Boyertown High School - Bear Yearbook (Boyertown, PA)

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F 7if???V Y W MMM n 'Els ole. Henna. Dutch' farmhouse 'has' Ren A group of students have a snow battle in front restored to life and is now occupied. , of D1'ey's School. , J. Grofe, H. Reuuinger, J. Hartenbaiier, L. Iandis The yearbook staff visits a typical rural store and A. Romig examine the mill race at Lt. Com. owned and operated by the late Jake Bahr. Nirnmo's home. I ' Eight Typica115'heX-signs painted by the Dutch, are shown on this A farm,

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This old covered bridge on the road to Pleasantville was snapped by the eagle-eyed yearbook staff. Wie Hen Mirs Gadoo Last September, a green yearbook staff, we planned a general outline of the 1945 Bear. It Was to be based on the Pennsylvania Dutch. There are many factors which influenced us to choose the Dutch theme. This theme would ma.ke possible the use of color and design, a venture altogether new for the Bear. The theme itself-that of a culture-would be entirely different from any used previously. It Would at the same time be appropriate since Boyertown is situated in the very heart of the Pennsylvania Dutch country. The book relies mainly on design as a means of carrying out the theme. The cover is stenciled with a panoramic view of the countryside near Boyer- town. The cover liners of the book are printed with the rising sun design often seen on quilts in this section. The title page is patterned after a Penn- sylvania Dutch sampler with the necessary components of the yearbook title page incorporated into the design. The three division sections of the book are decorated with typical pie plate designs. The small designs or motifs that appear on most of the pages are distelfinks, dove, hearts, tulips and hex signs, all representative of the decorations, which were employed on chests, chairs, barns, birth certificates and even tombstones. During the early development of the book we realized that it would not be complete without pictures illustrating points of historical interest which identify this region with the Pennsylvania Dutch. The pictures in this section were taken on two trips-the first in February when snow covered the ground, the second in March when classrooms became too warm for members of the Bear staff. On the first trip, four of us on the staff piled into a car with our Speed Graphic, the camera used in taking nearly all of the pictures for the yearbook. We headed north toward Oley looking for suitable camera material. fC10'l1t'Il'I'IZLUd on page nifzej S n

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Cffontmued from page sevenj The section we covered between Oley and Boyertown was found to contain a wealth of subjects which revealed the artistic hand of the Pennsylvania Dutch. On the way back to school we decided to snap a shot of a typical one room schoolhouse. We wanted some action in the picture, so, with the teacher's permission we arranged the students in front of the building. This arrange- ment still was too lifeless for Chief Photographer Bashore. Quick as a flash ne had started a snow battle. The results appear on the opposite page. Bashore was unable to stop the raging battle. Quietly we all removed ourselve the problem for the teacher to solve. J. Grofe and R. Miller drop snowballs on L. Lan h ' ' ' f 1' k'l 8.5 S 9 GXSJHIIISS the IYIUSTIOI' 0 3, HHH 1 Il. s to more peaceful surroundings leaving The reader has probably noticed t hat many of the headings throughout the book are printed in a strange language. This language is Pennsylvania Dutch-as the yearbook staff heard it. Although these headings at times prove even too much for the best of the Pennsylvania Dutch authorities to decipher and translate, we excuse our puzzling headings by calling to witness the fact that the Pennsylvania Dutch themselves spelled words phonetically-that is, spelling words as they sound. We have made an attempt to clarify the situa- tion for the non-reader of this mystifying language by adding, near the back of the book, an end sheet on which we translate all Pennsylvania Dutch head- ese si ns, created by the superstitious Dutch are t h ' d b lld' s to prevent Th g th ught 0 ave been palnte on u ing spirits from harming oc p t Within. ings into English. The main reason for ourusingthese headings is that they will serve welluin supporting our theme. if During 'the year we met with many hindrances, such as any staff might meet with-in the production of a yearbook. Some of these were big obstaclesg some were small,,but they all were overcome. The production of the book ran smooth- lv for the first few months. Then we foiund that the photographer who had processed our films the years before would be unable to do this year's work. After searching frantically for someone to process the photographs we found Sterling Keller, ace photographer, right here in town. l di Nine