The

MEGAPHONE

Elwood, Indiana                                                          Elwood High School(s)

Volume 6, No. 4                                                                              Friday, April 1, 2005

Contents

Page 1 . . . Invictus -- William Ernest Henley

Page 2 . . . Spring 2005 in Elwood -- Ron Runyan

Page 3 . . . Positive Reception -- Cindy (Benedict) Odom

                            Class of '55 Reunion -- Class of '55

                                    A Little Walk Around Yourself -- submitted by Cindy (Phillips) Whited

Page 4 . . . The Anderson Jinx -- Episode VI -- Jane Ann (Seright) Lemen

Page 5 . . . Country Music and Daddy; Arthur and The Golden Years -- Mary (Gordan) Gainer

Page 6 . . . In Memory of My Grandmother -- Shelley Runyan

                           Easter Sunday -- Louise (Mountcastle) Romine

Page 7 . . . Tuesday, May 8, 1956 -- Elwood vs. Crispus Attucks Track Meet -- Nancy Sumner

Page 8 . . . Palm Sunday -- Tornadoes In Indiana
                            The Fox -- Cindy (Benedict) Odom
Page 9 . . . If I Had My Life To Live Over (by Erma Bombeck) -- submitted by Bob Kochman

                            Indiana -- submitted by Jerry McClish

   Poetry Worth Knowing

What did you have to memorize in school?

Invictus

by William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.
        

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.
         

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
       

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate;

I am the captain of my soul.

    

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