New Prairie High School - Prairie Life Yearbook (New Carlisle, IN)

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rive, though, we find our resolves melt quickly as we discover that it is much more fun to talk and eat than to make flowers, before we know it, the prom is over, lost in a mad whirl of flowers and music and the unexpected beauty of our dates, soon it is already may, and the seniors become more distant than ever to us; they are already immersed in their future plans, and it is only a matter of time before they will be gone, the weeks fade into rapidly passing days, but we do not notice because there are so many exams, so many sleepless nights spent studying the seniors have graduated and soon, almost too soon, we are seniors.

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we are juniors, and we follow through our first day of school with a careless ease born of experience, we are virtually the leaders in school, because under us creep the lowly sophomores and even more lowly freshmen, and the seniors well, they seem lost in a world of their own. soon we receive our class rings, and we wear them proudly as badges of our obvious su- periority. the days pass by quickly, lost in a maze of games, classes, and an endless stream of tests, tests, and more tests, soon we are faced with the prospect of the junior-senior prom, and we resolve firmly to make this the best and most different prom ever, flower-making parties are held, and we attend them with an almost frightening determination, when we ar- 8

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we are seniors, and we are glad and yet saddened because our secure world is crumbling around us. a new future is awaiting us. and we cannot be sure of anything but perhaps ourselves, we throw ourselves into the bustling activity of school life with a new vigor, knowing that this is our last chance to partic- ipate in such things, clubs that we have never before thought of we quickly join, and we attend basket- ball and football games with enthusiasm not to be excelled, we soon realize, however, that we can never recapture that marvelous feeling of belong- ing. for the thought of our imminent graduation looms ever powerful in our minds, we have already taken the first irrevocable step toward the future and there is no turning back, our minds begin to dwell more and more on that which we shall soon be doing when our safe lives as high school students have ended, as graduation comes closer, we become a little sad because many of our friends and class- mates we will never see again, then — we are grad- uates, and we are no longer a part of new prairie high school, but members of an adult world, and it is up to us whether we make our lives failures, or successes.