Bladensburg High School - Peacecrosser Yearbook (Bladensburg, MD)

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M41 Miss Olson Honored TEACHING AT BLADENSBURG FOR NINE YEARS-Miss Olson strikes a typical pose while conducting class Sponsoring Scroll for eight years advising Przsms for five years heading the English department several times including the present year and working with the Senior Classes of the past nine years are some of the duties assumed by Miss Therese Olson in addition to teachmg English American Literature and ournalism I and II Besides being the guiding light behind Bladensburgs newspaper and literary magazine Miss Olson has brought fame to BHS through her own journalistic efforts In 1956 tional American Legion Auxiliary Essay Contest and poems by her authorship have been published in the National Poetry Anthology for eight consecutive years A native of Plattsmouth Nebraska Miss Olson received her training at Rosary College Illinois and Wlisconsm State Teachers College and her graduate study at Catholic University University of California University of Mary land and George Washington University Before commg to Bladensburg in 1951 she taught in Chlcago and the Chicago suburbs for fifteen years In addition to her school activities Miss Olson has 8 found time to help establish the National Catholic Society for Animal Welfare Membership in organizations in cludes National Education Association Maryland Teach ers Association Prmce Georges Teachers Association National Council of English Teachers and the College Park Creative Writing Club Miss Olson has a variety of personal interests rang mg from a passion for books and symphonic music to kittens are her special weaknesses and she has provided homes for many stray animals found in the school build mg Chessie and Phizzie are her special cat friends who according to Miss Olson rule and regulate her life Definitely an important addition to BHS through her endeavors to advance the literary taste and the journalis tic standards of the student body Miss Olson s has been a large contribution durmg her nine years as a member of the Bladensburg faculty As such the 1960 Blade staff feels it has made a logical decision for the ded1cat1on of this yearbook l l 1 1 u 4 n Q 1 , - A , . , , , . , . . , J . n , she won the Department of Maryland award in the Na- a dislike for spinach and rock 'n roll records. Cats and . . . . . , , Y 9 Y A ' 7 7 . . , . . . ., . . - . , . , 7 ' 9 , .

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Blodensburg Pure white and scarlet hue seen from below, Bladensburg all hail to thee, Bladensburg, my own. -Alma Mater ,---M,,m.5Qi I FORTITUDE the source of strength needed by Sophomores as they arnve on the 11 50 am school bus FRUSTRATION persomfned by choir accompamst Carole Con nor shows the worry and tears m the effort of productnon ilffl If 1 rsh' FUN AND FROLIC of Miss H Anderson Mlss Ehlers M155 Slocombe and M155 Lucas at the GAL Slumber Party produced by a faculty foursome composed Ns QQ., W dia qfpftf' ' LABOR-exerted by Blaclensburg waterboys prove that foot ball xsnt all glory 7 - v y r - . , I 4 , A u W . ' 5, ' n ' 3 -My ffm X. . K 5 We ' 'Av X , Q X-Q., gn v I . ft, 6 'A'Y 'l .v-1. ' - N' ' . .' ,J . 2- '. -su' 4'5 o - lv K ,,,,f,:f '. . . 'fr ya ,L 'I - ,a , ba. , .4 a A. 1, .- , ' 3 Y, N s .x Q -,. - f- ,J-. , -JA' 'ff .W -9 . A-

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by Stuff TO MOZART THE IMMORTAL It does not matter where your body l1es Nor that unfrxendly wmds have scattered far And wade the dust that covered you The skxes Have marked your restmg place the evenxng star Could tell the spot and winter snow and ra1n Remember how the storm blew w1ld that hour They la1d you by but man w1l1 not agaxn Fmd where you sleep beneath the grass and flower A thousand graves could never hold your song Nor chams and fetters bmd rt to the earth Endurmg as the dawn as free and strong 3 As l1ght If seeks the country of 1ts brrth -5, And every man who hears your symphonies Glves l1fe forever to your melodxes ,fH,.s.1..-1 Therese Ann Olson We- 1 To be publxshed 1n Natzonal Poetry Anthology for 1960 THERE ARE FOUR UNE5 T00 MANY IN THIS COLUMN -explams M155 Olson to Scroll edltor Fred Cogswell and staff members Janice Craig and joan Woodroff Ti RESPONSIBLE FOR ORGANIZING QUILL Sr SCROLL SOCIETY jamce Craig recenes a certxfxcate f membership from Mxss Olson at the frrst mductlon of members WHAT WERE MACBETH S MOTIVES7 asks Mxss Olson of Jay Buckley ln one of her Semor Englxsh classes 9 rv . s 1, 1 1 v 1 - 9 r 1 9 , . . . . . L ,g . x 7 A : Lx X ' f 271, ' 'Wi MQ. -W' n 3 MM . . , . .. ,,, , , A t .- 1 Q . 6 A U . v- - V I .