Hanover High School - Nornir Yearbook (Hanover, PA)

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THE NORNIR Presented the CLASS OF 1962 EICHELBERGER SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Hanover, Pennsylvania

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THE OLD OAK Gather 'round good people for I’d like you to hear This ballad 'bout the class of '62 year. The story’s much the same as this oak tree’s. And if you gather close, I’ll impart it to ye. The whole thing began many years ago, When the gardener decided an oak sapling to sew. The first-graders dressed in their new school best And anxiously awaited their first formal test. Day by day, the children and the sapling grew stronger. As the students grew wiser, the oak’s roots grew longer. To this old Old Oak with its rings ’round and ’round . . . The adolescents came, now Eichelberger bound. The large, heavy roots sought nourishment from below . . . As the class decided what to do . . . where to go. The class found direction, with its whole life to live— While the oak firmly rooted—has no more to give. That’s where they differ—the graduate and the tree, One is for a time; the other for eternity. The oak so embedded—dies in its place. But the graduates go forth—an unknown future to face. Teachers and parents have shown the graduates the way And they now prepare for their graduation day. There was no one to guide this mighty oak tree . . . Whose shade and comfort will be but a memory. This ballad’s now slowly drawing to an end— As the wind does blow, so the tree must bend. As the graduates were taught, so will they be A light and a hope, to shape posterity. 2 —Jo-Anne Orent