Montgomery Bell Academy - Bell Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Sometimes I forget that life can he so simple . And the funny thing is that it is the simple things in life that make it so exciting — tying under a tree 9 reading a book , or listening to a record . feel like shouting to the world 9 66 Stop! Slow down!” Things pass too fast . So I sit down and ponder — and wonder .

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In three weeks I graduate . Vve eagerly awaited Commencement since first entered MBA. But now I have mixed emotions. “ went to MBA” instead of “I go to MBA.” Somehow it doesn’t sound right. My attitudes have changed. have changed. Sometimes it scares me to think how much I have changed. In three weeks I will be out of high school; in three months, in college. I used to wonder if I would not be better prepared for col- lege life, independent as it is, if I had been allowed to make more of my own decisions ivhile at MBA — athletics or not, long hair or short. You knotv, my friends at other schools are never reminded to get their hair cut. But notv it strikes me that MBA is not like other crfmn c • it Ano»n?t. want to be. MBA is on a Hill. Its ideals are to i ■ r 0 . j m x -4 -r jlPlf ’» • n ZS2E Z .«? j y it JTvKr . f Ajljk.. ■ r AT -,

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■ I look at something so very simple — a cannon spattered with yellow paint. What to the sight seems so simple blossoms into myriad ideas. The American flag being lowered ; the dummy of a rival football team. They are all a part of MBA. Impressions pile on im- pressions — the result is the spirit on the Hill. }; i ■