Waynesville High School - Mountaineer Yearbook (Waynesville, NC)

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Editor—Mary Ellen Boone Business Manager—Charles Way WAYNESVILLE TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOE WAYNESVILLE NORTH CAROLINA

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4 h TOAST TO THE SCHOOL by Helen Nicholas Delivered at the Senior Banquet March 20, 1943 Master of ceremonies and honored guests: In rising to make this toast, it is difficult to find words that will properly and adequately describe the emotions and thoughts that lie so deep in our hearts at such a historical moment in our indi¬ vidual lives. Yes, I feel that it is and always will be a historical moment for us all. Some of you will become heroes upon the battlefields —some, leaders in other fields. And some of us will become the hard-working non-complaining American citizens, so badly needed. Yet, no matter what we become, we will hold the memories of our high school days reverently in our hearts as the foundation for that future life. Each wall, each door, each hall, reminds us of some past act, good or bad, which we can never forget. Our teachers represent to us the finest and highest ideals of American manhood and womanhood. For the past four years they have been working with us and for us day and night, aiding us in solving our per¬ plexing problems of life, and guiding our minds and bodies in the most wholesome of all activities. Yes, I will admit that we have disagreed with them at times. But these disagreements only im¬ pressed further upon us their superiority in intelligence and charac¬ ter, causing us to love them all the more. The Waynesville High School has been a comfort and shelter to us for four years. It has been our second home. Here we have studied and learned the things that change boys and girls into men and women. And now, in drinking this toast to our past ideas and ideals, let us drink a challenge to the future. Let us challenge ourselves to make the very best of our future lives, and by thus doing, glorify the name of our school. T h e 19

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To flur Boys In The Service of Our Country This Yearbook Is dedicated to those members of the Senior Class and Faculty who have this year left the classrooms of the Waynesville High School for service in the armed forces of our nation. They are risking everything that we who remain at home and all future generations may enjoy the privileges of free men. This record of pleasant activities together will serve to keep bright memories of these whom we honor and to remind us of the charge we have to keep, lest we break faith with our own of this day and with the generations of our fathers who gave us our glorious heritage of freedom.