Pomonkey High School - Roaring Tiger Yearbook (Indian Head, MD)

 - Class of 1958

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Roaring Tiger Pomonkey Hugh School 958 Volume IV Published by the Class of l958 fx Cyp I -sr. v :MX EDITORIAL STAFF Barbara V I-Iarrrs Gladys C Thompson Shrrley Monroe Samuel Moton I-Iarrrett Datcher Alfred Mrlstead Rosella Slater ASSOCIATE TYPISTS John Barnes Barbara Blarr Jerome Curtrs Patsy Baker Earl Thomas BUSINESS STAFF Gladys C Thompson Fern Wood Ann Slater Charles E Butler Jr Marre Onlcy Shrrley Posey CUB STAFF Edrtor m Chref Assocmte Edrtor Make up Edrtor Make up Edrtor Copy Edrtor Copy Edrtor Clerk Typrst Pauons Advertrsements Budget and Sales Clara Plater LaVerne Holly John Ward Joan Atlee Wrlham Betts John Marshall Clrfton Bowman Efford Moton FACULTY STAFF Dorothy S Proctor Advlsor F FT3DC1SK1Hg J Advlgof HGHVY N Freeman Ch.11rm'1n The staff of Roarmg Trger gratefully acknowledges Amerrcan Yearbook Company of Hannrbal Mrssourr for rts specral assrstance grven to thrs publlcatlon through Mr Freeman 6 'T +1 I vb I Sisx 5 11 2. Lu Q in I fr WI : I 52 I , N27 'v ff- S ' 4- K Q J 1 f 5 4 I A nnn.....-q..-q--n...--....4..-. ..... ' - i. .. .. A. I. .q .- If I I I ....-.....q'n.--11--..--..q.v-.--.--.s-........ 7 I June Williams .........................................,,.... Clerk-Typist I . I I I Y - 1 - 1 I l I ' J 7 I I I I I I Y I 3 . ' ' , r ..,...... ........................................ '

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Please please' W1l1 this pra1se never cease'P we pleaded waited waited and waited for The Class of 1957 to graduate and an opportunity to stand rn the spotlight our opportunity to be really seen our moment of importance September 19571 It came It came and we returned from summer vacation We returned to the halls of Alma Mater We walked proudly into the darkened arena The spotlight had not been turned on Mentally we re hearsed our bow and curtsy We held our breath for the moment when we would be encircled in light waited Suddenly the light was on but lnstead of us standing in the spotllght there were brlcks steel sand gravel trucks workmen blueprints plans for a new Pomonkey H1gh School You ve turned the spotlight in the wrong direction we cried We re over here Please look over here We ve waited for this year You ve got to turn the llght on us We re Seniors now Can t you hear us'7 Our voices would not be heard and the shadow of the future loomed over us greater than that any upperclassmen could have ever made So instead of the threat of a human superior there were the bricks and the sand the crane and bulldozer all adding up to create the promise of a future with physical greatness beyond our present The spirit of a Senior IS undauntable and from our dejected mass emerged that composite face not smudged and t1ny but sull eager The body no longer little expanded still with pride and the voice that issued forth was still conf1dent The spotlrghtl Who wants that spotlight? It qurzzed The greatest spotlight is within us The only determlnauon our ambition our talent our initiative All of this IS our spotlight and we need not humble our selves to anything physical And the face that was no longer t1ny and smudged the body that was no longer small but still expanded was the composite Class of 1958 We took our stance and as our chins lifted we did find illumrnatron from within From within us it came and we wondered how such a spotlight had come to be formed there Softly we heard our conscious whispering Sing a song full of the fa1th that the dark past has taught us The past had given us this 1nner glow We had not realized it wh1le we were frightened Seventh Graders nor while we were Eighth Graders teeming w1th exuberance We had not seen this as Ninth Graders nor Sophomores An inner glow was develop1ng all those years while we walked 1n the shadow of upperclassmen Shadowed beneath Thy hand May we forever stand True The shadow' The shadow of upperclassmen The Class of 1957 the Class of 1956 1955 54 53 52 The traditions of Alma Mater established by her graduates are our inner illumination Walt Just before we turn the pages to enter The Class of 1958 s hall of memories ROARING TIGER, let us remember her graduates who created the shadows her classes which permitted The Class of 1958 the opportunity to walk in the shadows her classes which have made Pomonkey High School a spirit that cannot be crushed They maintained the past made possible her present and we with them have given promise to her future This volume 1S our record of the heritage This volume IS proof that we too stood in the spotlight and spread our shadow ROARING TIGER is the record of our spotlight and shadow our Moment of GLORY The Class of 1958 IS honored to dedicate ROARING TIGER to the Alumni of Pomonkey High School 'LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING James Weldon Johnson 5 . . . ' ' ' . . . We spotlight is within us. Class of 1958, no promise of the future can overshadow our present, for the spotlight is our ,,. , . by

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1958, pg 8

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1958, pg 99


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