Northeast High School - Nor Easter Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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We, as members of the yearbook staff, feel that an introduction and definition of what we are presenting in words, themes and pictures is needed Misconceptions and misinterpretations could be made about our theme - “CHAOS. Choas is, as the World Book Dictionary states: “utter disorder; disorder at the utmost plane: etc.” At the beginning of the year we were given the responsility of describing the entire year with a simple word or phrase We did this with open minds and hearts - with the thought that our purpose of choice would be understood. When we first entered school at the beginning of the year, we were greeted with torn-up entrance steps, construction, etc. We were also told of news of a brand new plan for the school system which would drastically change our school from the Northeast High School we know and love to a magnet school. New teachers, an unorganized magnet school proposal, construction, a cancelled Varsity Football team, homecoming game and parade has led us to see nothing but chaos, - utter disorder. Thus, are theme in the beginning of a book. As the year progressed we began to originality, creativity and order out of all the disorder. The book began to take on the shape of a puzzle with many scattered pieces. As the book progressed page by page, each piece came together to form a single picture of Northeast. We end this introduction with a simple phrase written by Henry (Brooks) Adams, an American historian, which best sums up our theme and it's purpose. “Chaos often breeds life, when order often breeds habit.”