William Penn High School - Penn Yearbook (High Point, NC)

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PENNPOINT Volume VI Final Edition R NC 371.8 William Penn 1968 William Penn High School (High Point, N.C.) The pennpoint. 30519010272360 Published by the students of William Penn High School High Point, North Carolina 3

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FOREWORD It is always difficult to bid an old friend farewell. Thus, understandably, we, who have been privileged to grace her hallowed halls, feel great sadness at having to bid our old friend, goodbye. Since 1923 when old High Point Normal and Industrial Institute became the new William Penn High School thousands who have sojourned here have gone forward to take their places among this community’s, this state’s, and this nation’s most distinguished leaders in many areas of endeavor. The 1968 Pennpoint writes finis to an old chapter. And even as we write we look hopefully to the future in the sure knowledge that the old Penn spirit shall never die. The indelible imprint of seventy-six years during which this school has always represented scholarship, achievement, sports¬ manship, fair play, loyalty and unquenchable spirit cannot be erased with the closing of a door. Her appearance may have been altered, her course may have veered, but that pride in knowledge present in H. P. N. and I.’s first class is present today and shall be for seventy-six years to come, or so long as one H. P. N. and I. or one Penn graduate shall live. This final edition of the Pennpoint undertakes to prove that whatever the time or the circum¬ stances Penn has stamped her name indelibly in the annals of time. We have chosen as our theme two lines from the immortal Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam: 5