Kingston High School 1965 Yearbook (Kingston, NY) - Full Access

152 High Honor Seniors HIGH HONOR SENIORS Row 1, Left to right: Barbara Maynard; Joan Hinkey; Blossom Rappaport; Felice Wilpan; Mary Prehn; Susan London; Wendy Alexander. Row 2, Left to right: James AJley; Charles Gaffney; Mike Misove; Brian Findholt; Samuel Nussbaum; Neil Pauker; Barry Cohen . Not Pictured: Alan Finger; Gregory Granquist. "What a dull existence those poor kids must lead," think the overwhelming majority of their fellow students. The individuals referred to are the studyers, such as those who achieve the position of high honor senior. Most of those seniors with 90 averages ?I better have devoted quite a Jot of time to study. Rather than daydream away their classes, they listen conscientiously and absorb as much as pos– sible on the spot. What they don't Jearn in class, they spend, depending on the student, from two to six hours outside of class trying to assimilate and analyze. This involves making the most effective use of the time available. For most of them study haJls are used for the purpose originally intended, and T.V. on weekdays is a rare pleasure. Although the high honor seniors ~re, as a group, among the most active students in school and community services, the time spent fulfilling extracurricular obligations is not subtracted from study; it is worked around study time. It is natural that when a less diligent student sees a classmate "homework bound," he will consider his own idle pursuit far superior. This intellectually lazy student, however, is actually cheating himself. Certainly studying is not easy-the high honor seniors know this better than anyone else. What studying can be termed is a means (sometimes satisfying, usually pure drudgery) to the successful life. The one quality which separates those such as the high honor seniors from the buik of their classmates is the ability to see the value of.applying themselves at an age when application is most difficult.