Burlington High School - Rarebits Yearbook (Burlington, Ontario Canada)

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RARE with furious mustachios, cut-throat pir- ates, swaggering cowboys. . whoop-lal Variations, of course there were. Apple-bobbing in the libraryl Dainty refreshments in the upper hall-very daintyl Fortune telling booths in the halls where lurid pasts and futures more vivid were revealed to those who wish for them. Cards were played on the balcony over-looking the gym. while a rather gay looking ghost piloted cur visitors through the graveyard of departed souls. The said departed later in the evening favored us with BITS 37 their own peculiar war-whoopslll Then Hades is not a Greek myth-but a Greek letter clubl Dance on. And on. . . to the jargon which only Phil knows how to juggle-on. . . till the inevitable and distracting balloons came, bobbing and bursting. . . and the trailers, gloriously mixing us up. No matterl for not until the last song was sung and the last waltz ended did we Hwend our way home Cquoting first form compositionsj tired . but happy. Refa Swartz IB. EIH- 9. At 1-Innw By RETA SWARTZ, V. Despite the fact that this year our big night came on Friday, the 13th, even those superstitiously inclined could not but call it a success. To begin with, it didn't rain as it had a year ago. A very slim moon stayed up just long enough to lend atmosphere to the occasion, and a moon, any kind of a moon, is a help. Inside there was another one but it was a jolly, full-faced thing designed especially to harmonize with the other decorations. The Hall lent itself very well to the St. Patrick's colours. At the very back stood a tall green light house from which vari-coloured spotlights circled the floor. Occasionally a beam caught on the mir- ror-sphere whirling above the orchestra, showering the crowd with flying light and shadow. Gage's orchestra, as usual, acquitted itself in a manner highly satisfactory. Lunch was served in the upper hall during the evening, with a trained retinue of lower school boys, sailor-clad, as waiters. It was good lunch, but when, may we ask, will we be sufficiently grown up to be allowed punch? The value of the high school At Home cannot be estimated. It is not just another dance, rather more is it in the nature of a reunion. We celebrate Hallowe'en with all due regard-and hilarity. But the At Home is our one formal affair. It is a pivot, socially speaking, for the whole year. And most important of all, it fosters that priceless thing-school spirit. f fr' - 4 T ' 'fl 'x A M ul W U gx - 'B 'X S Q I , '-gf. ff K- Y' f Q l XQQ ,fi n H '71 Q Y V 'yi .J A4 fr TQ! I , 1 it is 5 ' v .1 X1 - - f K - fffx H- Xwnlx ..-- .fx ' ,f 5 Aff QQ, IN IS f L-

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56 RAREBITS E. ill. 9. mazquernhn Another party belongs to yesterday and another success marks the social progress of Burlington High. We open- ed our doors to welcome parents and past pupils to our annual Hallowe'en frolic. And what a frolic it wasl A flashing sign of HB. H. S. beck- oned the wandering spirits of the night to the high school entrance, an entrance strangely similar to can autumn corn field. There is a tang to Qctober and our decoration committee realized aptly the possibilities of time and place. The assembly hall dripped orange and black festoonsg pumpkins, sleek and golden, grinned wickedly from the footlights, and in the bare branches of a dead tree a black cat, symbolic of all that is Hal- lowe'en, arched its back at the revellers. The auditorium, we are proud to say, was filled to capacity. The Literary president opened the evening with a brief address, welcoming our visitors and out- lining the program to come. The first item was a Mother Goose pageant pre- sented by a number of the students. Don. Stadelman and Ierry King, accom- panied by Dorothy Biggs, then favored the audience with a violin and saxa- phcne duet, following which a number of first formers danced the Sailor's Horn- pipe. After another duet by Stadelman and King, the play Brian Pulls a Banner, written by one of last year's students, Hilda Statham, was pre- sented. The cast consisting of Kate Coleman, Paul Christianson, Bud Sheppard, Qsler Lockhart and Florian Loree, certainly did justice to the crea- tion and their coach, Miss Shaw. At nine o'clock the Grand March began. Led by a few jolly Tars,' the fantastic procession wound its way up the stairs, through the upper corridors and down again to circle the assembly hall, Never in the history of the school has there been such a variety of clever costumes, and the judges, Mrs. Robin- son, Mrs. Lindley and Mr. Rae found their task a very difficult one. However, they proved themselves competent in this matter and out of the chaos de- clared the winners of the five groups as follows: Best dressed lady, Lois Stevenson, Spanish senorita, and Mar- jorie Hyslop, ballet dancer, best dressed gentleman, Ralph Christianson, in a Colonial costume, and Paul Christianson as a cowboy: best comic couple two rather grisly farmers, later proved to be Iolene Macklin and Florence Richard- son. The best dressed couple were Helen Daggett and Lawrence Hill, in Spanish costume, and Annie Kurtz, in Hawaiian costume, won the prize for the most original get-up. ' Here they arel And they were-our own Phil avec syncopaters. And the party began. Bell-hop and burglar, vagabonds and chorus girls, Galahads, senoritas, gypsics and clown-milled before one's eyes. Harem girls with the exotic atmosphere of the Qrientl Ballet dancers in delight- ful proximity to beruffled gentlemen of the eighteenth centuryl Dear little ladies in taffeta and laces-boop-oop-a- doopingl Sailors everywhere-but then there's something about a sailor, you know. And swash-buckling Spaniards

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58 RAREBITS STUDENTS' COUNCIL Front Row, Left to right-lack Burnet, Enid Holtby, Bruce Lindley, Olive Carlton, Murray Thorpe. Centro Row-Iames MacF. Bates tPrincipalJ lean Leitch, Dorothy Sanderson, Miss E. L. Eby, Muriel Metcalfe, Reg. Cozens, Wes. Coombe . Back Row-David Harrison, Frances Taylor, Donald Stadleman, Clare Tory, Erle McCorn1ack. agiuhrnizi' Glnnnril By PRESIDENT BRUCE LINDLEY, V. This is the first year in the history of the Burlington High School that an attempt at student government has been made. The council, on the whole, has not been very successful, but it is hoped that better days are coming. A group of students consisting of two pupils from each room and the presidents of the different societies was selected as the council, in the fall, to assist in govern- ing the student body and to act as an overseer of the other societies. A con- stitution for the organization was formed and, although it was by no means per- fect, nevertheless it served the purpose S 1 U Pqflsl 4' ti . lr 1 lllw, Jllsql ul U pu I A, 4 ,N l P. tmru for the year and will give the incoming council something to improve upon. As a result of the council's brief existence its accomplishments are not very numerous. However, designs for both school and achievement crests were decided upon. The former were pro- cured and sold to the students by the council, while the latter were obtained by the Boys' Athletic Society. REPRESENTATIVES OF STUDENTS coUNc1L Form V, Leitch and B. Lindleyg form IV, E. Holtby and E. Mccormackg form III, M. Metcalfe and M. Thorpe, form II, O. Carlton and W. Coombeg form I, F. Taylor and I. Burnettg Com. I, D. Harrison, Com. II C. Torv. I