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

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To Mr, Karch wrote some lines once on a time In wondrous merry mood, And thought, as usual, men would say They were exceeding good. They were so queer, so very queer, l laughed as I would die; Albeit, in the general way, A sober man am 1. I called my servant, and he came; How kind it was of him To mind a slender man like me, He of the mighty limb! “These to the printer,” I exclaimed, And, in my humorous way, I added (as a trifling jest), “T here ll be the devil to pay.” He took the paper , and I watched, And saw him peep within; At the first line he read, his face Was all upon the grin. He read the next; the grin grew broad, And shot from ear to ear; He read the third; a chuckling noise l now began to hear. rhe fourth; he broke into a roar; The fifth; his waistband split; The sixth; he burst five buttons off, And tumbled in a fit. Ten days and nights, with sleepless eye, I watched that wretched man, And since , l never dare to write As funny as I can. Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Time is the essence of our lives. It is the never ending element which rules over us from birth till death. Moving onward— ever onward — as the hands on the clock — move our very lives. . . . Though lives will cease time moves on. “Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o’er life’s solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.’’ Longfellow

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For his commendable manner of instruction . . . his humor in the classroom . . . his sincerity, joviality, and unpretentiousness . . . his friendliness to everyone . . . his willingness to lend a helping hand . . . his many years of service to B.T.FI.S. . . . we dedicate the 1956 BeUevinois to Mr. John A. Karch The reward of a thing well done is to hax e done it. Emerson