Curwensville Area High School - Echo Yearbook (Curwensville, PA)

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THE ECHO l-lls hfe was gentle and the elements So mixed ln hlm that nature mlght stand up And say to all the world Thus was a man Ollie Z Moore So llve that when thy summons come to JOIII The lnnumerable caravan that moves To that mysterlous realm where each shall take l-lls chamber IH the sllent halls of death Then go not llke the quarry slave at mght Scourged to hls dungeon but sustamed and soothed By an unfalterlng trust approach thy grave Luke one who wraps the drapery of has couch About hlm and lles down to pleasant dreams Margaret E Rhodes Bryant And the stately shlps move on To thelr haven under the hlll But O for the touch of a vanished hand And the sound of a voxce that IS stxll Kathryn Kephart Cast forth thy act thy word lnto the ever llVlI'lg ever worklng UHIVCTSC lt IS a seed gram that cannot dle unnotlced today It wrll be found flourxshlng as a banyan grove perhaps alas' as a hemlock forest after a thousand years Margaret E Kelly Hls llfe IS ended here on Earth but the memory of has splendld work and pleasing personallty llngers on not only ln the hearts of every teacher and pupll but to everyone who knew hlm C5516 B Pxfer Nothlng of hum that doth fade But doth suffer a sea change lnto somethmg rxch and strange Lucy Brunettl The poet VVhrtt1er was once asked by a group of young people How to take the most of their lxves He replied l..1nk them wlth great and worthy causes Thls seemed to be the keynote of the servrce of Mr Norrls and he could say wlth one of our modern poets l llve for those who love me For those who hold me true For the heaven that bends above me And walts my coming too or e rrght that lacks asslstance or e wrong that needs reslstance or t e future m the dlstance For t e good that l can do Lols E. Vaughn As a frlend counselor and helper hundreds of men women boys and gxrls will remember Mr Norris He Wlll continue to be to them as he was ln hfe thelr leader for hrs example and msplratnon has become hls greatest monument Loulse Karstetter 20 ' .I . i . ' F th ' F th ' F h ' ' h '

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THE ECHO As one rs ho loves a garden he Vvalked round the world rts Charms to see Not only by the rose he stayed The trnrest vrolet rn the shade On hrs devotron could depend To great and low he played the frrend Frances 'W Cook Hrs days though few have passed below ln much of joy and less of woe Yet strll rn hours of love or strrfe He escaped the wearrness of lrfe Lors H over And when the stream Whrclr overflowed the soul was passed auax A conscrousness remarned that rt had left Deposrted upon the srlent shore Of memory rmages and precrous thoughts That shall not dre and cannot be destroyed Edrth Saw telle Hfordsuorlh To Professor Grant Norrrs Hrs shambly walk hrs radrant smrle hrs sense of humor hrs unfarllng courtesy hrs sympathetrc soul hrs generous attrtude hrs confident manner cheerfulness rn the face of trrals restrarnt rn appressron hrs rron wrll and endurrng courage hrs jovral drsposrtron hrs krndly nature hrs unfarlrng porse he learned the art of knowrng how to carry hrmself rn vrctory as well as sustarn hrmself rn defeat the blendrng of all these human qualrtres made up the personalrty of th man who meant so much to us and they are the personal elements that en deared hrm to us all Leaf after leaf drops off flower after flower Some rn the chrll some rn the warmer hour Alrve they flourrsh and ahve they fall And Earth who nourrshed them recerves them all Should we her wrser sons be less content To srnk rnto her lap when lrfe rs spent3 Rose C Bloom He ws rought rn wrsdom And he ruled rn love Audrey V Henrx Hrs lrfe was gentle and hrs mrnd The lrttle splendors seemed to find The baser srde of lrfe he saw But from the blemrsh and the flaw He turned as rf he understood That none of us rs wholly good 'Nlarron Snyder v s , ,. . 1 . , . , . V v Q e e ' u w . r 1 v v r. . 1 . . . . N 4. - - . '- r - 1

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THE ECHO MESSAGES FROM FORMER TEACHERS just walt for us frlend by the slde of the way Tlll we come out of lnfe at the end of the day Then we wlll take up together with Joy and with smlle The threads we dropped and lost awhlle Grace E Moore Friend of mme' whose lot was cast Wnth me ln the dlstant past Where like shadows fllttlng fast Fact and fancy thought and theme Word and work begln to seem Like a half remembered dream Touched by change have all thlngs been Yet I thlnk of thee as when We had speech of lxp and pen Gentle words where such were few Softenlng blame where blame was true Dorothy I..aBord Keller WhlfllCf I spent two years ln the home of lVIr Norrls and I ever lound hlm to be a klndly conslderate Ghrlstlan gentleman Hrs sunny happy dlsposltlon dld much to brlghten the llves of those around hlm Base thoughts and grlef slmply couldn t endure when you heard his hearty volce He was a man of superlor mentality and I never tlred of hearlng hlm speak Hls messages always Contalned much that was worthwhlle and lnsplrlng We have lost a true frlend and lt IS wlth deepest regret that we note his passlng Best wlshes to the class of 29 and may you everllve up to the true standards of servlce as advocated by our deceased frlend E Vlctor Haney I am sendmg a greetlng to Curwensvxlle I-hgh School and IH dolng so there comes to mlnd my days spent there as a teacher under the klnd supervision of that wonderful teacher and friend Mr Grant NOTFIS Lulu Tobias Boag Mr Grant Norris was a man whose splendld and forceful personality won the respect of all who knew hlm Under his Wlbe supervlsxon hls teachers and puplls found lt a pleasure to work for hlm Laura Walter 2 I ,. 1 1 V 1. - 7 . Praising, where small praise was due.