Taylorville High School - Drift Yearbook (Taylorville, IL)

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Foreword Time has issued its call for more musi- cians. And so, the Class of 1932 must leave school days behind to accept po- sitions in this band. Some will play first partsg others, seeondg while still others will be asked to leave their in- struments and sleep beneath the sod. Whether we prosper or whether we fail, we leave this monument, uThe Drift of 1932, which we present to keep aflame the memoirs of the days spent in the conservatory of lifes THE STAFF

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COPYRIGHT by the I932 DRIFT STAFF Acknowledgments Photographs by THE POPE STUDIO Taylorville, Illinois Engravings by THE CAPITOL ENORAVING COMPANY Springfield, Illinois Printing and Binding by THE HARTMAN PRINTING CO. Springfield, Illinois

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Music Servant and master am I: servant of those dead, and master of those liv- ing. Through me spirits immortal speak the message that makes the world weep, and laugh, and wonder and worship. I tell the story of love, the story of hate, and the story that saves and the story that damns. I am the incense upon which prayers float to Heaven. I am the smoke which palls over the field of battle where men lie dying with me on their lips. Une I serve as I serve allg and the king I make my slave as easily as I sub- ject his slave. I speak through the birds of the air, the insects of the field, the crash of waters on rock-ribbed shores. the sighing of the wind in the trees. and I am even heard by the soul that knows me in the clatter of wheels on city streets. I know no brother, yet all men are my brothers: I am father of the best that is in them, and they are fathers of the best that is in meg I am of them, and they are of me. For I am the in- strument of God. I AM MUSIC