North Dallas High School - Viking Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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The Class of June 1926 EYOND seas, beyond centinents lies the land of the Midnight Sun, a realm of peaceful serenity, a region where the obseureft night is bright- ened with the hopeful gleam of the great light-giving planet. Here the harsh activity, the busy hum of life, the glaring reality of the business of living are veiled over with the soft clfmness that prevails throughout the region. Here the colorful conflict of man against man, the gI'i1Ul1CSS of the feud between right and might, and the clash between fact and fancy H-nd sub- dued tones under the soft glowing radiance permeating this haven of seclusion. A dreamy ethereal calm pervades the retreat with soothing sway. Here life is beautiful and here lifels chief influence is the Majestic stream of light flooding the land of the Midnight Sun. Despite, however, its Majestic repose the region breathes and swells with the full, poignant force of semi-darkness and its deep underlying potentialities, creating an atmosphere of anticipation. That the unreal twilight will brighten and that the soft film will be withdrawn from the sun's rays is promised by the ominous calm of the great North. The lurid darkness has the spirit and signi- ficance of the dawn, and just as the dawn unfolds to the dayls bright glamour so does the Midnight Sun gradually cast off from it the mantle of dusk and take on the new vigor of brightly celestial light. In like manner, we the seniors of a school symbolized by the heroic North- land dwell in our scholastic Land of the lylidnight Sun where the light of life now has the veiled cast of the scholarly atmosphere. Here we feel little of the distant tumult going on in the bigger world beyond us where success hnds a glowing crown while failure meets with glaring exposure. There the sun of life is bereft of its dark medium. There its rays are dazzling, glaring and harsh. We know that so far we have been shaded and protected, that the harsh- ness of life has been presented to us in subdued impressions. And yet we feel that eager anticipation, the awakening of the dormant force within us that bids us embark in the Viking ship and sail away from the soft dusk of the homeland to the land of unveiled reality and to meet the tests which brand us openly as victors and vanquished-where all sail under the sun of eX- perience, far brighter and far more glorious than the rehned Midnight Sun of learning. We hold sacred our little Land of the Midnight Sun. It has furnished the idealistic atmosphere preparatory to our voyage into the breadth of the world. It has breathed to us of the quiet joys of life. It has engraved an impression of truth and beauty not effaceable. It has bound our associations by a common tie. We are and always shall be of the Land of the Midnight Sung and as that sun shines in the physical darkness so do we hope to impart a gleam into the darkness of mankind's being. Z.KA'I'HI9lRINE HALL. -deaf Zo

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Senior 726 Committees S oeial Lucy Leigh Laney Rollo Kidwell Julia Gibson limitation Ora Nelle Earl Cullum Martha Catron Wh iteley Wiley Johnson S eiiior Play Laura Mayo Jack Webster Hermoine Holt Flozeer Committee Fred Cathey Annette Gillespie Robert Kelley Kathrine Hall S eitioi' Day Leonard Gay Dorothy Thomas Graham Boone Martha Nicholson 21 General Committee . Lucy Leigh Laney Balfour Franklin Hermoine Holt Jack Webster Banquet Committee Elizabeth Nichols Evelyn Snell Lillie Del Masters Lucille Schmid Lela Mae Shields Ring and Tin Derryl Brooks Ethel Owen Fred Cathey 'Decoration Johnnie Lee Caston Odessa Walters Elizabeth Nichols Catherine Miers Frankie Ray Margaret Force Thelma Hampton