Thomasville High School - Growler Yearbook (Thomasville, NC)

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FOREWORD SLEEK AND WARM AND STRONG, like a panther stalking its prey, its nostrils emitting fire and its eyes piercing the dark expanses ahead-so did Old Thirty-four surge through a Southern night into a silent and sleeping Thomasville. Its whistle cry broke the stillness-a strange, yet powerful, voice in the night. In an old rambling frame house beside the tracks John Abernathy, lying on his back gazing through his window into the star-filled night, heard the familiar cry and, as always, it filled him with glory. To his youthful heart full of high aspirations and a yearning for adventure, it seemed to call in an unknown tongue, beckoning to lead him to his destiny. Life to John was a series of trains, each leading man closer to his destiny. Across the tracks in a small brick bungalow Kirk Stard mumbled a curse incoherently and rolled over in his bed, pulling a pillow over his head as he did so to shut out the sound of the whistle. To him the train whistle was only a nuisance, signifying nothing, a price one must pay for liv- ing in a railroad town like Thomasville. And so it followed that all through life, as John boarded trains to make himself a greater instrument of service to humanity, Kirk would mumble his incoherent curse and pull his pillow over his head, trading his destiny for forty winks. Little do the students at Thomasville High realize that they are on a train that, if ridden to the end of the line, could well lead them to greatness. Thomasville High is a train that requires no ticket of admission, only a sincere willingness to learn and to mature in a free society on the part of the passenger. It is a train as complete as any mod- ern passenger train, containing its own engineers, con- ductors, passengers, club cars and other recreational cars, flagmen, streamlined appearance, and paid freight. To express this philosophy, this volume has been written. f ff fifff p 1 W ifffffm ra N W WIMW ' 7 f X V 5 X f f X, ,f .f ' , L, lf ' X Y I jx Z X' V' f X X X l X. l A 4 , Z e , f J 4 ,wff f X 4 am. Wyf if4fffwfWgMZf4Wff4 fffWlZ ef W li

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Dr. Johnson, one of Thomas- ville's most distinguished sons, has distinguished himself not only as a leading historian of our day but also as a television personality. As news analyst on WAAM-TV, Bal- timore, he won the Peabody, Hill- man, and DuPont awards-three of televisionls biggest prizes.