Peoria High School - Crest Yearbook (Peoria, IL)

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Empathy Sometimes I like to sit alone in a quiet place and escape into a dream world all my own. A world where fantasy and reality intertwine and become one. I can remember the happy times . . . being secluded in the park with a pile of leaves and a passion for playfulness . . . a deserted stretch of beach and someone to talk to and someone to understand. I think, too, about the future . . . going away to school and being away from family and friends. I wonder how it must feel to be really hungry . . . or totally unloved. I wonder But I really do not want to know. J ' fsffai

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Where D0 W e G0 From Here? Our world is a world of constant change, constant movement, constant progress and conflict. Ours is a time of deliberation, broken promises and plastic features, disappointed faces, charred and broken places. What should have happened has not yet occurred, and every- one points to the other man. Enthusiasm for countless causes and crusades catches like Wildfire and inspires men to test their soapbox prowess, and everybody be- comes an authority on everything. People pick up bits of knowledge, and radicals wage wars, because they know just enough and not too much. Thomas Huxley must have envisioned education in the seventies when he asked, If a little knowledge is dan- gerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? People, today, have cr tremendous impact upon each other--especially youth. The now thing is to be yourself, but how can anyone be an individual when there is so much pressure to conform? Conform to what? Nonconformity, of course. Do you understand? .... I don't think I do. Iust once I would like to get away from people and their influence and be my own friend for a moment-to reduce my mind to its simplest elements and then, rebuild my values and priorities without help and without pres- sure. Outside influence can be a powerful advantage in helping men make decisions, but the decisions must ultimately come from within. Frankly, I am tired of being a liberal because it is fashionable. I am weary of having my opinions pre- determined by my peers and having my new friends chosen by my old ones. Nonconformity is fashionable be- cause everyone does it. We live in a world in which the most original concept we can think of is to mimic one another. People are becoming more and more aware of their surroundings. We all are beginning to realize that our world is not flawless, and for some it has come as quite a shock. The problems facing us today are too large, too forboding to be waved aside and forgotten. In time they might even consume us, but we realize this, too. And so there is a chance. It we desired we could press a button and destroy our little planet, and all our trials and struggles would go un- noticed. And all the people on other little planets would smile and say, That can't happen here. I-ind we smile and say, That can't happen here. Life holds too much promise to let it slip by without a fight. We have the power and ingenuity to transform our world into a flourishing cultural utopia. Why do we hesitate? Can you see the person nearest to you now? Smile at himp it won't hurt you. Can you imagine the person farthest from you now? Smile at him, too, even though he won't see you. If everybody could look up from what- ever they are doing and sincerely follow the same two directions every day, there might never be another way. If you smile at me, I will understand 'cause that is something everybody does in the same language. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young Wooden Ships The first and perhaps most effective education is pro- vided by free expression and open exchange of ideas. The closer man can come to grips with an idea, the more effective it is. Listening is better than reading, and coming face to face with people and new ideas is the greatest possible inspiration. The students of today think about more than one prob- lem, share more than one emotion, and have more than one goal in life. Therefore, we felt it inadequate to devote this entire book to one central theme. So instead, we gave it 164 themes, and we still feel that some people have been left out. Raymond L. Wootton Editor-in-Chief Gregor I-I. Selke Assistant Editor

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