Girls High School - Halcyon Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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CUR LIVES ARE PATTERNS GF RHYTHM The meloduous harmony of our Gurls Hugh days has given perfect balance to our luves wuth uts delughtful unflectuons and varued moods We want our Halcyon to reveal through puctures and drawungs the pleasing composutuons of our school experuence These days are parts of the patterns of rhythm that make up our exustence for un the words of Tagore The world speaks to me un puctures My soul answers un musuc We have had fun doing our part to make the or chestra of school a success Wuth the faculty as our conductor we are urged on unto new and more enchantung strauns than we by our studues because they are the foundatuon of our knowledge Occasionally our vouces have cracked as we trued to reach a hugh putched note At such tumes when we have been off key our tempo has slackened but we have been able to recapture the tume un chords of perfect cadence Our essentual rhythm however never halts and our luves are smoothly domunated by uts pattern The melodues of each gurls days at Girls Hugh have been composed of varuous measures Some students have p'aced the accent of theur etude on home economucs or art wuth mathematucs or chem ustry as the refrain Others have found better har mony un followung a predomunant count of Latun French or hustory wuth understones of shorthand or typung In almost every bar there have been flats and sharps makung the tune more unterestung Thus well balanced meter of our studues has qualufued every gurl who leaves Gurls Hugh to meet lufe un what ever mode ut confronts her When studues for the day are complete and les sons are thrust asude for awhule each gurl can fund amusement un one of the many unterludes that break unto the consustent beat of the dauly routune of school For those who are unterested un sports the varued appeals of archery volleyball basketball ure Actuvutues that are closely associated wuth va ruous subjects un school are unstructuve and enter taunung At Gurls Hugh there are branches of natuonal defense organuzatuons for gurls who want to do some thung for theur country whule they are yet un school Any group that one mught wush to uoun an organu zatuon for fun and amusement or one for unspura tuonal guidance may be found at Gurls Hugh The song of our halcyon hugh school days us over and each of us has delughtful memorues of ut to take with her to soar to the fullest measure of success as our patterns of rhythm stretch unto a broader space of lufe . have experienced before. The basic score is played bowling, and tennis have brought worthwhile pleas-

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H E FACULTY zrjufuullffl M Assocuatuon un school wuth one s teachers us a mel ody to be remembered Our unstructors the guudung tempo of our luves urge us unto hugher keys they want to see each gurl reach the topmost notes wuth ease and they want our well rounded patterns of rhythm to move smoothly along wuth each desugn perfect un utself We are led by our conductors to work well together un every melody to produce notes of harmony Whule our teachers gave us unvaluable measures of unspuratuon un class and we learn to love and appre crate them there the refraun that lungers un our mem sonal conferences that we have wuth them ln the afternoons when work at school us completed for the day we may seek advuce and know that ut wull be thoughtfully guven These conferences are unflec tuons un the strauns of school days that we enjoy now and wull apprccuate un retrospect To make our school lufe have a more pleasurable meter many of our teachers guve up theur tume to sponsor outsude actuvutues Some take a club that us on the same putch as the subject they teach and through organuzatuons of thus type we have greater fellowshup wuth our teachers and gaun more knowl edge from them Varuous other socuetues have brought about contacts between students and teachers that are bars of a delughtful rhythm that wull be remem bered always by each gurl All these actuvutues are meloduous untermezzos un whuch everyone has worked and cooperated The chords of our freshman year were played wuth esteem for our teachers but we were somewhat tumud then and let assocuatuon end un the classroom Through the song of our junuor year we became bet ter fruends because we had known our teachers longer In our senuor year after three years of unspura tuon and guudance the chords of admuratuon and the strauns of amuty have become a rhythm enluvened by love and devotuon We are regretful that we must part from th s fruends of ours for companuonshup wuth them us a pruvulege we do not want to lose Our leaders have furnushed measures wrutten un joyful tempos that have enruched our luves We take wuth us memorues un our munds and hearts there rungs the melody of theur unfluence 'f 9' 7 . . . . ,' . . . - ' I i 1 I I , , . . . I , , . . , . I I - . . I . . . - j ories and makes our friends dearer to us is the per- , c I - U . . I - Y I I . . . . . . , 3 3 I u Q I I n T ' . T ' : I