Mattituck High School - Reflector Yearbook (Mattituck, NY)

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i960 REFLECTOR REFLECTOR STAFF Editor Barbara Tuthill Assistant Editor..Ann Marie Krupski Business Manager Richard Woodhull Art Editor Richard Sabat Photography Mary Ann Reickman Layout Editor..................George Fazio Literary Editor......... Sidney Bail Mankind has always based his thinking on horizons. The pioneer in moving his wagons west did not move from the Mississippi to the Pacific in one great thought-jump—rather he set up his horizon from day to day—he charted his course from here to “yon mountain”—or to the river that lies at the sunset”. If he had permitted himself to think of the vast distance that he must cover before he reached the western ocean, he would have bogged down in despond- ency, frustration and defeat. His thinking was from day to day, from mile to mile, from sun- rise to sunset, from horizon to horizon. For those of us in school—education is our immediate horizon. As the wagons trudged ever westward dull mile after dull mile, so we must worry our way on—searching for that key that will open the doors to happiness, love, wealth, and power. Education cannot be handed to us. No horizon can be reached before one gets there. We must spend long hours of study, we must think deeply and sacrifice the superficial plea- sures of the present for the more enduring and worthwhile satisfactions of the future. The choice is ours to work or to play.