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

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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.

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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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r - I ,-- In q X . l ' M aul -, l FOREWORD by the Editor X xx 2-ff, f if- dba!! The staff of the 1948 PEMICAN, knowing that educa- tion is now the basis of human progress and that a new awakening and interest has arisen in this field, has chosen to make this, the fourth issue of the PEMICAN, an an- niversary edition. We desire not only to mark fifty- years of progress in our city's educational system, but to create in us the incentive to accomplish as much in the future as in the past by holding on to the memories, and dreams and aspirations of our youth. Therefore we ask that you look upon this, your annual, as a treasure-chest holding the precious memories of your happy, carefree days at High Point High School. Bound in these pages is the story of one year of happy learning, in the years to come may it hold for you the cherished memories that it may now suggest to your mothers and fathers. x ' ff' . , ,, Www, High Point's first public school, the j. lflwood Cox home to which the pictured right wing was added, stood on the present site of the post ofhcc building.