





Replenished by a year of study and travel, Mike Babcock returned this fall to his duties as director of the upper school. He brought with him those same qualities of low-keyed but supportive leadership that have made him such an integral part of this campus: patience, warmth, casualness and the ability to listen. For these reasons we dedicate this year's book to him and welcome him back.
Johannes Cornelius Hageman has taught mathematics at Poly for seventeen of the upper school's twenty-one years, fourteen of them as department chairman. A native of Amsterdam, Holland, he taught in the Netherlands and Dutch Antilles, and served in the Dutch military in Indonesia. He will be remembered warmly for his dedication to scholarship and for his integrity. We wish him well in his retirement.
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A.J. R)!laarsdam
Tom Bill Jameson
Lisa Melbye
Janet Rickershauser
Beth Palmer
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Pauline Woo
... And now is too busy being a little more than everything to seem anything, catastrophic included .. . Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question - e.e. cummings
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself. -Andre Gide It's been really fun, I'm glad I'm out - John Simpson
We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.
John Hurndall Simpson
You call rne a fool
You say it's a crazy scheme
This one's for real
I already bought the dream
So useless to ask me why
Throw a kiss and say goodbye
I'll make it this tinie
I'm ready to cross that fine line.
- Steely Dan
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow.
So on we go We have a long way no hurry
just one step after the next . . .
- Robert M. Pirsig
Friedrich Gustav Knauss
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, construct a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance 'accounts, ·build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, cooperate, work alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
- Robert A Heinlein
Stay away from the clowns that say It don't matter what games we play today
You can spend all your time in vain Pursuing pleasures that really never pay.
Be content with a joyful heart It's truly all you need from the start Push ahead but don't move too fast Cause if you do, chances are you just won't last.
(Cause you can live your life away)
- Ronnie Laws
It was early morning yesterday, I was up before the dawn,
And I really have enjoyed the stay, But I must be movin' on.
Maria Susan Mead
It is often difficult to distinguish between reality and reflection.
For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length. And there I travel, looking, looking, breathlessly.
- Don Juan
We're anything brighter than even the sun (we're everything greater than books might mean) We're every anything more than believe
- e.e. cummings
We have time to think of the ones we love while the miles roll away, But the only time that seems too short is the time that we get to play.
- Jackson Browne
I do hope it's an interesting game. Otherwise, the afternoon would be so terribly dull.
- Norton Jester
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Todd Franklin Bollinger
And who wrote the Bible, Was it Judas or Pilate, Well, one cleans his hands, While the other one hangs, But still I continue to stand.
- Bernie Taupin
Out in the city running free, Sands of companions sides that be, The strength of the meetings lies with you, Wait all the more regard your past, School gates remind us of our class, Chase all confusion away with us.
Out in the city running free, Days pass as seconds turn the key, The strength of the moment lies with you, Out tender outward lights of you, · Shines over mountains make the view, The strength of you seeing lies with you.
- Yes, Tales From Topographic Oceans
We've only just begun to live, White lace and promises
A kiss for luck and we're on our way. And yes, we've just begun.
Before the rising sun we smile, So many roads to choose, We start out walking and learn to run. And yes, we've just begun.
Sharing horizons that are new to us, Watching the signs along the way, Talking it over just the two of us, Working together day to day, Together.
And when the evening comes, we smile, So much of life ahead, We'll find a place where there's room to grow, And yes, We've just begun.
- Paul Williams
Ana Christina Ravelo
Natalie Linda Shore
The trick is to live your days, As if each one may be your last, (For they go fast, and young men lose their lives In strange and unimaginable ways.)
But at the same time, plan long range (For they go slow, if you survive The shattered windshield and the bursting shell) You will arrive At our approximation here below Of heaven or hell.
To be specific, between the peony and the rose, Plant squash and spinach, turnips and tomatoes, Beauty is nectar, And nectar, in a desert, savesBut the stomach craves stronger sustenance Than the honied vine.
Therefore, marry a pretty girl
After seeing her mother; Show your soul to one man, Work with another; And always serve bread with your wine.
But, son, Always serve wine.
- J. Peter Meinke
Bridget Starr Fonger
Let's make some memories laugh and cry and reach for the sky
And if by chance we never touch the stars We can say we tried .
- jane Oliver
Now I realize that everyone of us has a heaven inside.
- Kate Busch
"Querer e Poder."
A Portuguese proverb that means: "if we want we can do it."
