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Langhorne Memorial Chapel: its steeple.
ANOTHER decade ended. The old bell, a long-time sentinel ..
The children of the sixties go forth. Perplexed by what they hear and by what they have witnessed "If you only have faith . . . " Hard work. Routine and discipline. Knowledge and success . . .
Across the country, traditions were being taunted. Challenge and protest. The power and beauty of being young and about to emerge. Young men in love witfi peopfe rather than with 'things.' They have heard the hard-rock-beat beating. Under thirty and "out of your territory."
In Lynchburg, Virginia, feeling remotely anachronistic. Inside, yet outside the "Tumed-on" ~eneration. In a southem and traditionalistic boys school, new directions awaited, the old bell keeping its vigil. The same old bell. Its strength in no way impaired. Capable of being heard for decades to come. Its encasement altered only by time . . .
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After another long day, another decade . . . Old Main.