Schuylerville Central School - Schuyler Yearbook (Schuylerville, NY)

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The Class of 973 Welcomes Dr. Wallace9 District Principal What's in a decade? Ten years - a decade - is a neat, comfortable unit of time. It can be set aside and looked at, talked about, written about, and pondered. It can be missed, decried, analyzed, criticized, revered and, even named, as in the case of the Fabulous Fifties featured in this yearbook. It is the decade in which this senior class membership was born, which gives it a special place in history. TheFiftiesalsoboastedofUncle Miltie, the Yankee powerhouse, the Korean Armistice, Eisen- hower and Stevenson, the Kefauver Hearings, Elvis, bobby socks, sweaters, brush cuts, saddle- shoes, James Dean, the Army-McCarthy contest, ducktails. Sputnik, the Troika, John Glenn, Jonas Salk, and sub-orbital flights. How many of these do you know about? - Benjamin Wallace District Principal 6

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Approximately eighteen years ago, we were nothing. We were born into a society of love, but it was not a universal love. Nuclear devastation and annihilation were the ever present threats. Air raid drills were as common as our present day fire drills. Even though the world was in a state of political turmoil, the people exhibited a mood unequalled by any other. This mood was shown to the world through the music of the ’50's, Rock and Roll. Through this music and the excitement of the time, the youth expressed a unique vivacious- ne s that overwhelmed America. This vivacity was exemplified by such activities assock-hops and telephone booth cramming. Malt shops, D. A. 's and bobbie socks were the in things. As a sharp contrast to the '50 s, with the '60's came unrest not caused by external pressures. We found un- imaginable that the problems were now from within the nation. When we posed the question, Why? , no one seemed to be able to amply supply the answer. We could not put faith in a society that we did not understand. Therefore, we in the '70 s turned to the fifties . . . The problems then were great and varied, but the people seemed not to notice. They found something within themselves to believe in. They showed a unity of strength that overpowered their shadows of fear. It is our past which has made us what we are. We are the children of our own deeds. Conduct has created character; acts have grown into habits; each year has pressed into us a deeper moral print; the lives we have led have left us such as we are today. - John B. Dykes - 5

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