Pettisville High School - Lariat Yearbook (Pettisville, OH)

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This year abouT Two hundred new books have been added To our library. Among These are TicTion. biography, drama, and essay. The school ap- preciaTes These books and hopes more will be added each year. Books Taken Trom The library may be kepT Tor Two weeks. IT They are kepT longer a Tine oT Two cenTs a day is charged. The money collecTed Trom These Tines is used To buy more books andilibrary equipmenT. This year new Tiles and a book press were purchased as were book-mending supplies. As books are always geTTing damaged, The book-repair deparTmenT has been consTanTly busy. All small Tears and oTher minor damages re- ceive aTTenTion, and worn books are rebound. All books have been marked according To The Dewey Decimal SysTem. This work Took con- siplferable Time, buT since iT is Tinished, Tinding and arranging is much sim- pi ied. This deparTmenT, probably more Than any oTher, needs The co-opera- Tion oT The whole school in order To do iTs work eTTicienTly. The books are used by The whole high schoolg ThereTore, all The sTudenTs, insTead oT iusT one commiTTee, are responsible Tor The condiTion oT The books.

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Oh, you didn'T hear abouT iT? If you'd be geTTing PET ECHOES, you couldn'T have missed iT. Everyone Thinks +ha+ This year's publicaTion oT PET ECI-lOES has been an improvemenT over Those of pasT years. BuT why shouldn'T iT be beTTer Than Those oT previous years? The school has acquired a mimeograph machine: so This year The paper has been mimeographed. As many as Tive Thousand copies can be run Trom one sTencil as compared wiTh The TiTTy run Trom one DiTTo copy. Much less work and Time are required in puTTing ouT The paper in This way Than by The Tormer meThod. A Tew changes have been made and some new TeaTures have been added To The school paper. This year, insTead oT being in The usual Two column sTyle, The paper has had Three columns, excepT Tor The ediTorial page, which has only Two, A personal inTerview column, Lulu's leTTers, and silhoueTTes have added much inTeresT To The paper. The increased number oT carToons has creaTed much inTeresT among The readers. This year PET ECT-lOES has gained a liTTle ouTside recogniTion. The sTaTT was asked To conTribuTe a page To The ldea Book which is being published Through The NaTional AssociaTion oT Mimeographed News- papers. The subscripTion lisT This year has reached The peak oT one hundred eighTy. Arlene NeidhardT and Florence Grieser headed The sTaTT. Much hard work and precious Time have been puT inTo The paper. PET ECHQES

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WhaT is more consoling, more inspiring, more beauTiTul Than good mu- sic? Many schools do noT have The opporTuniTy To learn music ThaT we have, and we greaTly appreciaTe The eTTorTs oT lvlr. Tellaisha, who has worlced very hard To help us. ln The beginning oT The year The high school chorus was divided inTo boys' and girls' glee clubs. There were TwenTy-one members in The boys' glee club and ThirTy members in The girls' glee club. AT EasTer Time The girls gave an excellenT canTaTa, The Risen Lord . wiTh The assisTance oT The brass ensemble. On May I4 The chorus pres senTed The opereTTa, Campus Daze . BoTh oT These perTormances were very well done. A new class in appreciaTion oT music was added To The music courses This year. More pupils should Talce This course, Tor The sTudy of The lives oT greaT composers and Their ouTsTanding worlcs adds much To a real ape- preciaTion oT good music.