Valdese High School - Impersonator Yearbook (Valdese, NC)

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in Summer tatty enews Students begin the year by cleaning last year’s junk out of their lockers. Suzanne Pons and Leila Benfield prepare for the beginning of school. Interior linemen Jeff Moore, Gary Garmon, and Brian Feimster present a formidable sight to their opponents.

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e Administration e Faculty ¢ School Board e Curriculum e Language e Mathematics ° Science e Fine Arts e Social Studies oP. E. e Business Education e Home Economics e Industrial Training ¢ Employees “I’m amazed from day to day that I am ambulant and in my right mind.” Under the pressures of academic life, stu- dents sometimes wonder about the state of their minds and the quality of their work. Always urged to upgrade their standards, students strive to achieve their ultimate goal - - perfection. Sandburg believed ‘‘school is for dis- cipline . . . Discipline. Tightness. Firmness. Crispness. Sternness. And sternness in our lives. Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation, you see. Then, in your exuberance and bounding en- ergy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.” Sandburg had great feeling for and sym- pathy for the student, for he was himself a scholar. His greatest claim to fame was, in fact, an extensive research project in U.S. History. His vast volumed biography of Abraham Lincoln made him known the world over as the greatest authority on Lincoln. He knew the agonies and frustrations of study - - and its rewards. And he saw school as a training ground for life. School is not just trying to teach us facts and maxims. It is training us to live: for if we master the art of scholarship, we master the art of living.