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

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room, feeling ridiculously pleased that we have triumphed over the system, we see all our friends from last year seated around us. and we wonder how in the world he got that marvelous tan and was her hair really that blonde last year? then suddenly we feel proud of our class, for we are a whole and united body of students, making countless mistakes but recovering from them and becoming the wiser because of them, we are making a fresh start. 5

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we are freshmen, and we enter the polished halls of new prairie with uncertainty and almost fear because we are freshmen, there are different customs to learn, new people to meet, and we must start well because this will be our world for the next four years, the warning bell rings, and we scatter like fright- ened sheep, for the halls are a confusing maze or corridors, how shall we ever find the right room in time? wonder of won- ders. however, when the last bell sounds its dismal call over the emptied halls, we are seated snug and secure in the proper 4

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we are sophomores, and as a class we feel insignificant, displaying nei- ther the joyous enthusiasm we held as freshmen nor the superiority we hope to feel as juniors and seniors, we are in between, our first real ex- citement is the customary sophomore magazine sales, this is our first united effort as a class, and we want to make the best possible showing, our initial excitement wanes, however, at the prospect of actually sell- ing magazines door-to-door, but somehow we miraculously earn quite a lot of money, this is the deciding year for many of us. our teachers give us more homework and tests than ever before, and we soon settle down to high school life as it really is a mixture of hard work and play, and we discover that our results are always products of our own determination, some of us realize that we need good grades if we have