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.?.age.-2. NEWSPAPER STAFF £jitor-In-Chief-Ellen Highsraith i'^ssistant Editor-Boby Dickens Art Editor-Barna .\llen Farrell L• erary Editor-Dotty Lilly Society Editor-Polly Ingram Sports Editor-Edgar Haywood Artists-Bobby Dickens Gene Pridgen Reporters-Carol Harris Betty Sue Bruton Susan Moore Sara Pat Andrev;s Linda Wallace Susan Saunders Cathy Langley Ann Moore Doris Lilly Typists-Rachel Anne Bunch Thelma Jean Byrd Carolyn Efird CHRISTMAS 1963 by: Janelie Cochran The gaily lighted hemes, ‘the pungent smells that come from the kitchen, the busy shoppers loaded down with their bundles bustling through the crowded stores, the Santa Claus on the street corner with his jolly "Ho’.HoIHol" ,and the sound of Christmas cards . r*iding high on the cold, crisp air this is the Christmas spirit. People are greet ing people with brJLght smiles;., and here and 'there is heard the cheerful sound of ’•Merry Christmas". This year, as in years past, it is the same. Or is it? -' This year those bright smiles and the familiar "Merry Christmas" mask broken hearts and unshed tears. Why? Because there lived a man who once laughed, who was the leader of a nation, and who knew the meaning of the word*leadership'. There was a man who forgave and looked for the good in the forgiven. There was a husband who loved with a quiet, deep, and eternal love. There was a father who gazed wide- eyed with joy in his heart as he watched his young son gleefully discover life. Meanwhile, the people of the world lock ed on and smiled quietly to themselves; tiioy were a part of something and they knew it. They wero pai’t of the majesty of John FitzgeraLd Kennedy. But this leader, this father, this husbandj, this man was struck dora by bigotry and hatred, 'iid the shocked people of -he world ai^ikod, "why?". Hours later the m?:n who was the weap on of this bigotry and hatred was him self laid in the gravea And the shocked people of the world asked, "why?", "Why did it happen?" "How could it happen in America only a short tine before Thanks giving and the beginning of the Chrdst- mas season?" We have only to search our-hearts for the answers. Every time we have permitted anger to rule us , every time we have critized unjustly, we have boen guixty of adding to the bigotry 21:d hatred. Sharcn Mcore Diane Thompson Christmas is the season of miracles. Marie Thompson Perhaps from that one lone grave in Arlington National Cemetry will come a miracle i^or the Christmas of 1963, Before that grave there flickers an eternal flame that can be seen for miles. Through taat light,the spirit of the man sleeping in that grave seems to send forth that Christmas aiessage of long ago, "Peace on earth, good will to men." If the people of this earth will but hear anew* this nessage, perhaps "the glow from that fire can truly light the world". But if this i., to be so, we must never forget. We must never forget that man and the cause for which he gave- his life. "Ask ever person if he’s heard the s tory, And tell it strong and clear if he has not..." !5Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, For one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot,"
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