King High School - Clarion Yearbook (Tampa, FL)

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Providing us with the knowledge needed to build our puzzle were our teachers. Without the wealth of information, ideas, views, and concepts that they provided, our puzzle would lack imagination and creativity and would crumble under the pressures presented by the outside world. The knowledge given to us by our teachers forms the table on which we build our puzzle. Without knowledge as support our puzzle would collapse. Our 121 teachers rose to the challenge of making each period of every day interesting as well as educational. They strove to fill us with the knowledge needed to survive in today's fast paced society. They prodded, urged, begged, and compelled us to learn and to always aim for the top. At times, our teachers exasperated us. They pushed us until we knew every therom and every clement by heart. They worked us until we knew every definition and every important date. They thrust at us things we did not understand and knowledge we did not want. But. behind the unceasing barrage of work, they always seemed to have a deep concern for us and our future. They forced us to do our best and to learn so that we could better ourselves. They wanted us to enjoy the satisfaction that knowledge and learning bring. Our teachers taught us and because so. our puzzle never he the same. Opening 11