Joan Loughry:
CLASS OF 1970
York Catholic High SchoolClass of 1970
York, PA
Joan's Story
Joan is from York, Pennsylvania. Joan's schools include York Catholic High School. Joan later attended st joseph's hospital school of nursing lancaster pa.
Music Joan likes includes Summerville Community Orchestra, Dean Shostak, Beethoven. Books Joan likes include John Grisham, Robin Cook, Jane Austen Books. Movies Joan likes include Gone With The Wind, Mrs. Doubtfire, Pride and Prejudice. TV shows Joan likes include Live from Lincoln Center, 2 1/2 Men, MASTERPIECE | PBS (Masterpiece Theatre).
One of Joan's favorite quotes is:"I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason bringing something we must learn
And we are led to those who help us most to grow if we let them and we help them in return
Well I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today because I knew you.
Like a comet pulled from orbit as it passes the sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder halfway through the wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better but, because I knew you I have been changed for good.
It well may be that we will never meet again in this lifetime so let me say before we part
So much of me is made from what I learned from you
You'll be with me like a hand print on my heart.
Now whatever way our stories end I know you have rewritten mine by being my friend.
Like a ship blown from it's mooring by a wind off the sea; like a seed dropped by a sky bird in a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you; because I knew you;
I have been changed for good.
Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as...Expand for more
I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be.
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that" ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft
And in thy lowly store two loaves alone to thee are left,
Sell one, and with the dole,
Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul"
"Surely the most abominable recognition of middle life is that we are past changing. Oh, we switch salad dressings and mutual funds but we don't change. We do what we can already do. Playing the cello was something I demonstrably couldn't do. Yet each Monday I could not do it slightly less."
"The woods would be silent if the only birds that sang there were those that sang the best."
"Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music"
I have a 'cello that was born in 1847. It was alive long before me, and I hope it lives long after me. I don't consider it my 'cello. Rather, I am perhaps its 'cellist; I am passing through its life. â¥".
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