Catholic Boys High School - Rocket Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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THAT UNITE GENERA- TTONS OF CHS STUDENTS He gazed fondly at the dull band of metal. With his eyes, he traced the hairline crack in the stone. If he peered long and hard enough, he could just discern the faint lettering carved into the ring. The words ran over his lips as if an incantation. His first ring mass had all been a dream. High school was forever, it was for life, but to him and his classmates, the seniors receiving their rings were moving beyondg they were dying. During the next year's mass he knew those faces that solemnly bowed to the cross before the rings. Slowly, he began to realize it would not be long before he stepped up to take his own ring and the responsibilities it entailed. He wanted merely to possess that hard-won confidence a senior with his ring held. As a junior, it finally dawned on him how close the day was. His feelings churned. He desired to hold that ring, but he longed never to have it, to shoulder its responsibilities. He wished that day farther away. He was just growing up, and high school was already almost over. Then, when he came to that day, he felt nothing that he expected. His hands quivered so with excitement that the candle he held shook. For the first time he felt the senior. His classmates complained that their rings were too loose or tight. Laughter accompanied many an elevated fourth finger. Were they all so innocent of what they held? For they wore not a cheap band of metal and glass, but the sum of their experiences, what had molded him and his classmates. He saw now how all before had been cheap talk. It was such a fallacy to compare it all to butterflies evolv- ing from cocoons- just as if seniors were larval. Receiv- ing that ring was not the first chapter of the end, but the last of the beginning. r 1 F In the final moments of the ring mass, the seniors' candles illu- minate the gym.

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The macabre CWord Wealth!D atmosphere of Nightmare on Lee St was enhanced by the presence of scary sights: fog, a coffin and Matt Stone. Letitia Owens, Meryruth Burckhalter, Dawn Showmar, Martha Gray, Holly Lassiter, and Terri Stern were the mem- bers ofthe homecoming court. .1 U Student Life The few, the proud, the wet . . .