Sansom High School - Talisman Yearbook (Alabama City, AL)

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SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS PRESIDENT Walter Holt, VICE PRESIDENT Danny Clayton SECRETARY Shirley Black, TREASURER Eva Knowle: SENIOR CLASS OF ’66 ansom student and makes of him sophistication descends upon our ie world.” Senior. The magic of the very word bewitches even the most childish Emnia , tU« awesome creature—a Senior. In the space of one summer a strange spell bouncy juniors and makes of them sagacious sophisticates; men and women of Perhaps it is nothing more than the graduation from a petite dress size to i ('real junior” or a boy’s first own razor, but parents and teachers agree that from some hidden spring, mystejipus waters of maturity bathe and transform the awkward, bashful brat and Gidget and Huck Finn” therriselves come of age. With the first assembly of the school year, comes the transformation. The)’ stand there, proudly, a little awestruck at their new height and from the depths of some emboldened spirit, the dais yell arises; with that one Yea! Seniors! the class of '66 becomes. Homecoming, class favorites, a journalism clinic, Halloween sock hop, scHbol newspapers, the Christmas Ball, dazzling class beauties, one regal Queen, ring measuring”, basketball seasin, and Christmas vacation highlight one last fall semester. Seniors order invitations, pay class dues, puzzle over a class play, attend concerts, monkey at the Confederate Ball, poney at the Junior-Senior dance, choose Good Citizenship Girl, elect a Valentine Queen, select Johnny Rebel and Miss Emma Sansom , await selection of valedictorian and salutatoriam roll yards (opps!), reminisce at the annual senior bar-b-que, approach graduation . . . And before they know it, it’s all over—the fun, laughter, the excitement . . even the tears. On Graduation Day, the proud Senior walks up the front steps for the laJt time as a student and descends them lighter at heart, I stronger in mUd, older in spirit. He brings with him a purple and gold tassle, (that tickled his nose all dilring the ceremony), a royally-embossed diploma that represents twelve years of hard work; a heartful of beautiful [wistful memories that will neither dim nor grow older than his heart is old—memories illustrating that, for the student who loves his school, for the graduate fcvho looks back with longing— OLD TIMES THERE ARE NOT FORCijbTTEN. 22