... A fox looked and beheld the grapes that grew upon a huge vine, which he much desired to eat. And when he saw that none he might get, he turned his sorrow into joy, and said, "These grapes are sour and if I had some I would not eat them."
Moral: He is wise which faineth not to desire the thing which he may not have.
- Aesop
Robert Blair Krueger
Sometimes a man falls sick of the sunlight itself. He sees everything so clearly he becomes blind and sees nothing at all. Sometimes a man grows sick of reason because the juices that feed his dreaming dry up. It's time to go then.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Listen to the MUSTN'T's, child, Listen to the DON'T's, Listen to the SHOULDN'T's, The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'T's, Listen to the NEVER HAVES, Then listen close to meAnything can happen, child, ANYTHING can be.
- Shel Silverstein
Try not to hide what you feel, deep inside, If you are, you must dare to be, free as the air.
- Maurice White
Kirstin Andrea Lindquist
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the cat.
"I don't much care where, so long as I get SOMEWHERE." said Alice.
"Oh, you're sure to do that, if you only walk long enough."
- Lewis Carroll
Brad Laurence Weiss
Success is a ladder, Take a step at a time, And the people will remember your name.
Yes, I found out, That's there's only one way You're gonna get things done I found out, The only way to the top Is lookin' out for #1 And that's me, I'm lookin' out for #1.
- Randy Bachman
Some men see things as they are and ask; Why? Other men dream of things that never were and ask; Why not?
- George Bernard Shaw
Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving?
- Woody Allen
Merrit Eugene Maddux
There is no reason that good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is based on organization. If there are such things as Angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or a lifetime, is certain for those who are friends.
- Richard Bach
She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME, And up she grew so tall, She ate from a plate called TASTE ME, And down she shrunk so small, And so she changed, while other folks Never tried nothin' at all.
- Shel Silverstein
Sy Gordon Thomas
Wayne Martin Brandt
Times such as ours have always spread defeatism and despair. But there remain, nonetheless, some few among us who believe that man has within him the capacity to meet and overcome even the greatest challenges of this time. If we want to avoid defeat, we must wish to know the truth and be courageous enough to act upon it. If we get to know the truth and have the courage, we need not despair.
- Albert Einstein
A future of a man holds only what he alone puts into it.
May I say that I have loved me one or two
Of the people in my past
Fading faces in a walking dream
And though they never seem to last very long, There are faces I remember
From the places in my past.
I said all the dead head miles
And the insincere smiles
Sometimes I can laugh and cry and I can't remember why
But I still love those good times gone by Hold onto them close
- James Taylor
Cindy Fern Bauman
Roy William Reeves
Life is a game, Something has to be more important Than something else.
If what already is, Is more important than what isn't, The game is over.
So life is a game in which what isn't, Is more important than what is.
- Werner Erhard
If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.
- Henry David Thoreau
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
- Princess lrulan
He who is between the thighs of Nut is the Pygmy who danceth like the god and who pleaseth the heart of the god before his great throne.
- Sixth Dynasty Monarch, Pepi I
I don't know. I don't care. And it doesn't make any difference.
- Jack Kerouac
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor one well.
- H. T. Leslie
0 wonderful, Wonderful, Henry Erard Matthiessen And most wonderful, wonderful, And yet again wonderful - William Shakespeare C,ou.r-ts
Susan Marie Fry
Simple things mean a lot to me, Some things only children can see, Simple things like horses running free, And easy acceptance of life.
Simple things never compromise, All things have a rhythm I can realize, I feel content in my freedom, And I feel my freedom is right
Simple things of the earth don't die, They just grow and change as time goes by. There are no questions without answers. I've found my answer to life is living, The secret of living is life.
- Carole King
No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
- Booker T. Washington
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
- Larry Eisenberg
I do nothing that a man of unlimited funds, superb physical endurance, and maximum scientific knowledge could not do.
Raymond Arthur Marcus
Timothy Reiterman Frank
Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.
- Alan Watts
We're living in a wiggly world!
Thomas Philip Laidig
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow, Don't walk behind me, I may not lead, Walk beside me, And just be my friend.
- Albert Camus
What is a friend? Just one, I repeat, with whom you dare to be yourself.
- C. Raymond Beran
Sidney Kay Jensen
Escuchen.
Paul Tien-Ching Liu
When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted To sever for years, In secret we met, In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? With silence and tears.
- Lord Byron
Never tell a young person that something cannot be done. God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant of the impossible to do it
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Knowledge is good .
Alan H. Lee
I could tell you, If I wanted to, What makes me What I am.
