Lincoln High School - Links Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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FOREWORD FOUR YEARS OR THREE IN HIGH SCHOOL DO NOT CONSUME A GREAT PORTION OF LIFE, BUT TO RATE BY ITS LENGTH THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PERIOD WOULD BE AN ERROR. FOR WHETHER THE YEARS BE FILLED WITH HAPPINESS OR DISAPPOINTMENTS, THEY ARE FULL YEARS, FORMATIVE YEARS, YEARS OF SUDDEN REVERSES AND SEMI-SERIOUS DISCOVERIES. PERSONALITIES HITHERTO INFLUENCED BY OLDER DICTATION TAKE FORM AND SEM- BLANCE OF THEIR OWN AS THE BOYS AND GIRLS BEGIN TO FARE FOR THEMSELVES: CHARACTER, STAMINA AND SPIRIT BUILD INTO MOULESg ETHICS, OUTLOOKS AND AIMS ARE ADOPTED WHICH STAND THROUGH LIFE. IN THE YEARS WHICH THIS BOOK RECORDS, OUR DESTINIES HAVE BEEN INFLUENCED BEYOND OUR POWER TO ESTIMATE

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DEDICATION OFTEN PEOPLE WHO DO HARD, TEDIOUS WORK AND DO IT WELL ARE NOT THE MOST AGREEABLE PERSONS TO BE AROUND: THEY ARE APT TO POSSESS THAT IRRITA- BILITY WHICH SO OFTEN COMES WITH ANY UNCOMMON SKILL. IT IS NOT SO WITH MISS WILLIAMS, A MODEL OF CAPABILITY AND GOOD NATURE. IN THE BRIGHT ROOM TO THE EAST OF THE MAIN OFFICE SHE HAS A DESK AND A TALL STRAIGHT-BACKED CHAIR AND HER PENCILS AND FILING CASES, AND THERE SHE PUTS IN LONG STEADY HOURS WORKING OUT THE DIFFICULTIES OF REGIS- TRATION, OF CONFLICTING CLASSES, IN- VOLVED CURRICULUMS AND THE LIKE, SO THAT SHE CAN, WHEN YOU COME TO HER FOR INFORMATION, LOOK YOU IN THE EYE TO FIND OUT WHAT YOU ARE AFTER AND THEN, IN HER QUIET EARNEST WAY, MAP OUT YOUR COURSE FOR YOU OR GIVE OTHER REQUIRED ASSISTANCE. IT IS IN APPRECI- ATION OF THE TRUE KINDNESS AND GEN- EROSITY IN HER DEEDS, HER SMILE AND HER CHEERFUL MANNER THAT WE DEDI- CATE THIS BOOK TO MISS EDNA WILLIAMS, THE REGISTRAR.