Berea High School - Prima Luce Yearbook (Berea, NC)

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IMA LUCE Lucy Agnes Williford Literarmn radices amarae, fructus dulces. Learning has bitter roots, but sweet fruits. As one observes Lucy he unconsciously de- scribes her in the following lines : “O Lucy, thou are formed to bless The heart of the restless world, to cheer its care, And charm existence by thy loveliness ; Bright as the sunbeam, or the morning fair, If but thy foot fall on a wilderness, Flowers spring up and shed their roseate- blossoms there, ' Shrouding the thorns that in thy pathway rise, And scattering o’er it hues of paradise.” Julia Clyde Hobcood Semper tibi pendeat hamus ; quo minime credis gurgite, piscis crit. Always keep your hook in the ivater; where you least expect one, the fish will be found. Our Clyde, like the maid of Thrace, Is light of form and fair of face; For when she sang the birds were hushed, And when she smiled the lilies blushed. Clyde spent one year at Frederick High School, but repented in time and came to Berea. “Home,” says the proverb, “is where the heart is”; but if so, no man seems to have heart enough to fit out a home without a woman to help him. Clyde seems to have realized this and has bold ambitions. [ Page 17 ]

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Lillian Louise Brooks Post tenebras lux. After darkness conies light. Louise is as beautiful as she is strong as tender as she is sensible. She is calm deliber- ate, dignified, leisurely. She is gay, graceful sprightly and sympathetic. Upon occasions she is severe and upon occasions playful. Likewise she has fancies, dreams, romances, ideas. Once let her heart be touched and her affection seri- ously engaged, and she becomes constancy itself She may, it is true, still flirt; her actions, ' her looks, her manners, may still convey the notion of caprice and fickleness, but in her heart she never wavers in her devotion to the one idealized being who fills her thoughts and en- grosses her affections. As the ivy clings to the tree, so the love of Louise will cling to the object around which it has once twined itself Cuivis dolori remedium est patientia. Patience is the remedy for every misfortune. Helen Sherman, athletic and bold ,-vj,? 4 Vi 0 y oun g and not too old. ’ 1 is thine to curb the passion’s madd’ning sway And wipe the mourner’s bitter tears away I is thine to soothe when hope itself has fled And cheer with angel smile the sufferer’s lied ■’ To give to earth its charm, to life its zest One only task— to bless and to be blest. [ Page 16 ]

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Ruth Dean Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labun- tur. The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. T he more we observe Ruth the more firmly we believe that surely woman’s calling is to teach man; and to teach him what? To teach him after all that his calling is the same as hers, if he will but see the things which be- long to his peace. ' I o temper his fiercer coarser, more self-assertive nature by the con- tact of her gentleness and self-sacrifice To make him see that not by the blare of trumpets not by noise, wrath, greed, ambition, intrigue’ is good and lasting work to be done; but by wise self-distrust, by silent labor, by lofty self- control, by that charity which hopes for all things, believes in all things, and endures all Willie Lee Hobgood Laudata virtus crcscit, et immensum gloria calcar habet. 6 Virtu f greased by the smile of approval, and the love of renown is the greatest in - centivc to honorable acts. Willie Lee is representative of the aristoc- racy. She was born to patrician leisure; has accomplishments, manners, and ideals; and she and her associates establish the forms, usages places, and times of our society. The following compliment was paid to her by one of her admirers : “ . . . When charm of mind With elegance of outward form are joined- When youth makes such bright objects still more bright, — £f? d fortune sets them in strongest light;— u I, i eaven that we below may view, And all but adoration is your due.” Another said : ; • • A little of the angel Joined to qualities more human Makes a delightful mixture, And we call the product— Willie Lee.”