Shepard High School - Lion Yearbook (Zebulon, NC)

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'.v--L. . M! ' ., Wai, Princzjwzlk Message Do not wait for something to turn up, get a spade and dig for it. Do not seek for praise or fame, but strive to derive satisfaction and contentment from doing well the multitude of tasks which the world is eager to have accomplished. In these times of uncertainty and swift change the most dependable resource is your will to achieve and willing hands to tackle the work awaiting for someone to do. There isn't any road map which shows you the road to success. You have to make it yourself. Opportunity does not knock daily at your door, but temptation pounds away every day while calling in dulcet tones to wait awhile before you begin the tasks which await your skills and talents. Enthusiasm is the best shortening for any job. It makes the heaviest work seem lighter. Self confidence, faith, tenacity of purpose can sustain you when all else fails. One of our basic troubles today is that too many of us are looking for someone to do something for us, rather than finding something to do for ourselves. The successful person has learned to take longer steps when he discovers that fate has deceived him. The failures look about for a place to sit down and cry. Never worry about the job you dislike, or tasks you hate to perform. Someone else will replace you to- morrow. Be not afraid of the future, you have seen yesterday and today. in

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Chen . . 1939 Shepard High Salma! 1930-7970 Shepard High School will ring down the curtain on June 1, 1970 to a most exciting and challenging four decades of educational growth and pioneering in the history of Wake County schools. For forty years this institution, situated just east of the town limits of Zebulon, North Carolina on Highway 41564 East, has been a symbol and mecca for aspiring black youth of Eastern Wake County to study, to learn, to live and to receive formal instruction in the arts and sciences which characterize the many facets of education. Approximately 3,800 Qthree thousand eight hundredj enrolled in the high school during these four decades. More than 2,000 Qtwo thousandj did not remain to graduate here: however, many transferred to other high schools to complete their secondary education. More than 1,700 fone thousand seven hundredj remained to graduate from Shepard High. These, in large numbers, assumed their status in the adult community as parents, as farmers, and as workers in the skilled and unskilled service occupationsg while hundreds of them continued their training in the professions and higher educational pursuits, Hundreds moved away from the area to play their roles as responsible citizens in widely-scattered localities from Miami to Detroit: from Boston to San Francisco. The original name, Wakefield-Zebulon I-IighSchool, was changed to Shepard High School in 1943. The dual school system will be eliminated following the end of the present school term. All Wake County schools will become a unitary system of education. September, 1970, the high school program and pupils will be merged with the Wakelon High School. Commencement in 1970 will mark the final graduating class from Shepard School. The 1970 class will bring to a close the forty years of secondary instruction in this institutiong thus, it seems fitting and proper that this Yearbook give a panoramic review of the highlights of the past four decades of high school achievement. .QL 1970