Sunbury High School - Torch Yearbook (Sunbury, PA)

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 mysterious; lucid — turbulent; calm — refreshing; forever changing. And like the river in its most effervescent mood, the exhilaration with which youth faces life is a marvelous stimulant for a care- worn world. This fabulous vivaciousness should en- dure and inspire, but too often it is hindered and eroded by a prosaic society and is forgotten in the darkness of youth’s extinguished flame. The determined individual, however, views life as an innovation and adventure—a challenge! The eagerness to revive the best the world has to offer must survive if concern and understanding are to endure. Onto youth’s shoulders press the vestiges of mankind’s foolishness; inequality, prejudice, pov- erty, despair, and infinitum. Yet with responsibility comes the realization of the magnificent beauty of life and love, of culture and devotion to the arts. For although failure and disappointment may some- times lurk at each new turn, hope and fortitude are ever present defenders of the audacious. Yet, wonderfully enough, youngness is not only a state of being but a state of mind. Evident in all ages, it takes its form as an electric awareness of practicality and a vision of unreality.