Battin High School - Red and White Yearbook (Elizabeth, NJ)

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Introducing the Faculty

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l ! AN IF FOR GIRLS lWi+h apologies fo Mr. Rudyard Kiplingl lf you can dress fo make yourself affracfive, Yef nof make puffs and curls your chief delighf: If you can swim and row, be sfrong and acfive, lBuf of fhe genfler graces lose nof sighfg If you can dance wifhouf a craze for dancing, Play wifhouf giving play foo sfrong a hold, Enioy fhe love of friends wifhouf romancing, Care for fhe weak, fhe friendless and fhe old: lf you can masfer French and Greek and Lafin, And nof acquire, as well, a priggish mieng lf you can feel fhe fouch of silk and safin Wifhouf despising calico and jean: If you can ply a saw and use a hammer, Can do a man's work when fhe need occurs, Can sing, when asked, wifhouf excuse or sfammer, Can rise above unfriendly snubs and slursp If you can make good bread as well as fudges, Can sew wifh skill, and have an eye for dusf: lf you can be a friend and -hold no grudges, A girl whom all will love because fhey musf: If somefime you should meef and love anofher And make a home wifh faifh and peace enshrined, And you ifs soul-a loyal wife and mofher- You'll work ouf preffy nearly fo my mind The plan fhaf's been developed fhrough fhe ages, To win fhe besf 1-haf life can have in sforeq You'll be, my girl, a model for fhe sages- A woman whom fhe world will bow before. lSelecfedl HELEN V. DECKER

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9 N R One in purpose and ideals we here presenf en masse The Faculty