Berry High School - Torch Yearbook (Mount Berry, GA)

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SILVER AND BLUE 23 blessed with days of good health and happiness in service. Mr. Green and Members of the Faculty: We tremble as, we leave your guidance, your counsel and your assistance in time of need. Ne have relied upon your wisdom and we have trusted in your faithful efforts to impress upon our minds the truths that develop uprightness of character and knowledge. We must now test our own strength on the rugged and steep highway of life and if at times we meet with obstacles that long detain us on the road to success we will rue the neglect with which we met, I fear too often, your clear directions and warnings, but when we see the straight homeward stretch extending before to the summit with no difficulties to halt us we will think of you and say that it was your wise instruction and your labor in our behalf that cleared the way. Fellow students of the advancing class: We welcome you to the place which we are now vacating and we hope that you may fill it more worth- ily. Grasp the opportunities that we have enjoyed and we pray that you may improve them more. Strive, and hold cheap the straing Learn, nor account the pangg dare, never grudge the throe! We wish you well during the com- ing months at Berry and in all of life to come we bid you God speed. Fellow Classmates: Our college days at Berry are ended. We have long labored side by side, our trials and triumphs have been mutual and our friendship has ddveloped into mutual affection. We have become as one family. Never will we forget the happy hours spent together in class and at our class parties and picnics and never will we forget our class meetings which so often result- ed in scenes of tragedy, pathos or comedy. We must part for awhile, dear classmates, but let us hope not for long and let us be consoled with the fact that although we part, we will always cherish the happy memo- ries of days spent together at Berry. Class Poem The First College Clan I Out Of old Berry'g gates we soar, With a longing to explore fields yet unknown, Wander widely over more Countries than our own. II Out of the past we sail, One dozen strong. May our lives be a shining trail, Leading upward, the throng. III Out from our Alma Mater, We pledge allegiance to thee. We, the first college class, Roots of Berry College tree. IV Out where our struggles begin, May our lives ever be cleaner While helping hands we lend, Be a Lifter not a Leaner.

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i2 SILVER AND BLUE Valediclory Miss Berry, Friends, Faculty, and Students: I have been honored with the privilege of representing our class before you today and I wish to extend to you, in behalf of my fellow classmates our most hearty and sincere welcome. We feel that today is our day. We have striven hard in preparation for this glorious event and now that the time has come we wish to throw aside all worry and care and give ourselves wholly to the enjoyment and the satisfaction of knowing that we have finished one lap of the great race of life. We want you, too, to share our joy as we pause for breath, ere we take up the new and longer race which now stretches forth before us into strange and unknown fields of adventure. We must confess that in our hearts strange pangs of sorrow and regret are mingled with our joy when we pause to consider the full signifi- cance of this occasion. Tomorrow we shall leave our dear Alma Mater, never to enter it again as junior college students. Fond companion- ships will be severed and familiar scenes must be left behind. We are proud of the fact that ours is the first college class to be grad- uated from Berry. We have eagerly watched the growth of our college and we feel that it is our college. We are hoping for and anticipating great things for Berry in the future and to makes us sad to know that we must leave her now. During our stay here at Berry we have caught some thing of the vision and faith of our beloved founder and we know thai it will be the faith and effort on hex part that will place our college on the top. It is our hope that we may apply like faith in our share of life's duties and privileges. To Miss Berry, in behalf of our class I wish to tender our most sin- cere gratitude for the helpful influ- ence in our lives which has resulted from the utter unselfishness exempli- fied in her devotion to this institution and from her wise counsel and sym- pathetic relations with us in the years now closing. Because of the numer- ous affairs which demand her at- tention in carrying on the vision of this great school and because of the great number of students concerned frequent contact between Miss Berry and each individual has been impos- sibleg yet, from the first time that we sat in our beautiful chapel, awed into silent reverence, and listened with tear dimmed eyes to the story of the founding of our school, until the present moment, there is not a one of us but has been made to feel that in her he has had an accessible friend and adviser whose interest in his highest welfare was always deep and vital. She has devoted her life to toil in the interest of others but with her sacrifice comes the rare recompense of the life of ministry, and we can leave with her no higher hope than that she may long continue to be

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MOUNT BERRY CHAPEL