Salem High School - Quaker Yearbook (Salem, OH)

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the nineteen sixty-five quaker volume forty-six salem senior high school salem, ohio

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The speed and the energy of youth vibrate with excitements now passed and recalled only by symbols. These photo- graphs and words are a portfolio of those symbols. The photographs capture the unquestioned images, the truth of the year; the words point beyond this reality—to penetrate the surface, recreating the mood, the core of our memories. Time is swiftfleeing and many things are over before they start, except those special things which never really begin but always were and never seem to end. An essay of photos and words can illustrate this uniqueness of time. It juxta- poses yesterday with tomorrow and aspirations with ac- complishments. If, sometime in the future, we should dream back over these springyears of our lives, what would we remember most? How fantasy-tinted will the photos of our memory be? Will we remember our education as a long, slow proc- ess or as one gigantic sweep of experience? Will the se- crets of today be known tomorrow, and the crowds in which we once gathered disperse; will our friendships change or endure; will we have lost the goals we once set in youthful optimism? Tomorrow we can, through these symbols, re- affirm our commencement aspirations. We can vow to learn and accomplish while there is still time. Then we will be on our own—surely to fight, maybe to win, continually proud of ourselves, our heroes and our accomplishments.