Stamford High School - Flashback Yearbook (Stamford, CT)

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. . . we will wan- der many times in the years to come. We will remember hard work and good times, rewards and disappointments, for we will never forget SHS. For 3 years we have been part of the school, for the rest of our lives the school will be part of us. We have poured our lives into the life of the school until our pulses beat in time to its rhythm, and the school in turn has taught us all its many lessons, les- sons of how to learn, how to think, howto live. We have studied hard at Stamford High. We have crammed our heads with facts and figures until sometimes we thought they would burst. But we have need of knowledge wherever we go and whatever we do in the highly specialized world in which we live.. We played hard at SHS, and at the same time we learned that there are more important things than winning. We threw xi fi i ivwgitr ., in ,NI 21 X . ,,.Yr. ',.s'E't'fTfi:' ix 74 xtixw' fl lll iii f f f , t wi in ..i.ifti.,xli .fill ourselves into our class and homeroom activities and creat- ed social events that were perhaps the brightest spots on our path down mem- ory lane. But these same social events did more than iust give us a wonderful time, they taught us the poise and ease and social graces we will use for the rest of our lives. And, of course, we had our school council. ln the council we had a chance to practice self-government, not iust read about it. While we took our ideas and forged them into solid pro-

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grams and saw them take shape as council proiects, we learned the skills which living in a democracy de- mands of us all. ln Stamford High School we were taught not only to learn, but to do, and not only to do, but to think. We did not always realize how much we were learning. Our growth was too gradual a process, too much a matter of doing a certain day's assignment, of playing a par- ticular game, of working on a spe- cific committee, for us to recognize its size. But we did grow: we came to the school young, and completely inexperienced, and unprepared, we leave it ready to go and make our way in the world. jyayx, its 51, it Even though we grew very, very much in SHS, we never stopped having fun. No matter where we were or what we were doing we were able to enioy our- selves. Probably the good times we have had here will be our clearest memory in years to come, certainly it is the memory of our three wonderful years that is up- permost in our minds and hearts as we turn the page and begin our stroll Down Memory Lane.