Washington High School - Lens Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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Fortress of Solitude The Strength Cf A Lonely Place Top row from left: Ava Carlson, .lanet Dubuar, Kathy Jones, Debbie Williams. Middle row: Sara Peake, Lorelie Watt, Brenda Smith, Katherine Howard. Front row: Linda Bartunek, Barbara Fry, Janice Leach, Denice Hannan. Not shown: Judi Conway, Patti Murphy, Lori Merrithew, Pat Harmel, Teresa White. Sometimes I seek it as a refuge from the tedium of noisy hours and screaming hallways, sometimes I go in pursuit of a thought I could not have otherwise said. Often it becomes the vortex of learning teaching me things no classroom could offer, stimulating my interest as no teacher could, sometimes my friends call me to this place of our own, to be alone, sometimes a contemporary mind or modern artist beckons my attention to his craft, occasionally I need the reverie offered by music from classical to folk. Sometimes its visual apprecia tion I seek in filmstrips and pamphlets - - - my library offers intellectual life, and asks only silence in return. 20

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United As One The combined classes are courses in which one teacher works with the same students for two periods. One of the two 2 f ,af 5 Mrs. Ayers Mr. Midleton Mrs. Rehse Chairman periods is devoted primarily to the study of English, while the second is used for Social Studies. This system is employed in hopes that it will provide ci closer relationship between the freshmen and their teachers, and between history and literature. f W,.i,,,f:fW-swf?-wfvfrewf' e msg