A "Book" for Graduates

Mrs. Blackburn was class sponsor for my senior year at Temple High (1951). She and her husband, John, went on the senior trip with us. Later she taught speech at Walters.

Harold mentioned she introduced him to poetry. She published a book of poetry, “PONDER…ings” in 1974. Below is a poem from the book which is aimed at new graduates.

“Seniors"
School is like a book!
It has a hard durable cover.
There is much reading matter involved.
Inside there are many characters, main and minor,
Good and bad?
There are many events from beginning to end.
There are crises---
And a climax!
Sometimes
The characters laugh;
Sometimes
The characters cry.
We mustn’t forget the introduction
And we CAN’T forget the END.
The twelve years are like twelve chapters.
Memories of those
Will be part of us
Forever!
Yes,
School is like a book,
And now
YOU have finished it!

By – Ella Mae Blackburn”

Copied by Lois Lewis Powell. Class of 1951