Paramus High School - Delphian Yearbook (Paramus, NJ)

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Paramus Profile: Senior Silhouette To many, the senior year represents the realization of a goal, a finale to four years of arduous study. After we have spent these years outlining many ideas, our search is being brought to a culmination. However, it is not wise to consider the year as an ending, but rather to view it as the beginning of a great adventure during which each and every one of us seeks to complete that outline which was sketched in during our high school years. To break down the barriers of misunderstanding and to disregard outmoded or shallow ideas are the challenges held out to us, and, they are ours to accept or ignore. Our senior class is now poised on the horizon, looking towards a boundless future filled with numerous opportunities and possibilities, with which to augment our silhouette. As we contemplate our life before us, we should pause and consider the record of trials past, battles won, struggles lost, and friendships made. Knowledge gained during these years, although only a profile, will, hopefully, serve to guide our lives in the coming years. J. T. Trowbridge aptly expressed the power of such a profile when he wrote: If you will observe, it doesn ' t take A man of giant mould to make A giant shadow in the wall, And he who in our daily sight Seems but a figure mean and small, Outlined in Fame ' s illusive light, May stalk, a silhouette sublime, Across the canvas of his time” Thus, it is to the Senior Class of 1969, standing on the threshold of its individual destinies, contemplating its future while considering its past, that we gratefully dedicate this profile, the tenth edition of the Delphian. — Jay Lippman