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

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Bellevinois Staff Editor Business Manager Advertising Manager Circulation Manager Literary Editor Art Editor Photographers Kenneth Breeden Wilma Paule Sue I Iaskins Rita Wilke Barbara Ruffing Kay Peters Cathy Groom Henry Longerich, Apprentice Photographers - - Bob Jones, Jim Brede Literary and Art Staff - Judy Badgley, Margie Schwarz, Betty Griffin, Donna Duncan, Jeanne Juenger, Linda Markuly Business Staff - Lvnette Girard, Arlene Heinke, Judy Drake, George Santner, Pat Sims, Kathie Sinkewiz, Betty Pinkerton, Pat Knipp, Ruth Deehant

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the Joellevinois Published by the 1957 Bellevinois Staff BELLEVILLE TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL Belleville, Illinois Volume XLI

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“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but im¬ possible to enslave.” —Lord Brougham “Science carries us into zones of specu¬ lation where there is no habitual city for the mind of man.” — Pulvis et Umbra foreword Each of our individual lives at BTHS is the beginning of a fascinating experiment. We enter high school as “green” freshmen. Entirely on our own for the first time in our lives, we are a little fearful of what lies ahead. We last but a brief time as individual elements. In the next four years we are continually mixed and re-mixed with other elements. Many of these mixtures become compounds. Although some of these compounds are unstable, a few of them do become stable and are not easily decomposed. The most important part of the experiment which takes place during these four years occurs when the student element and the knowledge element diffuse. The observer notes that as the conductor carries the knowledge element to the student element, the latter quickly ignites. This is not the end of the experiment. It is only the begin¬ ning. The complete experiment takes an entire lifetime. As the observer notices at this point, a change has already taken place — the tiny “green” elements which were present at the beginning have changed to more stable elements, fully prepared to continue their “Experiment ' 57.”