Volume 1990 Parnassus

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Welcome to the 1990 edition of Parnassus. I hope the reader, whether student or not, will enjoy this collection of the writings of Taylor students. 175 poems and stories were submitted this year and, as we are limited to eighty pages, we could not print all of the pieces that we would have liked to include. I believe, however, that we have preserved here some of the best of this year’s crop of student writing.

The students who contributed to Parnassus 1990 deserve congratulations for their fine work, and I thank them for submitting it. I also appreciate Rhonda Gretillat, English Office Secretary, for the hours she spent typing the entries into the computer. Jeff Kiger was an invaluable help in doing the layout on the Macintosh. Faculty Advisors Prof. Dinse and Dr. Swan have also been greatly appreciated for helping this first-time editor to edit. Without any of these people, Parnassus would still be back on the drawing board, instead of in your hands.

Photographs were supplied by Laura Bernd’s family albums and by Taylor Archives. The cover was supplied by Laura Bernd.

And lastly, a few thoughts from some of my friends.

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

-Friedrich W. Nietzsche

The blues is a low-down shakey chill, and if you never had ‘em, I hope you never will

-Robert Johnson 
(King of the Delta Blues Singers)

Keep on rockin in the free world

-Neil Young