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Nostalgia settles pleasantly around our shoulders as we steal a backward glance in¬ to the past four fruitful years. A warm feel¬ ing of accomplishment flows through our veins as we mentally pull up a comfortable easy chair beside a cheerful glowing fire, whose fuel consists of the memories of lifelong friendships formed during this brief period. Events that perplex—conster¬ nation, timidity, and doubt—mingle hap¬ hazardly with thoughts of anticipation, happiness, and cheer. As these memories, one by one, come in¬ to focus, we can review with serene calm CLASS OF 1953 now such frustrating events as Rat Week with its Olive Races, raw eggs, calesthenics,
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THE SENIOR CLASS
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and our first class meetings with the facul¬ ty. Next into focus, in sinister form, whirls an allegorical picture of our first nine weeks’ marks—a monster with question marks for eye balls, its features resembling the combined characteristics of one hun¬ dred and thirty-one parents multiplied by two, to represent this momentous occa¬ sion. Following closely on the heels of this monster is his slayer in the form of our first class-sponsored dance, where we learn¬ ed the meaning of cooperation. Quickly then, in rapid succession, the wavy lines of our memory recall the Flarvest Queen Dance and the united efforts in our ship building venture, the S.S. Blackwell set¬ ting for the June Ball. Then there’s the crystal clear picture of our first day of Stu¬ dent Teaching, when we shakily faced a group of 30 or more unbending, uncom¬ promising, sinister children, who, just a day later, looked just like the smiling, trusting, eager, hopeful children we always knew they would be. With this last picture in mind, as we rise from our reveries and leave the pleas¬ ant fireside of memories, it becomes, all at once, easy to move foreward into life, to the fulfillment of our destiny, which is, with the help of God, “To take care of little things, The fledgling that have not their wings, ' Til they are big enough to fly— And stretch their wings across the sky.” — E. Fargeon CLASS OFFICERS Stoops . Mr. White . Johnson . Butler . Bartholomew . President Faculty Adviser Vice-President . Treasurer . Secretary 15
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