Rock Island High School - Watchtower Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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We ask “What am I doing here?” And the question shatters the mind’s armor. Crystallizing words into action. We seek patterns to live with the herd, Not daring to live, nor daring to learn. With open awareness, the book the days are writing . We find, what we can’t afford toforg et — That today is a prog ress of activities And friends and enriching experiences. Mindful of this, we g o on.

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The year of humanitarian concern was also one of terrifying holocausts. In a war- scarred Vietnam and on a swollen Missis¬ sippi, man and element vied in intensity and ferocity. Spring brought a wake of flooding along the mighty Mississippi. Under shadowy lengths of street lights, against a broad ex¬ panse of innocuous, clucking water, man and nature-like two grapplers - watched each other’s every move, probed each other’s weakness. A sandbag barricade, ugly but sufficient, held at bay a record-breaking crest of 22.5 feet, seven feet over flood stage. But escalation in Vietnam monopolized the news media, the minds, the hearts, the tongues of America. It was the “news of the hour—yet it was also the news of hours to come.” Students, perhaps more than others, were touched by the grimness, the reality of war, having lived so long merely under its shadow. For them, it meant a promise of future obligation. LATE FALL SAW Pope Paul VI make a whirlwind visit to New York. In so doing, he became the first Pontiff to set foot on New World sod. Flood of ’65 Passes; Vietnam War Rages NATIVE SON ADLAI Stevenson displayed before an often critical world a prowess and sincere devotion to world equilibrium. HERE CAN BE SEEN THE LAZY, decadent youth of the simmering 1960’s busy at play. The Great Flood of ‘Old Man River’ brought to front stage a picture of united effort by the teenagers of the commun¬ ity. News

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ACTIVITIES