Central High School - Pemican Yearbook (High Point, NC)

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WE fx this book to the great spirit of progress through education, which during these past fifty years has transformed our schools from the frame build- ing of 1897 into the great institution which it is todayg and through these pages express the hope that this spirit will never die, but will live on to increase in richness and power, nourished by those men and women who have seen and felt the benefit of a school for which they will al- ways hold fond memories and a great deal ofpride. A long way it has come and a long way it has to go. ln fifty years from what sort of school system will the students ofHigh Point High School look back to us? life cannot safely forecast the future of education because we can- not realize fully the potential strength of a truly great system. At any rate, we may be sure that it will ever advance forward from mark to mark along the way to perfection. DEDICATE

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JMS'-,rQV' '. i x 1 ' 'AL IQ ' X? I -Z- 2127C 3 i b ,Qi oratorp combineh with an all out bribe bp the QEnterprise ' won out, anh the issue waspasseo in l887.AU1Che school openeh with nine grahes, a facultp of twelbe, inclubing the su- perintenoent, Mr. Qeorge IE. Crowell, anh the principal, Mr. Giobb IE. lane, ano an enrollment ot 386. The first grahuation took place in 1898 with a class of four, consisting of Miss Qstelle Qiurlep, Bliss Bea-rl ilhol, Miss he stuhent Qha Jlilpers, anh Mr. Qlbin Sv. Barber. in those haps hah somewhat the same curriculum as the present hay scholar, with the exception of music anh inoustrial arts. These oepartments were introouceh later anh habe become outstanoing in the past hecahe. Bur school. is saih to habe the best equippeh shop in the state, while music, after its comeback following the Depression, has become a' crehit subject as well as a creoit to the m-,king backat the last fiftp pears, we community. see that 'the bepnote then was prog: ress. we must, as future citigens, upholh that spirit so that at the enh of the next fiftp pears Ztaigh 1Boint will habe gone to the herp top in the fielh of ehucationQ x x x x x x x xxxx -Q.. . J I f,

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On these leaves have been transcribed the records, the etliorts, and the activities of the 1947-+8 student body and administration. These records, we hope, will be exemplary of the past fifty years and will be an incentive to the next fifty and so on, urging each class to estab- lish a slightly higher goal for those who will follow. lVhat better means could there be to keep the leaves of the book of knowledge for- ever turning? The young men and women of' today are the oils to be used in the burning lamp oflife whose light eternally creeps along slowly but steadily, revealing that part of this world's natural truths as yet unfathomed by those who have gone before us. Knowledge is real, the supply is unlimited, so we must realize that the lack of it is povertyg the desire for it, opportunityg the persuance of it, adventureg and the possession of it, success.