Flemington High School - Memories Yearbook (Flemington, WV)

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The Challenges of Graduation (continued) Many of us have a complete outline of eur next few years and have thus made the first achiex'emer.t of our commencement into the world. Some have chosen marriage, a earner in the Armed Service, college and then a career, but some are still wondering how they can accept and accomplish the problems ti.at are now facing them- For twelve years, six of those twelve being spend here in this building, we have been trained to accept the responsibilities of adults. We have learn- ed, through our childish pranks, many things that adults should not do and have thus accomplished much. But does this high school training insure us success in the world? No, it is only a helper but it is one that cannot be overlooked for this training and eur home life have fixed in our minds the responsibilities of adults that is necessary to begin our adult life. We have now obtained the knowledge that is offered to us by this insti- tution of learning and we go forth to accept the responsibilities that now face us. To our parents we offer our deepest thanks and appreciation for the guidiance they have given us during our adolesence. To the faculty we sin- cerely give our thanks for their patience and understanding. For without this special guidiance we could not have advanced this far and we would net now be facing the challenges of graduation. And now as we go forth we will remember our teachings and thus we will make you as proud of us as you are now. Jacqueline Stewart Co-Valedictorian SUCCESS IN LIFE It is my privilege and honor as salutaterlan of the 1957 graduating class, to represent them and to extend the words of welcome to our friends, our schoolmates, our faculty, our community and most of all to our parents, who have guided us and helped us these past years. We wish to thank all of them for giving us the opportunities and pleasures, we have enjoyed during the years of our high school. To us who now graduate from high school, our life seems as a challenge, which has yet to begin. It is the challenge for our role as a successful adult. During our school days we had the protection security and safety of our own homes and loved ones. We have always had the guidiance of our parents with us and behind us. We have had happy times with our friends our friends and classmates. And last, but not least, the guiding of fine teachers. Thus far we have been free from responsibility and worry. Free with the world. As the challenger, at the beginning of an answer thinks and plans for that answer, so must we, now take the time to think and plan for the challenge that lies ahead for us in the oncoming future. We must plan our future knowing that soon we will have our own responsibility, and net be the responsibility of our parents.

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In today. Already Waites Tomorrow (continued) And now it is ti nr.o to say farewell» Now we must part from schoolmates of many years stardii ?, from neighbors, from teachers, and in 3omr. cases from parents. Now we shall scatter to the four comers of the world, to use a slightly exaggerated figure of speech, and a new class will fill up the empty places we are leaving behind. But even though we become but names and memories in school history, we know that we have been a honor to our Alma Mater, that she has reason to be proud of us. We the members of the graduating class of 1957, wish to express our sincere gratitude and appreciation to our parents for their sacrifice, to the faculty for their cooperation with us, and to the Board of Education for making possible the completion of our new addition. We know you have done this through the realization and the foresight that it is from the visions of yough that como3 the inspiration to make tomorrow better than today. For in Today, Already Walks Tomorrow. Nancy Johnson Co-Valedictorian THE CHALLENGES OF GRADUATION It is my privilege and honor to give these, our last and final words of farewell, for this graduating class of 1957 to you, friends, relatives, students, guests, and members of the faculty. Twelve years ago when we entered the classrooms of school for the first time this was only a dream but now it is a reality. From that first experience of school life we have strived to obtain this goal and now that it has been attained we find ourselves face to face with the challenges of graduation. Of course, from the time of our birth, we have been facing challenges every day of our life. We have been faced with challenges that did not appear to be such because they seemed to be the natural thing to do such as walking and talking. But now, at this moment, with our high school education, a more important challenge, successfully accomplished, we find ourselves facing a climax of our life. Can we face with courage, this climax? For new we are not the high school students that we were a few moments ago but we have commenced a new chapter of our life—our live on our own. Will we be able to accomplish this challenge as successfully as we have our present one? For we must remember tonight we are the cen- ter of attention to all but tomorrow we may be forgotten. Just another person trying to attain success out in the world. Now that we have achieved our high school diploma we are facing a decisive question of great importance. How will we face the challenges ef graduation? Do we have the courage to accept the challenge that is pro- posed to us by our high school diploma? Can we be as successful out on our own as we were during our high school years while under the guidiance of the facility? Have we accomplished enough knowledge, understanding, ’ ’'- n«nce to step out into the world, completely sure that we ■ «i n we find it a dif-

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SUCCESS IN LIFE (Continued) Ab the members cf the graduating class come to the hour cf Commence- ment, we realize that scon we will enter into cur ml j as an adulu. Also we realize that we too, have a great task bei'ere u j A or2't cf becoming one of the counties 3 million American citizens, tr.au 1 Lvs cri work day by day doing their job as best they can. In tho pr.f-t. vn were dependort upon each other. In the future, we will have only ouisilver to depend upon. We, the members of the 1957 Senior Class, now lea e Fleminrton High School. We are leaving a most wonderful part of our life behind ue. We take with us all the memories and past e:-'.perfences of cur h .f.h school daj-s. And I'm sure the future holds great promise for the success cf us all. Again, may I bid Welcome to you all. Phyllis Collins Salutatorian Senior Class as pictured (left to right) First Rew Geraldine Riffle Shirley Gibson Mary Wilfong Phyllis Collins Mary McKinney Jacqueline Stewart Norma Marshall Violet Whitehair Patty Jenkins Yvonne Saucer Peggy Jo Hayes Shirley Johnson Nancy Johnson Jerrie Riffle Charlene Rus Charlene Blake Second Row Donald Wiseman Richard Holy-field Charles Mayle Bailey Jenkins Lewis Johnson Thomas Lang Roger Findley Robert Davi 3 Lao Green Lloyd Puizek Ed.dj Wiseman James may.le Robert Bolton Jack Crouse CnarZ.e.: Knight Mr. Whitsecarver