Rogers Hall School - Splinters Yearbook (Lowell, MA)

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dependability where is it can i find it in the sky the sea the sun can i find it in my friend my love my enemy can i find it in my senses my body my mind once a flower bloomed patiently for the sun to bake away for the wind to push afar once i was loved but something new came something unknown to me once i knew myself but confusion overcame wrinkling my temples what is the design of dependability E. HALL '69

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Stalemate The flowers dropped The leaves rotted The seeds had spread To cover the dead. SUE AUBIN '71 Rs. JN ffm .XX by e ,ce ff fm - Shamar The sand races across the street and leaves swirl until snagged in the skeleton of a bush. You breathe in short gasps and your wo-rld is smothered in a deep orangeg the stinging wind and withering heat attack you. In time an eerie calm settles and dust layers your World. Time has stopped and you are part of a monocromatic painting. LINDA Iuszczfxx '69 6

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The Roots of Contemporary Violence Lie in Affluence I want to give my kids all the things we could never afford when I was growing up. Yes, and our parents seem to have accomplished their goal. Today's youth has or will soon have a car, acquires all the clothes he needs or wants, eats as much as he may or may not need, goes to the club or the beach where he signs the check with Dad's name, goes to the best school, and has an allowance that would pay for a yacht. Of course, he might decide to get a job, not to help his family, but to pay for a ski trip or the new '69 stereo tape for his car. lt's quite obvious that a good percentage of our generation is growing up in an atmosphere of affluence. Money is being handed to us on a real silver platter, and in the perverse nature of youth, many of us are literally running from money. Even those of us who have not gone to the extreme of joining a hippie community feel the inclination to wear old ragged clothes and to attempt to live in hovels built by our own hands. The object is to build a society where money isn't the main issueg instead, the individual and what he thinks are the focus. This individual includes people of all races, religions, and economic brackets. Each one professes to want to be able to stand up and call himself a man, to declare himself free of false, materialistic values. Unfortunately he often meets hostility in pursuing his way of life and comes to believe that he must fight hostility with hos- tility, that his philosophy of individual freedom can only be acknowledged through violent means. Perhaps one of the most ironic facts of this time in history is that those who are Hghting hardest for spiritual freedom are frequently those who have had the most wealth and opportunity. They are the ones who have had all the material- istic things they could ever want and now are reaching out through any means, violent or otherwise, to reestablish their values. MARION EDDY '69 P -T 1' VIL. ' 1!:PfVlJE'lI1l1llIIllIlQlll1Yl- -Ktwhlll