Northampton County High School - Lighthouse Yearbook (Machipongo, VA)

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O ' n $ ruim-pai To The Senior Class of 1953s You are to be congratulated for perpetuating the idea that has meant so much to those who have pro¬ ceeded you — the Lighthouse . We have ' observed how you have gone about promoting this edi tion with diligence and foresightedness of good citizens. This experience will most assuredly prove an asset to each of you in your after school life activities. As graduates of 1953 you will be facing a world that stands to challenge you on every hand. Never in the history of mankind have so many changes taken place with regards to human relations. Some of these changes will be new, but we feel that you are prepared to accept full responsibility of intelligent citizens and to take your places along with other citizens of your day and time. We realize that you are caught in a cross-fire of ideas. From all sides you are being offered easy substitutes for thinking. Our concern has and always will be to help you to look behind these various approaches, to stop, think, and evaluate before accepting or discarding the propositions advanced. To help you has been our goal. We believe that changes and progress are not always the same things: still, there can be no progress without changes and no changes without risks. In our present form of government you will have much to say about the changes of the future and must assume the risks of the changes. The better ycu understand your heritage and the more you know of the democratic way of life the more confidence you will have in the wisdom of your choices. Your four years of high school training should be of help to you, and they will if you remember that the end of education is to make one a good citizen, fully rounded in mind and body. Every effort has been directed towards developing you into strong men and women. You have been among the chosen of your day because you have taken advantage of that blessing which a benevolent State has bestowed upon her children — a free education. Your Commencement will mean different things to each one of you. To some it will be the commencement of higher educational work, to others it will be the beginning of home cares or work life, and 3till to others it will be the call to the services of our Country. To those of you going on to higher institutions of learning we say: Have a purpose, select a goal and work towards it with earnestness.. Know what ycu want and prepare your course of studies towards that end . To those of you who by choice or necessity will go immediately into some line of endeavor or the Armed Forces we say: Have a pur¬ pose and work towards it . Do not work for one day aimlessly because, if you do, that will be a day wasted. You are well equipped. The fact that ycu are graduating from hi i school indicates that you have high intelligence, that you know how to work and that you are ambitious. These qualities should carry ycu far. The Lighthouse , as in former years, will cast its rays of light so intensely that other classes will be inspired to continae such publication. We shall always look upon the Class of 1953 as being one that worked, assumed responsibilities and looked out for the rights and priviliges of others and by so doing, practiced democracy while in school. May God bless each of you and may your dreams and ambitions become future realities. W. H. Smith, Principal

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AXS O art ha The Senior Class of 1953 dedicates this issue of the Lighthouse” to our former friend and classmate, Frances Edythe Upshur, who died suddenly Friday, January 1951, at the Northampton- Accomack Memorial Hospital. Although we were stunned and grief stricken when we lost our friend, we never hesitated to carry out the plans that we knew she would have favored. This book we dedicate to you Because we loved and missed you so. You were our kind and loving friend And we grieved to see you go.