Montclair High School - Amphitheatre Yearbook (Montclair, NJ)

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If .AMX Xt 'tl TTT N 1 t , , --1,- PRULUGUE Today s teenagers are perhaps the most malngned genera tion In our hlstory Newspapers magazines and even motion prctures descrube nn lurld terms the dellnquency recklessness and nmmaturuty of our youths It as unfortunate that some Amerucans accept thus sensatlonallsm at face value and con demn the teenager wlthout consldernng that nt represents but a small portvon of the whole ln a recent Issue Look stated that our generatton born of war and never weaned of pressures ns overwhelmlngly decent not delnnquent and offers soctety more promise than problems We have long suspected this We have been brought up an a period of rapid change Twenty frve years ago the let plane exlsted only on the eng: nees drawing board Now jet propulsvon may soon pnlot us to the moon Thus constant progress confronts us with problems that we never would have faced had we been born fnfty years ago For Instance the automobile a relatively recent develop ment has greatly Increased our responsubulutues by Increasing our freedom We have chosen transportatnon as the theme of our book because ut effectlvely symbolnzes many of these forces whlch Influence our llves Ever slnce the fnrst blister man has con stantly searched for faster and more comfortable ways of mov :ng from place to place At fnrst he dectded to tame anumals duscovered the possnbnluttes of rlvers and lakes as means of trans portatuon However man was not satnsfled he began to com bnne simple mechanlcal devuces wlth has orlgunal udeas Soon he was moving about In animal drawn carts and charuots On water he employed a sall to catch the wund and thus he traveled more easuly an has desired dlrectnon The nnventuon of the steam engine was mans next great conquest The electnc motor followed soon after Now man no longer had to depend upon annmals or flckle Aeolus for hus source of power ln l903 a hlstornc thlng happened Man left has natlve habitats and ascended lnto the realm of the blrds Now that he had mas tered all three medla man began to concentrate on speed The tnternal combustlon englne was has farst development Then came jet propulsnon And now man IS tlnkerung wnth a new ndea He has dtscovered atomtc energy and has declded to use lt to power has varnous vehncles Symbollcally the theme of our book represents the nncreas :ng tempo of our lnves and the era of constant progress nn which we llve Thus ever forward movement has brought us to the brnnk of a new age Whether we of the Class of l956 are mature enough to meet the challenge of these new developments remains to be seen We stand ready however wnth youths eternal opto mlsm and a strong falth an our own abnluty to leave the relatnve shelter of our hugh school da s and assume our place an adult society 3 T Je flex J,- 'leo Q b 311 xWwr ' f A9 75 4 at , ge at T I ,gf . , at t it 1 ,Q - t ' t A ' na ll' me Q , , g h V A t l 1 l iff . . . ' K l l , l . l l 5 ll l ' -- - f y T t ' t - T ' y 3 tl l 7 5 , - ' ' - . ' ' s f .. . . . ' , 15 L 3 l f l W. . . . ' - . 5 lg . A . V . . - I L- T and use them to carry his burdens. About the same time, he at - y l t . . . - . Q' 'M ' ' l . ' 0,7 l . . A . U u n l 1 . . . . A D - I I T t Qt . . . . X C I lf, . . - , F Xlt ey f . T ' 1 fy ' .,1.

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DEDTQATTUN The TwentIeth Century has been one of dynamIc progress and growth The turn of the century marked the appearance of the automobIle upon the Amencan scene the fIrst flIght of a heavIer than aIr craft and the announcement of EInsteIn s Theory of RelatIvIty These were but a foreshadow of the developments to come ln the brIef fIfty odd years followIng man has so well adapted hImself to hIs envIronment that he has begun to serIously contemplate Interplanetary travel ThIs rapld technIcal expansIon has tended to accelerate our pace of lIvIng ThIs Idea of AmerIca on the move has naturally Influenced the lIves of the teenager Per haps It has made us somewhat more conscIous of materIal values but more Important It has QIVCH us the foresIght to realIze the Immense opportunnty that the future holds and the ImagInatIon to realIze thIs promIse ln the art work of thus book we have trved to capture thIs Amencan spIrIt of dy namIc movement The zanIness of the drawungs reflect the optImIsm so Inherent In the teenager Our theme transportatIon IH a pure sense represents thIs Splflf of pro gress In whIch we so fIrmly belIeve Many people especIally Europeans VIEW wIth skeptncusm our accelerated mode of GXISTCDCG However we belIeve that even IH our complex socuety there IS an abundance of tlme for recreatlon both Intellectual and physlcal We have great faIth In thIs Idea of Incessant growth and progress so well establIshed by the generatIon before us Hence WF 'off the class of l956 dedIcate thIs yearbook to the contInuance of thIs Amencan way o I e G-D E73 I J 'T ? N E - '05 l E ' xg: A 1 , I T V 5 Y' Y Y V 4 7 ' :Q

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