Edneyville High School - Whispering Pines Yearbook (Edneyville, NC)

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A Message to the Class of 1951 TWELVE YEARS AND THIS The Senior Class and more especially the Year-Book Staff have made possible this opportunity of seeing ourselves as others see us.’’ Let us hope that every¬ one will be pleased as you look at the pictures of you and your friends. Unfortu¬ nately the camera can capture only the image of the individual, which is in fact a very small part of what one really is. The camera gets only how we look, or what is known as first impression. It is not always mercy that we get nor does the camera always do justice to one. However, let us hope that the photographs here will not soon fade, because who is it that would not like to capture and retain youth where it is. Photogenic quality declines with age and there is not much we can do about it. Most people have cameras (eyes) in their head which are continually focusing on the every day acts and deeds of associators. The twelve years association have produced many metal pictures and without doubt some of great beauty. Nei¬ ther will they soon fade. They cannot be folded, put away, and forgotten regard¬ less of their poor quality. Then let us hope that these mental pictures portray character traits such as decency, unselfishness, loyalty, understanding, honesty, dependability, and others that you know from the daily photographing of the lives of others. Everytime one speaks, acts, or thinks; he is the subject of some type of picture. It is my opinion that the character photo of the majority of our individuals in this class and on this staff will always rank favorably with the best. I should like that each one who thumbs through this pictorial book of these precious people, ev entful days, and purposeful activities, remember that it came into your possession on account of hours and hours of hard work on the part of the Staff. There was planning, arranging, selling the advertisers on the value of their expenditures which largely financed the cost, and all the other work and eagerness which has gone into it. In all your years ahead this little book will serve to recall activities and as¬ sociations that you will want to remember. Kindest regards, I am William J. Nesbitt

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[fonewond The class of ’ 51 will stand at the meeting between a happy past and an unknown future. But what our lives are to be, depends in a large mea¬ sure upon the foundations we have been building for them in our High School years here at dear ’Ole Edneyville. To place within the covers of our yearbook all of our activities, our love for the School, and our true molded laws of Americanism, would be asking for the impossible. We, who are about to pass from this sphere of knowledge, will, in years to come, review these pages and recall the precious memories, each old familiar place, and each ideal that our school had stood for down through the years. Beneath the folds of each dear teacher, the weakest has been protected and the strongest has obeyed. Together we have learned the principals of brotherhood, of honor, and of living in a Christian atmosphere. In years to come, when discouragements assail us, we will push on for a good cause makes a stout heart.” Then we will hold in fond re¬ membrance the yesterdays as the most precious moments of our lives. From these pages, one can readily see that we work, play, and wor¬ ship together, pulling for one goal. We hope that each and every one may enjoy and find pleasure in the Pines’ murmuring golden recollections of days that have gone nevermore to return.

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MR. J. HARVEY MITCHELL — In dedicating the 1951 edition of Whispering Pines, we are really asking the acceptance of a slight token of our esteem and affection. To a man who has faithfully and earnestly labored with us we wish to hold him in warm remem¬ brance in this manner. Often and often in the years to come, when we are thrown more and more upon our own guidance and intuition, our minds will travel back to the patience, kindness, and the Christian attitude of this noble soul. He has taught us Chemistry and Math and has helped to lay the foundations for the finer and more important things in life. It is with these thoughts in mind, that we dedicate the ' ' Whispering Pines” to Mr. J. Harvey Mitchell.