Paris High School - Parisian Yearbook (Paris, KY)

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PARISIAN SENIOR CLASS. PARIS HIGH SCHOOL. PARIS. KENTUCKY THE SPIRIT OF YOUTH The Spirit of Youth is that perceptive quality which speaks for all that is real or imagined. It envelops a high school campus with motivation and intoxicates the creative mind. It serves as the life thread for an age in which it is fashionable to tell it like it is. This very spirit is Paris’ core. She wears it with a pride that at times seems almost paradoxical. It reaches out. It can be psychedelic, or simply meditative. It is each individual’s emerging personality which becomes the spirit of Paris High School. The foundation of Paris’ spirit, upon which all values are based, is its heritage. For without it. we have nothing upon which to build or add. Paris’ heritage is embellished with tradition. It is a composite of standards—statues and buildings, people and ideas-which symbolize all that Paris has stood for in the past and will stand for in the future. It is. therefore, that from which we draw in order to design our destiny. Any spirit, regardless how rich its heritage, is worthless if bound to the past. The spirit of Paris High is vibrant, steeped in tradition, yet deeply concerned with building a future both for those here now and for those yet to come. The spirit penetrates the student and becomes manifested as scholarship-the growing of a mind toward a future that otherwise would not have been as rich. Growth demands a variety of activities which stimulate special interests, through which a sense of awareness and a growing concern for social development is formulated. The aware student faces the realization that he is caught up in the spirit, in a world of books and ballgames that challenge his identity. Involvement is the only way to preserve oneself, to keep from being engulfed in the swift current, drifting from one unlearned experience to another. This involvement contributes to the spirit, and the spirit grows.

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