Princeton High School - Tiger Yearbook (Princeton, WV)

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CRJBUU Lights . . • 0 Barger Lilly Ernie Bragg Bill Culp Mickey Kassem Melvin Lester Larry Showalter Ricky Noland Tracy Pettrey

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a better generation. The rift between the generations in our time is puzzling, because the age gap between them is small. Some people believe kids are steadily getting worse, in every way. Older citizens are automatically appalled by almost everything our kids do. If kids do it, it's bad even if their elders do it themselves without self-criticism. Authorities warn us never to pick up teen-age hitchhikers. Haven’t parents lost control of their offspring? Aren't college kids rioting? What about the way they dance? Their music? Pop art? and so on and on. Endlessly, and endless nonsense and libel! We are all to eager to accept all such accusations without question. No nation ever before undertook such massive blackguarding of its own young. To whom can I speak today? The gentle man has perished The violent man has access to everybody. The iniquity that smites the land It has no end. There are no righteous men. The earth is surrendered to criminals. the writer's nostalgia for the older, gentler, more righteous time strikes us as very modern. The writer could be alive today, but this poem was written by a man contemplating suicide some 4,000 years ago, in the time of Egypt's Middle Kingdom! It is an abiding characteristic of man to believe that the old virtures are disappearing, the old cause disintegrating, and the old, good, stern ways no longer honored. Often we forget that each generation must refight the old crucial battles on its own battleground and so dicover it's own truths. Let us for a moment think differently. Take time to look at the people you will meet in this book and see them as they really arc. The finest people on earth, the finest there ever was, arc America’s minor citizens, American kids, TEENAGERS included. Yet we seldom take the time and effort to honor our next generation. Let us cease to be critical and look to our youth for bright promises of a better tomorrow. After all we really have nowhere else to look for hope. America's youth is this nation's future, and with them rest the only future we have. In this book you will see profiles of the brilliant and the excep- tional. You will meet those who feel on the outside of things, and those who have difficulty keeping pace with their companions. But all of them are IN THE ACTION! And almost without exception they are doing their best. Open now the pages of our book. Look at their fads, fashions, their kooky likes and dislikes. See them in moments of quiet tension and in frantic displays of release. Let our camera show you in both individuals and groups the leaders of tomorrow. It’s a go- generation and the whole of humanity is betting on them. Young America WILL have it's say. Teens are tops! And I think this pictorial essay proves it. Now is the time for action and the place is PRINCETON HIGH SCHOOL. 3

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SCHOOL PPOFOSRAFWER Jim Graham, Delmar Co. Camera . . . .