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

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PRIM A LUCE Spencer Amos O’Brian Faber est quisque fortunae suae. Every man is the architect of his oivn fortune. “Every man has three characters : that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.” In Spencer these three are one. As a student, lie is excelled by few ; as a gentleman, by none. He likewise has confidence in his own ability. But this is not the only triad connected with . Spencer’s discretion. From outward in- dications and expressions, he feels that there lire three cases in life where human wisdom is of little avail. Should one desire to take unto one’s self a wife, to buy a horse, or in- vest in a melon, the wise man will recom- mend himself to Providence, and draw his hat down over his eyes. Mattie Lee Newton Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate laborem : jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede. IVork while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by and by come upon you with silent foot. There is one in the world who feel s for him who is sad a keener pang than he feels for himself; there is one to whom reflected joy is much better than that which comes direct ; there is one who rejoices in another’s honor more than in any which is one’s own; there is one on whom another’s transcendent excel- lence sheds no beam but that of delight ; there Lvr 6 ,, w ° hides another’s infirmities more faithfully than one’s own; there is one who loses all sentiment of self in the sentiment of kindness, tenderness and devotion — that one is Mattie. Walter Edward Duncan Medio tutissimus ibis. A midde course is safest. Edward is energetic, athletic, determined, and doubtless there is a bright future before him. Edward is likewise a quiet boy, but like many of his associates in Berea, he seems not to understand the ladies. He came to school one morning muttering in Jewish style the following sentence : The girl nowadays sets up to be natural and is only rude ; mistakes innocence for inso- ence ; says everything that comes first to her lips and thinks she is gay when she is only

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. PRIMA LUCE Zelma Hudson Gooch Labor omnia vincit. Labor conquers all things. Dramatis Personae: Her fairy godmother and three fairies. Scene : Her christening. First Fairy: She shall be a classical musi- cian.” (Behold her musical ability.) Second Fairy: “She shall be a scholar superb.” (Visit her classes.) 1 hird Fairy: “She shall have modesty sub- lime.” (Observe her motions and listen to her voice.) James Howard Daniel Sapiens nihil facit invitus. A wise man does nothing by constraint. Howard is a peace-maker. His philosophy is to take life cheerfully ; to have few regrets of the past and few fears of the future. He is quite uncommunicative about his attach- ments to the fair sex. Once, however, he mado a slip. The evening before an event- ful night he was heard singing the lines of an unknown author. This song got his name in Who’s Who in Berea. An extract from it is found on a later page. Hazel Estelle Newton Multis ictibus dejicitur quercus. By repeated bloivs even the oak is felled. Hazel’s whole life is the history of affection. The heart is her world; it is there her desire strives for empire; it is there her ambition to seek hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies in adventure; and she embodies her whole soul in the traffic of affection. [ Page 21 ]

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PRIMA ] L 1 U c 1 r mm • Janie Hayes Peuitt Jucundi acti labores. Sweet is the recollection of difficulties over- come. When the black-letter’d list to the gods was presented, (The list of what Fate to each mortal in- tends) At the long list of ills a kind goddess relented, And slipp’d in a blessing — Janie. Harry Hawkins Newton Memento quod es homo; Forget not that you are a man. Harry is patient, sincere, and quiet. Now, of course, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Small Children, he docs not know everything; but he does know how to behave himself. Instead of pining over the past, he believes in the future. The other day he remarked that he was going to settle down, and added : “I’ve reached the harbor, Hope and Chance adieu ; You’ve played with me. Now play with others too.” Beatrice Lorene Gooch Nil sine labore. Nothing is achieved without toil. Beatrice’s destiny is to please, to be amicable, and to be admired. Those who do not love her ways are even more in the wrong than those who love them too much. She red- dened the face of a tenth-grade boy who im- pudently sang in her presence : “Many women, like roses, retain their sweet- ness long after they have grown too large and have lost their beauty.” Beatrice is civil and kind. She is ever in- clined to be gay and cheerful, feminine and modest ; and never haughty, arrogant or supercillious, but full of courtesy and fond of society. [ Page 23 ]