Whetstone High School - Legend Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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I., Q , egg, if , L. E Q3 if aw 2 f :fir 5 5 we A i-sexggal HPF?-M W H , .M -55-, 'i E , ,, H ' 4 lzi In a typical stance, Mr. Van Noy, romanticizes the gone- before. Mr. Hayes has a ready word for today's students -. ,- eu. , ,' .A ' . ifmiisk . ki 1, A Q .,,...k gig, , x 111 Topography is next to geography in the course of history.

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Human history is in essence cz history of ideas. History is not what would have happened if . . . but rather the unreconciling chronicle of the lifespan of ideas. History cannot be accosted with speculation, it commands the present posterity's respect and gesticulates toward the mimicking future. Ideas are the tendrils of individual men. To each Alexander, Jefferson, Marx, Whitman, Beethoven, and the endless et al., a responsibility is owed. Any ideas given by predecessors are secondary. More important is posterity's ability Cor inabilityb to emotionally and mechanically assimilate preceding thought. Thus history converges into the present and bears itself as a means with which to predict the future. Human history of individual ideas is capable of being conveyed only by individ- uals. The Past teaches the teachers of the Past and history can be placed in its recep- tacle-posterity-only by verbal means. The teacher, history's tool, whittles im- pressions of learned lessons on the student's consciousness. Centuries of thought, eradi- cated by revolution, remembered fragments hypothetically interwoven, can be known quickly. But the present, even when de- synthesized cannot be grasped even in fragments. History is the passage of timeg time is the personal measure of history's inheritors. Time, dark time, secret time, forever flowing like a river . . . H. G. Wells Joseph Arthur Roy Ault Sue Chandler John Eberly John Hayes Robert Kinney 'l iii! Roger Murphy Norris VanNoy Richard Yurich

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-,- Group discussion led by experience, the teacher, sometimes yields success in understanding conflicting ideas. Philosophy is the discourse of ideas in realms of the theoret- ical. Philosophers weigh the pragmatic and moral value of - V history and speak to their civilizations accordingly. Youth, the doubter, the prosecuter, though naive, is often the most discerning philosopher. In his ambivalence he speaks from an objective view. Strung with knowledge of little exper- 'l ience, he has no personal life to justifyg his thoughts can accommodate the lives of others. The only original philosophy would be the one that would justify someone else. : Albert Camus. Mr. Arthur interprets history in the light shed by philosophers' words. lnformality of senior philosophy class stimulates stagnant thought.