Shaker Heights High School - Gristmill Yearbook (Shaker Heights, OH)

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STUDENT LIFE High school is the twilight of that over-analyzed stage of life, adolescence, and it is the dawn of reality. It is a peculiar combina- tion of an end and a beginning. Here the un- complicated but cloudy world of childhood meets its end and emerges as a world begin- ning to assume the dimensions of adulthood. There are three years for this transition; and each of the three has a particular personality and attitude. The sophomore year is exuberant and expectant; the junior, happy and enthusias- tic; and the senior, filled with satisfaction, antic- ipation, and perhaps a bit of reminiscence. Three years of time have brought a change. And when they fall into perspective, there is a bit of regret for things undone and a bit of hap- piness for the things accomplished and the fun that came along. An individual develops in accordance with the dimensions of his life; and time is the fourth and most significant dimension. It does not seem to pass evenly: there are those endless days which drag on forever, and there are those hours which change from the future to the past with almost no sensation of a present. Its effect is constant, though, for there is a change in each person as time carries on his life and is spent as high school years.

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-mMt? ' f - Malcolm Hale ' s music has charms to soothe the wild senior party. Y-Teen cooking smokes out taster Janet Miller. Students Join Together in the Search for Identity Three years . . . three years of trying, growing, searching . . . three years to learn, to develop in skill, to discover in- terests and talents — this was high school. Fifteen hundred searching people, fifteen hun- dred different methods, differ- ent directions and results — this too was high school. And har- mony was there along with dis- cord, variety with monotony. The searching led these fifteen hundred onto the tennist courts, the baseball diamond, the stage, the scholarship roll, into the orchestra pit, the meeting room, and those quiet places where individual accomplish- ment is born. Still another search was common to all these fifteen hundred: the search for themselves, for identity. And this led from the group domination of the ear- lier days to the later signs of individuality and, perhaps, ma- turity. It fostered that tendency to gather in pairs and groups, and people were everywhere together. Thus it was that so- cial life — the dances, the im- promptu action, the gossip, the silence — was so essential a part of the days. Pat Sanson and Jeff Cole indulge in Snacks at the Tuesday Afternoon Bar. 20