But I don't Really want toAnd you don't Give a damn . - Langston Hughes
Someone, somewhere went to sleep and dreamed us both alive. Dreams get pushed around a lot and I doubt if we'll survive. We won't get to wake up. Dreams were born to disappear And I'm sure that neither one of us is here. - Jim Stafford
Lynette Marie Hand
Monica Louise Brown
The person who searches for happiness rarely finds itHappiness is a byproduct, not a goal.
Energies devoted to regrets are futile - concentrate on what is, not what was.
- Anonymous
Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
- Samuel Johnson
And it's only the giving that makes you what you are.
- Ian Anderson
And it makes me Wonder.
- Jimmy Page, Robert Plant
David Goddard Teasdale
I am I and
You are you
I do my thing
And you do your thing
You are not in this world
To live up to my expectations
And I am not in this world
To live up to yours
You are you and I am I
And, if by chance
We find each other It is beautiful
- John Peal
Steven Frank Thompson
Edward David Hon
I wish for you, my Friend, This happiness that I've found, You can depend on Him, It matters not where you're bound I'll it from the mountain top, I want to pass it on.
- Kurt Kaiser
Don't just do something Stand there.
- Lewis Carroll
There be some sports are painful, and their labor, Delight in them sets off; some kinds of baseness Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters Point to rich ends. This, my mean task Would be as heavy to me as odious, but The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead, And makes my labors pleasures.
- William Shakespeare
Maura Irene Murphy
The last few feet of that climb were treacherous. But it was well worth the effort. When I reached the top, I had never seen such beauty. I wanted to laugh, to sing, to somehow verbalize my feeling But no sound would come. It was then that I realized that my shouts would only be swallowed by the wind which surrounded me. No one would understand my excitement unless they ascended my peak and captured my moment. But this was impossible. My peak was intangible for someone else, as another was intangible for me. I had found myself, pushed myself to my own limit, as only I could do And I knew that I would not quit this, peak. But would continue my climb until I discovered who and why I was.
"I could vegetate very comfortably right here and let other people make decisions."
"You must make decisions," Major Danby disagreed, "A person can't live like a vegetable."
"Why not?"
A distant warm look entered Major Danby's eyes, "It must be very pleasant to be free from all this doubt and pressure," insisted Major Danby.
"I think I'd like to live like a vegetable and make no important decisions."
"What kind of a vegetable, Danby?"
"A cucumber or a carrot."
"What kind of cucumber? A good one or a bad one?"
"Oh, a good one, of course."
"They'd cut you off in your prime and slice you up for a salad."
Major Danby's face fell. "A poor one then."
"They'd let you rot and use you for fertilizer to help the good ones grow."
"I guess I don't want to live like a vegetable, then," said Major Danby with a smile of sad resignation. - Joseph Heller
Stephen Leigh Guyer
- Jon Hideyo Yonemoto
I am not what I ought to be Not want I want to be, Not what I am going to be, But thankful that I am not what I used to be.
So I left the ticket window and took a seat on one of the benches in the middle of the concourse to make up my mind And it was there that I simply ran out of motives, as a car runs out of gas There was no reason to do anything
Leaves are falling all around, It's time I was on my way. Thanks to you, I'm much obliged For such a pleasant stay. And now it's time for me to go, The autumn moon lights my way . Ah, sometimes I grow so tired, But I know OPP thing I got to do, Ramble on.
- Jimmy Page and Robert Plant
Jennifer Claire Goeken
I asked a friend who had just returned from a long walk in the woods what she had observed. "Nothing in particular," she replied. How was that possible, I asked myself. I, who cannot hear or see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hand lovingly about the rough, shaggy bark of a pine. Occasionally, if I am very fortunate, I place my hand gently on a small tree and feel the happy quiver of a bird in full song ·
- Helen Keller
"I find," said he, "things very much as 'ow I've always found, For mostly they goes up and down or else goes round and round."
- Patrick Reginald Chalmers
David Hugh Malone
No matter how old you are, you have to keep in touch with the child in you.
A touch of madness will keep you alive.
- Robin Williams.
Karen Jutta Klein
JUNIOR CLASS
Millicent Wilson, Secretary-Treasurer; David Campbell, Vice-President; Diana Gilmore, President.
SOPHOMORE CLASS
Scott Wilson, Secretary-Treasurer; Matt Dalany, President; Christine Mitchell, Vice-President
FRESHMAN CLASS
Jeff Blatt, Vice-President; Michelle Yuen, President; Jessica Shore, Secretary-Treasurer.
