Ridgewood High School - Arrow Yearbook (Ridgewood, NJ)

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jonnjafiond For tnrrteen years each member of our Senior pl rss has been working on his individual self-structure. mor re of the work was conscious labor, but more often we were shaprng ourselves unknowingly. Most of us, srn e we were our own architects, made no blue- prmted plans but just went ahead. The wise few, however took time to lay their plans well, and today tnev have progressed much farther than the others. Gradually we have all seen the necessrty for the plannrng of our future and most of us are now usrng the re-rnarnder of our educatron to better advantage For next year most of our plans lead us rn dtfferent dwre trons Up to thrs trme we have been layrng foun Jatr ns al of them fundamentally the same Those uf us who worked hard and mrxed the concrete well wrll frnd the future golng easy The others however who burlt therr foundatrons of blocks wrll frnd that they must spend most of therr trme reparrrng past mrstakes Some of ur plans call for small burldrngs but more often for large ones Whether or not these struc tures wrll be completed rests wholly wrth each one of us Therr qualrty and beauty rs dependent solely upon each bu lder Although all of these butldrngs wont turn out to be Ernprre States lets hope that every one fulfrlls rts purpose DICK IUNGE Lt 5 0306 lf we subtract the l7 years that rnost of us have whrled away by now from the 59 that rnsurance compantes tell us constrtutes an average lrfe span we frnd qurte srrnply that we have a scant 42 years remarntng rn whrch to conquer the world 42 years rn whrch to lrve Yet how many of us wrll Haste thos precrous few years flounderrng about rn a sea of lrstlessness and 1ndecrs1on'P How many of us w1ll oe content to let those 42 years lead us where they wrll and make no real effort to really lrve them? oertatnly there are some but let each one of us srrve desperat lv not t fall rnto that class frcatronl fullest to frll each hour or bet r each mrnut of the day wtth actrvrty both mental and physrcar Lets vow to lrve an alert and vrtal lrfe rn wh ch we thrnk and act plan and dream see and hear and above all enroy every second of our alloted lrferme' To the one who lrves the m st lrfe wrll naturally mean the most There rt rs spread out refore us all f l1fe tts ours for the taktng and We may a e LL rn any quanuty desrred Of ourse no ne ould ever be expe ted t experrence all of lrf s tnrrlls bu n one 1S ever gorng to stop the ne wh tr es' D LEONARD 7 . , ' ' e 4 , ,, , o , J 4 1 e A O ' i ' ' . Let's vow to ourselves to frll the cup of lrfe to its , ' , ' te T e, I I l . O , t y A o ' , - - ' ' o A A t k ' l' ' . c o A c ' c 'o ' e'- ' A , t o ' ' c o o t c.

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SEIXIICDR CLASS

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HERBERT HARRIGAN SE RETARY RIOHARD IUNGE PREQIDENT ROY CONIN SWOOD REASURER DOROTHY EASTON vr EPREBIDI-:NT RICHARD LEONARD EDITOR