North High School - Polar Bear Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS •I TUDENT LIFE 7-30 SPORTS 33-64 PEOPLE 66-101

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Life is so simple and yet so puzzling. You see yourself as one mind, one heart, one soul among hundreds, one life set apart from all the others by interest and needs that you alone can fulfill, by a past and a present that are uniquely your own. Now you are ready to make peace with the past and live fully and fearlessly in the present. There are those who tell jokes you ' ve heard before, and still you laugh. Those who say unkind things you know they don ' t mean, and still you cry. And those who preach sermons you ' ve learned by heart, and still not listen. Gradually you become aware that no two are exactly alike, and that each can suggest a different image of who we are. With every new relationship you change a lit- tle, grow a little. You begin to learn when to com- promise and when to take a stand . . . how to han- dle a victory and how to survive a defeat. Above all you learn to cope with various personalities who surround and complicate and enrich your young existance. Slowly you start to see those memories for what they are, tiny grains of experience that have already sifted through the sandglass of time, visions of happiness and sorrow that now exist only in your mind, spirits from the distant past that can only haunt you or cheer you as much as you allow them to. You decide to break through . . . We ' re All In This Together 4