Hunter Huss High School - Astron Yearbook (Gastonia, NC)

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As Our World Turns The world turns, a new dawn breaks, and with the dawn comes a new day. We awaken, and the ever- lightening horizon reveals to us a glimpse of the day that is destined to be ours. Another day beckons to us! The day begins . . . students arrive at Hunter Huss High School, bells ring, and our world as students at Huss goes into full swing. The brightest hours, and sometimes the darkest of each day, are those spent here. Leisure and labor, friends and foes, fun and frenzy—all evolve from the rotation of our world. Never do we venture from its far-reaching effects. As our world turns, we are caught in the whir of school life. Laughing, conversing, reading, studying, learning, testing, hoping, dreaming, asking, answering, seeking and finding—all these and more add impetus to this blur that is known as the transition into adult¬ hood. As our world turns, we come in contact with people —family, fellow students, faculty, and other friends; we live the normal teen life—catering to our culture as we interfuse home, church, and school. Actively participating in such popular pastimes as dating, dancing, driving, daydreaming, doodling, and yelling at ball games, we find ourselves enjoying the fun-filled moments of living. Currently we listen to the radio, records, intercom, class discussions, and choice gos¬ sip; we notice and quickly grasp things common to our world which we never before realized existed. Our world is a preparation—a prologue to the fu¬ ture. Emotions are at their peak during the teen years —more so than at any other time in a person’s life. Few people can match our dedication—when we’re dedicated. Few can compete with our sincerity, our happiness, our sadness, our zeal, our acuity, our dreams, our loves, or our dislikes. Few people can feel as strongly about any one thing as we feel. Our emotions run the gamut of extreme loneliness to that of supreme happiness. And as we strive for maturity, we find ourselves caught between new horizons and present securities. Then there are times when our feelings are laid bare by the harsh realities of life. We find that every¬ thing is not a dream, but yet we dream on. We ac¬ complish but still meet our share of failure. However, our spirits are not dampened by our tears. Instead they only soar higher as the rays of the bright sun cast our shadows upon all the miracles of the world.

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-i “A man—a capability—a desire to serve plus a post of duty may produce a leader. Ability blended with interest, experience and enthusiasm are attri¬ butes of effective leadership. Keen insight, sound judg¬ ment, and belief in the teenager are needed in scholastic administration. An effective scholastic leader is found at Hunter Huss High School in the personage of Prin¬ cipal Bartley E. Robbins. For this reason Mr. Robbins is the dedicatee of the very first yearbook published by the Huss student body—the 1965 ASTRON.