Malcolm X Shabazz High School - Optimist Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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CPTMMIST optimist (cp ta mist), 1. a person with the tendency tc leek cn the mere positive side of happenines or possibilities. 2. one who believes that seed ultimately predominates over evil in the world. 3. a person who holds the belief that goodness pervades reality. 4. one who believes that the existing world is the best of all possible worlds, ff optimiste. See OPTIMUM. - 1ST] 2 OPTMST

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M§. IY 41IIM (UJ MHl iH Ms. Rosalind Carmichael, homeroom teacher of room 227. has been the force behind many of our senior activities. Whenever there was a senior function. Ms. Carmichael was always wiling to help in any way possible. She donated her time and energy for the senior cause. Ms. Carmichael took total responsibility for the Royal Showcase of Beauty and talent (the contest for choosing class queens). She has also, this year, taken on the responsibility of the Recorder, the school newspaper Most important, she has for the past 13 years, taken full responsibility for presenting the juniors and seniors with a show put on by Charles Stewart and Good News Ms. Carmichael was the class advisor in 1979. so she really knows the importance of faculty cooperation and participation with the senior class. She has given us her all in our four years here at Malcolm X Shabazz and we greatly appreciate it. Because she has given so much of herself to us, we take this time to dedicate the 1984 OPTIMIST to Ms Rosalind Carmichael. CONFLICT Here we sand infants overblown. poised between two civilizations. findsng the balance irksome. itching for something to happen. to tip us one way or the other. groptng in the dark for a helping hand and finding none I'm tired. O my God. I'm tired. I'm tired of hanging in the middle way — but where can I go? MABEL SEGUN 4 DEDICATION