W F Dykes High School - Equites Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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I970 is fhe year of diversified groups and involved individuals, each expressing conformify or noncon- formify. The individuals give fo fheir groups in a way fhey fhink meaningful, as fhe revifalized groups fake fhe welcomed supporf and become working clubs in confrasf fo meefing clubs. This Equifes, fhe fenfh volume, recognizes fhe assefs of fhese individuals and records picforially fheir confribufions fo fhe groups of our school. To show fhe double funcfion of Dykes people, we divide fhis book info fwo parfs, Individuals and Groups. This division is unique: fhe book is foo. There is no beginning buf if has fwo endings which meef in fhe cenfer. lf is for fhe reader fo decide which cover is fhe beginning. The individual secfion recognizes people who are imporfanf fo us because of fheir differences: fhe sfu- denf, fhe faculfy, fhe adminisfrafion and fhe business- man. The sfudenf is nof a number on a role. He is an enfily fo our faculfy. The faculfy, in furn, is nof an aufhorifarian assembly buf real people who have human weaknesses buf superhuman dedicafion. The flexible adminisfrafion displays a personal inferesf in each individual by empafhizing wifh fhe resfless sfu- denfs. The businessman remains fhe unrecognized in- dividual, buf wifhouf his financial supporf, our book could nof be produced. Individuals make Dykes. Here are fhe I970 individ- uals.