Sacred Heart Academy - Gradatim Yearbook (Belmont, NC)

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MAE WILKINSON GASTONIA, N. C. Curie Club CZ! : Alpha Kappa Alpha CD 5 Day Students' Association fl, D: Honor Society CZJZ Historian GRADATIM. WINNIE WILKINSON GASTONIA, N. C. Alpha Kappa Alpha CZJ: Curie Club CZD, Secretary and Treasurer C251 Day Students' Asso- ciation QZD: Associate Editor GRADATIM. Bttu5pBtt This is first retrospect. In some dear day We call Tomorrow for a better name We'll look again, and treading some strange way We'll heave the same sigh with a heart--the SAME! The same? Yes, if our house of dreams will hold The dear roseateness of the passing hour And based on stronger things than fairy gold Hold in tomorrow-land today's great power! And there will be mature, Madonna eyes With dreams undimmed from hills of yester year And there may be unclouded, sunlit skies And there may be, perhaps. undreamed-of fear. Whate'er of bliss the future years may know In dawns unthought-of at this parting day We'll always scan with joy our long-ago With added strength to climb our upward way. So it is Au Revoir and not Farewel1! Since many swift returns our thoughts will bring. Sweet thoughts that waft to us their magic spell And bid our fond hearts not to sigh, but SING! NINETEEN 'l'lllHTY-EIGHT Page Fifteen

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lass Ilaistnrp Two years ago we began our Freshman year at Sacred Heart Junior Col- lege. At first we were hesitant and uncertain of our future, but our indecision soon vanished for we were young and this new venture held many possibili- ties. However, our first college days were not altogether encouraging. Teasing upper classmen snubbed our timid efforts to get in line and jeeringly called us Hfrivolous freshiesf' We could not understand them for we did not feel frivol- ous. Our hearts were filled with a determination to work hard and to pile the honors high. We resolved to make these complacent Sophomores realize that we were serious in our efforts to be praiseworthy students. We settled down to earnest work, and as the days dragged, or marched, or sped, according to our individual moods, our lives were being well-rounded socially, educationally, and spiritually. We really lived in deeds, not words and as a due reward we gradually lost our reputation for frivolity. Now and then Freshman pranks did cause us to fall back a few paces, but the relapses occasioned renewed effort and at the end the merits greatly overbalanced the demerits. As we consider the past, we look with amusement upon these slight violations of the rule. They must have been the lingering remnant of the childhood from which we thought we had long since emerged. Then there were the dark days, the days in which our small troubles seemed large ones, the days in which we needed sympathy and consolation. Those troubled times led us to Him who knows our every need, and kneeling at His feet we laid bare our troubled souls, and lol our problems were solved, our tears were dried: and we went forth with renewed courage and determina- tion. Once again the sunshine of happiness had replaced the shadow of sorrow. Relentlessly the hands of time checked off the minutes of our Freshman year and cast them into eternity. The last month was at hand. May passed in a whirl of activities, and our Hrst year of college was completed. One more page had been written in the book of each life. To some we said Au revoir forever: to others, for vacation only, for we expected to return. We did return: we were Junior College graduates. Once more we entered into school life with zest and good will. Old friendships were continued: new friendships blossomed, and side by side they grew in the garden of remembrance. Once again, studies and activities intermingled, each claiming its place on a crowded calendar. We have enjoyed all these things which fill a gir1's school life: we have been proud of our dignity as graduates, but as the year draws to a close we begin to understand the tears at which we were inclined to smile last commencement. At last we realize that the goodbyes must be spoken, the fond embraces must be made. We are filled with a strong determination to prove ourselves worthy of the expectations of our classmates and of our teachers. But we hesitate: we are reluctant to go. to leave Sacred Heart where Cor ad cor loqui- turf' Life calls to us: with one long, last backward glance-we answer. U Page Sixteen THE EHAIIATIM