Etna Union High School - Nugget Yearbook (Etna, CA)

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FIRST ROW: Judy Vanlindt, Rae Eastlick, Nadine Smith. SECOND ROW: Lee Wade, Mr. Harper, Janet Lewis, Bill Stacher. i Stuclznt Council FIRST ROW: Jeanette Gleeson, Margaret Hayden, Alice Skillen, and SECOND ROW: Virginia Bullinger, Suzanne Roberts, Mr. Harper Nadine Smith. Ernest Bigham, Alva McBroom, Bob Gilmore, Douglas Mathews Raymond Hiertager, Jesse Bigham, Rae Eastlick. This page sponsored by: H A N D L E Y ' S EVERYTHING IN SHOES - FINE FABRICS AND WESTERN WEAR Yreka, California

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lst Place Essay The Religion of Nature And He created man in His own image. This bit of Bible Scripture has been lodged in my mind for some time, and it took only the suggested topic of ReIigion of Nature to set me thinking. The fol- lowing idea is not new. I think many poets and philosophers had a similar idea. Perhaps to others it may seem ridiculous, perhaps it will seem so to me sometime . . . Still I think it is worth some thought. Nature is God. This is the startling realization that came to me as I watched the crystal-clear brook bubbling over the rocks on its tumbling descent. It was so like a ioyously happy child that I could almost picture one there. A spring shower-and then the glorious sunshine- causes one of Nature's most beautiful sights-the rain- bow. This seems to me to be not unlike that strange human emotion known as love-violent as a rain, gentle as the sun, and beautiful as a rainbow. The wind, the symbol of freedom, blowing through one's hair as he surveys a peaceful valley, causes to well up in one's heart the same patriotic bravery that inspired that rugged little Continental Army at Bunker Hill, the Marines at Iwo Jima, and the heroes of Heart- break Ridge in Korea. Could this not be God's way of inciting that inspiration? The thunderstorm at its height with the lightning flashing and the thunder crashing-is It not like the sight of an angry man-or perhaps even a man insane, screaming out against all the world? And does not the slow drizzle of rain seem to be like the depression one feels in a bad moment? Just as the slow rain depresses, does not a beautiful sun- rise or a sky filled with stars seem the most perfect answer to al prayer of hope? A prayer that tomorrow will be a better day than today, or that some more will be accomplished toward World Peace, that the next generation will have a fuller, better life than the one we now enioy, that our children for perhaps our children's childrenj will never know the meaning of, or see, or feel the terror and devastating effects of th Thing known as war. These are some of the thoughts that run throug my mind as I look at a clear sky filled with stars, se the sun sink behind the horizon in the West, or iu walk through the fields, feeling nearer to God becaus when one knows Nature he knows God, and with th bit of Bible Scripture quoted at the start of this pape in mind, I say, if one really knows himself he wi know God. -by Lee Wad 2nd Place Poem Ballad of the Sea There was a maid with lips of red And eyes of azure blue. She wore a scarf upon her head, With curls peeking through. Once when a fog did cover the bay And her lover went to sea, She looked into the darkness gray And said, Remember me. He told her of a distant land, Where riches he would gleen, A diamond for her pretty hand And silks of richest sheen. But the ship now his beneath a rock Of the cold, cold bay, And a roaring ocean seems to mock His words of yesterday. And often I have heard it said, When the fog drifts noiselessly, There goes a maid with a golden head To gaze-upon the sea. -by Patrica Earne

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