Fletcher Academy - Whispering Hills Yearbook (Fletcher, NC)

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l i I .I 3 C re - 'E .K PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Each year you spend in academy includes great achievements, moments of despair and days that disappear into grey fog. Some classes work well, some not so well - work can be great, or not so great, classmates can be with it, or not. All this and much more goes together to make a year at Fletcher Academy. An outcome of education is that this process begins to make some sense. I believe that adding a Christian perspective to the process of education facilitates the whole endeavor. The understanding of . your Life, your abilities, your potential, and yes, recognizing the parts that don't work so well, all enable you to fulfill the role that God has for you. The goal of this school is to aid you in defining that role and preparing to make it a success. I hope that each one of you during the 1981-82 school year have progressed in this quest. I want you to be the success that is possible with God's help. X , K I I Herbert Coolidge

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YK - E PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE Congratulations to the class of 1982 for the achievements your graduation signifies. We thank you for the contributions you have made to the progress at Fletcher Academy. To those who have not completed their academy career We present the challenge of a greater dedication to the cause of righteousness so that the qualities of true nobility may be seen in your life. To each of the new faculty members and the students we express sincere appreciation for all they have done to make this an enjoyable year of many achievements. We are grateful to the Board of Trustees, our pastors, and our constituency for so willingly supporting Fletcher Academy through another year. May the accomplishments of this year find their full fruition not in the further acquirement of factual knowledge, but in the helping each student in his quest for happiness in this life and the blessings of life eternal. May divine guidance be ours as we all join in planning to reach the high goal the Master Teacher holds before us. O lie 9 S I Craig S. Willis

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You Are Unique! When God made you, he made you unique. No one was made like you. That makes you special. Sometimes we try to be like someone else, but that was not God's intention. To be excited about life and to appreciate ourselves as God made us is very important. In fact the sum total of what we get out of life will be in direct proportion to how we esteem the worth of ourself. It is conceded by most of the world's connoisseur's of great music that Walter Toscanini was the all time best orchestra director. Toscanini's son was recently asked what he deemed his father's most distinguished achievement. He replied, For him there could be no such thing. Whatever he was doing at the momentfwas the biggest thing in his life, whether it was tackling a symphony or peeling an orange. Such a person knows how to live each moment given him. How about you? Are you bored most of the time? l Being bored is usually the fault of no one but yourself. The person who is easily bored is generally unimaginative, narrow minded, and selfishly expects others to entertain him. Broaden your world. Make more friends. Enjoy the stars, the clouds, the birds, the trees, and a thousand other amazing phenomena in God's world. Learn to think and to meditate on the great themes of life. Don't just sink into the crowd and be another little person who wastes his life away doing what everyone else is doing, or worse still, what they are not doing. Shakespeare once said, to be or not to be. Thoreau said, most people choose not to be. How about you? Jesus said, I came that they may have life . . . more abundantly. The clear mandate of life is to live every moment to the fullest. To do less is to cheat ourselves and others of the gift of a very unique creation - yourself. Carl Ashlock