Lincoln Sudbury High School - Dyad Yearbook (Sudbury, MA)

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PARENTS WORK HOMEWORK SCHOOL PEER PRESSURE SEX DRIVERS’ EDUCATION DRIVER'S LICENSE SPEED BUMPS ERNIE! OUTDOOR PURSUITS DEADLINES R-RATED MOVIES MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY TEACHERS PSATS SATS ACHIEVEMENTS GETTING UP FOR 1ST BLOCK GETTING UP FOR 2ND BLOCK SKIPPING SCHOOL OPENING YOUR LOCKER 89 CREDITS COLLEGE APPLICATIONS COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES COLLEGE REJECTIONS PACKIE RUNS POLICE HANGOVERS TARDINESS FRESHMAN YEAR SOPHOMORE YEAR JUNIOR YEAR PROM DATES WARNINGS CUT SLIPS EXAMS REPORT CARDS

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Q): A - Theme THE WALL Whaat is a wall and now dogs it structure our lives? What’s the only man-made object visible from outer space? A wall, of course. The Great Wall of China, to be precise. Other than that, it’s hard to find a famous wall to talk about. The Berlin Wall comes to mind. A more obscure wall is Hadrian’s Wall in Scotland. Except for those, walls in general don’t get a lot of press. So why choose ‘The Wall”’ as a theme for the yearbook? Maybe some Pink Floyd junkie seized control while | wasn’t looking. | doubt it, though. That doesn’t answer the question. This should. Start with a simple question: What is a wall made of? A simpler answer: bricks. The Great Wall of China, long enough to stretch across the continental United States, is still made only of smallish bricks. Are all bricks in the wall the same? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Stone walls, such as those around the area that people want you to believe have been here since the revolution, are made of irregular bricks. Some walls are geometrically perfect. Others fall somewhere in between. So are the bricks the soul of the wall? You could say so. What else makes a wall? Mortar, of course. Without mortar, a wall is nothing but a pile of bricks. So, a wall is bricks and mortar. Not a great definition. We need more. What makes a wall a wall? What does a wall do? Does it need no education? No, forget that one. Bad joke. Anyway, walls must be in some kind of order. If a mason just throws some bricks and mortar together he won't get a wall. He’ll get fired. And maybe sued. There has to be a pattern. Simple, complex, whatever. There has to be one. To address the second point, a wall does one of three things: it keeps something out, it keeps something in, ora little of both. What it doesn’t do is stand there for no reason. It has purpose. Big deal, you might say. You'd be right, too, but this intro isn’t over yet. So, a wall is mortar and bricks in a pattern, and it does something. Is this enough to justify this seemingly bizarre theme for the yearbook? Let’s try. L-S is a wall. Sort of. (Boy, | bet you couldn’t see this coming.) Obviously, we are the bricks. In our case, the bricks are all different. Maybe too different for some people’s taste. But that’s life. Aha! If everyone here is different, how can there be a pattern? A good point, dear reader. But a moot one. The class system of frosh, soph, junior and senior is close enough for me. O.K., we got you this time, you say. What’s the mortar, huh? Everyone in this school isn’t stuck togther! Well, some are, but that’s not the point. The mortar at L-S is a combination of classes, activities and sports that makes us a school. If someone asked you where you go to school, you would say L-S. You wouldn’t say you go to a large building on Lincoln Road in Sudbury. Well, it’s the truth, isn’t it? Think about it! Everyone you know at this school, and also everyone you don’t know, would say the same thing. Why? Mortar! Hrmph, you say. Well, what's its purpose? Does the school keep us out of our respective towns, or is it just a cattle pen? Or both? Got you now, buddy! You grin an evil grin and close in for the kill. Well, | said L-S was sort of a wall. It doesn’t have a wall- like purpose. Its purpose, of course, is to educate us and prepare us for work or college. | think that’s close enough though. Another difference-clay bricks don’t play football. (Another arguable point, considering some of those NFL players...) The point is, well, the theme isn’t so dumb. We’re all just bricks in the wall. Depressing, isn’t it? But with- out us, there wouldn’t be a wall. Just empty halls. For some of us, the end of this year means leaving our wall and joining another (maybe Pink Floyd’s). But if someday you’re sitting in your 299 room mansion, reading this book and reminiscing about your high school days, just remember-you were once just a brick in the wall, and you owe a lot to the wall that shaped you. Don’t forget that. That stupid theme doesn’t seem so stupid now, does it? Anyway, here’s the book for ’87 -Dave Ryan

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20 - Seniors