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THE ROSETTAH In 1779 near Rosetta, Egypt, there was found a rather ugly stone of black basalt, about three feet nine! inches high, two :feet four inches wide and eleven inches thick. It was not much to look at, and yet the fame of the ROSETTA STONE has been without limit. Just why should this be so? On this stone there was writing in three languages. In Greek and in two other languages which scholars were able to identify as early Egyptian and later Egyptian. Now, up until this time man had not been able to read Egyptian writing. All the secrets of medicine and art and science that had been worked out by this talented people were locked securely in the bonds of unreadable language. But the scholars were, of course-, able to read the Greek inscription-and, working on. the chance that the other two bits of writing each said the same thing, they were able to devise a key to these ancient languages, a key that was to make available to human- kind all those priceless secrets that had been locked away for so long-just as we can figure out many of the characters of a code if we have a long enough paragraph written, in that code and if we know what the paragraph says. At Wheeler this year there has been written a story of achieve- ment and of friendship. Really, of course, each of us has written it in a different language, because each of us has individual ways of doing, and thinking, and living.
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WE LEAVE YOU . . . We are the graduating seniors . . . We leave you, Wheeler High School, with a pang of regret that we didn't think we would feel . . . Our careless happy days of high school are gone . . . Never to be re- called save only by some memory . . . Never again may we race the bell through the halls of our school, for no longer is it our school . . . Never again may we stand at the sideline and yell and cheer for our team, for no longer is it our team . . . Never again may We bungle the junior play . . . Or fight for victory on the gym floor . . . Or tingle with pleasure at the teachers' praise, or sting under their criticism . . . or burn the lights of our room's cramming for a final exam . . . or whirl to the music of our school orchestra . . . or strain and sweat over prom decorations, or dance and laugh under the finished product . . . or worry about the empty treasury . . . or fiirt . .. or know the singular warmth of a schooltime friend . . . All that ends when they hand us our diploma there that night of commencement . . . ends forever . . . Yet the very word means not finish . . . but beginning . . . This diploma will be four years of our life . . . Yes, we leave that life, but we go to enter a new and even greater world . . . Now in the springtime . . . the time of awakening life . . . we too awake and rise to its challenge . . . unregretting, unsorrowing, eager . . . SENIOR CLASS, 1945
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