Marietta High School - Olympian Yearbook (Marietta, GA)

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3Ii-. and Miss Senior — Harwell Stovall and ; Iarv .Marler. IT S GREAT TO BE A SENIOR The strains of a march vibrate over the -warm sjiring- air. In solemn stateliness, youthful finuves wind their way down long aisles. Words ring out through the stillness — one at a time. Each figure turns his cap. Shouts penetrate the silence, and throats grow tight. A tear finds its way down an up- turned face. The melody of Aiild Lang Sijne is the end — the end of Avhat — a study course, an ac- quaintance? No, not just four long years — but part of each life is gone — the ob.stacles, the triumphs, and the memories. Yes, the menun ' ies are the things that bring the tears and cut into each heart — memories of the day Bill gave me his ring, the day Sally smiled at me for the first time, the after- noons at the drug store with tiie kids, the smell of new books, the day I made A on that mean old subject — Memorial Day, when it rained, the friends I made and lost. Seniors — those ' older people the undercla.ssmeii look at, and say, It must be great when you ' re a Senior ! Yes, it is but it ' s all over. Whether it was Avell done, or a poor job, it ' s done, the record is there, and time has come to go out — out into a bright, new world, to make the best of what he has gotten at school. Only the ninety that tread those aisles, and accept a cli])loina know tiiat feeling tliat in exjiression means goodbye.

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assei JUNO, Queen of Olympus. - ' But hail! Tlion Goddess, sage and holy. — Milton.

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r - President Fred Hamby, seated : Vice- President Allen Cairnes. also seated : Sec- retary Harwell Stovall. extreme right: and Treasurer Talmadfre Hadaway. talk over affairs of state. The first week we seniors enrolled as freshmen, it was said that education would be revolutioniz ed. Jovial as it was meant, it seems now to be true. We weren ' t initiated as freshmen. Some said they were afraid of us. We got attention the next year — the first sophs to be in Quill Scroll and on the publication staffs. We had so nuu-li fun at Athens and at Milledgeville (all-state chorus). Our Glee Club rated Xumber One through- out Georgia. Then we stepped out as juniors, and also claimed presidential titles of clubs — another first. But of all the fun, we had the most as seniors. We fought with the football squad— a great little team. We cheered our basketball team on to victory after victory, one of the to]i teams in the state. Our baseball team topped it all. We dined and danced among the largest crowd in history at the Junior-Senior Banquet. We laughed and applauded at the Senior Play — and were sorry when it was over. Our play was one of the best — we think the best. Who was it that said, Don ' t look back ? We glory in our past, and how we will miss the school that is ours ! 19