Robert Louis Stevenson School - Circus Yearbook (New York, NY)

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.Lake innerafein Art Club Pres. '43, '45, Pan American Club '44, '45, '46, Class President '44, '45, '46, Editor- Look South '45, 461 President Student Council '45, '46. History Award '44, Honor Organization '-43: Service Award '44, Art Award '43, '443 Student Council Award '45, Pan-American honorable mention '45, A stroke of a paint brush, Noise without passion, Humor and appetite And a Lord and Taylor: fashion. IDU U4 .YQ N I 4.51 l 97' lilxl 'll 'g xx ZAR COLE!! Art Club, Dance Club, From England she routes, To Florida she goes. There is one in England, But Florida?'- Who know Jn A61 , X- l Q X x x 9 Jil AQ ,Ji French Club s!

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5 Editorial E . ...- l- i. .- CCW HAT have we learned from all this schooling? l can read and write, spell and add, but that's taken for granted. I've learned a lot of facts and theories, but they were already in books waiting to be examined and absorbed. I've enjoyed myself at school - outside, toog but that's hardly enough - and - oh yes -- I think I've learned to think. I tried it once, the teacher gave me a boost, and then I was over the thorny wall. There was my chance to soar over the tomes written by old men, yesterday's dreams and the newscaster's theory. I was free. Free to do everything I had done before, and more, I had a whole new universe for myself. just by thinking I suddenly discovered some amazing facts! It's really worth the trouble to think - so many people don't bother that those who do have a head start. Propaganda was invented on the theory that the biggest lie is the easiest for people to believe. Actually, it should be the easiest one to discover and discredit. However, if it isn't anticipated, it stays, grows, thrives, and eventually overpowers you. It's hard to think for one's self. So many people don't want you tog so many to whom you listen may have ambitious ends to attain. Crushing people under their success is the method by which they may have achieved their success. It is too, too easy to play the fol-lower, which involves no effort, work, thought, or risk. Perhaps insufficient training is responsible. The people with college training earn more than those without equivalent experiences or training. Is it because one group can formulate independently opinions better? But independent thinking is the only safeguard in the world to keep the peace from disappearing into different catastrophies. In most cases, high school helps as a first escape from intellectual imprisonment. Most people should have won this freedom today, yet the world and bigoted interests have erected bulwarks against an era of human beings capable of thinking for themselves. After gradua- tion, the ex-high schooler seeks new stamping grounds which have been planted to grow barriers and create artificial restrictions to intellectual freedom. Instead of solving problems according to their own interest, people often back solutions which support forces diametri- cally opposed to their own happiness. The answer lies in more and better education - education which should permit people to abolish the intellectual prejudices that restrict them to circling problems, instead of attack- ing them directly. The path is uphill, but when you've overcome difficulties once, the second time they are easier, and the fourth or fifth time they no longer exist. Independent thinking requires stick-to-it-iveness. The longer you try the easier it is. Real education is the guide which goes along to make the path easier, to make you try a little harder, and then, the barriers are down - forever.

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elflfllle 626' 041 French Clubi Dance Clubg Horseback Riding Club: Psychology Club. A regular feller is our jean. Full of pep - Her wil is keen. Add lo it her infectious laugh. Troublex alone, are doubled in Math. ,Q ,l,'y.f,f5,Ag, L, ,, 5221 1154 e H ,. ' 2,1211 X an 3 u V I Qu ' X 'E grace gala Clam Secretary '46: Business Editor - Spanish Magazine '45g Pan-American Club: Tennis Club: Swimming Clubg Softball Team: Spanish Medal. Well hercls to Grace, With her sweet charming lace, She's an all around Gal Tha! ha.: many a pal.