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

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Several Bruin fans cheer on the askethall team during the North Side contest. Senior pom pon co-captain Connie Large takes a well deserved break to observe the rest of the corps practice their routine.

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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.

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In spite the complexity, we could still be ourselves It was in the individualness that we found friends. Others who had similar interests to ours found us and we found them and by holding together, we were so much stronger. We could realize that through friends and the recognition of their individuallation that both were confirmed. We had found in Northrop that we could be ourselves and now we found that we could join with others and be more than ourselves. Skills and talents that were our pride when we had stood alone were worth more when we stood together. In all areas, it was like a band where the sound of each instrument is sweet, but the blending of many can be more rich and expressive. Our skills and talents not only in music but in sports, in academics, and in all of the areas we excelled profited from teamwork. Friends were the addition that did not double but multiplied all of our superlatives. As we go through this yearbook, let ' s think of all the ways we were stronger though the friends who were able to show us so many new things. ' Sis ' Arnold lakes u break from one of licr gym elasses. Yvette Sainaan does her thing during speeeh elass.