Benton Vocational High School - Black and Orange Yearbook (Benton, PA)

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A6 VOX LUDI DREAMS FU LFILLED The room was waiting. lt was an old room: a hundred years ago it had been younger, illled with laughter and eandlelight and sound of music and dancing feet. and the fainter sound of hearts heating and hearts breaking-the rooln knew that sound well. It had known other things well, too, even then-that strange thing ealled life, that stranger thing ealled love. and the stranger thing of all called death-4-ven a hundred years ago these things were as familiar to the winds that blew through its great windows. as the shadows that iiitted aeross its high panelled walls. It is still beautiful, with the ilnperishablebeauty of a XV0lll1lI'l whose bones under her iine flesh are so essentially right. so exquisitely proportioned, that age and negleet. hunger and sorrow and loss have left her lovelier than before. Long since, the pale ivory pan- ellings of wall have deepened into amber. the peacock blue of danlask curtains has faded to turquoise and jade. the gilt of the great clouded inirrors has shadowed and tarnished. deep in its dust and dreams it has slept, heedless of the passing years. tralnping relent- lessly aeross a burning world: heedless of life itself. far from its tall barred doors. And now, not an hour sinee, rough dark hands have set all crystals of its girandales and chandeliers to ringing their little bells in protest at this rude freeing of thexn from the disereet walls of dust: they have unrolled Persian rugs huddled together so eolnfortahly in far eorner-rugs that had been old when the room was 11ew. and that now spread their beauty gently. like little pools of changing water. Those sanle hands have twitehed C2lI'9- lessly away the sheets beneath whieh the furniture erouehed quietly. on:-e more releasing beauty of the wood so shiningly pale that it is golden-so shiningly dark that it is blaek-- releasing too. the faint shinnner of silks and danlasks and broeades. repeating endlessly the drowned harmonies of seaweeds and sea llowers. The low seats that flank fireplace had onee struck a deepvr note of heartening red. but they too have suffered a sea ehange into eoral faint and strange. so has the huge sofa that faees it. and any strange sailor would feel at hune searching for treasures in the tall lar-qnered ehests beneath the palladium windows that break the panelled walls at the far end of the l'0IOIll. The hands have gone now. leaving behind a P00111 'lressed in beauty and strangeness and silenee--an old roonl. waking slowly and painfully from old Ill'92llIlS. For a long time it has had only shadows and winds fo-r terants. but can this late October evening it stirs and lnnrlnurs and holds its breath to listen. What does it hear coming down the years-those lost and forgotten sounds of daneing feet and laughter? Something elso with them? Ptrhaps it is only wind. but the roonn shivers and draws its shadows eloser about it. as though it were eold. and suddenly the air without is lilled with noises and the noises are filled with happiness. There are feet Oil the threshold, i11 the door- way of the l'tlI'1ll. grave and silent. draws the shadows eloser about it. Life is coming hack to it onee more. And the rooni is afraid. -I Ielen Alive Ha Fflllil n.

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VOX LUDI 105 .4 , f 3 I4lfPl'2lflll'0 is tho thought of thinking souls. REMINISCENCE Our lwarts aro tillod with gladnoss. Causo it is uoaring c-1nlillliollvellu-lit day. Yvt tin-rl-'s a thot of sadm-ss that shall ne-vor pass away. Whvn tho frosts of noxt SOIll0llllDl'l' turns tho leavos to gold and lu-own. And wo arm- not rvturning to our Iligh School svonos anon. lt is ploasaut to l'l'llll'lllil0l' tho happy days of B. II. S., Among tho ruggod old mountains, Wlu-rv we know wo rvapvd a gain. llut as duty 1-alls us onward. from tho svoxn-s we lovo so well. Wo shall loavv our Alma BI2ll'l'l'. midst tho woodland in tho doll. Whvn spring timv 1-onu-s with all its hvautivs. giving off its swvut porfulng LUN' Willmwl thots will lu- spa-oding lioxnmwvard. 'Phat our hm-arts may kvvp in tunf-. ln tho world whivh livs lwforo us. Wo for l'll2ll'!ll'f0l' shall striyo. And wo ask that God will lrlvss us. And hm-lp us in this world to thriyv. -I 'arola t'olv. w 5 -Carlyle. A SENIOR Soo that follow walking down the strvvt? Just to soo him is a troat. Fino and tall, a pc-1'fm-4-t youth, Plays lrasolmall liko Balm Ruth. For he-'s a Sonior. Standing still ho has a pl-l'fc-vt pose With hair slvoksd lravk and smolling likv il rosv, A handsomo god. no more-. no loss, Tho girls adorn- him. they 1-onfcss, For hm-'s a Senior. I'c-rfvct in spvvvli with novvr a hrs-ak A vllaptvr in world's history hm-'s sure to makv. A Frm-slnnan hosidv him looks like il fre-ak Ono glanm' and tho holdvst hoc-olnv sud- donly nu-vk For ho's a Sonior. Studies luoforv him molt away Liko snow lu-forv tho hroath of May 'l'o him a tm-ac-lu-r has no fm-ars. Ilis worldlinoss brings forth vuvious tc-ars, For he-'s a Senior. -William NV:-unvr.

