Tekonsha High School - Indian Yearbook (Tekonsha, MI)

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JUNIOR OFFICERS Marilyn Macky, Reporter; Pat Millard, Vice President; Gwyn Randall, President; Mr. Richard son, Advisor; Charlene Rarick, Treasurer; Gwynne Dextef, Secretary. Ron Amsler June Berry Gwynne Dexter Penny Drudge Leo Herman Nancy Hill Bill Ewers Faye Griffith Brenda Katz

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OPTIMIST Faculty, Schoolboard, Parents, Friends and Classmates Are you one who believes that things are all right, and do you take a cheerful and hopeful view of life? If you are such a person then consider yourself an optimist, .When one walks amid the opposing perils of life, a little optimism is needed. Please notice I say that only a little dab of such thinking is needed to be mixed into the ingredients of life. Too much of such an attitude can tend to make a person boring, for who likes to be around the guy or gal who is constantly looking on the good-side and completely ignoring any other possible view. Optimism flourishes on brightness. The sun shines every day, letting no cloud hinder its rays from touching the earth. The optimist encourages you daily when he says, It is not going to rain today and spoil the picnic, or I'm not going to be sick on the night of die Prom.” Then there is the person who looks only on the bad side of things. I feel fine now, must be I'm going to be sick in a little while; or everything has gone right today, it must mean that the rest of the week's actions will go wrong. He insists that there is no cloud anywhere in the heavens that could possibly have a silver lining. He says They must all be dark.” A medium between optimism and pessimism must be met to make life truly fulfilling. People must learn to look at both sides of life and help each other make ends meet, so that the balance will be equal on each side. I feel that our class, as a whole, has found the need of this mixture and will strive to keep matters going accordingly. There is a little poem I once read that does an excellent job of explaining the difference between the optimist and the pessimist. It reads as follows: Twixt the optimist and pessimist the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut But the pessimist sees the hole. Our responsibility is to study the substance itself and not the nothingless space which surrounds it; to know where we are going and not to fall helpless into the bottomless hole. Optimism does have its downfalls. I'm sure each of us have noticed this, for instance, when a test had been planned for the forthcoming week. We knew we hadn't opened a book to prepare ourselves for it, but our friends keep insisting, You’re a brain. You'll pass the test with flying colors. Sure we appreciate the encouragement, but when we know how much we have to study to pass, we just ignore these remarks. I imagine Mr. Sweet felt the need for a little optimism as he observed our class meetings, corrected our tests, and taught our classes. He probably needed a little bit of hopefulness from some optimistic person to encourage him and make him feel sure that his class would graduate this spring. I am an optimist. However, I do not believe in carrying my hopeful, cheerful, view to extremes. Everyone has to live a balanced life. We are part of a community. We strive to work together successfully as a whole. For every phase of life is a challenge we should meet. If in ten years you see a group of intelligent doctors, lawyers, merchants, and chiefs; that is the class of 1965 playing their roles of life in 1975. 16

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Dick Leatherbury Roger Lloyd Marilyn Macky Jim Mahrle Pat Millard Paulette Olds Cindy Paradine Sharron Patten Pete Ragusa Gwyn Randall Charlene Rarick Don Selby Phil Schaffer Ed Shumway Shirley Smith Theo Smoke Jerry Thompson Conrad Voshen