Southern Nash High School - Unitat Yearbook (Bailey, NC)

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«2 4 Lo bé-a Firébird::). 2 to be: a part of a Firebird team... and to represent a Firebird school is a. hard job -- a job which many persons are too weak to undertake. To be talked about and criticized from behind, then praised and glorified from the front. To run . . e until the two lower limbs are shaking. . . limp. To play . . . until the soul and the body © unite and form one completely exhausted being . . . to practice long how's with simply no reward ‘jenattO get yelled at, «causing. the head to hammer a thunderous reply, which never escapes the Lip. aie TOGH 2c. ane Wat, « . . . and want to help stop mis- takes... then, to play and find that the mistakes are harder to stop than it seemed... to get a hug Ti oxa shite... 3, ane a ''You played a good game, BUT . .. to hear angry fans com- plain. . . to fight a loosing . battle yet remain a good sport is LO bea Fitebind si) bo be a man! 2 ie)

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I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Junior Varsity Team of 70-71. . . Congratulate them for their fine performance and for their endurance . . . Webster says that endurance is the ability to with- stand hardships, adversity, or stress. This could be looked upon from the mental viewpoint as well as from the | physical. . . Endurance, not the . kind that you need to play a game . . - sure, that's hard, and you can completely exhaust yourself then keep going. That's one interpretation of our definition but what I'm talking about is the mental endurance, the kind it takes to represent a school... a group of 'adoring' people . . . who seemingly don't give a darn about the J.V. Squad... endurance, that forces your lips to mold the words and your voice to say, I'm proud to be a Firebird -- a J.V. Firebird , when you're really not too sure, expecially which wasn't good enough and you, for some that let's you listen to grip- ing fans. . . then turn a deaf ear . . . endurance, that when physically your legs loose motion, they somehow move one more time...