Northrop High School - Bear Tracks Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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1973- ' 74 BEAR TRACKS Volume 3 Opening 1 Academics 44 Sports 98 Organizations 138 People 182 Closing 238 What was Northrop High three years ago? It was a brick building, a big beautiful building, housing many rooms.... Rooms to be used for making sounds of music. Rooms to be used for creating works of art. Rooms to be used for expressing your creativity on paper, and one big room to be used for traveling to far-away lands or for being whoever you want to be in shelves and shelves of books. But at the beginning these rooms were all the same. None were different. They were all just schoolrooms in which students were to be taught, made of thousands and thousands of bricks. They had no personality. They lacked the experiences of happiness, sadness, triumph, and de- feat. Those of learning and failure. They lacked that knowledge of other students, who had once before traveled these same paths. One who would always be remem- bered in that room, And the many more who were for- gotten. But the past has happened, it is now history. The last of the original Bruins, our own Papa Bruin and the Class of ' 74 are leaving to future Bruins, the strength they have found in this mighty structure. Giving to them this finished product... A Mighty Bruin , Built not with bricks of mud but bricks of knowledge, painted in friendship, cemented in spirit, ending up, standing with pride and originality.