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

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AT THE END OF THE DANCE— empty pop bottles. There Is Nostalgia and There Are Memories

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ftpHUE AT THE END OF THE DAY, the halls seem long and lonely. JUNE — an end and a beginning. It is a time for nostalgia over a year gone by and a time for anticipation for the summer to come. Seniors walk down the long corridors for the last time as high school students. During the year, the halls seemed to stretch out interminably before their eyes, but then, almost without warning, they reached the last door — and stepped into the world. There is nostalgia and there are memories: empty pop bottles on the tables at the last dances, the half-remembered strains of music softly playing, a hazy memory of all the friends that helped give our life meaning during 1959-1960. JUNE — an end and a beginning. School is over; summer is rushing in. For the aging Senior, another year of youth has ended; but a whole new life spreads out before him. 28

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CURRICULUM THE SOUND OF SHAKER IS COMMUNICA- TION, the daily interplay of sound between stu- dent and teacher. It is the laughter after a Bris- tol joke, the heated debate in a Modern Euro- pean History class, a Szwaja lecture echoing down the corridor. It is all these sounds merg- ing, blending, harmonizing into a valued ex- change of knowledge. But education is more than oral communica- tion; it is also a meeting of minds. Bewildered, distraught, awed, or aroused, we were obliged, often unwillingly, to reappraise our opinions, beliefs, and prejudices. Whether stupified by a titration experiment we had thought impossible, or disquieted by Emerson whom we could not fully comprehend, we found these to be chal- lenging moments in our education. Now we are entering a new decade with a new urgency in education. Whether the new decade will be the widely-touted Soaring Six- ties is open to conjecture. As for Shaker educa- tion, the future is clearly promising. 30