Wilmington High School - Mirror Yearbook (Wilmington, VT)

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If the wisdom of these old words must be tempered, they are perhaps best qualified by an even older bit of wisdom, Love thy neighbor as thyself. If you sincerely love your fel- low man and care about his,welfare,not only will you behappier,but the world will be that much better a place in which to live. lf through sharing, friendship, and cooperation you can to thine own self be true , you will indeed have a fulfilling life and you will have learned the most important lesson life has to offer. Frank Spencer FRAN K SPENCER--History. 1 ...,.,- .,l. sec.- 2 3 ,ra iii Ts ,si mf!! W lol n CHARLES DUZINSKI--Science. ROBERT FILLER--Industrial Arts. ll

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I think that the truly significant things we do to other people are those things of which we ourselves take the least notice. l'm always amazed at the power of a casual glance, a few words of encouragement,a sympathetic tone of voice. Yet now incredibly careless we are of each other. How effortlessly we destroy our environ- ment. How easily we demean others- and in doing so-ourselves. lt's so easy to write someone off-to dismiss a person's importance with a mindless stero- type-to fall back into roles and patterns which insulate us from that which would otherwise threaten us. But it seems that we can never really iso- late ourselves. We are always making con- tact with others. Robert Penn Warren wrote in ALL THE KlNG'S IVIEN that, the world is like an enormous spider web and if you touch it, however lightly, at any point, the vibration ripples to the remotest perimeter and the drowsy spider feels the tingle and is drowsy no more but springs out to fling the gossamer coils about you have touched the web and then inject the black, numb- ing poison under your hide. It does not matter whether or not you meant to brush the web of things. Your happy foot or your gay wing may have brushed it ever so lightly, but what happens always happens and there is the spider, bearded black and with his great faceted eyes glittering like mir- ros in the sun, or like God's eye, and the fangs dripping. Though we are fated to brush this web, it is still within our power to determine the direc- tion and intensity of the ripple-an awesome, though exhilarating responsibility. Robert Levine OPPOSITE PAGE-UPPER LEFT FORREST IVIURDOCK--Principal. UPPER RIGHT CAROL ABAR--Phys. Ed. IVIIDDLE LEFT WAYLAND HALL--Custodian. IVIIDDLE RIGHT JOHN COLONA, lVIusic. LOWER LEFT CARIVIELITA ALLEN--Secretary. LOWER RIGHT RICHARD LEVESQUE--Language. 13