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

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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.

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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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Mr. Claude Rhodes — born 1912; graduate of Benton Township High School; graduate of Illi- nois Wesleyan Normal University; M.A. from University of Illinois; married Ida Kelly 1934, began teaching in Benton, 1936. Teacher, coach, counselor, administrator — he has served the Benton High School in all capa- cities for thirty-six years. No man has left a mark on our school equal to that of Claude Rhodes. He has become a legend. It is difficult to believe that a man that has served as the ‘‘arm of punishment’ for our school can be as well loved and respected by those who have known him as is Mr. Rhodes. The thousands of students who have poured through his office over the years have known him as a rigid disciplinarian, yet a fair and just man. Mr. Rhodes quite often receives letters from for- mer students, especially those who were disci- plined regularly. Invariably, these letters say, ‘| realize now what you were trying to do for me, I'm sorry | caused you so much trouble.” man with the ominous countenance under which every good man cows... “don’t sit in the soft seat, | save that for special people.” when will girls be able to take swats? I've never seen the paddle . . . what's it look like? . . . they say... nails sticking out . . . cat o’nine tails . . . heats it in the fire first . . .