Baldwin High School - Piper Yearbook (Birmingham, MI)

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Here Their Place of Sport and Revels With the Empty Rooms of Learning Here :he Shining Halls Awair Them

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WHEN vivid summer days were lengthening into the golden autumn, my year of life began. Then it was that every heart was vibrant with anticipation of what might lie ahead. I remembered. I waited, too, with cheering, throbbing crowds when hopes were high as the clouds which raced above us and when defeat brought silence and despair. Each morning when Grst the dawn light silhouetted desks which had rested all night in darkness, silently, as has ever been my wont, I glided through empty, echoing halls and vacant class- rooms. I watched as first the sun's rays sent their warming light ' tdpjtf' g we Stretching From Their Sleepy Hollows into the school. Throughout each day I lived within the very soul of every student, hearing not only the outward noise and turbulence, but capturing each thought of the humble and proud alike. And now the glistening, frosty winter has passed, and spring has come. My work is finished. My theme is that of joy and hope, of sorrow and disappoint- ment, of eager, milling classes and of quiet nights of communion with these walls of which I arn a part. I sing of all the beauty and the spirit which is the very memory of youth. l am The Piper. -12- Rushing Madly From Their Dwellings

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I 5 , 5 A T . N , gs 6 -'V' . Q, Ml' Eager Students Seek Admission I'-il! TClCh9l'S Stop I0 Gossip Baffled Pupils Seek to Master 114.1