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

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The Bellevinois Published by the 1958 Bellevinois Staff BELLEVILLE TOWNSHIP HR,11 SCHOOL BELLEVILLE Volume 42 ILLINOIS

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As we step onto the road leading through B.T.H.S., a thoroughfare a class wide and four years long, we rarely pause to think any farther into the future than the dance next Saturday night, the picnic on Sunday, or the unit test on Friday. It is these stops along the way that should he classified as the mile¬ stones, for these are the high points of our lives in high school. These are the moments we want to remember; the gaiety, the fun of being with friends, the work we usually didn’t do, and all the people associated with the lun and work, our fellow “Knights of the Hoad.’ Some of our memories may not be pleasant; for instance, that trig test we flunked, or the dreaded E card in English, or the days we should have stayed in bed, those dragging Mondays and even slower last hours on Friday. But by and large the memories are good ones . . . the excitement at sports events, the pep on Hobo Day, the shimmering wonderland of the Prom, the fun during lunch hours, our first big date, the attempts to outwit study hall teachers and outsmart door monitors, the pleasure ol knowing that homework was satisfactorily done and passing the course was assured, and the last final satisfaction, mellowed a bit with sorrow, of re¬ ceiving that document called a diploma, the culmi nation of four long years of hard work and quite a lot ol lun. In preparing a review of one year, we have tried to show both the happy and the not so happy events that made up that section of the road known as the school year of ’57 -’58.