Rocky Gap School - Rogahi Yearbook (Rocky Gap, VA)

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BETTY J. BLESSING MRS. JEAN SANDS MRS. MABLE PRUITT

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Dear Editor and Staff Members: Thank you for the opportunity of making a minor contribu- tion to your 1956 edition of The Rogahi. I should like to commend the students of Rocky Gap High School, the faculty and more especially the members of The Rogahi staff for your efficiency, enthusiasm, spirit of unity and the com - pleteness of your present and past publications. It has, in- deed, been a job well done. May you profit by your ex- perience. With best wishes to all, I am Very sincerely yours James O. Morehead, Division Superintendent Bland County Schools sope 6'

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CLASSES As one walks into a school building for the first time he may not be conscious of the ladder of education he is about to climb. Approaching the ladder, his first step begins with the study of the fundamentals of education: reading, writing, and arithmetic. His steps slowly progress andin doing so they lose the beginner's shakiness. They become steadier and their imprints become deeper. Lingering on the eighth rung, he begins to realize a part of what lies before him. His footsteps lose all their unsureness and gain a feeling of security and hopefulness. The last four rungs of the ladder seem to count the most. The realization of what might become of one faltering steps bears on his mind and makes him work hard to keep his pace steady and sure. Standing on the last rung, he looks back on the ground around the ladder where he once stood twelve long years ago and sees the footprints of those approaching and of those who trod that same ladder many years ago. They were able to go over the last rung-likewise, must he. So he plunges over into a world unknown.