Ward Belmont High School - Milestones Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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DR. JOHN A. MORROW IX MEMORIAM Black letters slither into words that weave themselves into thoughts, thoughts that tell the story of a man. It is a short story for most, months in length for some, a year for others, longer for a very few. It is the tale of a man who captured the imagination of our youth with his own vivid interest in us and our lives, a man whose own zeal inspired us to greater effort on behalf of our fellows, greater loyalty to the ideals for which we stand. His is a very human story, this man ' s, who smiled at us through the early morning mist, who laughed with us and poured into us a joy of living taken from his own deep well of life. The words continue and now they tell of rattling paper and the smell of chalk dust and how amid all this one man gathered up the knowledge of an age and gave it to us in small and simple words; how he, where others had failed, reconciled his science and his God. The letters grow fewer and cease. The words vanish. The thoughts arc scattered. Yet, the story, his story goes ever on and will continue while there are those of us that see mysteries of our world and recognize God ' s subtilty, both in nature and in man. And, so for now we say, John Morrow, hail to you sir, and farewell.