Milford High School - Droflim Yearbook (Milford, OH)

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Mr. O'Connell lectures during world history class. and Mr. James O'Connell, we dedicate our Yearbook Mr. James O'Connell Mr; James O'Connell is an unforgettable teacher and coach. Although he was promoted to Junior High Director of Athletics last year, he will be remembered at Milford High School, not only for his remarkable basketball coaching rec- ord, but more so for the man that he is. He is a quiet man, one who demands respect without saying a w,ord,cl man never too busy to exchange a friendly word or applaud an- other's achievement. He knows the glory of winning, yet somehow one can see that his reward is not measured in glory but in something deeper--a love of the sport, a tul- fillment of his belief in youth.

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These two men, dedicated to youth, hold a special place in the hearts of the students of Milford High School, for they have given us something of themselves. They have believed in us, demanded a leveI of perfection that flutters us, and asked nothing but our whoIe-hearted effort in return. Through their guidance we have recliled the glamorous fulfillw ment at a basketball championship, of a Senior Class Play, of Wonderful Time. Through their strength, we have found our own,- through their belief in us, we have come to believe in ourselves. Be cause they possess something of youth, they have shown us the glamour of our own youth. Mr. Gerald Yentes Mr. Yentes directs Wonderful Time rehearsal. To Mr. Gerald Yentes Mr. Gerald Yentes--director, teacher, assistant prin- cipole-but more than this, a man with c: tremendous cud pacity to believe in youth, a man dedicated to the young. And somehow it is not surprising that he should be so dedicated, for he himself embodies something of youth, something of the immense capacity to dream, to believe in people, to be optimistic; something of the strength and vigor to achieve the seemingly impossible, the endless stamina that only the young can provide.

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Youth exemplifies Ho moment, a moment of strength, the powerful force of a vigorous young form, carving its future on the rock of knowledge. Youth delights in its limitless energy and enthusiasm, the power and vitality of its being. The labor of the young demands the strength ofthe young, that height of energy that only youth can give. For youth is the time of greatest struggle, the struggle to find oneself. to maintain dreams and hope, to understand the world's luck of poetic iustice. There is a strength in this struggle, cs strength of vic- tory and a strength of defeat, a strength of body and a strength of mind-the strength of youth. u. maul IIAKIII 2mm