Harmony High School - Harmonian Yearbook (Harmony, NC)

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SENIOR GLASS HISTORY In the year of nineteen-twenty-two, we, the class of twenty-six, began our career at Harmony Hi;rh School. We were fifty in number. Althousb our class has lost several members and gained several, the number still stands at fifty. Our class has shown its interest in the work by records made; all have realizeH the importance of advantages and opportunities for advancement offered here; all ha e taken active parts in the I,irer;ir Societies; fi e of our members have been president of the Literary Societies during our stay here. At the beginning of our freshman year, we elected Alma Bradford, who is not a member of our class today, president of our class, and selected our motto and colors. Our motto Forward is expressive of the desire of each member to be progressive in whatever life ' s work each may undertake. Every year it has been the custom for each grade to present a play sometime during the school year. In our freshman year, we presented the play Mrs. Tubbs of Shantytown ; in our Sophomore year, When a Fellow Needs a Friend; in our Junior year, Out of Court ; and in our Senior year we presented What Happened to JoiWfc In tlie field of athletics our class surpas-cs :ui class that has preceded us. In boys basketball we boast of Brown, Little, Howard, Uavis, and McLain. In girk basketball we boast of Hudspeth, Howard, King, Jumey, Sills and Essk. Although our class has won only one debate, four of our members have won medals, which we consider just as hit;h an honor. In debating we ha e been represented by Dessie Howard, Opie Crater, and Cecil Grier, Robin Wooten, Clive Wooten, Kenneth Watts, and Laura Monriton. We have enjoyed the hospitality of a former teacher and of a Home EcomMnics class at paities daring the past two years. As students we have probably had our shortcomings but I will Venture to sajr that the class average is i-(|ual to or surpasses that of former classes. Now that our span of tour years is closed we look back and see our fortunes and misfortunes. Probably ambitions are unrealized. ct w e look forward today as we did in twentx-two to the higher thinfjs of life, ' riie kmiwledne actiuired is but small Compared to the life inspired. The scene beiny ended, we make our exit. CLASS HISTORIAN. Page Tiuenty-four

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Thi HAlUiAONIAN GLASS POEM The e:irs f none by like passing winds, And now w e are near the zone That leads to tlic path where life begins, Where man seeds are sown. A« we go out into life ' s garden, We go in hopes arrayed; Though our paths may cross and harden. In life we sliall he unafraid. The seeds of kindness and patience rare We ' ve sown with the seeds of truth; Service and Honor may blossom therA Tf nurtured in early youth. As a class we bore joy and sorrow; As we part let us keep in mind Our motto, and on the morrow Tdee tasks our hands nuy find. Though our gardens grow many a tare, Alma Mater will still remain, And the love which all of us share Wl)l io flgemuy teme again. The future looks cheerful and bright; When disaster our hopes assail, We will steadfastly do viiixt is right. And know that we cannot iaiL —CLASS POET.

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SENIOR GLASS PROPHECY Now it was predestined before it was decreed that the future of the class of 1926 should he (jiven unto the hands of this your prophet that he might dream dreams and behold visions of the glories yet to come, but a cry of weakness did ascend. The spirit of genius did not descend and flood his soul with mjrstic powers, nor did a fair and lovely sprite appear to draw the curtain that your prophet .nug peer into the misty beyond in search of the destines of the class of ' 26. It was then that he found it necessary to have recourse to his theory of life: The future is but the child of the past and the present. Forecastinj: tlieii the harvest of the future by the seed-sowing of the past and the cultivating of the present, he makes the following ileviirt m: Ouv beloved presideiu, id W bitc, w irli dii nified liearin aTid incredible energy will persevere until he occupies the chair of modern languages in Princeton University. In tt 3tirtHMi of life he will be worthiljr aasisled bjr aed)tt» Fkarl Norm. By their works shall ye know tlu-ni. Conipctciit Jewel M ers and Mvrtle Gantt and will devote their lives to teaching the heathen Chinee, and to blazing for them the dim, dark trail through the tmknown forest of life. Years of practice in side-steppinc from the noose of designing females, Beveridge Rene ar will siiine as a toreador, beadciuarters, Mexico City. Roy Renegar, the Leviathan of our class, shall draw the applause of spectators while he brings renown to himself and honor to Ctdumbia Umvetrity as a footlNdl star. Follow inj a iiatiiral iiKlinatKni. IJilI Cheshier, will offer iiis services to the patriots of Mexico. They will be gratefully accepted. His duties will be to start first class revolutions st rq[ular intervals, or as needed. Clive Wooteii will wander as a derelict on the sea of life, until he is restrained by the warm love of Margaret Bell, after which they will enjoy the applause of nations as opera singers. The allurement of the roaring speedway and the smell of castor oil fumes will be too much for Robie Finger and Wilson Thomas to resist. Riding in Dusenburp Specials they yviM establish rtew speed records for the Indianapolis sweepstakes. Alice Goodman, as manager of this duet, wtl make good and will sign her name Mrs. Wilson Thomas. In Washington we shall find Coetta Trivette and Nonnie Shaver, governesses, iti elite society circles. Tliey will always turn deaf ears to domestic entanglements. On the other hand Mary Norris ' and Thelma Godby ' s opinions on interior decor- ations win not be challenged. In years to come we sliall iind in a splendtdlf equipped hoqiatalt NeUie King, a well-trained ami efficient iiuise. We .soon shall hear of Cecil Grier through the columns of The Asheville Citizen on which he shall be a distinguished editorial writer. Dessie H(j.war(l w ill prepare iierself for the nolile.work of preacyi but later. she will realize that she is destined for law. Page Tvienty-five