E E Smith High School - Smithsonian Yearbook (Fayetteville, NC)

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SENIOR MESSAGE A thoughtful reflection of the past year has shown that many changes have occured since we entered E. E. Smith Senior High School. The past three years have seen the development of a student body that has accepted a challenge and strived to make the best of it. When we entered E. E. Smith we accepted the challenge of becoming the potential leaders of the world. We now see that many of our fellow classmates are fast becoming these potential leaders. Through the rigor of the day to day life here at E. E. Smith the emergence of useful and educated citizens may be seen. I challenge you, the class of 1968, to continue to uphold the high standards and traditions which have been set forth. Grasp every opportunity for growth and make the best language labs, science labs and any others that higher education may offer. Keep in mind always respect for others, honesty, moral character and desirable attributes of good citizenship. You will soon be uncovered from the protective wraps of this school. It will be up to you, wherever you go, to carry the name of your high school in pride and dignity and forever to uphold the name of E. E. Smith Senior High School. Linwood Ross Haith, Jr. Senior Class President

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-MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR— As you leaf through the pages of the Smithsonian, it will probably be just another edition, but to those of us who worked on it, it represents a year of hard work, determination, exasperation and sometimes en- joyment. It ail began in September when all of the staff members were willing and eager to work. Carefully, they posted pictures of time, date, and places for re- questing needed information. Surely this year, the mistakes of past years could be avoided. But some- how, many of the same mistakes were made and a few new ones were added. There was, for instance, the matter of those who could not arrange to be at the designated places to take pictures. The photographers did not realize that two or three weeks later was too late, and that their pictures could not be stuck just “some place in the book.” The yearbook staff members-” they who began to work so eagerly-” began to find excuses for not at- tending meetings. “The library, they said, took too much of their time.” The teachers, they said, gave long assignments.” All too often the Editor-in-Chief and Co-Editor and four or five more members found themselves working alone. Now we aren’t complaining. There were always those students who cooperated and there was always our adviser to keep our spirits up when our morale was down. Finally, the book was off to the press, but the job was not done yet. Proofs had to be read and reread, and the book eventually had to be circulated. Now that the job is all behind us, we feel very proud of ourselves, and feel that this SMITHSONIAN shall be the best ever published in the history of the school. Today it may be just another yearbook, but tomor- row, and in the future it will become a treasured pos- session, for in it we will find a year of life that can never be recaptured except in our memories. Byron Simms Editor in chief

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Mrs. J. A. Talbot Secretary THE ADMINISTRA TION Mrs. M. H. Johnson Bookkeeper Mrs. I. C. Fowler Dean of Girls Mr. R. C. Williams Assistant Principal Mrs. P. D. Chapman Guidance Counselor Miss C. L. Thompson Guidance Counselor Not Pictured