Ridgewood High School - Arrow Yearbook (Ridgewood, NJ)

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CLASS PUEIVI As a body we disintegrate into com- ponent parts: Our stride is determined by the drive in our hearts. The foundation we've laid .within is the test, To determine a measure of future success. Let us shape our own destinies, mold them by strife, Surmount all the obstacles presented to life. Shed no tears of surrender at fate's ready door: Let our failures e'er gird us to struggle the more. At long last the goal to which We aspire. Will be Within reach of a life-long desire. -NANCY LEAHY

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'AT THE EHUSSWAYSH You to the left and I to the right, For the ways of men must sever- I-lnd it well may be for a day and a night, And it well may be forever. For twelve years we have been cast- ing the molds of our characters. We are now at the crossways. For some of us that casting will continue, for some of us it is almost completed, but for all of us it is an experience that will stand us in good stead the rest of our lives. Until now we have worked together and played together but next year our paths will lead in different directions. How many of us will follow those paths the way we want to follow them? How many of us will see our dreams and ambitions come true? No one can tell, of course, it's strictly an individual proposition. We can take just as much out of life as we put into it. It's spread out before us now-true, it won't wait, WHAT LIE We who are graduating from High School this year and those who will graduate in the near future are coming to a bend in our river of life. When we round this bend, we will be facing much the same problem which our parents faced twenty years ago. Most of the great nations of the world are at war for the second time in a life span and, no matter who wins, there will be a period of economic upset immedi- ately afterwards, which it will be our duty, as the rising generation of Amer- ica, to deal with. ' It has been said that we are getting soft, that we don't know how to tackle a really serious situation efficiently, that isms and other impractical creeds are all that we think of. Well, -RICHARD Hovrav but for those of us who have planned for the future it won't take long to catch up. Life holds much for the person who has the backbone to look for it. lt is enjoyable if one wishes to enjoy if. We've been told that it's a cold, cold world, but for those who wish to feel its warmth--it can be done. We now stand on the threshold of the world. Let's make our presence feltg 1et's bring joy and happiness into a world seemingly devoid of such things. Let's make our entrance one of purpose and meaning-point straight for the top and meet success half way. f-LEROY ALTZ, In. S AHEAD perhaps this is justwhat we need to prove our mettle. There are many ways we can face this problem, but mainly threeg we can adopt the attitude that it's not our fault and we should just wait tor the other nations to straighten things outg we can be indifferent as to what hap- pens as long as we, personally, have our three square meals a dayg or we can do all we can to pull the world to- gether and justify our existence by making it a somewhat better place in which to live. Let us do our best to show the world that the third way is the right way, the democratic way, the American way! -Cmaor. VAN SICKLE