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

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Carolyn Cahill tensely watches tlie arid action as Northrop digs in.

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Tourney tenseness strikes (.-oaches Bob Dille and Jim Keim as tliey try to help tliinl tlie ball through the hoop. Cindi Moon takes a break in her work. Living the daily routine gave us our perspective Nothing could be farther from the truth than to say that the year at Northrop was without difficulty. In the weather alone, the year was trouble. Snows and cold hit so hard that almost three total weeks of classes were lost. Then the energy scare disrupted the late winter and early spring. And people being people, there were contentions as to the best way to get things done. But it was in the solutions of these difficulties that a true successful year came out. The year can only be just a little measured in the problems that tried to disrupt the educational processes. It can be more fully measured in the opportunities for growth that overcoming these road blocks that the high water mark of the time is set. Things were posponed and delayed... extra work to get the schedule moving... this was the benefit. We were able to see that we could do what was necessary and that we were capable and strong. Obstacles were hurdles that were to be jumped, not barriers to hinder our climb. Now that these lessons have been driven home to us we know that we are better and stronger. We know that there can be no limits to our plans and ambitions but those we set for ourselves. Each of our plans is a part of what makes us unique and what makes us masters of our fate. Waiting to return lo llie cily champ- ionship game versus Snider. Toni Sal- keld lakes an an i(Uis glance at llic

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Northrop whatever we made it whatever we decided In the beginnings, we were afraid of Northrop. It seemed as if it would engulf us with its hugeness and it would make us something besides ourself. Before too long we found out the truth. Northrop was just us. It was no artificial monster, but just the sum of all the individual parts. And we were the individual parts. Changing was there, but it was the changing that we do. It was the changing that was another word for growing. New chances to do and learn things made us different but different in a way we choose. And in the totality there was room for. everyone. The more varied the parts, the more flexible and more useful Northrop was. We became the thousand rocks that make up the mountain, we bacame the thousand streams that make up the river, we became the thousand cells that make up the body. And like in a body, or perhaps a family, we found that each of us contributed strengths that helped to be self sustaining. And we also found that our weaknesses were covered by other strengths in the body. Each of us had a role to play and a addition that would make the future more optimistic for everyone. The Bruin dctlTisivf tront line overpowers Luers on llicir way to sniothering lire Knights qiuirterbaek. Gary Faxon works on liis art ■projeet. To help school spirit, Gina Nahrwald works on a poster before a big game.