Wayne Memorial High School - Spectator Yearbook (Wayne, MI)

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SEHIOI' Time here is registering a goal attained. It has written in scholl records the a- chievements of each graduate. It has been as kind to that individual as he has been to its proper use. Now that it sends him forth to further education or employ- ment, he will learn much more of its full meaning. Each time he applies that which he has gained here, he will either progress or fail, depending upon his use or abuse ot immortal time . . .

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Class Hastory The past has claamed our hagh school years one by one leavang an place of tame a collectaon of memoraes and experaences We wall remember them for only by rememberang wall they contanue to be ours We wall remember our Freshmen year and the gay nonchalant newcomers we were to Wayne Hagh It was in that year that we held a bake sale and an June rode off to a day of fun at Walled Lake Park We were hardly aware of such a remote realaty as tame whach was ampartaally relentlessly markang each day that was ours as at faded unnotaced into the past The clock keepang watch over Wayne Memoraal Hagh School s doors measured a year between two Septem bers We were Sophomores fun lovang st ll but a reason that we falled the year wath so many protects and actavataes We chose an emblem a boy wath a daploma an has hand aumpang an gay abandon through a W Green and whate class sweaters were ordered and our choace of a round rang establashed another tradataon an our school As June approached sprang fever became wade spread Our class was partacularly hard hat and so an hopes of curang ourselves we spent a day at Edgewater Park In the Comang years many thangs wall be forgotten funny lattle thangs we thought we would always re member But from the years we were upperclassmen there will be memoraes that wall return agaan and agaan Tame wall lend mysterious shadows to half for gotten detaals and soften colors to delacate pastels lt wall smooth away the commonplace and leave a warmth of perfectaon and a laght hearted detachment that only the past may know From our Junaor year there wall be a braght kaleado scope of memoraes rollackang scenes from Clemen tane our class play the flash of great salver stars and the theme musac of Stardust Magac our .lunaor Prom the chatter and fraendly laughter at our .lunaor Senaor Banquet And perhaps an the madst of thas laghtness we wall remember the youthful earnestness reflected an our motto We have crossed the raver the ocean as yet to conquer There as a lesson an the senaor year that sooner or later every senaor must learn It as a word that haunts has sub conscaous mand and becomes a vatal part of has thoughts has plans has philosophy As the months slap by he counts the many lasts the last game the last play the last prom wall stall be there perhaps an nothang more than half formed thoughts that become lost an a flood of recol lectaons The memory of our prom wall bear the un mastakable touch of the years fanalaty Our play Sky Hagh our Fall Frolac the Pagskan Revaew none of these have escaped that subtle touch Four years have passed Yet each of us as an some way aware that we wall never measure them an days or months but by the experaences that falled them the asolated moments that worked thear quaet changes on our laves the thoughts and hopes that reflected those changes They are not over with not entarely The pattern of ampressaons left by these years wall contanue to anfluence our laves perhaps even our deaths There can be no complete class hastory untal the years have completed thear cycle and there as no class 0 - , 1 a . - - , 1 I ' I ' 11 I , , I . l h . . l . . ,, ,, , - , 1 , wakening to the value of time. Perhaps it was for this The years will no doubt dull the association, but it . i , ' l - I Q - - ' - - .11 - H - - l - n I I I I I - ' l 1 - T I . I , I6