Scituate High School - Chimes Yearbook (Scituate, MA)

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CLASS HISTORY The resplendent autumn of 1 971 was perhaps a harbinger of what we, the class of 1 975, were to achieve and hope for during the four years of our high school lives. As freshmen, however, we envisaged little of what high school held in store for us. Our concepts of high school life were as unformed as our intellectual and emotional selves. Nevertheless, as the year progressed we acquired qualities and participated in activities which set us far apart in maturity and outlook from our junior high days. We were presented with a far greater freedom of choice in the form of extended campus, less rigid programs of study, smoking areas and reduced supervision due to the size of the high school. Broader avenues of interests enlivened and expanded the scope of our social lives, from uproarious float meetings and the ill-fated project Skate, to fall football games and numerous after school clubs and activities. As well as social growth, our emotional outlook was also altered. At junior high we were the confident upperclassmen. in high school, however, our status was considerably reduced. Our self conciousness was apparent in our nervous mannerisms, and also in the low profiles we kept. We associated mostly with fellow freshmen as our awe of upperclassmen remained undispelled. As the year drew to an end we gladly embraced the summer months and bid goodbyes until the next September. It was a good feeling to be back to start our sophomore year and to be able to look down on those lowly creatures — the freshmen! Their bewildered first-day expressions vividly recalled our own similar discomfiture just a short year ago. With the advent of sophomore year, social life began in earnest and the reticence of our freshman days became truly a thing of the past. We were fully acclimated to high school and its attendant pot pourri of social, cultural, academic and athletic activities. Parties, dances, touch football games, impromptu frisbee exhibitions, and bike trips were all engaged in with enthusiasm. Junior and senior girls began casting worried glances as their boyfriends grew increasingly attentive to the beguiling females in our class. The increasing sports prowess of the sophomore boys was a constant source of foreboding to various junior and se nior athletes. In any case our presence at Scituate High School was felt with increasing impact in all areas of the high school community. With the arrival of junior year our class grew collectively more assertive, as demonstrated by animal noises in the library, the ' spirited ' performances of the Junior Variety Show, the streakers, M-80 detonations in the 12

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IN MEMOR Y OF ANN PETERS When your love has moved away. You must face yourself and say I remember better days Don ' t you cry ' cause she is gone She is only moving on Chasing mirrors thru a haze

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stair wells, nerve shattering screeches down empty corridors in the nniddle of class, and the always popular false fire alarm or bomb scare. On the more respectable side of events, junior year saw the development of increased emotional stability and maturity. We no longer relied so heavily on the snug security of our respective cliques. We did what we wanted to, regardless of the group. Junior year was also marked by the Student Council ' s valiant efforts to resurrect the quadrangle from the weeds, the presentation of the Dalto n Sports Award, and all sports trophy, and the fact that the boys ' and girls ' tennis teams were No. 1 in the state. The pancake breakfast was not one of our more stellar financial ventures but did provide relief food to the Chelsea fire victims. The PSAT ' s and SAT ' s were widely scorned and despised as a leading cause of shattered egos and paralyzed posteriors. Two classes which aroused strong reaction were the universally popular coed gym classes and the universally unpopular Driver Ed classes. Junior year was also the time when we explored more extensively that realm of conviviality known as the ' Glades ' where sundry refreshments were consumed in generous quantity. Senior year was the year of expectation. Throughout high school we had looked forward to this year — surmising that it would be a time of limitless social enjoyment and a release from our academic burden and or boredom. This, however, was not entirely the case. Despite the usual degrees of the ' senior slump, ' we found our time schedules as cramped and harried as junior year. The landslide of tests, test dates, recommendations, application essays and the other thousand and one details involving the college application process were mainly responsible for this. Senior year saw the arrival of a popular new principal, Mr. Collins. Also this was the year of double sessions and the arrival of the ' Munchkins ' from the Junior High School. The Senior Variety Show and the Senior Prom were both events to be remembered as they were characteristic of our class spirit and enthusiasm. Despite the frustrations and difficulties, the cramming and the long hours spent on term papers, the events and experiences of our high school years will continue to grow larger and brighter as the passage of time enriches our memories. Our graduation day was the culmination of our years in high school. It was a day unique in what it symbolized — four years where change was rampant and the realization of latent maturity imminent.