Mayer High School - Cat Tracks Yearbook (Mayer, AZ)

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 Pag• 12 i MEMORIAM March 17, 1947---December 14, 1959 DENNIS DWIGHT BENNETT An accident, and a lad of twelve Is dead. What he leaves behind Is raournfulness, to his family and friends, aching hearts and tearful eyes. Yet are these lamentations and mournful chants befitting the passing of a good boy? Perhaps singing hymns are more ap- propriate and meaningful because Dennis has entered a diviner life. Death is so permanent, but no less Dermanent than the spirit he left behind. Dennis graduated from life to death very early. Perhaps heaven gives its favorite an early death; or it may be that he whom the Gods favor die young. It 3nowed that fatal morning when Dennis went away. The whiteness of the snow, the purity of the coming dawn........so symbolic of the virtues and good- ness of Master Dennis. We remember him as a Hardball Leaguer. He was more than a 3tar ballplayer; he was a Living Big Leaguer. He not only gave his all on the ball field, but in everyday living, as a child to his parents, as a student to his teachers, and as a buddy to his friends. Little Denny, as he was sometimes ca led, was a devoted brother, dedicated to his schooling, a?fv, n enc a e kis associates. He may have been talented ith hot grounders, and riding horses and burros, but he is to be remembered more for his gift of giving love, the many a nds some of us learned from this seventh grader. v- .. 30 ear Denny, wherever you are, we know that you ia e oun a burro. We continue to see you straddled to the • mal, and underneath an old dilipated hat is the familiar w ?Hn°Se’ freckl© face, and warm, gentle smile. Some of us • er If it's a figment of our imSgination or if the strad- dled boy on the burro, hobbling through Mayer, is still around.