Loomis Chaffee High School - Confluence Yearbook (Windsor, CT)

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Perspective Since we have been at Loomis-Chaffee we have known that if there is a single constant in our lives, it is paradoxically, the fact of change. When we entered four years ago, the schoolfsj were just beginning a new era of coordinate education, though we had to wait until we were juniors until we could attend mixed classes, in the fall of 1970 there was no energy crisis, we went off daylight savings time in October and did not return until the following spring. The Chaffee buildings were sparkling new and the pool Qand a co-ed swim teamlj was still a dream. Spring Day was still a Chaffee affair, the Loomis-Chaffee Log was just emerging, a joint year- book was two years in the -future. Though we were still Loomis and Chaffee, ours was the first class in which the girls spent all four years on the Island. Politically we reflected our society, with increasing awareness of ourselves, most of us became emotionally involved in the growing opposition to the war in Vietnam, though there were some hopes for peace . . . We'd never heard of Watergate, few had heard of ITT, and Spiro Agnew had become a household word, impeachment was just a word in our American history texts. As far as school politics were concerned, there was a Loomis and a Chaffee Senate and a dying Loomis Student Council. The seminars were still a year in the future. Just surviving in this world and on this campus we were learning to adjust to change. Yet when we returned in the fall of our senior year, it seemed as if perhaps the clock was being turned back, there was increased talk of the fifties. In fact a course comparing 1956 and 1974 was being offered. Boarders had to attend three family style dinners a week, juniors found they had to go to breakfast for the fall term, and every boarder had to be up for an eight o'clock room inspection. Surely time seemed to be repeating itself when the joint Loomis-Chaffee Student Council sponsored a talent show and debated having a spring PROM!! And with the Flush of October 9th we were convinced that the faculty really had returned to the days of beating the bushes for liquor, cigarettes, girls, and dirty magazines . . . The fac- ulty debated whether or not to reinstate term exams and voted to go back to a five point grading system. Four years ago, only two seniors elected to take a year off before college, this year nearly a dozen. The happenings of one particular school year cannot be isolatedg what happened this year on the Island is in large part a product of what has gone on before-last year, our freshman year, and many years before any of us came to Loomis. To put this year 1973-74 in perspective we have chosen to present a short essay on the years 1955-56, the years in which most of the seniors were born-1965-66, the year most of us were ten years old, and 1970-71, our freshman year. And like most years, this year was a mix of the old and new, the traditional and the experimental. Life is more than just a series of cycles in which history repeats itself. We do return to some ways of the past periodically to meet present needs just as we devise new customs and attitudes and values and ways of behaving to meet old needs. QQ I 7531 ,I Ziff

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JU' Q - x A Above: Aerial view of the Loomis campus in 1926. Batch was built in 1929-30. Left: Aerial view of the Loomis-Chaffee campus, January 1974. 5