Northampton High School - Torch Yearbook (Eastville, VA)

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Rhythm pervades our universe; both living and nonliving. The galaxy rotates slowly and regularly on its axis. Years, seasons, lunar months, days, all recur rhythmically. Life itself is a rhythmic cycle of birth, growth, maturity, and death, unending and unchanging for all. Man ' s love of and proclivity to rhythm are attested to by his search and instinctive need for balance and symmetry in life. Music, painting, sculpture, poetry, all the arts, evidence this need. A school, being people, has rhythm. It can, depending upon its members, be energetic or lethargic; strict or lax; good or evil; yet, since all life is rhythmic, all schools have rhythm: There are the autumnal birth, the vernal death of a school. There are the mid-term, the final examinations. There are the report cards six times a year. Th ere are the club meetings, the athletic games, the tests. There are the classrooms ' inhaling and exhaling of students, the noonday meal, the studying and the homework, the athletic practices. The many separate rhythms of school harmonize into a regular, recurring cycle, differing for each student, yet rhythmic for all.

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THE LIBRARY OF VIRGINIA RICHMOND, VA 2

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TORCH STAFF Editor-in-Chief. Hannah Henderson Business Manager Assistant Editors .... Delores Bowen Sports, Copy . . Frank Bell Art. .Barbie Cosby Layout Editors .... . Jo Gregory Betty Jane Rogers Layout Staff. . Ann Hopkins Janey Nottingham Cheryl Strong Elijah Lewis Jane Shackleford Carla Riggin Shirley Rue Charles Floyd Carmen Novoa Kipper Nottingham Harry Downing Head Typist. ... Phyllis Bradshaw Typists. .Delores Bowen Brigitte Hurtt Dianna Stevens Patty Thomas Sponsors . Mr. Berkley E. Ashby Mrs. Mary D. Shannonhouse Mrs. Loretta W. Smalley Advisor