Coon High School - Cocoon Yearbook (Wilson, NC)

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g Zf L F ORE WORD E have attempted in this book to give the reader a picture of our school with all its varied interests and activities. There is much that cannot be written here: school spirit, good fellowship, and loyalty. These will last beyond the life of the printed page. If in future years these pages shall awaken reminiscences both glad and sad, and some soul shall find joy in living over again the days of yesterday as he reads, this book will be a prized possession, and the efforts of the staff will not have been in vain. Z f X ff

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.fi 314 Q -v 4 .I l Sf' N 'N J ffl A .fr ji. 21 'ia ii' il id 4 N .4 Tl n I all CHARLES L. COON HIS sketch is concerned with the personal side of the original and dynamic leader who in uncompromising fashion won the fight for the rights of childhood in Wilson County against the entrenched hosts of ignorance, prejudice, and selfishness. As any creation is an index of the creator thereof so the rapid and spectacular expansion of the Wilson County school system is an index of the man who expanded it. The creator of the system, true to the gen- erally accepted dictum regarding him, works rapidly and in spectacular fashion. The subtle strategy of the diplomat and the designing wiles of the politician are two unknown quantities in his personal equation. Like the successful and spectacular football player he hits the line hard and without apology to anyone for so doing. His actions have never been influenced by the suggestion of expedi- encyg his course has never been charted by the paths of least resistanceg he has never been known to sidestep an issue nor to dodge a responsibility. But in every problematic situation that confronts him he goes straight to the heart of it with the question: What is the RIGHT thing to do in this case? This guiding principle is undoubtedly the source of his power as well the provider of the excuse for the hard-hitting tactics he employs. Of course, he has, as every man of action, decision, and accomplish- ment must have, his accumulation of haters. He realizes this, but he is not depressed on account of it. When some situation brings to light that he has drawn, as a by-product of his accomplishment, his full quota of haters he dismisses the whole group in philosophic mien and with charac- teristic belligerency in the statement: I am not a candidate to have placed on my tombstone, 'In life he had no enemies' I But the foregoing sketch does not give a complete picture of the man by any means. Until one has observed his forgiving, patient, generous, and unselfish spirit as it is manifested every hour in every day in the work-a-day world about him can one appreciate the magnanimity of the man. Strength 'to his arm as he carries onl' in season and out, seemingly unhurt by condemnation or unspoileduby praise, towards the goal of an enlightened citizenship l