Bessemer High School - Spotlight Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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CLASS HISTORY CONTINUED EVERY MISTAKE WITH THE GREATEST ASSURANCE AND DIGNITY IMAGINABLE DID THEBA WARD TAKE HER HONORABLE POSITION AS PRESIDENT OF THE SENIOR CLASS J B GARD R SEOAME VICE PRESIDENT, HAROLD BUNTING, SECRETARY, AND DOROTHY WAY, TREASURER I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO IANDI SUDDENLY CRASH! THEN SILENCE I FOUND MYSELF SITTING RAINPULLY ON THE FLOOR BESIDE M BED WITH THE CHILL NIGHT AIR SWEEPING ABOUT ME EALIzING WHAT HAD HAPPENED GRAWLED SLOWLY INTO MY WARM COVER AND TRIED TO GO TO SLEEP WHILE THINKING OF MY FOUR YEARS IN HIGH SCHOOL AS I HAD SEEN THEM IN MY DREAM WORDS WORDS ARE CONTROLLERS OF YOUR DESTINY THE! CAN TAKE YOUR HEART AND TWIST IT UNTIL YOU CRY OUT IN AGONY AND WONDER THEY CAN SEAR YOUR SOUL WITH THE ANGUISH OF THE CONDEMNED OR THEY CAN GIVE YOU PEACE AND LACTING JOY THE TWIST OF A TONGUE AND A SOUND CAN SPEIL YOUR FATE THE SCRATCH OF A PEN MAY BE THE DEATH KNELL OF YOUR DOOM WORDS ARE THE SLAVES OF MEN AND THE MASTERS WORDS SHEEP IN THE HOI MAD QUARREL OF LOVERS W RDS SING N THE SOOTH'NG TONES OF COMFORT WORDS TINKLY IN THE LAUGH OF A CLOWN U RDS RING IN THE THUNDERINF VOICE OF THF OF THE OYING IN THE CLASH OF WORDS NATIONS MUST RISE AND PALI GODS MUST ROCK UPON THEIR PEDESTALS AND MEN LP AND N THEY cAN MAKE A Moe SHRINK AND COAER IN TERROR THEY CAN STUMBLE EALTERING FROM THE VERY DOOR OF IRE DEAD AND BRING WITH THEM PEACE, OR GRIEF, OR PENITENOE DOWN THROUGH THE JUNGLES OF WORLD HISTORY THEY eLAzE THEIR PATH AND STRIKE AT THE HEARTS OF PEOPLE WITH THEIR MESSAGES 'LI8ERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITYI OR DEATHIH AND THE GUILLOTINE CRASHED 'I ONLY REGRET THAT I HAVE BUT ONE LIFE TO GIVE FOR MY COUNTRY ' AND A BRAVE SOUL SLIPPED AWAY 'BUT AS FOR ME, GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH1' AND A NATION ROSE FLAHING FROM THE SOUL or THE PATRIOT WHISPERING IN THE DYING BREATH or THE MARTYR STIRRINGT STUMBLINC, STRIVING, LAUGHING, GRIPPING9 YEARNING THEY SPRING FROM THE INExHAuSTAeLE FOUNTAIN OF THE MIND O U O I 11 . V' ' Y S R . I ' . .J o .P 0 0 I . 0 ' 1 - PROPHET. WORDS CAN DESTROY OR BRING SMILES TO THE FACE RISE I ILL. o