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

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'PROPHECY' AFTER GOING THROUGH THE BUSINESS DISTRICT or THE CITY, DOWN THREE SHORT DARK ALLEYSQ I FINALLY DAME INTO A FILTHY UNHEPT STREET, WHERE LITTLE GYPSY CHILDREN WERE PLAYING IN FRONT or THEIR TENTS AS I WALKED DOWN THE STREET RATHER HURRIEDLYI A GHATTERING GYPSY RUSHED OVER T VY SIDE SHE LED THE WAY INTO A SMALL, BUT CLEAN TENT WITH SEEMINGLY PRECIOUS LINENS DRAPING THE WALL D IN HE F CORNER IND A SMALI TABLE WITH A SHINING CRYSTAL BALL THEREDN, SAT A QDEER LOOKING WDMAN SHE BEGAN T0 cHucxLE SHYLY 'AHA,n SAID SHE, I SEE MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE WITH WHOM YDu'vE ASSOCIATED FROM DAY T0 DAY, AND BY THEIR NAME IS A SENTENCE OF PREDICTION SHALL I FDRETELL ITU 'YESI I REPLIEDI You HAY SHE TOLD ALL, AND IT WAS FDRTUNATE FOR ME THAT I TOOK NOTES ON HER STATEMENTS, OR I COULDN'T WRITE WHAT I AM ABOUT T0 WRITE THESE ARE THE NOTES I SEE SITTING IN A SMALL OFFICE, YOUNG DAN FLEMING I THE WINDOWS ARE MILK BOTTLES, AND ON THE FLOOR ARE STOPPERSI BUT DAN SITS AMGNG HIS PAPERS FIGURING ouT THE SALES OFHIS DAIRY EDR THE YEAR 'ELMER GARRETT AND MAUDE LEE MORRISON SEEM T0 BE VERY FOND or THE QUIET or THE FARM FOR THERE THEY SIT on THE BANK or A GLEAMING RIVER WITH THEIR FISHING POLES CASTJ AND REFLECTIDN ON THE GOLDEN HARVEST FROM THE WHEAT FIELDS CATCH BIG ONES MAUDE AND ELMERQ THEN YDu'LL NDT HAVF TO TEM FISH STORIES ' 'GUESS WHO IS MAKING A PERSONAL APPEARANCE ToDAY9 KERRY VDNADDRE THE LAD WITH THE GOLDEN VOICE Du T0 MANY REQUESTS, HE WILL OPEN THE PROGRAM WITH HIS UNIQUE VERSION or 'MELANCHOLY BABY' 'CLETUS JACKSON, IS NOW A PROFESSOR or MATHEMATICST AND IS DISCUSSING A WEIGHTY PROBLEM WITHA GROUP or HIS STUDENTS WHO ARE ALL ATTENTIVE THEY LIKE HIM ' M J B GARDNER, JR , NOW A BIG BUSINESS EXECUTlVEsSnS AT HIS DESK CHATTIHG WITH HIS INTERVIEWERS, AN IS AFEEG TIONATELY REFERRED T0 BY HIS EMPLOYEES AS J B , RATHERTHAN UR GARDNER CHARLES LDWDERMILK NOW HAS AN UNUSUALLY GOOD OPPORTUNITY PERSUE HIS OLD HOBBY or ARGU NG HE'S THE STATE ENSE LAWYER AND AS WE LOOK IN AT THE COURT, HE LOUDLY VOICING 'I OBJECT' 'THERE IS BRowN EYED VIRGINIA HADLEY, How ON THE ART STAFF OF VoGuE MAGAZINE AND FROM THE LINE or MASGULINE ADMIRERS, SHE CAN 'DRAW'ATTENTl0N Too 44 xx 0 AN T AR BEH . 79 W oil . G N THE GLOWING SUNLIGHT SIHKING BEHIND THE PEAKSp LEAVING STS L C E Ro I I 0 D - 0 0 T0 I . DEF IS -..- I