Watertown High School - Purple Tiger Yearbook (Watertown, TN)

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THE PHI EIPALS MFSSAEE TU THE SE IUHS You xxho ale leaving the poltals of High School are faclng a grim and determined xx orld You mu t face this xvorld Wlth a sense of leallsm and xxxthout looking at it thlough rose colored glasses Probably the most dangerous thing you could do would be to create a false optimism con cernmg a very tragic situation to which you have become heirs On the other hand it xx ould be equally false and futlle to become unduly dlscouraged about the xxorld in Wh1Ch you will find yourselves If you will look back into the perspectlve of hlstory you will find that those periods of seeming d1s1n l tegratlon and chaos were great seed times of nexv c1v1l1zat1ons Do not look upon the present day as the end of an era but the begmnlng of a new era to which you may contribute constructively Why should you as 1nd1v1duals become pessimistic over the lsms of the world? The Unlted Natlons the Truman plan the Marsh all plan ClVll Rights and the most talked of 1ze your own potent1al1t1es you w1ll have no fear of competition or of your obl1gat1on to society Once you have learned a true analysis of self you can work w1th others ln a much more understandmg and complete manner Free on the one hand from undue and false optimism and free on the other hand from equally exaggerated pessimism Thus you may be able to help others fulfill the aspirations which xve a1e so proud to call the Amerlcan dream but which are in essence the asplratlons of all mankind You may lose the self that IS your body You may lose the self that deslres an hon orable fame and l1es buried in a forgotten giave But nothing no mallce of enemles or treachery of friends no collapse of plans nothing 1n the woild outslde yourself can deny Victory to the self that you are your inner self Ewiythmg wzthout tells the mdmdual that he ls nothing E161 ythmg within peisuades hm! that he is elelythmg DOLDAIN 7 .I S . . 1 . ' 7- Q a I. - ' ' 7 . . O 7 . . . ! -Communism. To you remains the greatest of all isms-individualism. When you real- Y Y ' 7

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SE IUH EL SS UFFIEEHS 2' 1 -5 EDFLL HFARL EDS!-'L FLOYD BOBBY B1 ANKENSHIP BI-'TTY BASS P1es1dent V1ce P1 esuient Secretary T1 eczsm er MISS MAPY Bl PFUX CLASS MOTTO Fo11La1d EDG7, Backumd Neve1 CLASS FLOVVER I1 18 CLASS COLORS Pu1ple and Gold ELI-XSS SPUNSURS MR EARI F BAKFR