-- Another year has passed, anclthrough it have passed the experiences that molded our-personalities, the situations that now make us laugh or cry at the remembrance, and the people who gave us themselves and their love. For everyone, to some degree, it was a time for new beginnings - not only in external ways, but also in emotional and spiritual ways. We grew close to people who were not our friends in years past, and we grew apart from others who had been. Some people grew closer to God, while others found themselves drifting apart from Him. Each person has his own memories - a class, party, ball game, banquet, devotional, some special person - and it's impossible for any yearbook to capture those memories. However, it is the wish of the Petit lean staff that this book will help its readers to remember those moments, for memories ar.c...,precious - we learn from them and we are bonded together because of them. Yet we must look ahead to the future, as the apostle Paul wrote in Philippians 3:13-14: "Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." And 50 we as Christians should look, not to the past, but, instead forward to what lies before us. BELOW: GLEAMING with the light of late-night activities. the old Academy represents an era soon to be ended with the construction of the long-awaited new building. 381 Epilogue
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