Northern High School - Spirit Yearbook (Port Huron, MI)

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Hey tomorrow, where are you goin' Do you have some room for me 'Cause night is fallin' and the dawn is callin' I'll have a new day if she'll have me Hey tomorrow, I can't show you nothin' You've seen it all pass by your door So many times I said I been changin' Then slipped into patterns of what happened before 'Cause I've been wasted and I've over-tasted All the things that life gave to me And I've been trusted, abused and busted And I've been taken by those close to me Hey tomorrow you've gotta believe that I'm through wastin' what's left of me - 'Cause night is fallin' and the dawn is callin' I'll have a new day if she'll have me -J im Croce 5 1 ' C

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Just a fine school . The old man asked me to sit down, for he needed a listener. So I pulled up a chair and listened as he told me of his past, of the days when he went to school. When l was in the fourth grade we had a brand new school house. The old one burned down the year before. Well, it was just a fine school. We had the new type of desks with ink wells and a rack underneath the seat to hold our books. The teacher's desk was right up front where she could watch everybody. Be- hind her desk and to the right stood the shiny, black, potbelly stove. ln the wintertime it wasn't uncom- mon for it to get 20 below zero, so us kids used to take turns coming to school early to fire up the stove. Since school started at eight thirty, we would have to get up about sunrise and walk over to the school house and make sure there If 36393 ' f fr'- ., R was enough coal in the stove to keep us warm all day. Miss Donovan, our teacher, would come about eight o'clock to make sure everything was ready for school and to plan our lessons. Then the other kids would start to come. There were two French boys and a family of Norwegians--two boys and a girl. They always got a ride to the school house in a little two-seater cut- ter, or if it was market day, they would come up riding in a big bobsled pulled by a team of horses. The rest of us had to walk, it wasn't bad though. The most anybody had to walk was three milesg that was MaryBeth and jimmy Haily. Like I said, school was supposed to start at eight thirty, but by the time everybody got there and settled down, it came to be about 9:00. Sometimes it didn't get started 'til later, like the time Marcel and Andre got into a snowfight, and before you know it, we were all chasing each other through the snow drifts. Miss Donovan, being a young