Webb School - Sawney Yearbook (Bell Buckle, TN)

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Four years ago when I came to Webb, I thought I would hate it. I couldn't imagine living away from home. Within a month thoughl realized I was making better grades and was happier than at home. Webb was a place 'where I had my own ,responsibilities and could set my own pattern of life. My freshman year was rough, partly because. of a normal period of adjustment, but I made it. The way to make Webb easy is to accept the system. It has worked for over a hun- dred years and there is no reason to break it now. I watched people trying to fight the system and lose! I can't think of how to show my appreciation to the faculty of Webb, my friends, Mr. Boyd, and especially Dr. Jones. You 've made my life four years happier and infinitely better. I 59

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Ask, and it shall be given you, seek, and ye shall find, knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For everyone that asketh receiveth, and he that seeketh findethg and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Matthew 7:7, 8 Whoso loveth instruction loveth know- ledge: but he that hateth reproof is bru- tish. Proverbs 12:1 A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolish- ness. Proverbs 15: 1,2 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. Proverbs 22:1 58 Although' his reputation is his most valuable possession, man, in this worldly society, is too often ambitious of worldly objectives which usually include wealth and the praise of men. His honor isfne- glected and sometimes completely for- gotten in the race of life. A Webb man should never commit such a grievous er- ror for Webb is Honor. During his stay here, the student is, first, continually reminded of the tremendous value of his honesty and, secondly, he is urged to do his best in all he attempts. Although I may forget many people and ideas with which I have become acquainted here, l will always keep the ideal of honor as a focal point of my life and hope that some- day, by some miraculous means, it will become the philosophy of all men.

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I came to Webb a child, five years later I leave, a little older and a little wiser. It has been said before but it warrants repetition-Webb is a matur- ing process. Besides getting an out- standing education you learn what you enjoy most concerning studies, recre ation, sports, and in any other field. You learn what your limitations are and then work on expanding those boundries. Webb does not have such modern buildings, but to most people it does not seem to matter for the school is not the building but the people who teach and learn inside those walls. Webb is people, so you never leave. Webb graduates and alumni are every- where. If you cannot find one just close your eyes and remember. Courage is resistance of fear and the mastery of fear, not the lack of fear. Except a creature be part cow- ard, it is not a complement to say it is brave, it is merely a loose misap- plication of the word. Consider the 60 ,654 vt 5.-I 4 -af f flea! -Incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God if ignorance of fear were courage. Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact that in bulk and strength you are to him as the massed armies of the earth to a suck- ling child, he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by an earth- quake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putman as men who Didn't know the meaning of fear , we ought always to add the flea and put him at the head of the list. -Puddnhead Wilson's Calendar fdymw