Cleveland Community College - Bridge Yearbook (Shelby, NC)

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Mt Zjn- AQ- T. Linda Davis Linda attended Shelby High School, Gard- ner-Webb College, and Central Piedmont Community College. She is presently em- ployed at Charlotte Memorial Hospital. Her hobbies include sailing, water skiing, swimming, and playing golf and tennis.

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Rita Hunt Rita graduated from Burns High in 1972. Her major is llfledical Secretarial Science. She is employed by Yelton, Farfour, and lVlcCartney--Attorneys-at-Law. Her hobbies include sewing, art, cooking, and volleyball. 28 Joy Dyer Joy Dyer is 19 years old. She is present ly studying General Office Technology here at Cleveland Tech at night. She grad uated from Crest High School in 1973. presently works at Fasco Industries. Si enjoys meeting new people. , I

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. .c me-if asf!--'Mg ...,:, r.. l f l Advice to Young Ladies A.U.C. 334: about this date For a sexual misdemeanour, which she denied, The vestal virgin Postumia was tried. Livy records it among affairs of state. They let her off: it seems she was perfectly pure, The charge arose because some thought her talk Too witty for a young girl, her eyes, her walk Too lively, her clothes too smart to be demure. The Pontifex lVlaximus, summing up the case, Warned her in future to abstain from iokes, To wear less modish and more pious frocks. She left the court reprieved, but in disgrace. What then? With her the annalist is less Concerned than what the men achieved that year: Plots, quarrels, crimes, with oratory to spare! I see Postumia with her dowdy dress. Stiff mouth and listless step, I see her strive To give dull answers. She had to knuckle down. A vestal virgin who scandalized that town Had fair trial, then they buried her alive. Alive, bricked up in suffocating dark, A ration of bread, a pitcher if she was dry, Preserved the body they did not wish to die Until her mind was quenched to the last spark. How many the black maw has swallowed in its time! Spirited girls who would not know their place, Talented girls who found that the disgrace 30 Of being a woman made genius a crime, How many others , who would not kiss the rod Domestic bullying broke or public shame? Pagan or Christian, it was much the same: Husbands, St. Paul declared, rank next to God. Livy and Paul, it may be, never knew That Rome was doomed, each spoke of her with pride Tacitus, writing after both had died, ny X Showed that whole fabric rotten through and through. Historians spend their lives and lavish ink Explaining how great commonwealths collapse From great defects of policy---perhaps ' The cause is sometimes simpler than they think. lt may not seem so grave an act to break. Postumia's spirit as Galileo's, to gag i Hypatia as crush Socrates , or drag Joan as Giordano Bruno to the stake. Can we be sure? Have more states perished, then, For having shackled the enquiring mind, Than those who, in their folly not less blind, Trusted the servile womb to breed free men? CA.D. Hope?