All-League First Team
Henry Mattiessen Quarterback
Randy Miller Guard, Kicker
Jon Yonemoto End
Peter Jelliffe Defensive Back
Ted Russell Defensive End
Roy Reeves Punter
Robert Krueger
Middle Linebacker
All - League Second Team
Larry Jackson Tailback
Eric Highleyman Center
All C.l.F. First Team
Robert Krueger, Linebacker
Randy Miller, Defensive Guard
Peter Jelliffe, Defensive Back
Jon Yonemoto, Offensive End All C.l.F. Second Team
Henry Mattiessen, Quarterback
Ted Russell, Defensive End
Doug Brandon, Henry Mattiessen, Roy Reeves, Jon Yonemoto
All-League First Team
Doug Brandon, Henry Mattiessen, Roy Reeves, Jon Yonemoto
All-C.1.F.
Doug Brandon, Jon Yonemoto
Peter Mulder
Dan Yen
Seth Galvano
Peter Trajmar
Jim Berkey
John Battelle
Not shown, Joey Miller
Most Valuable Player
Diana Gilmore - Christina Ravelo All-League Second Team
Diana Gilmore - Christina Ravelo - Susie Fry
All-League First Team :
Diana Gilmore
Heather Smith
All-League Second
Team:
Amy Lightstone
Joyce Lee
League's Most
Valuable Player:
Diana Gilmore
It's lining up at Poly Point.
Theseus ..
Jacob Thiessen
Egeus ... Robert Ward
Lysander
Robert Krueger
Demetrius
John Simpson
Philostrate ... Monica Brown
Peter Quince ...
David Teasdale
Nick Bottom
Eric Highleyman
Frances Flute
Robert Ward
Tom Snout
Karen Klein
Snug
Laura Martin
Robin Starveling . Tom Laidig
Hippolyta ...
Dierdre Kennedy
Hermia
Jennifer Goeken
Helena
Bridget Fonger
Oberon ... Brad Weiss
Titania
Tiffany Smith
Puck
Kerin Cantwell
Cobwebs
Ann Park
Girls always fall for me th.1s way
Another result of a successful integration program.
None of a kind.
Hey
What do you mean you don't want to hear about tonight's game?
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Thomas G. Allen Family
Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Anderson
The Babcock family
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Barber
Dr and Mrs. James K. Barnes
The Battelle Family
Elizabeth Beck
The E. K. de Beixedon Family
The Henry L. Brandon Family
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brandt
The Cantwell Family
The Clayton Family
The Dalany Family
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Doyle
The Doyle Family
Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert Elliot
The Fay Family
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Felberg
William E. Freije
Mr. and Mrs. George F. Fry, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Kryo Fujihara
The Gilmore Family
The Gobar Family
Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Grew
The John Guyer Family
Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Hall
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Harvey
Edward H. Hon
The Jameson Family
Dr. and Mrs. Roger Jelliffe
The William Jeung Family
The Robert Krueger Family
Dr. and Mrs. Fredric R. Kutner and Family
The Samuel Laidig Family
Jiin Jen Lee
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart S. Liu
The McCowan Family
The McMorrow Family
The Erick Mack Family
The Melbye Family
H. K. Mitchell
The Mulder Family
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Peck
The Pena Family
The Picker Family
Dr. and Mrs. Celso J. Ravelo
The Reeves Family
Dr. and Mrs. Won-Kyu Rhim
The Rylaarsdams
The John M. Sadler Family
The Frank S. Schiff Family
Dr. and Mrs. Vahe H. Simonian
Dr. and Mrs. John P. Smith
The Malcolm Smith Family
The R. W. Sperry Family
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis C. Stanfill
The Stolrow Family
The John Tarr Family
The Teaford Family
The Thompson Family
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Thueson
Dr. and Mrs. A. F. Turner
Mr. and Mrs. F. Verdugo
Dr. and Mrs. H. Wakamatsu
The Ward Family
Alan Wayte
Dr. and Mrs. Martin Weiss
The N. C. White Family
The Warren Williamson Family
The Yuen Family
The Yuge Family
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-Alejandro Casana
Buena suerte y mucho exito para la clase do 1980.
Les desea el club de Espanol.
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Phone 795-0545684-2259
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Faculty Advisor, Roger
We would like to thank the following people for their special contributions:
Marvin Carlson Steve Guyer
Fred Eicke Robert Krueger
Bridget Fonger Merrit Maddux
Mr. David Grimes Bob Ward
The staff is also indebted to Roger lpswitch, our faculty advisor, whose firm guidance and constructive advice proved invaluable.