Carver High School - Trojan Yearbook (Newport News, VA)

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Epilogue Upon our point of departure, time renews its acquaintance. The measure of existence transposes animate substances of this institution. Yes time, the measure of existence, serves no end or limit to its companionship. From these walls we venture forth into a world with no compunction for those who utilize parasitism, but one with admiration for those who dwell on sycophancy. The crowd masses and casts a distorted bungle of shadows. So we must set forth alone in search of that which belongs not to the crowd, but to ourselves. Our minds must seek greater pastures of nourishment; our hearts are reluctant to follow. Hearts which remember the joys and sorrows of past encounters, also feel the need to reach the summit of physical and mental capacities. Yet, they linger on, casting ghostlike shadows within these corridors. We surrender our material existence in this institution though we cannot re- linquish the memories and experiences which were part of our past, the foundation of our present, and hope for our future. We must cast our own shadows!