Rogers Hall School - Splinters Yearbook (Lowell, MA)

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Advice to Those on the Brink Preserve your sanity-Build a defense mechanism-Watch it, kid- HE wants you! Lunacy can creep up in those soft treading PF Flyers if you don't devise that protective barrier. The symptoms are obvious: paranoia, one-way conversations, and bliss in oblivion-all seek you out. Retaliatel Retort, if you've got the stamina. First, admit to yourself that a battle exists. Don't deceive yourself, acknowledge the challenge, face it! This major step taken, the next few are not as hard on your pride. Keep occupied. This shield won't dent and let those unrelated fantasies infil- trate. By becoming involved with those stable people around you, you have no time to lose control of the senses. Don't slip-HE's watching. Leave no time for the real subconscious to peer through the surface. Flank your soundness or lose it completely. There is no medium! The daily groove is retraced. The needle of existence begins to wear. Substitute a new needle. Extract yourself from that worn environment. A new kind of monotony will help, then again . . . but hesitation may prove fatal. Move quickly. Don't worry about the rear view. Don't turn back. HE will be following you. ToN1 POLLAK '69 A Plea A La Vis-Ed My thoughts are sordid . . . Evil lurks in my mind . . . a lucid reverie Black on white . . . superimposed . . . trepidation always malignant . . . no illumination . . . despicable. This is the zenith . . . we need light I plead to you . . . this is not a figment We exist . . . darkened. Search now . . . before we attend our own obsequies. LYNNE TAHAN '69 12

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I was. . . and I shouldn' t have been . . I was on the train going home for a weekend from school with two of rrfy friends. A sailor climbed into the train and sat down next to me. I was reading a book by James Baldwin, which he commented on. From then on there were scattered bits of introductory conversation. I-le told me he was just coming home to New York City after two years in Vietnam. This was my first meeting with someone who had fought in Vietnam. We talked about the fighting itself and the war in general. During the conversation I began to respect and admire this boy and to think about the fact that he was symbolic of thousands ofyoung' men of our generation. After a while I asked him if, when he found out he had to go to Vietnam, he had been scared. I-Ie told me that it was a mixture of being shocked and scared, and that the first night he was over there he had had to shoot a man not five feet tall. just before we were pulling into the station of my destination I told him how spoiled I felt compared to him: complaining about boarding school and thinking that during my two years there I have endured unbearable hardship . I am only three years younger than that boy. I did feel hard used . . . but I shouldn't haveg my meeting on the train taught me this fact. BUNNY MACMANNIS '70 The Sacrifice The crumb of bread was dropped upon the altar. I-Iurried feet mashed the particles into a hard small mass. pressurized and squelched-lost identity . . . An ant discovered the substance- a treasure of necessity. ELIZABETH I-IALL '69 11

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