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Page 25 text:
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THE SOUTH IS OURS We have a Proud history Here in the South. Great men are ours— Jefferson, Jackson, Lee, Lanier. Our fathers before us Loved this land. They were proud to be called Southerners. The ocean brought us The old cidtures The old traditions And made the old cities— Charleston, Richmoyid, New Orleans, Mobile. South Through Virginia, Carolina, To Alabama Through the forests Over the mountaiyis Down the rivers Strong men came. They built well With what they had. Cotton ruled them Cotton served them. The winds of war Struck them. But they were still Strong men. Now over land Once white with cotton Tall smoke stacks Puff out pillars Of Black smoke— Industry's flags. Old rivers are laden With heavy barges. Steel rails speed Racing freight cars Over old trails. Over old roads New life pulses On mighty highways. On old land New cities rise. New voices call us With the old challenge. We will answer— Keeping the best of the old. We will build the new. The South ivili give us What we need. We will grow here In wisdom, in strength. We will not leave our own. We will keep Deep in our hearts The South— The South our ancestors left For us. We will hold our heads high And say “The South is ours. ' —Nancy Bryant
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WE REMEMBER ====== Sh! Quiet! This is the big moment! This is Graduation! A hundred and seventeen hearts beat faster as the curtain opens, revealing the 1950 Seniors. Some are rather sad and dewey eyed as they stare out into an audience of beaming Mothers and Dads; others are smiling and anxious and from force of habit are already glancing at the clock and counting the minutes. The President welcomes the crowd and one by one the officers give their speeches. A hurried glance at the clock says we'll be alumni of Phillips High School in less than forty five minutes. Hut first we must listen to the speaker of the evening. Smiling and advancing toward the mike he addresses his audience: ‘Friends, this is both a joyous and sad occasion and the memories ...” Memories—My mind slowly wanders back over our high school career and some of the things we’ll remember. We couldn’t forget how thrilled Miss Lynch was when John Yauger answered a question in English class, and how we laughed when the October issue of Classic Comics was two weeks late and seventy-three seniors missed making their book reports in time. Nor could we forget how George Brooks glowed for weeks after getting his picture in “Tab.’’ And if we live to be a hundred we’ll remember and profit by Miss Benson’s lectures. Oh, we’d better get back to the speaker—what’s that he’s saying— ‘although it is a happy occasion many things are being left behind that ...” Yes, he is so right, I thought—Why, the Seniors are leaving enough chewing gum stuck under desks to keep the faculty chewing continually, for 7 years. Emogene Kinney is leaving Bill Morgan for the girls of the student body to fight over. Tommy Hughes is bequeathing his bashfulness to Jimmy Nunis, and Angie Brown is leaving her high IQ to Ann Brooks. Bill Ogle and Bill Cherry are leaving their ability to lapse into a coma in every class to anyone who wants it. The speaker was saying “. . . the teachers you have had in your . . .” Our teachers—I thought of Mr. Baranelli trying to teach Bill Lovelace how to recobabulate and Martha Cunliff almost crying when she realized she wouldn’t get to hear about Mr. Fullington’s kinfolks in Gadsden anymore. Gladys Blackburn always thought Miss Gatchell owned a paper company because she was always saying “Take out one sheet of paper.” Miss Doss was always stimulating sales bysaying “Write that 20 times.” We must get back to the speaker though. “And as you seniors face the world your only regrets should be ... ” Regrets—Yes, there are many of them. We regret that of the thirty-six thousand twelve jokes Bill Reed,
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