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