Belleville Township High School - Bellevinois Yearbook (Belleville, IL)

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Directors Why ' s a (-) times a (-) a plus? . . . What ' s the capitol of Thailand? . . . We have to eat these eggs, huh? . . . Would you please repeat number 7? . . . They ' ve listened to our bellowing, they ' ve smiled at our blunders, they ' ve fussed at our mistakes yet they ' ve given us food for thought. We think they ' re a little odd once in a while, but after all, we ' re pretty good at making them pecul¬ iar. They ' ve blended us together, worked over us, toned down our occasional blasts, squeezed out our feeble answers. They ' ve led us to the thresholds of science, history, literature, homemaking, agriculture, business — shucks, if somebody would give us another shove, we ' d be geniuses.

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Seated: Mr. Ervin Stein, Mr. Elmer Peters, president; Miss Ruth Fincke, secretary; Mr. Eugene Hepp. Standing: Mr. Roy Eidman, Mr. J. W. Dungey, Mr. Emil Schaab, Mr. William Stiehl, Mr. Rogers Jones. Board of Education 74e 4atfuoup o£ out oc4ool Mr F. J. Friedli Assistant Superintendent Mr. Friedli passed on to a higher life very suddenly on March 29, 1955, while talking to a group of voung athletes at a school athletic banquet. This seemed symbolic of his life work with young people, in the class¬ room, on the field of sport, and in the com¬ munity. He began teaching at B.T.H.S. in 1916, as one of the original faculty, and in 1942 became assistant superintendent. His sense of fair play and his spirit of comrade¬ ship have influenced the lives of all who knew him as teacher (biology, botany, zool- ogy — he knew an appreciation of nature and man), as coach and the school’s first athletic director, as friend to the community, as a gentleman in our midst. His contributions to B.T.H.S. are too numerous to mention and will live in the lives of the people he taught. We will miss him. 10