South High School - Spectra Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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THE ROAD NOT TAKEN Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth ' Then took the other as just as fair And havrng perhaps the better elarm Because rt was grassy and wanted wear Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same And both that mornrng equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black Oh I kept the first for another dayl Yet knowrng how way leads on to way I doubted rf I should ever come back I shall be tellrng thrs wrth a sigh Somewhere ages and ages he nce Two roads diverged rn a wood and I I took the one less traveled by And that has made all the drfference Robert Frost U8 4 j Since ancrent tlmes the sea has been the pathway that has carrred rnankrnd on hrs xoya e to knortled 4 and adventure The ancient empires of Egypt lreece Rome and Carthage depended upon the sea as a pathway that brought them commerce and conquest Thrs path was also the medrum through whrrh thrrr cultures were transmitted to other lands and peoples Although the emprres surroundrng the sea eventually crumbled the sea today remains timeless and eternal rndrvrdual droplets whrch are carrred rn rrpples waves and tides They thunder upon the shore and are sprays d rn a thousand drrectrons They crash against a breakwater and are turned agarn toward the sea They are drawn by the sun rnto the clouds Mankind rs lrke the sea The shades of history vary from black to crimson to gold Man rs and has hun transported rn trdes of thought and emotron In the tumult of phrlosophrcal strrvrngs some have garned drgnrty and some have lost respect Somewhere rn hrs lrfe each man encounters a turnrng pornt a breakwater where he and he alone can decrde hrs future From the seethrng ocean of thought and emotron he must make a decrslon He must choose a pathway and the path he follows may serve as a gurde for hrs fellow man The sea however rs not the only krnd of path The SPECTRA portrays many krnds of pathways Through our studies actrvrtres and sports rn high school we are provrded wrth the maps and compasses wrth which to chart our voyages We are rntroduced to many areas of knowledge and experience Each rndrvrdual must select one of them as the path whrch he wrll follow Throughout our lrves we must retarn the desrre to seek and explore new pathways to find what lres beyond the horrzon 2 3 5 ' s 7 - ' ' ' 1 7 a 9 5 i ' T I 1 . . y . Yet, the sea does change. Its moods change constantly with varying light and shadow. It is composed ol' ' ' ' , , I , 1 V . ' T , , c , . l , l W n , 7 . 5 1. ' s I 1 T. , T T 1 I n u u . , , l , .

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Spectra 1 960 South High School Grand Rapids, Michigan

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