Benton Township High School - Scarab Yearbook (Benton, IL)

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We hope the 1972 SCARAB will hold a spe- : cial meaning to you as it will to us since this will be the last SCARAB to come out of the old , school building. With this in mind we have tried to capture the moods and moments of typical B.C.H.S. students in these surroundings which we have come to know so well | would like to thank the sixth hour staff for their assistance: Leanne Mitchell, Sr. Asst. Ed.; Mary Louise Budzak, Jr. Asst. Ed.; Kim Grenco, Layout Ed.; Becky Eisenhauer, Copy Ed.; and Jim Lewis, Photography Ed. My special appre- ciation goes to Gary Messersmith for his time and patience as our Advisor. Many thanks to Pauls’ Studio for the time he has given in taking pictures for the yearbook. At this point my mind is blank. The att room is buzzing with activity trying to meet our first deadline. Mr, Messersmith has just stepped out for a teachers’ meeting. | hope the '72 Scarab is as enjoyable for you to read, as it was for us to make. Robin Pearcy, Editor

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Miss Burkhart has also established herself as a teacher outside the community. One year she was chosen president of the Illinois Association of English Teachers. In her 44 years at B.C.H.S., Miss Burkhart has taught freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior English. She has also directed and produced plays and operettas. She has sponsored the junior and senior classes and had the position of the Echo advisor for the past several years. Miss Burkhart is also an avid sports fan. She not only follows the B.C.H.S. teams, but the St. Louis Cardinals as well. Miss Burkhart, B.C.H.S. will surely miss you and all the little things you have done for all of us who were privileged enough to have you for a teacher; we would all like to thank you for a job well done. On the test? Well ... Thomas Jefferson for sure. Remember — he had red hair .. . You want to get on her good side, huh . . . tell her you love dogs, tell her you're a Baptist, or tell her you play the organ . . . or, | know, tell her your dad met Thomas Paine .. . Start biting your f ingernails. She gives you candy from her drawer... Miss Burkhart . . . a dynamic personality. B.C.H.S. will never forget her...

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| | We have been together. Learning all things with each other. Now .. . looking back, how awkwardly we spent our time. (Wistfully nostalgically we long for all those days when we just messed around. | have been taught so much. A lot of it is gone, but a good portion has remained. Not so much how to find a square root or recite the preamble or locate Timbuktu ' or remember thirty lines of Macbeth What we have learned and has stayed... fo be a little more human little more involved 1 little less selfish. To pull the blinds of habit from the eyes” 0 stubbornly hold on to absurd d impossible ideals offer to cry a tear for someone else.