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9 ol bu What is a gold bug? How is it connected with Amherst High School? As a title should it suggest the contents of the Yearbook? Once adopted should a name be retained forever? To answer these questions your 1954 Gold Bug editors delved into past editions of the annual and this is what was found: In 1918 the first edition of the Gold Bug appeared with no ex- planation as to the origin of the name, nor use of it as a theme. This has been true of all available copies issued since then. Four times in the ensuing years enterprising yearbook staffs attempted title changes, but deviated only partially from tradition. In 1935 our insect was promoted to a nautical career in a book entitled The Cruise of the Gold Bug . In 1936 the bug was pushed into the background and used only as a subtitle in the annual, Who's Who . Twice again, in 1939 and 1942, yearbook staffs defied tradition and used The Album and The Docket on the cover, but inside appeared the additional title of Gold B Z . As a gesture of independence or perhaps as a typographical error, the 1946 staff created a precedent by spelling the name as one word, Goldbug . I For thirty-six years then, this unheralded insect has kept year- book staffs under its thumb. We, the thirty-seventh staff, being powerless to move this thumb, have then tried to use our lowly lord to his best advantage. Here he is dominating these pages from bottom to top in-the progress of the gold bug. l- L - , , -.--1113
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X., Table of Contents Introduction . Dedication . . Student Council and Class Officers . Faculty . . . Classes . Activities . Sports , Staff . . Sponsors , -A--'A' ' 'Y 5 ,-:J-'-1:
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