Flemington High School - Memories Yearbook (Flemington, WV)

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Peggy Jo Hayes Nickname: Pag Ambition: Housewife Prefaranca: Richard Favorite Saying:How do you figgar? Lea Graan Nickname: None Ambition: Bachelor Prefaranca: Girls Favorite Saying: Skip it! Mary Wilfong Nickname: Jaania Ambition: Secretary Prefaranca: A good book Favorite Saying: Shut up! Bailey Jenkins Nickname: Sonny Ambition: Hard to tall Preference: Girls Favorite Saying: Hold it down J Mary McKinney Nickname: Nona Ambition: W. A. C. Preference: Soda jerk Favorite Saying: Gee-e-e Whiz!

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Lewis John Nickname: Ambition: Preference: Favorite baying: son Pudge Welder Gi rls You'd better beli eve it 1 Donald Wiseman Nickname: Cotton «mbition: Machinest Preference: Girls Fflvnrit.p Savins: Oh heckl Norma Marshall Nickname: Shortie Ambition: Secretarv Preference: Out of town boys! Favorite Saying: Honest, I'rr. not kidding! Eddy Wiseman Nickname: None Ambition: Welder Preference: Talk to mirls favorite Saying: Cut it out. Charles Knight Nickname: Sneak Amb it i on: Machi n e st Preference: Hun around Favorite Saying: Don't do that.

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IN TODAY, ALREj DY WALKS TOISORRO!: To the members of the Board of Education, to the teachers ef Floalng- ton High School, to the parents, neighbors, and schoolmates, X make ny hew as eo-valedictorian of the class of 1957- Now the moment has arrived to wish you farewell, and to speed the graduating class on its path to fame and fortune. It is said that every rose has its thorn, every joy has its under- current of sorrow. Certain it is that the class of 1957 finds the plesure of achievement dimmed by the severing of school and class friend- ships. To the shortest path, to the longest lane, there canes an end; in- evitable change brings the sweet sad words of farewell. Ue have come to the first harbor in the Jomey of life—graduation from high school. What will the next Journey hold in store for us? Where will the next harbor be? With the passing of the months the problem has grown nearer and bigger. We have been conscious of its shadow at our side even while we went about our everyday affairs. Wa have realized that there were decisions to be made, important decisions that would have their influence on us all the rest of our lives and we tried to make those decisions with the realisation that we the graduates of today will be the leaders of tomorrow. For seme of us there is more education, a continuation of the days we have known in the paat. For others there is a change that must be made from high school phaee of life to the actual. And each one of us has been thinking and thinking. Vtiat is best for us. In which course lies happi- ness, success, and well-being. But whatever our final decision may be, of one thing we are sura; the days we are leaving behind ue are some of the happiest we shall ever know. The hours we have spent with sympathetic teachers and close friends have yeilded a store ef memories that will never be forgotten as long as we liva. But so it will always be. Nothing remains; all things pass. The best and only thing to do is to make the mest of each part of life as it pre- sents itself to eur attention, and that we feel, is exactly rtiat we have done with our school career. We have made the most af it. We have worked, studied, thrived, and accomplished. And so, though we regret that it must pass yet we know it has all bean worth while. With that conclusion wo turn to the future. What possibilitiea fer the imagination the furure holds, What will it bring? It is a question that each one of us asking with eagerness, but it is also one that must content itself with an indefinite answer. The most hopeful answer that might be made is that the future will bring just what we take to it. If we advance to meet the new life before us with the qualities ef ceurage, determination, and honesty, we shall recline full value for the same, We shall be repaid with the fruits of courage, determination, and honesty. If on the other hand we lag and dolly, we shall find the fruits - «ur as lemons and puckery as persimmons. I think, there- .salf while wo simply