Western Piedmont Community College - Yearbook (Morganton, NC)

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T WPCC r ' ll lk leading to unknown places. Most people are in the caboose looking, backwards Ralph Lapp Imagine a long freight train going down a railroad track, with two different people viewing it. One person is standing on the ground, about three feet from the track, and he is staring straight ahead at the train, as it passes him. Basically all he can see is what is passing right in front on him, from momemt to moment. Another person watches the train at the same time, but he is not on the ground, but way high up in the air. In an airplane, balloon, or flying on his own he perceives the train in an entirely different way than the person standing on the ground does. Instead of seeing..the train only a little at a time, car by car, he perceives the whole train at once, and every car in it from the first to the last. Copyright 1976 by Richard N. Bolles, The Three Boxes of Life and How to Get Out of Theml 19

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THE YEAR HOW WILL YOU PERCEIVE THIS YEARBOOK, 1977? 18 No one really knows Where science is taking us. We are aboard a train, racing down on a track on which there is an unknown number of switches

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FILL OUT THE FORM REGIS A city of electricity With bodies of elasticity The twinkle of the wire Stimulates and makes one desire Wires, wires, computers and brains The world will never be the same Cards for this, cards for that No meat, no weight, definitely no fat Damn, Hell, abandoned from our place There never was such a thing as THE HUMAN RACE - Written at Registration, 1976 THE FUTURE IS NOT SOMETHING WE ARE GOING TO, BUT SOMETHING WE ARE CREATING. THE PATHS TO IT ARE NOT FOUND BUT MADE, AND THE ACTIVITY OF MAKING THEM CHANGES BOTH THE MAKER AND THE SITUATION. John Schaar