Girls High School - Halcyon Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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SENIORS s11'U ' Our senuor year wuth all uts unterestung refrauns has been the most delughtful of our school lufe Meas ures of enjoyment have come from lustenung to ex cutung scores that play only for senuors and bars of glory have sounded for us Gurls Hugh s class of l942 From the day we furst came to Gurls Hugh as senuors joyful harmonues have played unceasungly for each of us We knew that long looked forward to pleasures and honors awauted us un the followung movements we knew also that an even cadence of work and fun would brung these rhythms to us lt was not hard to fund words to typufy our lufe at Gurls Hugh for we had but to look out the wundow and see our fountaun un the front yard to recall the words of Keats An endless fountaun of ummortal drunk The furst and probably the most gratufyung feel ung of promunence came the day we greeted our freshmen susters They made us feel umportant by theur questuonung and evudent admuratuon We were elevated to hugher keys and forgot that only two short years before we had been un theur places The scale of our freshman year was dotted by beats of awe for the senuors we felt that beung one of them would be the hughest key un whuch we could set our notes The next year when we were able to reach a hugher putch we regarded the upper class men wuth apprecuatuon more than wuth awe because they had accomplushed what seemed so dear to us We have reached our last year at Gurls Hugh and fund mungled wuth chords of joy short bars of sor row for although we have found the pleasure of beung senuors all that we had expected we regret to end our song and leave our beloved school Thus year has been fulled wuth the happuest melo dues of our luves and has offered more delughtful EJufFJjFfl tunes than any before We have learned that the dugnufued senuor of whom we have always heard us not a mere phrase but a realuty sunce a senuor must putch her rhythms so that the junuors and fresh men wull know un what key they should play when they are senuors The Chrustmas pageant may always be enjoyed by junuors and freshmen but ut was an unterlude un whuch strauns of great delught played for the senuors As a prelude to thus unflectuon senuors dressed dolls to guve to the luttle chuldren whom they took to the of the boys and gurls as they saw the lovely presen tatuon of Chrustmas un Merrue England gave a joy ful tempo Another tune of great delught was the clumax of our year the senuor play for ut was the beat that each gurl had antucupated from the very furst week of her Gurls Hugh lufe lt was the crescendo un whuch the senuors were at the heught of theur glory The splendor of thus year has been composed of scores for the senuors alone but other meters have furnushed brulluant harmonues for the enture school Clubs assemblues contests all have been refrauns that helped make an accelerated tempo Through the whole year a fanfare has played for us and the scale has been fulled wuth happuness Reachung the end of our senuor year means that we are facung a new measure of our luves that wull have rucher tones because of the experuences we have gauned at Gurls Hugh Although each gurl s notes may be set on dufferent keys we may always turn back un our memorues and luve agaun the melodues of fun and fellowshup that we have sung together s U: D 4-3. .'AV gg Q ' u . I . . . . . I D . . - ,, . . . . ,, . . . - . I . I . . I . . . - I . . . I . . . U - I - i . . I . . . ' I - - pageant. The pleasure and appreciation in the faces I uu - - - Il ' ' ' ' ' , I - . . . . I . I . : ' ' , . I I . I - . I ' . I . I . . . I - , , I I I H . . ' ' I n 1 u . n I ' I

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THE SENIORS A 'Q IT ALL COMES BACK TO ME NOW

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