Flora High School - Falcon Yearbook (Columbia, SC)

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DEDICATIO 6'But you canit tow my car off-I,ve got a car- pool to take homeli' Are you sure you haveift found my sneakers? But I didn't mean to mix sodium and waterlv Yes, I was sick, really, I was home sick in bed . . Such statements and ques- tions are daily addressed to one of the persons most essential to F lora-Mr. Thomas Stokes. His gentle but authoritative presence is something which every student would greatly miss should it be removed. Known to all students as Uncle Tomf Mr. Stokes bustles between his duties as a chemistry teacher, Head Teacher, and Traffic Chairman. It is hardly possible to run the course of education at Flora without coming in contact with Mr. Stokes at some time. A request is made and one receives a stern answer that startles an inner sense, until one looks longer to find a twinkle in his eye. No matter what the time or the situation, i'Uncle Tomv can be found lifting the pressures and burdens of school life from a student,s shoulders with a joke, a smile, and a helping hand. Mr. Stokes fits this category incomparably. Without him F lora,s precise sense of coordina- tion would soon become unbalanced and unman- ageable. It is for this reason and many more that we, the FALCON staff dedicate the 1965 FALCON to-Mr. Thomas Winfield Stokes. '1E'm9'

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Ac Visualize a kaleidoscope-a pattern of tiny bits of color in all sizes and shapes-each different from the other. When separate, each piece stands harsh and lonely as if it has no purpose to per- form, no beauty, no interest. Yet, gather these solitary bits, arrange them in a pattern, and a picture of harmony appears.