Lebanon High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Lebanon, VA)

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CLASSES The Seniors, Class of 1954 — The Juniors, Class of 1955 — The Sophomores, Class of 1956 — The Freshmen, Class of 1957 Peculiar to each class is the different personality traits and the special func- tions of the students themselves for the school. The freshmen are the necessary new material bringing with them entirely different backgrounds and viewpoints. They are introduced to our high school life; and they learn to adjust to it. When they enter, high school is merely a world full of mystery; by the end of their first year they have served the initial apprenticeship and are ready to assume responsibilities. In their sophomore year they return to a familiar place where they begin to constructively lay down the foundation of their future development in school, whether it be scholastically, in activities, or in a general cultural back- ground. The sophomore has a touch of the personal superiority but not enough to be obnoxious to the upperclassmen or burdensome to the Freshmen, yet he has a sufficient amount to impress himself. The main responsibility of the jun- iors is that of being the incoming Senior Class. It is in this year that their time is spent in wo rking to fulfill their ambitions for high honors so that they can be attained when they are Seniors. The Juniors begin to concentrate on the scho- lastic major and to specialize. The Senior year marks the culmination of all these preceding classes. There are those who have obtained highly coveted scholas- tic honors. Yet, now when they have become the leaders of the campus the time has come when their thoughts and plans turn to the future. Perhaps he has gained all he expected to gain from high school, perhaps more, but in all pro- bability he has missed some of those honors and benefits he had hoped for. Yet, despite this, he has matured a great deal; he has learned to adjust to new ways and to live with widely differing people. School, in taking off the rough edges and training the students to think, has prepared them to start at the bottom again in the outer world, only this time they have a substantial background to guide them — a background which will anchor them to stability and better ser- vice their abilities.

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First row, left to right: Gillespie Wallace, Sergeant-at-Arms ; Dotsie Morri- son, President; Richard Bausell, Treasurer. Second row: Tippy Jessee, Secretary. Not pictured: Charles Dickenson, Vice-President; Curtis Dixon, Reporter. Senior Class Of 1954 The approach of Commencement brings to the members of the Senior Class of 1954 the realization that one phase of our lives is completed and that another lies immediately before us. For most of us it is the most important change in our lives, and, more than ever before, we examine critically the paths behind and the possibilities of the future. What is the feeling that seems to fill all our re- flections on these four years? It is a feeling of sentimental reminiscence where countless events, big and little, comic or tragic, combine to regret that we have not fulfilled all those intentions made in such earnestness as the Freshmen of September ’51. Do we feel a sense of pride in our accomplishments and in the completion of our High School work, and do we press ahead anxiously for the new? May means the end of many unique aspects of High School life. Now we scatter into various occupations. Most of us will immediately get to the task of making a living, many of us will go into the army and some of us will do col- lege preparation for our life’s work. What part of these past four years is there that all of us can carry with us? Perhaps it is nothing more than a modest con- fidence in ourselves, and a hope that we have attained a true standard of values and a postive view of criticism. — 26 —