Everman High School - Beacon Yearbook (Everman, TX)

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(1) Many students take advantage of the smoking area privileges. (2) Varsity cheerleaders wait to greet the exes at homecoming. (3) Being a Freshman brings on baffling problems as shown by Mike Kelly’s expression. Our Declaration of Independence declares American freedom. What poetic dreams were lifted up in that document! The rolling hills and fertile valleys were stained with the blood of men who gave their lives for a dream, a hope, a belief in a greater future. From a fragment of a vision—a whisper of hope, Americans molded America, grounded in an eternal faith, built by the strength of honest men and the aspirations of people united by a common desire to live free. Freedom ... the ring of its utterance ... almost sacred. That great dream of freedom, the privilege carved in Americans hearts from ancestral sacrifices, has been taken for granted, abused, cursed, and degraded. Yet, in this ever- changing world, there are still people who are held captive in their own countries by a forceful government, who have never known the taste of freedom, who hunger for the peace of independence, who covet the birthright we casually toss aside. Let the Bi- centennial remind us of the freedoms we have at school as well as in our nation. :

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; ; (1) Assemblies give students a welcome break in class. (2) John Jenkins and Brenda Stephenson pause during the day to exchange secrets. (3) The three- thirty bell brings on the mad dash to the buses. Opening 3