St Paul High School - Paulite Yearbook (Grosse Pointe Farms, MI)

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Despite depressions, staff reaches end of 69's creative chaos Page 176 - finally happened on April Fools' Day. We assumed that the circumstances were symbolic but encountered some difficulty in de- ciding whether the implication was ironic or ap- propriate. Being realists at heart, and acutely aware of the zany effects of extended yearbook- itis, we concluded the latter. Yearbook people are undoubtedly fools - creative, persistent, committed fools - who would somehow rather face all the frustrations and setbacks of production than squander one ounce of responsibility to their journalistic brain-child. While still in appreciable grasp of our sanity, we want to repay, at least in some measure, our great debts of gratitude to all the fabulous fools who pulled us through the Paulite Panic. To Eileen, we extend our sincere wish that things will sound right. To Kathi and Diane, who sup- plied the Paulite's start and finish, and to Sue who typed all of the middle, we present our sentimental swinger, the Joe Yearbook award. To Sister Cath- erine Camille and Sister Marie Dorothy, who critiqued our copies, to Mr. Frank Ortman, Al Griffin, Gene Petini, and most especially to Mack and Lorraine Suprunowicz, who smilingly bore us through our worst depressions, we offer our pro- found gratitude. Whatever our initial directions for the Paulite, we slowly, consciously reached for a style that communicated what we saw and felt and experi- enced in the part of this changing world that is St. Paul. From our yearbook experience we know that when a person reaches out, he must learn to expect to occasionally withdraw some bruised fingers of broken illusions. But, despite the cost, a person who truly reaches out will touch a whole new world of unique insights and people to whom his message will still remain: Reach out! 176 i'f3'7,v W 'I Q qrrrqr i if ' WWW V .ggi Lriy W, .,,. , V5 , mam, , rd! 1 ' .- ,. 4 ' N , ' -ff H ,. ..,. H . l,?CKSKn! lz' . ,,,,. 22' no ' vga' .aff V qrrv A-rw WSW , ' ' -We H-'M' ' , r L Wawibig ,ia . ' ' - V W 53' -I wmv-mm:'f'f' MQ,'W5l' ff W W Y-I .,,.. r a arrr aa,-w-wer f f 335- www f5f5iM7,:fVL V, 3 5 :i., :,..,a-11.- -: r rmwnw . as-fi i. . - , -,WW s,., ' g if . F .,, .Mai . I f,.r,mWa.., as, . EF 1' A -4 , in mooenu YEARBOOK e-pq m1U.1....... . 1.n.1.x...u-e-nm . n..m..m