Carroll High School - Eaglet Yearbook (Ozark, AL)

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THE SPIRIT OF ’67 The remains of a toilsome day slowly descend the foot worn halls of Carroll High. Empty classrooms enclose the silence and reverence of unused knowledge. All elements of a perfect existence are present— all but one. It comes with the everyday motions of life: a student getting ready for school, the principal opening his office door in the morning, or a teacher preparing her students for their future roles in society. If you believe in the wonders of life and are motivated by a strange and wonderful force, you possess the greatest gift of all—SPIRIT. It's spirit, as Webster defines it, that provides the “thinking, feeling and motivating part of man”. School spirit as we experience it in our tradition is composed of many things: it’s the sympathetic ear of a teacher, the long remembered victory, and the enthusiastic standing ovation that comes when the band plays Dixie. We all experience it at some time—maybe during a pep rally on Friday afternoon or maybe the night before graduation. Spirit is the belief in something characteristic of strength, courage, loyalty, and truth. We symbolize our spirit in the mighty War Eagle. We love it, fight for it and will always remember it. Spirit is a mutual gift—one shared by all of us. The noise and con- fusion of break, the sweet taste of victory, the bitter disappointment of defeat, the roar of the Seniors at a bonfire, and the devotional read at an assembly all portray it’s many faces. When depressed, Spirit is a sad thing, but as long as free-willed, reasonable people exist spirit will enable them to move on to brighter, happier days. Because we hold this one possession in common we must respect and appreciate it. For it has been said: “He that loseth wealth, loseth much; he that loseth friends, loseth more; but he that loseth his spirit loseth all.”