Muncie Central High School - Magician Yearbook (Muncie, IN)

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The big search for knowledge was most intensely followed in the classroom. Mr. Clyde Allmon uses the familiar question- and-answer period in the study of English literature. Many techniques were used for class discussions.

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 w E rebelled against loneliness, insecurity and ignorance, but we could not escape them. As a result, we sought new fields of knowledge, hoping to find some answers and perhaps maturing a little on the way. Our school provided the needed textbook and teachers in order to satisfy our mounting intellectual curiosity.” All of us wondered; all of us had our own dreams. Some came true; some of them toppled. We formed a few close relationships, but the loneliness was still there, and we touched upon it. Solitude: sometimes painful, but often comforting. Nancy Douce waits quietly for her ride after a club meeting. The study hour came at anytime. For Brian Parvis it came in his room at home, sometimes lasting clear to midnight. 10

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The end of the road for slightly over 600 seniors came on pant) emotions. One can hardly forget the final night of June 8 this year. Graduation was a time of mixed (and ram- nights when we either cheered or cried as we left Central. Tke 11$egimwtg Matoi j Leaving h igh school can be a harrowing experience, and admittedly for some of us it is. However, the majority of us having adequately prepared for the adult life (the rat-race?) that faces us, we passed into the next phase with a minimum of struggling, mixed, of course, with strangely ironic humor. The growing-up years might well be called the 12 most immature of stories — but also the most mature of stories. The sum total is almost too encompassing to be told accurately and thoroughly. But of the beginning of our maturity we can be sure. Our growth — mentally, socially and physically — assured us of it. But we also remembered that most of us just merely began.