Lexington High School - Lexington Yearbook (Lexington, MA)

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1964| LEXINGTON TABLE OF CONTENTS ACADEMICS 5 EXTRACURRICULAR Activities DAT, Athletics 4.9 STUDENTS Sophomores 67 Juniors 716 Seniors 84, FEATURE: We Are Young 135 PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF LEXINGTON HIGH SCHOOL LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY LEXINGTON 73, MASS.

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Lexington is.a sprawling ever-growing town of 30,000 people, who have in com- mon only their high economic standing. Lexington is a town of contrasts: a town where poets live next to scientists and professors to plumbers; a town where people’s philosophies and ideas are as different as their occupations. Out of this heterogeneous situation spring the schools and the young people who go to them. The schools because of this become more than institutions for the pursuit of book learning; they become places where all the sharp edges of different backgrounds and antithetical personalities clash together, places of conflict and subsequent growth. Be ey The construction of new buildings this year has especially emphasized the freedom the school gives its students to grow, a freedom which allows each person to develop as he chooses. Here in the high school extremes meet: the experienced, the inexperienced; the serious, the lighthearted; the concerned, the unconcerned; the dreamer, the doer. Here the raw materials are presented; here ideas and values are erected; here the student may find what he wants and use it to build on. Sometimes this construction is slow, imperceptible, difficult. But the freedom to develop is always present. And if the exact goal of development is not always clear, its direction is: the direction toward learning what is important and pursuing it; the direction toward continued growth throughout life.