Nashville High School - Talisman Yearbook (Nashville, IN)

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VALEDICTORIAN Class of 1959 Parents, Teachers and Schoolmates: With hearts full of gratitude to our school, teachers and friends, we now accept the status of full-fledged graduates, and step out into the world with a new sense of growth and respon- sibility. Since we are soon to set forth on new ways there must be a parting from the old. Goodbye to the years of our childhood. Farewell to the school we have known so long. And au revoir to teachers and schoolmates left behind. We are the the you cannot express our feelingsg they too deep. You must read between lines to get the full significance of depth of our emotions. But since know us so well, since there has been such intimacy of neighborhood and community, everyone of you knows the fullest meaning of my final, concluding word Farewell. Wm? SALUTATORIAN Class of 1959 Classmates and friends: To begin well is the secret of successg to set forth with the firm foundation, to have within one's self the stern determination to succeed and succeed fairly from the start - these are the qualities that cast their shadows over one's future. These are factors that spell accomplishment in capital letters. The status of myself and my fellow graduates is due to influences about us. We had parents who rea- lized the importance of education and the value of sending us to school every day that we might not fall behind. We are going to graduate because we had teachers who cherished the principle of thoroughness. In other words, we started well, and the handicaps fell on the other side of the fence. The important thing about the lesson that we have learned is its very pertinent application to future days. It was one for a lifetime.

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TO ALL PARENTS Members ofthe 1959 graduating class will have an unusual distinction. You will be the first in history of Nashville High School to be graduated with a rating equal to that of the finest high schools in the state. This results from Nashville High School having been awarded a first class commission from the state of Indiana, the highest it has ever enjoyed and comparable in every respect with those awarded schools in Indianapolis, Hammond, Bloomington, and other cities which long have been recognized for the educational excellence of their schools. It is the result of improvements in the curriculum, in the teaching staff, and other facilities which are evaluated by the Indiana State Board of Ed- ucation. The newrating is something in which you, as well as the entire community, Sm! Ira L. Huntington Superintendent of Schools can feel genuine pride. CLASS OF 1959 AS EIGHTH GRADERS The Senior Class of 1959 wishes to express their thanks to Mr. Kenneth Reeve for the fine art work of the school that he contributed for the cover of this 1959 Talisman. Also many thanks to our sponsor and to our annual advisor. Mr. Ogle and Mrs Snyder. Without their help this annual could not have been possible. SENIOR CLASS OF 1959

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Tim above all -- fo thine ownjelf be true, And it mmf follow, as the night the day, Thou mm! not then be false to any man. SHAKESPEARE