Waccamaw Academy - Stump Yearbook (Whiteville, NC)

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MESSAGE from the headmaster The Barbarian Who Never Left Joseph Krutch, an eminent teacher and essayist wrote that in our instant pleasure, throw away society there are two dominant types of people. The one is similar to the Philistine of Biblical times, seeking comfort, money, and power. Even though these are somewhat vulgar ends they reflect, at the least, a conscious thinking process where choices are deliberately made. His fellow traveler is the Barbarian who does not think or choose with his conscious mind. He merely lives in a world of physical sensations, quite unaware that any other existence is possible. The Barbarian was born yesterday, and refuses to learn about the best that has been thought and said. Is it any wonder the Barbarian, our throw away instant pleasure consumer, is gifted in the art of murdering his neighbor with malicious gossip, hating because of skin color, distrusting ideas which are not his, condemning customs and styles of others, thriving on the labor of sharecroppers. This is still a world in which too many wrong things happen, but it is also a world in which we can now make many more good things happen if we wish. If, in two years, through good teachers and provocative textbooks, you have seen a glimpse of a world beyond your home, your town, your state: if we have been able to kindle some small flame of inquisitiveness about the best of man and institutions, we then are rewarded. The popular Jonathan Livingston Seagull, allegorically measures the greatness of the man who seeks the per- fection of his talents, and exhibits the dedication of giving his ultimate force to each day of life. Jonathan lived in no twilight zone of barbarity or materialism. He consciously chose the best and most difficult tasks of his time. In Shakespeare 's Hamlet we find a good man, a noble man who stands for truth against falsehood, wisdom against ignorance, purity against uncleanness and charity against hatred. Nature renews itself with the nourishment of the melting snow, the fallen leaf is replaced, the atmosphere is continuously purified with the prevailing winds. Edu- cation also is a renewable process, a purifying essence which can open the universe and make man kindred with the good gone by and the good yet to be. It is not a god but wisely used is a great leap toward God, and thus knowing one's self. PETER MCCALL KEATING

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FACULTY and STUDENTS

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-I Ith- I I' E , n J . 5 , I . g ff' B -5 ANN FORDHAM RHENI DIXIE MCEWEN TUTON wb o . Q 11 w -' XJ JEAN GADDIS KEATING GAIL WORRELL TOWNSEND