Orangeville High School - Red and Blue Yearbook (Orangeville, Ontario Canada)

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Learn to study, learn to work, Learn your duty not to shirk Learn to share another's load, Learn to smile along the Road., Barb Worthington 13B C w Never Let It Be Said Goofed The dean of a girl's school was troubled because the girls insisted on crossing the street in front of the school without going to the corner. Warnings, penal- ties, and lectures did no good. Finally, the dean had a sign painted and set it up in the middle of the block. From that time on, the girls always walked to the corner before crossing the street., What did the sign read? ---w Cattle Cro ssing. Q Getting all the wrong answers from the man in the snappy blue uniform, the new ROTC officer took out his pad. What's your outfit? he asked. Me? Ilm the Coca Cola man.,

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8 LEARNED LESSCN Learn to studyf, learn to work, Learn your duty not to shirk, Learn to share anotherls load, Learn to smile along the Roado Happiness cannot be taught, I-Iapplness ls never bought? lt canlt be found although ltls sought, fltls not a prize for which youlye fought.. But study., work do not shlrk, Share the load on llfels long road -2 Happiness is not your pay: Ratherq it becomes a way.,' Happilnessg a way of 11fe'? Do you doubt rny Word? What about the tears and strife? Herels a song l heard., My hearts is filled Wlth sunshine So what if tears should fall? The rain drops in the Summer Paint a rainbow over all., Happiness, like sunshine, Can never be rained out The cooling splash of tear drops Only bring about G-Q A clearer look at Future A Wiser Choice of goals, A melted ray of sunlight, .A look into our souls. A way of life, this happiness? Believe me, for .ltls true, But only one can walk this Wayz- The only one ls 'Youo And if this way you want to walk, lf happelness to known Remember what We once were told Ye reap what ye dld sow. Contld

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70 Tl-IE RAIN AND THE DARKNESS A blanket of darkness covers the earth, The storm has completely blackened the sun, Alone, standing alone against the sky, re- vealed only by swift, erratic flashes of lightning stands a cross, As it seems to rise out of the hillside, lt appears to be in a oneness with nature., The water trickling down the hill ts sta1ned with red--ua s1gn of sorrow and intense pain, As the water runs from river to river and finally reaches the ocean, so the sins of man were removed and will be again., A ff v fy All was quiet save for the distant rumble of an artillery barrage somewhere in the hills behind hlmo I-Ians stood upg a savage pride filled his breast for the hideous creation lying semlmburied .tn the earth beneath his feetg t.he least little movement of the shiny, nickel revolver, he mused, would trigger the mme attached below ith Sheer exuberance bubbled upwards in the form of a halff-suppressed snicker as he contem-A plated the receptlon for some unsuspecting souvenir hunting American soldier. Shouldering his battered Mauser rifle, Hans set off down the road to rejoin his company, The last he saw of hts device as he looked back, was the pistol winking innocently, like a jewel, in the hot Italian sun. The snicker crescendoed into an animallstic roar of hysterical laughter., Soon, very soon, as was quiet agatno 11 41, .. h- 'E- Maria had no Jnkling of how far she had travelled since this morningg all she knew was that Dents lay far up this road to the North, Once she and Antonio had travelled this via , but time and the war had long since eroded all memory of landmarks from her slow rnind., Where once vineyards groaned under the burden of a bountiful harvest and peasants waved to each other in their passxng, now only a bombsblasted, tangled emptyiness, stretching for miles, greeted her sight, Llfe had been good for her with Antonio and their little farm, Now all. was gonemjyes, even Antoniow--,even he was lost from her now., After the new of his death, the only thing left for her to do was t.o trudge the weary mlles back to Celento, to home, and have the child that Antonio would never see or touch, Conscious ofthe stifling heat and the corditemfilled atm mosphere, Maria removed her rough woollen shawl, and sat down at the