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VOX LUDI R7 OUR ATI-ILETES li. V. S.- Who says B. V. S. ean't stand her 5-II'0lllN1 ill ilfhlfxfic Comwfs? lt I-!I'i4'V0S U10 to contradiet anyone, but she surely eau. 1'ubIie-- And by what right ean you say that? H. V. S.- By the right of her heroie athletes. l'ublie 1moekinglyJ- Heroic athletes! How funny! I suppose your heroic athletes are those football heroes who lost nearly every game last fall and those basketball stars who lost nearly every game also. ls that so? B. V. S.- Wrong again. my dear sir. Don't you realize that Mr. Mc-Henry developed a fine football team from that green. inexperienced gang of players? The team was practi- eally lllildtl up of boys who were playing for the tirst tilne. Think this over. Do you think that a winning team ean be developed over night? No. It takes months, even years, of hard. eonstant praetiee. The same thing applies to the boys' basketball team. i'an't you understand n1y athletes and myself? i'an't you take us as we are and see our good side as well as our poor side? My athletes are a fine buneh if you eonld only look at them in the right light. Public tsneeringlyl- A tine bunch! Yes. they are a fine buneh of nothing. What ean they do? What have they done? Who are these athletes anyway ? li. V. S.- What? I hope that you don't mean to tell me that you don't know who my athletes are and what they have done, do you? Wake up! Where have you been sleeping 'f But. sinee you don't know who they are and what they have done, I will try to ae- qnaint you with them. Betty Mellenry. a Freshman, is known throughout the eounty for her sprinting, She holds the County Championship for the iifty-yard dash in Class C. She obtained the title in 1929 and still holds it. She also is a line basketball forward . noted espeeially l'or her alertness and aec-uraey in shooting baskets. Freas Follmer, another Freshman. is one of our football heroes. In the Sophomore Class, Wayne Hartman and George lless are noted football players, George Iless being a real hero. Lendon Eveland and Edgar Karns are both flue pitehers in baseball. Lois Hittenbender. Glenda Conner. Martha Shannon and Dorothy Wenner were stars on that uneonquerable girls' basketball team of 1930-31. Have l aequainted you enough with our athletes for you to see what they are? l'ublie twith rising interestJ- Proc-eed. please. 'l'his is quite interesting. Tell me about some more of your athletes. lt. V. S.- With plasure. Kathryn Searfoss. Louise Dildine and lris Savage are Juniors who were stars on the girls' 1930-31 basketball team. Kit was one of the hest forwards'. Louise. a tine side-eenter and Iris, a line guard, A number of our boy athletes are offered from the Junior Ulass also. Harry Davis, Emerson Stoneham and Irvin Diltz are elassed high among our football heroes and base- ball and basketball stars. Ralph Hartman and John Kline are both football stars. John llrewington is noted for his basketball playing. A Among the Senior athletes are Louise Shannon, noted for her wonderful playing as eenter in basketball and her traek work. Roberta Clark. another llltlllllltxl' of the basket- -Continned on page 53.