Shades Valley High School - Tower Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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“Sometimes the halls are so lonely, but sometimes. . The hull is empty now. The thud of incessant footsteps no longer encircles me. nor do the thronging moss of fellow students further speed me on my path. All of the accumulated noise and rumblings we've come to know itre as nothing now Silence hangs heavy in this dim and lonely corridor. This hall is alone and lonely, and so am I. The hall — It is alone, but soon 1 know she is never truly lonely. Poised in anticipation she awaits the footsteps of tomorrow to echo in her dimly lighted charnborways. Perhaps it is lonely only for me. who feels my time to leave has come. It is my time to venture onward and seek my place elsewhere. As for the hall, she now is noble in her rest and patient in her contemplation of tomorrow. She does not seek to know the future, only play a part in its construction This hall may be empty, but she, forever the optimist, is never lonely. Her task awaits her on the morrow. She looks ever onward to tomorrow by Katherine Patterson 8 UBW PAC1 IU«1 torurr Mtfft -.wta f «i MM •« ! «■» MtUOtaurr (Wrr t «»l Kt. dm. MfTTUM IJ.rT W.W. «h l Ch-.,Ur.. Rif.Ml PAT. TUP RU.Itl I- Urn MioiKi Hiiaci umats, . armoMHiurr v«i« iwvrM. .-aiwncw rrvi.«

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 As friends together watch their childhood fly.” MV wrTo wared. mmuui, and unsure u we nam'd school at Volley Our lint day oi high school — wasn't It awful! Then u friendly loco appeared. Sommnn fust on loot and lonely uwr It wa« the beginning of a lading friendship. Thin friend WM there in bold .1 li.mil when lima were tough. When report cards wore twuod and nur i«rmt sold we couldn't go out that specul |w m staved home lo share ond. thereby. Iwm the punishment Wrecking Dad car would hove bean groumU (or Miicide il lhl» companion hod nnl fa-m I here to o fitr comfort Through thick and thin there wai o smile dial never wavered C.miI llmrs were mode even better when that friend wa there The pep rallies, gameo and dance wouldn't have been the same without someone fun In share them This friend could make the dumbroi thing went funny and bring life too dull party F.vm when studying far . umi hecome on all night affair. It woo fun when thatr-d with someone special. The joy this bond Inspired ha became a lotting part of ua We had a confidante with whom we shared our moot intimate thoughts — dream and uinhttlons as well o« fairs and failure Among the many memorin of high school, one sparkles the brightest — tlm Inend who diariwl our youth. by Kim Moore