Dale County Christian School - Crusader Yearbook (Ozark, AL)

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MR. AND MISS DALE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL Allison Fuller Marley Deloney The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. — Henry W. Longfellow Character — Margaret Slattery What one is, that is the supreme thing. Sincer- ity, honesty, unselfishness, intelligence, the spirit of cooperation and justice, cheerfulness, courte- sy, concentration and all the rest help make one what he is. What one is — that is Character. Strong, fine character stands the test of life with all its dangers and pitfalls — nothing else does. Everyone has the power of making his character what it ought to be. The power lies in the little words Yes and No. Saying Yes to all that life offers which is good and right, and saying No to all that can weaken or defile, will form character strong, pure and fine. 27

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WHO'S WHO IN '82 A. C E. STUDENT OF YEAR Clayton Fuller Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures, and that is character. Horace Greeley A Man's Most Precious Possession Lew Sarett A man's most precious possession is his in- tegrity: the knowledge that he has preserved inviolate the soul, the spirit, the character that God gave him as peculiarly his own; the knowl- edge that he never sold out for thirty pieces of dirty silver; that he was steadfast; that he never knuckled under to the pressure of convention- al thought; that he never broke before the bat- tering of adversity. In this day, when men often sell out their visions, their dreams, their convictions, in or- der to prosper in the eyes of their neighbors, in order to gild their homes with prosperity; in this day when men often knuckle under to group-thought, to social pressures, to what their neighbors think; in this day, when men often succumb to the prevailing notion that a man is a success only if he has acquired the badges of material prosperity — automobiles, oriental rugs, fine raiment — and when men foolishly invest the only lives they have to live on earth in stacking up material things; in this day, when it takes vision and will and courage to stand against the multitude, to follow your own lights, to take the riducule visited upon you; when you are laughed at as a dreamer, a vagabond, a fool — I say, it is something to know that you never sold out, that you re- mained true to yourself; that you dared to fol- low the gleam; that you never compromised; that you maintained the integrity of the soul that God gave you for your own to hold secure against the world. That consciousness, the fire and luster it puts into a man's heart, I wouldn't swap for the Denver mint! 26

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LITTLE MR. MISS DALE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL Ashley Jones Boyd Mizell What is failure? It is only a spur To the one who receives it right. It makes the spirit within him stir To go in once more and fight. If you never have failed, it's an easy guess You never have won any high success. — Edmund Vance Cooke A Well-Spent Life James T. Fields Oh, happiest he, whose riper years retain The hopes of youth, unsullied by a stainl His eve of life in calm content shall glide. Like the still streamlet to the ocean tide; No gloomy cloud hangs O'er his tranquil day; No meteor lures him from his home astray; For him there glows with glittering beam on high Love's changeless star that leads him to the sky. Still, to the past he sometimes turns to trace The mild expression of a mother's face. And dreams, perchance, as oft in earlier years. The low, sweet music of her voice he hears. 28