Red Bank Catholic High School - Emerald Yearbook (Red Bank, NJ)

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another. In doing this, we may possibly have excluded some contributions in an effort to expand those which had the most profound effects on shaping and molding 1974-75. Since measurement of effect is a very personal science we apologize to those who feel hurt or neg- lected by any exclusions of what they deemed significant contributions in making the year what it was. We believe the culmination of our lit- erary efforts can be found in the great increase in the amount of copy in this book over previous yearbooks. The idea was to offer interesting reading with pictures instead of pictures with some words on the page. Of course, each person will have his or her favorite section or else hate the whole thing. In any case we strongly encourage the reading of all the copy. The interviews used to produce the copy for the faculty section were conducted as pro- fessionally as possible and can be very informative. The poll taken for the senior section copy was carefully ana- lyzed before any writing was done and quotes were chosen completely at ran- dom. The success of this book as an ac- curate history of ten months can only be measured by those who carefully observed the year as we did. All we can say is that we tried ... Kris Forsman and Patti Kulis 4

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, -A ) , V 1 dJr p ry- , J- |AV ' Pfrap- oA j cv- ,,, 0 n ,v' FOREWORD TT he production of any publication is difficult. Time, logic, creativity, planning, psychological trauma, and mistakes all working together can have a devastating effect on any project, especially if it is under- taken with naive enthusiasm and idea- lism. With any luck, the finished product rises above the tangled depths which produced it and with no luck the finished product reflects the forces which conceived it. In any case, what is gained from any literary undertaking is usually worth the twenty or so years of a person’s life cut off in the process. Such was the case with this book. Our goal was to write a history of one group of people, in one situation, for one year. To do this we felt it was necessary to avoid generalizations, phrases, and occurences which have been repeated and will be repeated year after year after year. However, this does not mean that we excluded the Senior Class trip or Homecoming because even though these items take place every year they were never ex- perienced by this exact group of people at this exact point in history before. The Class of 75 certainly deserved as much attention as the Class of 74 received but the difference in the kind of atten- tion given helped create a more precise, realistic examination of a class of students living in the United States and experiencing the conditions of that country that year. The types of things we tried to ex- clude were class descriptions, club descriptions, etc. which could be printed in any yearbook at any point in time because of their generality and lack of significance or contribution to making one year any different from 3

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