Aiken High School - Hornet Yearbook (Aiken, SC)

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 The spirit of Aiken High School is symbolic of the varied activities of school and community which combine to make Aiken Hi unequalled. It lives in the heart of every student and the attraction it holds for him increases as days pass and memories multiply. Our town itself is unique. Its inhabitants vary as the seasons change, for winter brings the wealthy tourist to his secluded home on Whiskey Road. Regardless of social position, most of those who live in the “Sports Center of the South are bound together by a common love of sports. . . . For the native citizen there is golf, tennis, and horseback riding. Polo, horse racing, trotting, and the drag come south with the winter. High school sports: football, baseball, and track blend in with these to make Aiken a sportsman’s paradise. The staff of the 1949 Hornet has attempted to combine these two elements— that of the school and that of the town and convert them into something tangible . . . your 1949 Hornet. If they have failed, their failure has not been caused by any lack of enthusiasm. The real task was that of arresting the two elements in the staff’s photographs and words. The staff will be amply repaid for its efforts, if, on some far distant day, this book brings back one pleasant memory or makes one heart swell with rapture as its owner recalls the times that were . . . 2

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1-L HORNET AIKEN HIGH SCHOOL AIKEN, SOUTH CAROLINA

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 Aiken’s Most Familiar Landmark” 3