Sullivan High School - Sullivania Yearbook (Kingsport, TN)

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Senior's Tomorrow Ah! Laug once more in her noble halls. Tomorro your laugh will be a sigh ln remem rance of her. Oh, departing Senior, Your last days are reluctantly whispering good-bye. Yesterday you said, School days never end. But today, with only a faltering world to face You ask God why, why do I, lingering here, Fight fervently for survival in the evil of a human race. Now we see it! Closer and closer creeps the diploma, The obiect of success for which we have endeavored four years, But now we hesitate to touch its precious coverlet - Beyond is a life of hardships, perils, and tears. Tears? Yes, but it also brings the cup of happiness, For the soul who drinks deep of success. Perhaps 'twill be to stand upon the stage of a theatre Instilling into the audience a hushed silence, motionless. I had rather star upon the stage of a pathetic life And see God's power engulfing men of earthy might. Yea, to feel the presence of an unknown source And shelter men's paths with an illuminated light. Look, Senior! Gaze deeply into life's uncertain future Which will soon swallow ye up on its outreaching arms - Where we all alike must bravely shoulder our heavy burdens. There, no earthly friend stoops to comfort and soothe our alarms. There is a life of worthy mention ahead for some of our class Who strive for a life dedicated to the service of mankind. So,tho' uncertain of our fate, we ioyously take our station ln life's eventful future, leaving former attractions behind. To say our days at Sullivan have been completely in vain 'Twould berthat we-have wasted four precious years of our life, And that this educational institution is a ghostly myth, Where we have exerted useless energy in mental strife. Nay, who can say that she who holds our fondest memories ls nothing but an utter, loathsome, deceiving figuration. She stands for truth, justice, honesty, righteousness, T And all that makes up our Democratic American Nation. Leaders of tomorrow we stand youthfully alert today, Resolving within our hearts that thro' God's guiding hand America will and must place Him first in her heart, To make this unanimously, emphatically a democratic Christian land. There is and can be no place in our hearts for selfishness. Tasks are too many, laborers for too few for such an obiect. We, the leaders of tomorrow, strive diligently onward To that approaching goal, we reach it by a sole proiect. Oh, to give to a love starved world a character Of high morality, a soul as pure as fallen dew, Whose diamond rays crystallize a faint picture Revealing the earth in its moisture reflecting heaven's blue. To the Junior class, we leave our evalted positions In the palms of their young unexperienced hands. They, too, must occupy the stations destiny offers, And listen to a voice as it blissfully commands. Ye Sophomores and Freshmen are yet small, And have not felt the sting of patriotic sorrow That comes in the last days as we reach our goal, And step into an unpredicted, beckoning tomorrow. Lo, the backward glance is o'er, now a world approaches, And strongly we feel that portion of our heritage - pride! Thus prepared we advance as a mighty army, Aware that success is a victory, only as we dwell at God's side. V BARBARA FERGUSON

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