Amory High School - Panorama Yearbook (Amory, MS)

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a- SER VICE The death of our superintendent of eighteen years, Mr. Ed Hayman, occurred the night of March 14 as we were preparing for spring holidays and MEA. That day at noon he had been in the cafeteria talking and joking with various students and in the lounge after school chatting with the faculty, seemingly in good spirits and good health. His death left many blank spots that will be hard to fill. A recognized leader in education in Mississippi as well as in the nation, he was serving on the board of directors of the Mississippi Education Association. He was known as the classroom teachers' friend, but above all, the friend of the youngsters , as he called the students of Mississippi. For them he dreamed the Impossible Dream : the Middle School - the first in the state and one of the first in the United States - a model for educators all over the nation; the vocational annex at the high school - one of the first and best in this area; the new English phase program - the first in this area; the new open-concept elementary school still in the planning stage at his death. Yes, the Impossible Dream was to make Amory Schools the best in the state - and Mr. Hayman made it the Possible Dream . Lieutenant-Governor William Winter, Mayor Billy Glasgow, and MEA Executive Secretary Charlie Johnson presented resolutions to the family from the state, the city, and MEA commemorating Mr. Hayman for his years of service in a Memorial Cermony at the high school auditorium. 1. One of the latest pictures Mr. Hayman had made. 2. As we best remember him. 3. The Resolution presentation - Standing, Left to Right: Lt.-Gov. William Winter, who presented the resolution from the state legislature; Joe Maxcy, state senator; Mayor Billy Glasgow, resolution from the city of Amory; Mike Cook, state representative; Charlie Johnson, executive secretary of the MEA, who presented a testimonial from the Mississippi Educational Association, and Arch Dalyrmple. Seated, Left to Right: Mrs. Hyacinth Hayman, son Edwin Hayman, his wife, MaryEileene, and Mrs. Randall, Mr. Hayman's sister. 4. Mrs. Hayman accepts the resolution from Mayor Glasgow. 5. His friends . . . C

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TO HONOR A LIFE OF V I am a part of all I have met . . . How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rest unburnished, not to shine in use As though to breathe were life! Life piled on life Were all too little . . . A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a shining star Beyond the utmost bound of human thought ... . . . but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done . . . . . • that which we are, we are -One equal temper of heroic heart . . . But strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. T ennyson t B

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OUR FRIENDS . John S. Johnson 3. Ronnie - his sweet smile, obliging manner ... a favorite ... his favorite things, his Honda ... his car ... hunting with his companions . . . Ronnie Nicholson 1. Johnny - full of mischief, fun . . . his loves, no. 48 jersey . . . his friends . . . football . . . 2. A more formal pose . . . his last school picture . . . Many times our natural senses tell us that the deaths of two young people so bright and fine are senseless and tragic. But belief in God presents another way of thinking. Although we may not understand, we are assured that all things work together for the good of them that love the Lord ... For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part; but then 1 shall know even as I am known.