Midview High School - Log Yearbook (Grafton, OH)

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someone once said that abook is the only permanent thing in lifeg faces change, feelings change and for that matter--life itself. this log has been designed only as a rec- ord 6-supplement one's memory. if you aren't satisfied with its appearance or contents, it's not important--what is sig- nificant is the fact that this span of time encompassing one year of your life is captured and contained Within these cov- ers . these pictures have stilled and pre- served the excitement and anticipation of the fall that sank into the dismal long, dead winter with its brief sporadic mom - ents of complacency and even longer per- iods of depression and just plain waiting for something--anything . . . finally, the spring--the urgent rejuvena- tion of hope and a new sense of aliveness. you are hereg your actions are here to look back on with any emotions you Wish. for some the retrospection will produce a sense of accomplishment. for a few, there will be disgust at one year utterly wasted. and for others, laughter at things that once seemed so important but no longer are. carol holbrook elaine lichtenberg 4 -53255 ' . i' u X .. .?,, ,nv- . ..,i , ,L V . - -.W 1.- . 45? , W t -, ..aW,,, 'RW lg -l i3,:,:g.. ,ig Y

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if we are arrested every day, if we are exploited every day, if we are trampled over every day, don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. we must use the weapon of love. we must have compassion and understanding for those who hate us. we must realize so many people are taught to hate us that they are not totally re- sponsible for their hate. but we stand in life at midnight, we are always on the threshold of a new dawn. martin luther king 1929 -1968 we were trying to figure out what this place is all about. did we love it? did we hate it? we had spent enough time here, after all. enough time to have come to a decision one way or another. but even so, we couldn't. the following pages, especially the next four, represent the distillation of a considerable number of conversations, of the jotting down of ideas. we, of course, wanted to get to the essence of what it has been like to have been a student here for four years. we failed . . . because capturing the essence of anything is risky business, not to be under- taken lightly. but we hope that maybe once or twice in the next few pages, you will, in years to come, find a picture, an idea that releases that storehouse of sensations that we call memory. we would wish to trigger in you the sudden acknowledgement: yes, that's just the way it was . this emotional remembrance may trigger nostalgia. we are sorry, the dangers of art. 6