Robert E Lee High School - Leeway / Record Yearbook (Staunton, VA)

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Contrast To Grow, Change People Supply New, antique. Young, old. Beginning, lend. Contrasting emotions, stages, qualities existed anywhere there were people with insight for change and update. No matter what the object, always it remained subject to “perfection”. Growing, changing, expanding like the seed in growing, the community moved with the times and tides of renovation. The structure remained much the same but never the people. Conforming to Time, Planters and Harvesters, along with the Governor and Council, sought better methods of sowing and reaping. Commercialization advances as people of today expose themselves to luxuries galore, contrasting the necessity-minded people of yesteryear. Evolving from the bucket brigades of old, the modern fire truck exemplifies tire changes in trans¬ portation during the past 200 years. Contrast 7

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Modern man doesn’t think twice when pushing a button to drink water, but our forefathers used wells in order to quench thirst. Familiarity of the hard-trodden animals of yesteryear has slowly disintegrated, replaced by modern transportation and machinery. In two hundred years America has progressed from thirteen weak colonies into a Fifty state power, lighting the way for world democracy. Quietly awaiting passengers, a horse and carriage from Williamsburg contrast the current mode of travel the fast, sleek sportscar. 1 ' 6- Contrast

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Throughout the year, PARTY becomes the slogan for seniors, juniors, and sophomores alike; during games, holidays, and finally graduation. Really excited about a homework assignment she crammed into study hall, Tammy Obaugh ex¬ presses her feelings in a long, drawnout yawn. No matter how long one has been around, some¬ times a person feels small and insecure when he finds himself in a new, strange situation. 8 Emotions