Sharon High School - Floodlight Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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ALMA MATER Out along a country highway., Far from bustling town, Stands our noble Alma Mater Proudly looks she down. Sing her praises, lift her chorus, -Over hill and dale. Hail to thee, our Alma Mater, Sharon High School, Hail SCHOOL SONG When Sharon High comes marching down the line, We,re gonna' fight, fight, fight, and that's a sign, We're gonna' win, win, win, the victory, And make our names go down in school history, We're gonna' fight, fight, fight, for Sharon High, And show them that we're just the kind of crowd That will make our school be very proud, Very proud, of Sharon High.

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a , W ,A iggvs - 'TQ WW-.W HENRY L. HOUSTON No matter what happens always be yourself! This problem of being willing to be yourself is as old as history, says Dr. James Gordon Gilkey, and as universal as human life. This problem of being unwilling to be yourself is the hidden spring behind many neuroses and psychoses and complexes. Angelo Patri says: Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody and something other than the person he is in body and mind. The renowned William James was speaking of men who had never found themselves when he declared that the average man develops only ten per cent of his latent mental abilities. Compared to what we ought to be, he wrote, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thin! broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use. You and I have such abilities, so let's not waste a second worrying because we are not like other people. You are something new in this world. Never before, since the beginning of time, has there ever been anybody exactly like youg and never again throughout all the ages to come will there ever be anybody exactly like you again. The new science of genetics informs us that you are what you are largely as a result of twenty-four chromosomes contributed by your father and twenty-four chromosomes contributed by your mother. These forty-eight chromosomes comprise everything that determines what you inherit. In each chromosome there may be, says Amran Scheinfeld, anywhere from scores to hundreds of genes-with a single gene, in some cases, able to change the whole life of an individual. Truly, we are fearfully and wonderfully made. Yes, you are something new in this world. Be glad of it. Make the most of what nature gave you. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must cultivate your own little garden. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life. As Emerson said in his essay on Self-Reliance, There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignoranceg that imitation is suicide: that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion: that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.