Dover High School - Crescent Yearbook (Dover, NC)

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The time to come, when, by every law of right and jus- tice, we must tear ourselves away from the associations of the High School and step out alone-no longer the grave and reverend seniors of school life, but one and all, mere freshmen in life's school. To this end, friends, we thank you for your attend- ance here today, and bid you all a hearty and sincere wel- come to the last gathering together we, as a Class, may ever have, asking you, at the same time to listen leniently to this, our Declaration of Independence: We, therefore, the Class of 1920 of the Dover High School ,in general congress now assembled, appealing to the principal of our school for support of the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of this same good principal and the instructors of the vari- ous grades of this institution, solemnly assert and de- clare that this Class is, and by right ought to be hereafter, free and independent individuals, that it is absolved from all allegiance to the Dover High School, and that each and every connection between it and the school is and ought to be totally dissolved: and that as free and independent individuals, they have full power to enter any business or profession, to marry and settle down, or to do all other acts and things which independent men and women may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protectio nof the diplomas that we do this day receive, we mutualy pledge to each other and to the world, our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. RAY H. WEST, '20. Earle Dixon West and Frank Hawkins were hunting bears. Frank saw a hole among the rocks so he crawled into it leaving Earle Dixon outside. A mountain lion came along and seeing Earle D. it started into the hole. Earle managed to grab it by the tail and was holding it with all his might. Frank hollered: What darkens the hole Earle, what darkens the hole '? Earle replied, If the tail hold sllps you'1l find out what darkens the hole. 41

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CLASS POEM When your day seems overcrowded with the shadows of despair, When light of life seems shrouded with the night-bloom every- where: Classmates, ere some doubting ember burns out hope, and all life stings, Take our motto, and remember We Seek Higher Things. Does black gloom lie on the meadow where bright sun was wont to fall? 'Tis God's wing-that casts the shadow, and His love broods over all. Look up classmates, never, never sigh, Success awaits us now it seems,, Joy is coming, she is nigh, Since We Seek Higher Things. We can never glimpse the far beam of attainment, through strong light: We can never catch the star gleam if life's hours were always bright: Shadows prove that light is near us, through some need its glory gleams, May its promised radiance cheer us, Till we reach the higher things. When school's last lesson is mastered and the classes are tested and tried: When the wisest student has vanished, and the dullest has stepped aside, We should rest and faith we need it, We shall rest for a moment or two, Till the wonderful school of Experience Makes us seew things anew. The Class watches with a smile: our teachers guide each falter- ing aim: They look on all the while, for added laurels to our fame, With faith in us they give that same old question eye to eye, Lis- ten Students, for what do you live? To seek higher things, is our reply. Annie Ruth Joyner to Mable Massengille: Say Mable, I can just see you about thirty years from now going in the photographer's, saying, 'How much do you charge for taking children's pictures ?' Photographer: Three dollars per dozen. . Mable: Well, l'll have to see you later, I haven't got but eleven yet. 13