Dreher High School - Blue Devil Yearbook (Columbia, SC)

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M? What is a school but the people in it? What does it feel, locked up and alone In the night? ' Does it dream, as the old do, of past Triumphs and glories? Or does it yearn, as we do, for a future Bright and marvelous? Who can feel the heart of a school Except by touching the hearts of its people, For ' What is a school but the people in it? NEG We, the editors of your 1959 BLUE DEVIL, have attempted in the following pages to depict, through pictures, the pulse of a great school, to determine what factors mold fourteen hundred individuals into one homogeneous unit, to recreate a year of assorted hopes and fears, dreams and realities, successes and failures, teaching and learning. What makes a school great? Keep the supposition in mind and join the editors as, through retrospect, we view -Dreher '59

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CLASSES 22 ACTIVITIES so T A B L E 0 F C 0 N T E N T S ATHLETICS S 98 BEAUTIES 120

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HER PEOPLE. .. represent the very essence of her being, and character. Each individual possesses his own distinctive personality, his own myriad ideas, his own selfish desires. Coupled with the individualistic qualities, which must be judiciously guarded, each Dreherite is instilled with and motivated by a certain unseen, yet deep-seated harmony, which binds and holds each as a vibrant, working unit. This basic factor, this common bond between her people, is the mutual love and respect held for Dreher by every Dreherite.