Duncan High School - Smoke Rings Yearbook (Duncan, OK)

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Zfrewvrtl How strange it seems that we have at last graduated. After twelve years of education, we must suddenly put away childish things and assume the responsibilities of young adults. As we reflect in the quietude of our own minds, we can begin to com- prehend what those twelve years have meant. Our knowledge and experiences have prepared us for the futureg now we must face that future. Seldom is there any looking back. What has gone before has been goodg what will come next should be better. Let us- Looh upward at the hill which rnust he clirnhed Today, forgetting thorns and grief that rnarhed The steeps of yesterday, as drifted snow Is unreniernhered when the feet of Spring Have passed . . . We are the pioneers of this New age and we haue wider trails to hlaze, Which lead to happiness . . . new cities that Must stand upon the hill of faith . . . New hridges to he huilt to span the seas Of hatred surging in the hearts of nzen, And there are songs that we rnust weave . . . new songs That are as runners hearing rnessages Of hope and love and peare . . . -from Progression by Inez Clark T horson

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DEDICATIO On a brisk September morning a new life was begun. Not a physical being, but rather a mental being within a group of physical beings. This was the birth of Education. At midmorning, Education advanced to a higher plane of learning, high school. Education is now approaching noon-day, with afternoon still to come. For some, formal education will stop here as they find jobs, marry, make homes, the others will continue in school, advancing to higher levels of learn- ing. But for both groups, sunset never approaches. Education is not begun all at once, for we learn as children to distinguish between hot and cold, black and white, Education never ends. Man continues to learn from sunrise to sunset. Reason, experience, failure, are all education. As noontime approaches and the seniors go their separate paths, we earnestly hope that each will con- tinue to learn and remember from Life. It is to the Swingin' Seniors of '61 that the 1961 edition of SMOKERINGS is dedicated with love and respect.