Port Perry High School - Hilltop Yearbook (Port Perry, Ontario Canada)

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:::POEMS::: JUNGLE B5OPLE Like the pecple of a town, some live up and some live down. All the rhino's and the apes live wav up. upon the hills, And to cure their aches and pains, these animals take a box of pills. Baboons are the little folk, always doing foolish things, They chatter in the little crags while the mother lion sings. The spotted, lengthy-necked giraffes roam on the huge wide open plains. They are sure to wear bandanas when- ever the clouds send forth some rain. The monkeys climb so very n ibly to the top of the tangled leafy trees. The natives live in beehive huts like all our buzzing domestic bees. Here comes the slimy crocodiles that waddle to the muddy river. I advise you now to run away if you want to save your liver. Donna Samells Grade QA MOTHER To one who bears the sweetest name, And adds a lustre to the same, Who shares my joys, who cheers when sad, The greatest friend I ever had. Long life to her for there's no other, Could take the place of my dear mother. Glenn Somerville 9A

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DO HUMAN BEINGS DESIRE TO BE CIVILIZED? I often wonder if we humans do desire to be civilized. Do you ever watch people, any people, and have the thought come into your mind. nPerhaps this revolution from the monkeys' theory is really on the right trackn? I have! This brings to my mind an amazingly clear picture of small boys swinging in trees and dropping dangerously from branch to branch like a number of miniature baboons. Even dotting parents must have their doubts when they listen to incomprehensible chatter of these little monkeys. You probably hear fond relatives say that it's just animal spirits that makes small boys act as they do. With this statement I completely agree. Take for instance a tribe of teen-agers. To me they look so much like hatchet-happy Indians that I fear for the future of our world. Earrings, scalped hair-cuts and bloody finger nails make me think that the Indianshave nothing on us. There is no doubt in my mind, as I regard a mob of women over a bargain counter, that they are direct descendants of snarling, yelping, timber wolves fighting over some choice morsel of food in a desolate forest, You've probably noticed pictures in magazines or relics in museums, of cavemen who have gone slap-happy with their mates. Doesn't this make you think of the back-slapping, hair- pulling, antics of an adolescent out with his first girlfriend. I remember very well my first date with a lad of this type. He was a great big burly kid, the strong, silent type and his first attempt at conversation, after I had, with great presence of mind made the introductions, was by way of comradly slap on my father's back administered with an equally comradly WHiIW I left my mother to give first aid to Father's back and bolted, The semi-trot to the theatre was accompanied with four slaps and a minimum of at least ten hair-pullings and then when asked by a friend how things were going I replied. WGosh he's nuts about mein Such are the signposts of civilization. Youfve probably read articles on our evolution from globs These microscopic little human to be, although not able to ' talk and just learning to move, are supposed to have been our antecedents. This does not seem so Cout of the questionl when you regard the typical business man of the day. Usually glob-shaped and silent such examples of humanity possess many other glob characteristics, And so as I bring this essay to a close. I must remind you to watch our civilization and see if you don't recognize a universal reverting to the days of old. I dare you to! NANCY KIGHT

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